... a deviant path is the only way ...

I finally found my planner again, so hopefully I'll get my life in order.

Saturday was a horrible, horrible, day for me, so in desperation I actually went out and bought St John's Wort. I'm hoping that will help matters too.

I didn't go to Convergence... I was feeling damn near paranoid about interacting with people (in person) - the one time I left the house this weekend I went "in disguise:" baggy layers, and a baseball cap with my hair all tucked inside it, so as to try and circumvent people from hitting on me, or even talking to me unnecessarily. My being crazy at the time probably helped.

*fingers crossed*

I just got back from Convergence. My Lacing Variations panel on Friday went really, really well. I am completely guesstimating attendance of 30-40 (total seating capacity for the room was 10 rows of 5, and most of the rows had 3-4 people), which, for 3:30 on a Friday afternoon, when most of America's vacation day is Monday, is really damn good, I think. Also, Shayne and crap-I-forgot-his-name-Dan?-maybe? from Xcentricities came and explained how to do training lacing for Victorian corsetry, for which I was very grateful, as I didn't know how to do that, and I-forgot-his-name added a good deal of humor into the presentation as well, which his something I'm horribly shitty at.

I went to a panel on LiveJournaling - "Discuss the positive and negative impacts of social lives moving increasingly online" - which was quite interesting, as it addressed many of the things I've been wondering about. Is this a Update-On-My-Life sort of forum? A Reveal-Inner-Bits-Of-Me forum? Should it be humorous writing, a way to work on my own writing skills, or ... whatever. So, that was really interesting, and I liked it lots, until one guy decided to use it as his own personal psychological dumping ground. Blech.

( I have a rant. )

Meh - to end on an amusing note, I guess I had an encounter with Drooling Fanboy this weekend. Apparently, D.F. is rather infamous for latching on to attractive women and following them at modest distances, staring. *giggles* I was waiting at the elevators with Renate, Robert, and Forgot-Her-Name-Too-Dammit-Robert's-S.O. (edit - Liz) when I vaguely noticed this guy standing next to the wall and looking in my general direction, and the others discretely tugged me closer over to them. When we got in the elevator, in trying to make more room for others to get in, I moved closer to D.F. and he apparently got this big ole smile on his face. Renate pulled me over to her, and Robert moved between me and D.F, making some sarcastic comment about how much D.F. liked that (he's supposed to be homophobic) and it was just really cute how protective they were. *giggles more* Anyway, D.F. is supposed to be harmless - he just looks, doesn't touch or even talk to the person, to my knowledge, but it was amusing anyway. Poor guy.

*laughs*

Man, I can't even take one day off without all of a sudden panicking about all the things I need to get done... Only one month until CONvergence, and I still need to make the handout for my Bodice Lacing Variations workshop, not to mention all the things I need to do before Fest in August: make my and Patty's sleeves, a couple new chemises and a few partlets, and my blue gown, get rid of 90% of my belongings, and other things too. Ahhh!

*takes a deep breath*

Ok, I'll calm down now.

 Goal for the evening: RP with Cor in Everquest if he has time, cut out my sleeves, take out the trash, and get rid of 10 more things. Wish me luck!