BlogHer12 Recap In Photos And Bad Poetry
I’ve been staring at this blank page for ten minutes now, wondering how to write a BlogHer12 recap post and I’ve just decided I don’t actually want to. It’s only been a few days since I got home but the posts, tweets, threads and private gossip is coming fast and furious. Who was rude, who got pushed, who snubbed who, what super top secret parties I didn’t get invited to, whether or not bloggers who don’t use all the words count as bloggers at all… It’s amazing how other people’s experience can completely change how I view my own. I don’t want to be responsible for doing that to anyone else. If we met, I thought you were LOVELY. Truly, every single person I met was kind and welcoming, from people I’ve admired for years to brand new faces. If we didn’t meet, I’m so so sorry and I hope we can get together soon. That’s my entire opinion of the conference besides these photos and captions…done as haiku. Please enjoy.
Wednesday:
Walked to Central Park
With Miranda in the rain
No dead bodies found
Went to find some food
The sunset was amazing
But there was no pie
Thursday:
Blographer and more
I met Ree for the third time
She did not know me
Friday:
Sessions and Martha
The meat of the whole big thing
With fun for dessert
Bright lights and good friends
Toys and swag and all the things
Can’t even compare
Saturday:
Disney made me cry
Katie and Serenity
Too many highlights to count
My friends may be weird
But that’s why they understand
I treasure them all
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Tags: blogging, blogher, blogher 2012, blogher12, conferences, friends, haiku, NYC, pictures, things I love
Gah. You’re right about how reading other people’s opinions of the conference can color our own. Loved your haikus!
I let it happen WAY more than I should have last year and I’m trying really hard not to do it again. Every moment I spent with you was wonderful :)
It looks like you had an amazing time!
See? You’re one of those people that makes me sad I didn’t go to BlogHer. I’d love to hug you! Maybe someday. :)
PS. That picture of Miranda and Alena and their sweet babies is fantastic!
So, I saw that picture of myself and thought, “Look! Someone had the same shirt I did!” Beat, pause, “Oh! That IS me!” Hehe.
Nicely done, lady. It looks like all the people went this year. Dangit.
Looks like a grand time! Or perhaps your haikus made it seem more grand and sophisticated than it actually was. :) Glad to see/hear you had a lovely time.
D’awww, yaaaay. When I have my own adorable babies this is going to be even more confusing :)
Oh no! I hope I wasn’t the all the words lady! I think you’re a beautiful writer. Writers don’t have to have all the words, sometimes few words are supremely powerful. And oh dear, I may obsess about this all day. :(
I loved meeting you. You are as sweet in person as you are on this here piece of the internet. I keep looking for you and Jamie as I walk around my house, because of course you’ll be sitting waiting in my bedroom or living room to talk…
Not you. Don’t worry! I am thinking of a specific post and it wasn’t yours. PROMISE. I know there’s a divide between types of bloggers, but since I’m not really foody enough for a food conference and I’m not crafty enough for a craft conference and I’m not wordy enough for a writers conference I start feeling left out rather than included. Not by my friends, but by the community.
So I hear that Blogher 2013 is going to be in Chicago. Where I am. Want to make a beach date?
I had pretty much decided I was taking a year off from BlogHer to do stuff (like, I dunno, have a baby or something) but with Chicago being so close for YOU and Leah and Audrey and my blog designer Sarah…I might have to make it work.
Suzanne – I loved this. Also, let’s discuss this BlogHer in Chicago. I want to find a way to make it work, and if I can by, say, Christmas, I definitely want a flightmate!
Babies are over rated, anyway.
Glad about no dead bodies:-)
I never did make it to the Serenity Suite! We hoofed it from the 34th floor to the 42nd which was rather frightening by how out of shape I am when it comes to stairs, lol (the elevators came like once every 10 minutes and was packed) but the suite was closed at the time.
Great pics! I wish I had made it for froyo but I did have Pinkberry when I was in RI. :)
Adorable haikus – just the right words :0 Fun to meet you very quickly and pose in those sun hats. My dermatologist will be very happy I have one of those.
I really really miss you.
It was nice meeting you briefly at Queerosphere, I had so much fun!!!! Must get to know you better :)
Your poetry and your photos are great. I even see the back of my head in one of them! HA! So good to see you again – looks like you had a wonderful time! Oh and I also took a VERY similar shot out of the window in the Serenity Suite. Great minds and all that…. ;)
xo
What a lovely recap – glad you kept it positive. And I LOVE the haiku!
Finally. A lovely and funny and heartfelt post that make me *want* to go to BlogHer. You rule. So do haikus. And oh by the way are you pregnant??? Did I miss something?
AH NO. NO no no, not pregnant. Yet. We’re trying to pick a time for #3 that won’t throw too many future plans off the wagon. I’m thinking Winter 2013.
I LOVED THIS! And I love your attitude. Life is what you make of it, so pie, obviously. I hope to see you in Chicago!!!
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But WHY do you live so far away. Is the question.
I sure do adore you lady. <3