back from intercon - no mojo!

[danaeris]

intercon was great. I met a lot of new people/recognized some from last year... I even ran into people there who I did not expect to see but knew!

My games were all very cool and I think everyone except poor laura47 had fun.

I seem to have caught what she was sick with, which I believe is what rigel was sick with recently. I'm feeling like I'm totally out of it, like I'm 'on something', so I am vaguely hoping I've skipped the 'sick as a dog' part. Of course, this "I'm on drugs" part is tough too what with schoolwork to do. Bleah.

There were these two cute and neat boys I was talking to at the con. I don't think either of them were interested though. I don't know how rigel and zebediah do it... they manage to pick people up so easily! Maybe I'm just not as cool and interesting as they are. ;-)

Anyway, intercon rocks and more people should go next year. Yay intercon!

p.s. In retrospect, this makes it sound like I'm all about picking up those cute people I met. But it isn't like that. They were cute, sure, and I was crushing on one and attracted to the other. But they also seemed like very neat fun people. Rigel managed to get an agreement to email from one of the guys she'd been hanging around with/cast with in one game. Neither of these guys alas expressed any interest in further contact, which disappointed me because they seemed like neat people. Just like the guy I met at Arisia, we haven't had anything romantic going on, but I really enjoy being friends with him.
This all had the effect of making me feel like something was wrong with me. Maybe I wasn't friendly enough, or something... but rigel and zebediah seemed to do this contact thing effortlessly, and it makes me wonder what's wrong with me that I can't. Am I not as cool as them? Was I just not as 'on' this weekend? Was I too busy with games and dancing to actually socialize and get to know people?

Of course, this is a silly train of thought to a great extent---concluding that rigel and zebediah must be cooler than me to others because they picked people up and I didn't. Maybe one of those guys was very interested in me and I just didn't notice!

Anyway, it probably sounds like I'm angsting about this a lot. I'm not, I'm just really out of it and listening to the audio files for the assignment I have due tomorrow. So I typed this in while I listened.

Comments

You are SO on!

[rigel.livejournal.com]

WRT not appearing to have as much success as zebediah or myself in picking people up: The one you were crushing on is oblivious. O-bliv-i-ous. We talked in the car (he gave me a ride home), and while talking about people and crushes and dating, he basically told me that people need to hit him with a sledgehammer for him to even notice them. He claims that he can never tell if someone is interested.

There was some judicious application of sledgehammer on my part, and not on yours, as far as I could tell.

He also mentioned that you seemed interesting, having caught his eye on Friday, and that you looked amazing in your Slave Girls outfit.

If you want, I have contact information for him. I could check with him if I could pass it on . . . :)

Re: You are SO on!

[auror.livejournal.com]

oooh email of cute boy? please? ::goes and finds sledge hammer::

Re: You are SO on!

[rigel.livejournal.com]

*laugh* You want cute boy's e-mail too? I can check on it if you really want it . . .

Re: You are SO on!

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

*kee!* sledgehammers are funnn!
especially the sledgehammer of subtlety... definitely my favorite :)

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[earthdragon.livejournal.com]

there is no such thing as a sledgehammer of subtlety...
as someone on the must be hit by sledgehammer/clue-by-four list, I know this...

Perhaps you were looking for a ball-pean hammer or a ratchet set or something small, veriable and with lots of control. (first I'll try flirting a 3/8th hexhead, then I'll try a small philips head. If that does not work, I'll get out some lock-tight so they will remember me later and wonder..._

no no...

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

the sledgehammer of subtlety is when someone (like, say, me) who is normally incapable of subtlety suddenly realizes she has done something subtle and so screams to the world "see? see! look how subtle that was! *I* can be subtle! I really can! this just *screams* subtlety, doesn't it?"

(this term is not exclusive to the concept of hitting on people and indeed was invented for other purposes but may be applied)

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[danaeris.livejournal.com]

ooooo. mmm. cute boy. I wish I could have talked to him. One of my problems is that I was so sleep dep'd by social time Saturday night that I was like, "ooo, dancing, ooo cute boy, oo dancing" and didn't pay enough attention to him. And then he went to sleep.

Sure, if he's interested, send me his email. I forget, does he live in Boston proper, or just the general area?

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[rigel.livejournal.com]

He lives outside the city proper, like on the border of what is considered metro Boston.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Zebediah and rigel cheated. They used magic. They took our charisma and added it to theirs. Still trying to reverse the spell. :)

[auror.livejournal.com]

had that plot. solved it. not my problem anymore ::evil grin::