;)
I caught you a delicious bass; wanna play me?
My kid does this thing with his hands whenever there is an uncomfortable moment in our day. He calls it Awkward Turtle and I'm pretty sure it's something he's picked up off of thems there internets, but I don't care because it's AWESOME and I'm going to use it right now.
*puts one hand on top of other*
*sticks thumbs out and spins them around in circles*
*inches turtle forward*
Oh, nevermind; ask me to show it to you next time you see me.
So there's no real seque from that post into this one, except that
A) everything is fine for now, and
2) I can't believe I didn't do that years ago, I feel *that* much better and
lastly) I have bigger fish to fry.
Fish like blogging conferences. Blogging conferences like BlogHer, which is where I work now.
Um. Yeah. I cannot believe it, either.
After, like, 87 Internet Years, Jes Ferris moved on from BlogHer and I somehow duped them into letting me take her place as Conference Programming Manager, which is so very awesome and so very time consuming that I think I will henceforth just be a Saturday night blogger, if I'm lucky. I made it all of nine days into my Highly Lofty Plan to Post a Picture Every Day and posted two whole times at my Babble blog this year so they're probably going to fire me, but that's okaysih because I really, really, really truly, madly, deeply love my new job.
Really. I'd stand with it on a mountain. I'd bathe with it in the sea.
While we're on blogging conferences, I'm going to Blissdom for the first time ever, so if you're going too, I'll be the person continuously standing under something taller than she herself is, wearing rubber shoes and eating all the imitation Jesus-meat crackers I can get my hands on, just in case. Say hi, if you dare.
I'm also going to the Houston Meet-Up for Dad 2.0 summit this Thursday night at The Stag's Head Pub downtown because, ironically enough, I really need a fucking drink. That, and I think that Doug French and John Pacini are stand-up guys and fantastic leaders in the dad blogging community who are going to throw one hell of a boy's weekend out conference, and I fully support their efforts that I won't be able to attend, see: new job.
And I think that's pretty much the total summation of every minute of spare time I have from now until August 6th, which means Daphne Brogdon is going to have to keep flaring her nostrils at me for pretty much abandoning everything I was up to at my kids' schools, but that's okay because, well, frankly? She's stinking adorable when she roars her terrible roars, she says from several thousand miles away.
Volunteering At School: Do You Buck Up Or Bow Out? w/ Daphne, Janice and yours truly on Momversation.
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Reader Comments (16)
Just keep doing your awesome thing and getting more awesome than anybody at it. I'm used to it by now. Coattails.
I'm behind. I'm sorry (for being behind, too). Congratulations! Damn. I couldn't keep up if I tried. Xo
At first, I was kind of sad that it wasn't just for me, but you know...it's good to hear you sing love songs again, even if they're to all of the internets.
Aside from your kick ass job(congrats!) my son who is 6 does awkward turtle. And for some reason it skeeves me out
::high five::
::fist-bump::
::forearm smash::
::head butt::
::realization that I just knocked you out with that last one. oops.::
Congrats to you, Shannon! BlogHer is lucky to have you on board.
Also? I hope things continue to "feel *that* much better"
Hugs from the one 'n'
And I'm sure your new job feels the same way about you. Congratulations!
SK
Being in the middle of an incredibly difficult job search myself, it is wonderful and encouraging to hear that there ARE still jobs out there for talented women. Congratulations!
Very jealous!!! Congrats!!!!
I'll be at Blissdom for the first time too. We live minutes away and again I have to see you in different states. XOXO
OMG you are so funny. I am reading your post with interest "uh, huh, she is going to blissdom, uh huh" When suddenly you mentioned me and oh, so artfully lead into our vid (our vid, we made that baby).
Dang all sounds like fun, I want to go shmooze too. have fun, and yes Ill be hauling mulch for the mud pits at school.
i'm a regular stalker and have missed your regular posts. i love reading this new news. maybe you could even live like this forever til the sky falls down on you. or (hopefully) not.
but i will still continue to check your blog like you have all the time in the world to entertain me and none of the rest of this ever happened.
really, i'm so happy for you. this is really something to be proud of, so i hope you are.
PS-i'm room mom.
Thanks fore the article!
Congratulations!!!!! That is very, very, very exciting......
Congrats on the new gig with BlogHer, they are lucky to have you.