I really ought to stop reading con reports

[figmo]

It rarely fails to happen:

1. I go to a con.
2. I feel good for having gone to the con and having had a good time.
3. I read the con reports, see myself totally absent, and get really depressed.

This continuously amazes me, given that I've done some things over the years I thought were highly conspicuous. I once coordinated the smuggling of a sousaphone into OVFF. I have run cons. I have done concerts complete with costume changes and choreography. I've tried to make a sanitary napkin with wings fly while on stage. I've brought an insufferably cute dog to cons.

This time even the dog didn't get mentioned.

Comments

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

Lynn, being mentioned in a con report is not an indication of anything, nor is not being mentioned. I don't look to con reports for self-validation. Nor do I look to Xenofilkia, the Pegasus awards, the Filk Hall of Fame, or ... that way lies madness and frustration, and it's best not to head in that direction. Well, actually, there are plenty of ways to get to madness and frustration, and someone was kind enough to snap me out of that sort of thing some years ago when I was speculating about what some acquaintances might have been thinking about me.

I have been in situations where I did need to be careful with others' perceptions, career-wise, and it's still not a productive activity. That's a frustrating thing when it's money and your future on the line, and that's enough frustration for a lifetime. For filk, which is our pleasure and recreation, it's not worth a damn.

As far as I'm concerned, you're one of the all-too-many people I didn't get to spend enough time with at GaFilk. That's both a bit of frustration for me and a sign of how many decent people there are in filking.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

You're right, and yeah, we didn't get to spend enough time around each other. Your kids didn't get enough "doggie time," too. :-)

I filk to filk. Someone once asked me if I got into filk to be famous. I replied, "I already am famous. I'm on the radio. I get fan mail. I filk because I need to."

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

"I already am famous. I'm on the radio. I get fan mail. I filk because I need to."

Heh. That's a quote I want to file. =:o}