The she-blogging shindig.

So! Are you going to BlogHer? I’m going to BlogHer! If you’re there, will you say hi to me? I promise to say hi back. Maybe I’ll even say other things, too!

Not only am I going to BlogHer—I’m also speaking. Like, officially. On a panel! With this one! And this one! And this one will moderate! To distract everyone from the inanity of whatever it is I’ll be spouting, I shall wear nothing but pasties and lederhosen. And oven mitts. On my feet.

I’m a little afraid of this year’s conference. There are so very many people going that I want to meet--way more then there were last year, when there were already way more people to meet than there were minutes in the conference, and I spent the whole time weeping and laughing and weeping and laughing at the same time while drinking beer. This time I may go into complete overload and simply throw myself to the ground and thrash about, shrieking. If this happens, I beg you--take no pictures of the me-spectacle. Much as I may horrify and delight.

Comments

[Jem]

Oh, I wish I was going! But I live in New Zealand.

[Suebob]

Yes, I am going! And I have not yet gotten thin and beautiful like I had assumed I would before BlogHer, so I will be appearing as My Real Self.

I will definitely say hi to you and ask after Henry. Anything beyond that is optional, but I am open to drinking and laughing and weeping, since those are some of my best skills.

[wood from sweet juniper]

Looks like a great panel. I can't wait for the liederhosen.

[mainja]

Hmmm. Last year I said to myself "myself, next year you should go to blogher", and yet, here we are, next year, and alas, no blogher for mainja.

But if I were there I would no doubt say hi to you, and other things, and perhaps ply you with alcohol leading to much hilariosity of course.

Unfortunately, see previous statement regarding not going to blogher...

[foodmomiac]

I will be there and will be sure to say hi. I'm also good for beer, weeping, and laughing. But, seriously, you do NOT want to see me wearing pasties.

[Kari]

Um, Alice? No need to be scared. We don't bite. (Well, maybe we do, but in all the right places.)

I met you last year at BlogHer. And yeah, this year is going to be insane, but it is going to be such a *wonderful* insane.

Don't worry. I'll say "hi." Please say "hi" back. Thankyouverymuch. XOXOXO. I will take lovely photos of your panel. Or at least funny ones.

[Jenny J.]

Hi Alice,

I have been enjoying your blog for awhile but have never commented upon your brilliance.

I will be there and I will say hi. Perhaps I will even come up with a smart sounding question to ask you.

[JustLinda]

No, I'm not going. I'm less than a year into this blogging thing and still feel like such a newbie. I couldn't do something like that without a buddy system in place (tell them they must implement a buddy system! for big chickens like me! who will only go with another so I don't have to wander around alone with a big L on my forehead!)

But damn do I love public speaking - LOVE IT and would love to get paid to do it (and writing) for a living so I am much envious of you!!! You'll kick ass, I'm sure. Go, you. Can I be your understudy? Like when Marcia was in the school play? And if you break your nose when Greg throws a football, you can depend upon ME to stand in and do a good job? No? Ok, Ok, please don't call security - it was just an idea.

Maybe I'll make a blog friend in time to go next year.... my 1st blogiversary is next month!

[jenB]

i will be there. with my big old panties and propensity to fart.

i am already overwhelmed as well. but will most definitely say hey. :-)

[sweetney]

CANNOT. WAIT.

i want a retelling of The Gigantic Panties! and group hugging, please!

[Angela]

I shall see you there! I'll bring the decaf tea (ha ha) and say hello...if I can get through all the Alice groupies crowded 'round you :)

[Krisco]

I will be there!

I can't wait either.

I will say hi. I'll be the one with the peptobismal-pink (but cutely shaped!) purse. I hope you say hi back, but if not, I understand. You're famous!

(In law school, my friends used to joke that we were the dorks growing up, and it took us to law school to become the cool crowd. Looks like I'll be going back a few grades at this Blogher deal. Luckly you find great friends at every level.:)

[margalit]

Nope, not going. WAY too expensive for east coast bloggers. Move it to NY next year and I'm there.

[madge]

Boo. I had to cancel las minute. Otherwise, I'd have been walking a few steps behind you practicing saying, "Hi!" the whole time. 'Cause I'm cool, you know.

[Antique Mommy]

I was going to go, then a friend scheduled her wedding for that weekend, and then the groom backed out AFTER BlogHer was booked. The nerve of that guy ruining my BlogHer weekend! Oh yeah, too bad about my friend too.

I would SO love to hear you speak and see you with mitts on your feet. I love your blog. Next year for sure!

[Karen]

SOOOOO jealous of everyone who is going! Too broke this year, maybe next. Knock 'em dead, Alice!

[Mir]

I think our panel needs a uniform. I'm unsure about the pasties, but I could totally get down with the oven mits on the feet. That would take care of my pre-long-walk-calloused-feet issue nicely.

Do you think people want to come watch our group sit around and kiss? Because I'm pretty sure that's all I'm going to feel like doing.

[chris]

I'll be there. I am too excited. I'll be attached to Mir, like a tumor, since she foolishly told me what flight she was taking and I booked the same one.

The pasties and liederhosen uniform for all blogher attendees would make my angst of what to pack much easier. Not sure I want to walk around with oven mitts on my feet... but what the hell!

[clickmom]

dang, I'm not going but I really really want to you. Now I am more disappointed than ever at the thought of missing you in that get up.

Maybe all the losers, like me, who can't go should bow their heads (or turn their lap tops off) in silence at a predetermined time.

[Average Jane]

I'm going again and I swear I'm not going to be such a wallflower this time. (At least I hope not. We'll see how I behave when the time comes.)

Is anyone planning anything fun on Thursday? I get in around noon and I have no idea what I'm going to do all day.

[Zoot]

I hope to see you there, although now I can't wear my ovenmitts on my feet like I was planning to...

[Chase]

Don't know that I've ever even commented here, though I read every post. So...um...hi!

I'll be at BlogHer! I'm going to do lots of weeping. And drinking. And, though I've already confessed to possible leg-humping, I'll really try to keep that to a minimum.

Three weeks!

[Heather B.]

I'll be there. And I just wrote a really awesome post about how thinking about all the new people there kind of makes me want to throw up. The nerves have gotten to me...

So, if I see you, I'll say hi and probably hug you and I'll try my damndest not to throw up.

[Sharon]

You'll be wonderful. No, I won't be there, but it's awesome that you will be, and speaking.

Again, you'll be fantastic.

[Nothing But Bonfires]

Since it'll be July and you'll be sweating with nerves, make sure the lederhosen aren't ACTUALLY leather. You can get them in some very breathable fabrics these days, I hear.

I wish I could be at BlogHer, but San Jose is a long way from Singapore.