{"id":1205,"date":"2009-10-27T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2009-10-27T00:04:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T07:04:17","slug":"convention-jitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/convention-jitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention jitters"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Fantasy<\/a> starts in less than 72 hours, and I’m getting nervous about it. \u00a0Really nervous. \u00a0This is the first big-time science fiction convention I’ve ever been to, and I’m worried that it will be too intimidating, or that I’ll make a fool of myself, or that I won’t put myself out there enough, or…<\/p>\n

All the same, I’m expecting to have fun. \u00a0Lots<\/em> of fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But between now and 5:00 am Thursday morning (when we take off for California), I have to: 1) grade 20 papers, 2) take a midterm, 3) write two essays, 4) run at least 30 regressions, 5) read 2 poli sci articles, and 6) finish American Babylon<\/em> and write up a report on the last three chapters.<\/p>\n

Yeah. \u00a0Not fun (except the regressions–what can I say, I’m a nerd).<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, I met an interesting girl at Leading Edge<\/em> last week. \u00a0She’s at least as much of an sf&f fan as I am, and one of the very, very<\/em> few girls I’ve met who prefers science fiction over fantasy. \u00a0Somehow, she convinced me to read The\u00a0Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin with her (or maybe I convinced her to read it with me?), but I started it tonight, and it’s really good. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Technically, I’ve got a class for Washington Seminar that I should go to tomorrow…but I can skip it and listen to the mp3 while I’m driving to California. \u00a0Don’t want to miss <\/span>Leading Edge this week, for obvious reasons.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking of which, if I don’t go to sleep right now<\/em>, I’m going to be barely functional for the next two days. \u00a0Not good. \u00a0G’night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Fantasy starts in less than 72 hours, and I’m getting nervous about it. \u00a0Really nervous. \u00a0This is the first big-time science fiction convention I’ve ever been to, and I’m worried that it will be too intimidating, or that I’ll make a fool of myself, or that I won’t put myself out there enough, or…… Continue reading Convention jitters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[82,88,42,33,210,1510,84],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-conventions","tag-doubts-and-fears","tag-frustrations","tag-girls-and-dating","tag-the-leading-edge","tag-ursula-k-le-guin","tag-world-fantasy-2009","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}