Conference cohorts

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   discokim November 8, 2005

   Exactly. She spent a lot of time in the lobby feeding a baby. A very new-looking baby. A very new, shiny, keep you up all night screaming to be fed every two hours, you may think you’ll never write again, turn your mind into mush, make you into a diaper changing machine…baby. She’s just giving me a couple years to catch up with her, I thought, feeling very mean.

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   Edgy Mama November 8, 2005

   Ah DK, you missed Susan. Well, I was a bit disappointed with her. She was cute, she was engaging, she read some brilliant passages of her work–and that was about it. And where was she for the remainder of the weekend?

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   discokim November 7, 2005

   I am still blown away at allowing my cheap self to spend almost $300 to attend the conference in the first place. I know I can write it off…it still felt weird. Credit cards really can be wonderful; otherwise I wouldn’t have done it.

   Conference was so much like all conferences: some great speakers/sessions, some dogs. Joseph Baltanti and Sean Murphy were my favorites. They were both great presenters who were practiced and thoughtful. I feel like I got some really worthwhile tools from both sessions.

   Susan Orlean was what originally attracted me to the conference, and then I didn’t get to hear her speak or get within 50 feet of her. Ach.

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