My life's work

ablock sent me mail this morning saying,

when you were in high school. did you know what you wanted to do w/ your life? what job?

Well, pretty much, yeah: book publishing. That is -- in high school I guess I expected to want to do editing rather than production/typesetting, but that was more because I didn't know how to use any graphics tools (and didn't know design was a visual skill I would turn out to have).

( Thoughts on my frighteningly integrated career path )

Anyone else?

ObArisia

Was good con. But more low-key somehow than most of my con experiences thus far.

This was partly because I was emphatically Not Working (paid my own membership and everything). And also because I hardly went to any parties (though I do wish I'd managed to stop by the notorious Rocket Fuel party Sat nite, even after I fell asleep at the tech party). And probably because, for the most part, rather than engaging in lots of con interaction, what I was doing was hanging out with existing non-con-staff pals (mattrolls and jessruth, with brief bouts of Jon and Jesse, whom I don't see nearly often enough anyway either) . This was also good, but still. I didn't even make it into the Art Show, and that's saying something.

On the other hand, I did actually attend two whole panels this con, and that's also a first! In fact they were back to back, on Saturday afternoon; naturally, they were gnomi's LJ/blogging panel, and then the advanced poly panel (I missed the intro poly section Friday night, but I probably didn't need it all that much, anyway :-) Both were engaging and provided food for thought (and hopefully for future journal exploration). mattrolls came with me to the first, but not the second -- and then I actually wished that he had, because I'm certain there would have been food for thought for him as well. Goodness knows jessruth was struck by more than her share of personal insights just from listening to the discussions.

But so anyway, I think that if I do go to Lunacon, I may go back to working Tech, and thus be assured more quality running-around time with ablock and kalessin and other fun folks :-)

More insidious ways to get your friends onto LJ

I have at least partially succeeded... 'cause although Matthew's still not personally on LJ, now his blog is! He got at least a rudimentary RDF going, which I added to LJ as a syndicated RSS feed. So now you can, at least nominally, find him by checking out mattrolls. If you have a paid account, you can add him to your friends list and see all his updates. And when he gets the process more under his control, he might actually include the whole bodies of the posts in the feed, so you can read it right through LJ and never know the difference. Sweet!