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[mrissa]

Do I actually have to write the pre-Minicon "fussing about seeing people I don't know or don't know well in large quantities and really maybe I should stay home and hide under my desk and also what am I going to weaaaaaar" post? Or can we just take that as given?

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to take it as a given.

Do I have to write the "Backing out at this point will leave a bunch of people who are hoping to see you at Minicon very dissappointed?" message, or can we just take that as given?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, all right, given.

Even so, I wasn't genuinely thinking about backing out. Just meeping.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

In a way, it's kind of a good thing that mmerriam is sick at the moment, or he would probably also be doing similar amounts of fussing, for basically the same reasons.

Perhaps we should do our best to hook up often, if you are so inclined.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sure, I will look for you.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I'll be at Elise's table except when I'm on panels. So you can always come hang out and look at the shiny things.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's an entirely safe idea. Shiiiiiiiny....

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ummm...yes which?

[laurel]

Nice to know I'm not the only one in that boat.

I mean, I know lots of people at Minicon. Skads, really. Probably more than half the folks who'll be there are people I'll recognize by name and/or by sight. And yet I still worry. And figure they don't know who I am (when clearly, some do).

The what to wear thing is my current obsession. Given so much of my clothes are in boxes and I don't know what is in which box, etc. Back when I was gainfully employed, I'd probably run out and buy at least one new shirt or something. Silly. It was angst about what to wear to a con or a fannish party that once prompted me to sarcastically remark in my Livejournal that my angst truly was justified because after all "Minn-StF is all about fashion." Yup. Uh-huh. If I wear the wrong thing, there'll be hell to pay.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, how much do I really care what people who see me at Byerly's think of how I look? Not that much, when it comes down to it. My actual friends and even my acquaintances are likely to react with, "Oh, honey, are you okay?" rather than, "Oh. My. God. Did you see what she was wearing?" if I don't look very good. But that's still not the goal, and then there are the people I haven't met but very well might like a good deal.

And I hate all the clothes in the stores right now, and it's that weird in-between season where you don't want to wear heavy winter clothes but you can't go out barelegged and in sandals without instantly freezing to death (and getting snow in your sandals), and...oh, I'm sure there's an and. But if you see me in jeans and a T-shirt at Minicon, you will know that my disgruntlement with my wardrobe has reached new heights.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

We can take it as a given. You can borrow my extroversion for the weekend, though, if you want. I won't be particularly needing it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Are you going to overnight it to me, then? Because I'm not at all convinced that the PO's standard shipping would get it here by Friday afternoon.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I was going to fax you a copy tomorrow, and do the real thing priority mail. You'd have it for Saturday at the latest. If you wanted to pay for the overnighting and deduct it as a business expense on your 2005 taxes, that could work too.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid we'll have to go the business expense route, as I will need extroversion no later than Friday noon.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I'll include something on official-ish letterhead with the extroversion, then, so you can have documentation.