a story to further illuminate my blogher experience, as told to calliope
Posted: August 5, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized 8 Comments »me:
6:09 PM i have such a good story about what it was like and i can't decide whether to blog it
me:
i came into the big ballroom really early for one keynote and sat at a
table near front near cool kids. i think it was redneckmommy, busydad,
backpackingdad.
i came into the big ballroom really early for one keynote and sat at a
table near front near cool kids. i think it was redneckmommy, busydad,
backpackingdad.
6:10 PM
me: this was the last day – they just looked exhausted
calliope: (going to boil some water keep talking)
6:11 PM me:
so i am sitting there busy with my iphone and backpacking dad, who i don't really read but follow on twitter and who is apparently known as the cute dad blogger turns to me and
says, "You look like you know everything. Who sings this song that's
playing right now?"
so i am sitting there busy with my iphone and backpacking dad, who i don't really read but follow on twitter and who is apparently known as the cute dad blogger turns to me and
says, "You look like you know everything. Who sings this song that's
playing right now?"
6:12 PM it
was exactly like the stereotypical high school movie where the football
player asks the unknown dork some question – like there is all this
potential coolness at stake
was exactly like the stereotypical high school movie where the football
player asks the unknown dork some question – like there is all this
potential coolness at stake
and i say i have no idea but i realize suddenly that i can find out
because wes put that app on my phone like in the commercial where you can hold it up to music playing and it tells you who it is
6:13 PM but
i have never used it. so i click it and hold it up and it doesn't work.
and i am all stupid fluttery concerned that i am about to look dumb.
but i go over to the speaker and hold it up and it totally works. and i
got to turn around all triumphant and tell the guy who the singer was
i have never used it. so i click it and hold it up and it doesn't work.
and i am all stupid fluttery concerned that i am about to look dumb.
but i go over to the speaker and hold it up and it totally works. and i
got to turn around all triumphant and tell the guy who the singer was
6:15 PM and his response: in this TOTAL cool man swagger voice, "What's your twitter handle?"
calliope: heh
6:16 PM me:
which is just the most perfect cool blogger response – only in our
stupid blog dork world would this incredible dorkiness be all fluttery
cool – "he's going to TWEET me!"
which is just the most perfect cool blogger response – only in our
stupid blog dork world would this incredible dorkiness be all fluttery
cool – "he's going to TWEET me!"
calliope: so jake ryan!!
me: and he wrote something about how he was sitting there listening to whatever band which he found out with @msbri 's iphone
and i was so pleased with myself but was also watching myself from the outside in total amused annoyance
6:18 PM calliope: why annoyance
i think it is cool that he appreciated you and it is cool that you appreciated being appreciated
me: like, why did i care if this cool kid thought i was cool?
6:19 PM calliope: because
no need to know why
me: ha
calliope: this shit is implanted in us as women
(and some men I would guess)
being noticed, being appreciated, being included- I mean who DOESN'T dig that?
6:20 PM (says the girl with a stupid need to e-mail or comment back to anyone new that visists her blog!)
all the world is 8th grade…
6:22 PM me: i suppose
6:23 PM it felt sort of gross to me
calliope: ah
me: i felt gross about how much i cared
calliope:
this is because you are the extremely rare duality of being someone
that cares combined with someone that could give a flying fuck
this is because you are the extremely rare duality of being someone
that cares combined with someone that could give a flying fuck
me: yes, that is exactly right
6:24 PM calliope: sometimes the peanut butter does not mix well with the chocolate
HAH HAH HAH on the observance that you really care but couldn’t give a shit. You’ve brought up the middle school-type worries before. Did anything happen in middle school that you’re hung up on? Because if someone was awful to you, we could seek revenge and see if that helps…
(on a personal note- the baby is crying down there again on nap attempt #2. so fun.) (sorry we made you sick.)
I’m such a dork. “Hey, you look like you know everything!” Who says that? Apparently this guy.
I’m sorry I did anything to inspire the gross feeling (and I know you aren’t saying anything about me being gross blah blah blah, I just don’t like the thought of you being made uncomfortable at all in a way that had to do with me. It’s narcissism.) For what it’s worth you didn’t appear flustered at all, and I thought it was an extremely cool, and geeky (geeky is good), thing to do to bust out the iPhone app to help me out. Especially because I was just idly curious and looking for something to Tweet about. Now I feel like I used you. It’s weird seeing those situations from the other side of the eyeballs. Thank you for sharing it.
Gah. It’s not you, it’s me. I know you seem to get that. You could have been anyone. Well, any dashing dad blogger with a large following.
It would have been just a plain old awesome geek moment, my first use of that app and you tweeting it, if I weren’t so damaged by middle school. Forgive me for using YOU for a blog post! Or we can call it even.
There are some people. I’ll give you names.
Done. :} And nothing to forgive. We’re bloggers. We blog things. That’s what we’re about.
And middle school was rough on all of us. I had a mullet.
well, if i was at a conference and you spoke to me, i’d be like “OMG VEE, BRI SPOKE TO ME!”
so there you go ;o)
Oh, Jay. Don’t be silly. IVP is family. I’d be all up in yours and Vee’s business and telling you what to do. I am in life as I am on the boards. ; )
OMG VEE, BRI JUST COMMENTED ON OUR BLOG!
joking. seriously, thanks for the comment… maybe BB will eventually bust his arms out too, who knows. and i really hope we get to meet one day so that you can be all up in our business.