be cool, soda pop (AWP)

6 months ago (11 notes)

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AWP

Oh hey guys the AWP conference schedule is up. I’m going to that; are any of you going to that? I am already reading these panel descriptions skeptically inside my head. Half of them seem to be like: how to use Twitter. Last year I forced myself to go to this conference and then halfway through just threw up for no apparent reason. I think it was a metaphor, but I don’t know for sure because there’s no AWP panel on what it means to throw up halfway through a writing conference. Kevin’s coming this year, though, and basically I’m planning to hang out with Chicago-based internet peers as much as possible, and if I throw up this year I think I’m just going to quit and go into full-time reception work (HA HA HA, as if that isn’t already my destiny).

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ecantwell said: I’m going to that! And I’m dragging Chris with me, too, because I don’t want to go to it alone. Let’s find each other and throw up together.
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michelledean said: I would like to go.
ablindglass said: The panels are definitely spotty. I go for the readings and for the pleasure of seeing a whole lot of crazy-looking books and poets that I never knew existed. To me, it’s a happy place but not a very useful one. And I haven’t thrown up yet!
taoistdrunk said: OH HELLO
thefeeling said: People want me to go, but I can’t see the angle. Is there room for Goodreads at it? It seems like the kind of place where people read papers aloud instead of actually speaking.
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