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10 More Things I Know About Coming Back From WisCon

10 o'clock, June 5, 2006

  1. Jesus Christ, I am in such fucking denial.
  2. Sleep, jetlag, writing, something about laundry
  3. No, like, I didn’t leave the house yesterday. I just sat around writing email and watching Battlestar Galactica and eating Top Ramen.
  4. Really, was it crazier than usual this year, or was it just me?
  5. Alan “Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead” DeNiro is a god-damned genius.
  6. You know, I really don’t want to be one of those apocryphal fans who has no contact with their fellow human beings outside the con scene. Even the WisCon scene. Maybe I should have gotten that Ph.D. after all. Or moved to New York.
  7. Okay, half of Rio Hondo’s already sent out RTF copies of their stories. I really should get to work here.
  8. DENIAL! God!
  9. Love,
  10. Scary Editor Moles

Comments

What, because getting a PhD would put you -more- in touch with the world? It would just give you a different group of people to hide from (or with).

—— Susan, 10:33 AM, Monday, June 5, 2006

Ssh! Don’t shatter my illusion that, say, the NYU modern history department would be just as cool as you guys.

—— David Moles, 10:39 AM, Monday, June 5, 2006

Hey, Susan, don't talk him out of this New York Ph.D. thing. It might not be what David thinks it is, but who cares? It'd mean that he'd be back in this country. Ben's persuasive, but can he really hold out against all of us?

(running and hiding to keep Ben from hitting her with a big stick)

(oh, dang, just remembered that I'm staying AT BEN'S HOUSE in two weeks. I'm doomed.)

—— Mary Anne Mohanraj, 11:26 AM, Monday, June 5, 2006

Don't you come into contact with your fellow human beings during your day job?

—— Ted, 4:12 PM, Monday, June 5, 2006

Well, I for one, definitely miss having you on this coast. You weren't local, but you still dropped by a few times a year and it was always so nice to see you. I know we don't all live in the same city, but I always thought moving to freakin' Europe was a wee bit drastic as a response :-)

... which is my roundabout way of saying that although NYC is not on this coast, I would certainly approve of you moving back across the pond.

—— Heather Shaw, 10:07 PM, Monday, June 5, 2006

Ted, probably, technically, but most of the time it doesn't feel like contact so much as hailing distance.

—— David Moles, 10:55 PM, Monday, June 5, 2006

David -- is that more or less true in this job than in the previous job?

—— aphrael, 5:13 AM, Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Less, probably. I mean, in this job I do actually hang out sometimes with my officemate (hi, Nj!) and his girlfriend outside of work. On the other hand, that’s only two people, and there’s a lot of stuff I’m interested in that they’re just not into.

—— David Moles, 6:25 AM, Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Stay long enough to have one or two cool stories and some writing fodder, then get the hell back over here. :)

—— Jenn Reese, 7:14 AM, Tuesday, June 6, 2006

At least come back to the States on weekends.

—— Greg van Eekhout, 8:01 AM, Tuesday, June 6, 2006

It was crazier than usual.

Not that WisCon is ever usual.

—— SarahP, 10:32 AM, Tuesday, June 6, 2006

You know anger is the next stage after denial, right?

—— Jackie M., 1:23 PM, Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Jackie, that's what the exclamation marks are for.

I'm not allowed to think about what I'm doing after Switzerland till I've been here at least a year. But I'll be happy to come back on weekends!

As soon as the Concorde's flying again and somebody gets me an annual pass.

—— David Moles, 3:33 AM, Wednesday, June 7, 2006