I attended a kick ass session with Susan Mernit (which I will post about on DM tomorrow AM) and have been sitting around chatting this afternoon with a bunch really cool women who’s geek passions range from poetry to comedy to vlogging to camera technology to researching to open source to activism… it’s been a really cool experiance thus far.
Immediately upon turning on my laptop someone comments about my Dr. Who desktop.
So, I am horridly shy & awkward in person, in a way that I am not online. Given that in a past life I was an actor, this seems oddly incongruous. People have commented on it before – I know – I’m a weirdo.
I mustered up the nerve to talk to Susan – because, I want to interview her for FP – and, she says “you’re Adorkable Grrl??? We have friends in common!!!” She gives me a big hug and I discover that Cate and Violet Blue have told her to look out for me… (Awwww…) And, I sit down to chat with her at a table with two other women. So we chit-chat about this and that for a while and we do name introduction… I sit down to live blog a moment or two which has happened in the course of the day… one of the women Elisa, is talking about a conference she attended and her company’s new offices and about managing blogs on her website… I get curious and the following conversation :
Me: Excuse me, I didn’t catch what you do?
Elisa: Oh, I am the co-founder of a company.
Me: Really? Which one?
Elisa: BlogHer
Me: Durrrr…
Okay. I’m sitting chatting with the co-founder of BlogHer, Susan Mernit and the lovely Havi from Yahoo and they’re telling me that they heard about me from Violet Blue, Amber Rhea and Cate Sevilla… AND, that they’ve read my blog. Then I start talking about Diane diPrima with Susan… Could I have any more of a fan-girl moment?
I don’t think so.
Well, we’ll see tomorrow when I actually meet Violet Blue for the first time. Hopefully I’ll be able to form sentences NOT comprised of the following: “You, Violet, me Kate… robots, awesome!”
:/
(’K I know that’s ending up being reposted by some vulgar hating pinhead somewhere on a Wiki about me… gah. That’s fine, I’m an utter fan-girl I admit it freely and happily. *takes away dumb haters power with a wave of her empowerment wand*)
I honestly feel like a baby geek-girl in the company of geek-women giants. I say this to Elisa and she says, “And, here you are right in the middle of it.”
This is why I love women, feminists and geeks in particular… so accepting, so nurturing.
I just had a really amazing conversation with osg (infobits.org) about technical writing; and, also about the sitch with ED and online content theft/RSS ganks-aggregation and what it means. I talked with her and Adina Levin a little bit about how tolerance across a broad amount of issues is on the rise and “incendiary” things (such as erotica, such as Barack Obama admitting to having inhaled.) It’s so fucking refreshing to be amongst people who get it… get it all…
I’m utterly happy and wish I could live in the geeky-grrl good space forever and ever.
*grin*
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It was great meeting you in person Kate! And so serendipitous considering Amber and I were just talking about you over the weekend
Small world, especially for we geeky women!
Oh Elisa, it was so nice to meet and talk with you yesterday! I promise I will do my best to be at BlogHer this summer…
Small world, indeed… so wonderful, though!