Greetings and apologies
Feb. 23rd, 2009 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI am back from Redemption
and it was rather awesome :-)
I talked! Fluently and quite possibly making sense! I ended up sitting in the middle of a panel due to seating accident and I still talked with everyone staring at me!
I don't know what happened to my stutter, but it can stay happened, please.
I had a really interesting relaxed weekend, and enough of the panels were useful and relevant to writing that I reckon I can make the argument with a straight face that it counts as studying.
... I have to go to college tomorrow and the stack of unread handouts in front of me is phenomenal already. I think they're divided up by weeks or something, but still.
I have ridiculous amounts of notes, including five pages of written conversation from the dead dog party, on very bright paper. I discovered I have successfully diverted (almost) all my nervous habits into compulsive notetaking. Win! Can avoid the thing with the hands, including the part where I accidentally tie myself up! Just end up with excessive pages of notes. How much is excessive? I bought a new notepad. I need to buy *another* new notepad. And I used the stripy paper too.
The apologies bit: I say this after every convention but I say it again: If I ignored, offended, annoyed, or otherwise wound you up, sorry. Almost certainly not intentional. Social skills still a work in progress.
I feel this progress will now be much more rapid since I can make words out loud :-)
Though this means I can be an idiot out loud too.
And also with gestures. Me waving my fanfic around was intended to mean 'I agree with you in several thousand words and many pages' but I became aware the nuance of meaning was rather lost in translation and I was just sitting there flashing my fanfic. Yawning pit of embarrassment, hello, I have not missed you. But. That was the only time all weekend I felt like that.
Also physically I'm ridiculously healthy. All my achy painy bits are behaving remarkably well, and I seem to have acquired the ability to run up and down steps at some point. Well, okay, walk up and down at the same speed as everyone else or slightly slower, but relative to me, run. And still breathe. That was the awesome bit. Breathing is good.
I think I'm doing the typing equivalent of talkingveryveryfast, so I'll post this and go finish eating. I kind of forgot all weekend. Even breakfast was a bit abbreviated, tiny plates, no eggs. So, pasta, and then food with more nutritional content.
*waves*
*pologises again*
Fun weekend! :-D
and it was rather awesome :-)
I talked! Fluently and quite possibly making sense! I ended up sitting in the middle of a panel due to seating accident and I still talked with everyone staring at me!
I don't know what happened to my stutter, but it can stay happened, please.
I had a really interesting relaxed weekend, and enough of the panels were useful and relevant to writing that I reckon I can make the argument with a straight face that it counts as studying.
... I have to go to college tomorrow and the stack of unread handouts in front of me is phenomenal already. I think they're divided up by weeks or something, but still.
I have ridiculous amounts of notes, including five pages of written conversation from the dead dog party, on very bright paper. I discovered I have successfully diverted (almost) all my nervous habits into compulsive notetaking. Win! Can avoid the thing with the hands, including the part where I accidentally tie myself up! Just end up with excessive pages of notes. How much is excessive? I bought a new notepad. I need to buy *another* new notepad. And I used the stripy paper too.
The apologies bit: I say this after every convention but I say it again: If I ignored, offended, annoyed, or otherwise wound you up, sorry. Almost certainly not intentional. Social skills still a work in progress.
I feel this progress will now be much more rapid since I can make words out loud :-)
Though this means I can be an idiot out loud too.
And also with gestures. Me waving my fanfic around was intended to mean 'I agree with you in several thousand words and many pages' but I became aware the nuance of meaning was rather lost in translation and I was just sitting there flashing my fanfic. Yawning pit of embarrassment, hello, I have not missed you. But. That was the only time all weekend I felt like that.
Also physically I'm ridiculously healthy. All my achy painy bits are behaving remarkably well, and I seem to have acquired the ability to run up and down steps at some point. Well, okay, walk up and down at the same speed as everyone else or slightly slower, but relative to me, run. And still breathe. That was the awesome bit. Breathing is good.
I think I'm doing the typing equivalent of talkingveryveryfast, so I'll post this and go finish eating. I kind of forgot all weekend. Even breakfast was a bit abbreviated, tiny plates, no eggs. So, pasta, and then food with more nutritional content.
*waves*
*pologises again*
Fun weekend! :-D
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Date: 2009-02-25 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-25 10:21 pm (UTC)Is good to see you too :-)
meeting and talking FTW