you can really see her professional excellence shining through.

You should see articles when I'm finished with them...

But to think it's feasible to organize such a thing -- immature even by the standards of 15-year-olds.

Have you *been* to a lot of sci-fi cons? As a woman who started attending them at 16, and swore at about 27 that she was Done. With. Them. due to the behavior of con-going males, my biggest shock was that this hadn't already been done.

You get a hivemind, AIFG! thing going on in those circles. Two or three women who buy into it so they can claim any woman who doesn't is just no fun, and BAM! Obnoxious Movement is born.

Wow.

I'm WAY more bitter than I thought I was when I woke up yesterday morning. Huh.

I'm WAY more bitter than I thought I was when I woke up yesterday morning. Huh.

Does this mean you'll be turning to guns and religion?

I'm WAY more bitter than I thought I was when I woke up yesterday morning.

Yeah. I'm at that stage where I feel stupid for being so upset about it yesterday. But I think it hit a lot of women in a really, really uncomfortable place.

Does this mean you'll be turning to guns and religion?

If she builds a compound I. Am. So. In.

I think that dude needs to be hit in a really uncomfortable place.

Not quite the same thing, but it reminds me of those drunken frat boys in New Orleans. They all have their little balconies reserved in the quarter, and they've spent who knows how much at the tourist shop on beads, and now they're going to spend their entire time in that amazing city getting plowed on daquiris and screaming at me to show my tits.

And, I just want to be like, "Dude. a) No. b) If I feel like doing that it's not going to be for half a dozen blitzed frat boys and c) It's fucking June!"

I'd been thinking that since the WIP is an alternative history and therefore falls under the science fiction/fantasy umbrella, I should start going to some cons so I'll be in better touch with that market if/when the time comes. Now I'm REALLY not sure I wanna go there...

Ugh. Disgusting little assholes. I want a scooped blouse with "Do you feel lucky?" on it(Even though I hate the Dirty Harry thing; don't get me started.) In the wrong crowd, they could get shot doing that. Mostly by some dude protecting what's "his" but still.

AAAGH. Not a self-assessment, but assessment by others--just had a voicemail from the new boss saying he was told (by who, I don't know) that I seemed "disengaged" in training, and reminding me how it was important yadda yadda...seriously?? If this is about the diversity trainer who (a) was AWFUL and (b) gave the exact same presentation as I saw last week, then shove it. If it's about the REST of it? Fuck whoever reported me--at least if I wasn't eyes on the powerpoint, I was just vaguely doodling. I was NOT playing sudoku or checking email on my iphone like SOME people.

Generally I just SO don't need to seem like a shitty employee in my third week on the job, especially when my boss is in a different time zone than I am and can't see me work every day...

I hate when people judge what you "seem" like. It'd be one thing to say, "meara was disengaged during the training and here's why I say that." But when people say "seemed" or "it felt like" gah!

We are having a ginormous meeting here this afternoon. While I'm fairly sure I did nothing wrong, and in fact went above and beyond in a few places, some things just went a little bit awry. Catering was late. I was a minute or two late bringing part of the display because I didn't know I would have to (or find someone else to, but really?!?) cut it apart. Anyway, I'm trying to convince myself that i didn't screw the whole thing up and in fact did a really good job coordinating everything for having found out about all this on Friday.