Still Here

Hello again.

This is my Giger bear, which I bought last night at Voltage. Rachael and I found this awesome store last night by accident, and barely escaped without far, far too much stuff. Actually, she managed to buy nothing, which was impressive. It was a great night - we poked around in exciting vintage stores, had delicious food with great conversation, saw really amazing art, found the aforementioned fantastic store, and bought me a new camera, all in under 5 hours. I even picked up the new VK, IK, and Threads magazines. What more can you ask for from an evening?

I've been having a hard time even thinking of blogging lately. Lots is going on, and I haven't really felt like talking about any of it. I should tell you a bit about BlogHer, though.

First of all, thank you again for being so generous with your stories. If you haven't read through the stories that were left in the comments, I would encourage you to do so, they're lovely and interesting. Even more stories were sent to me via email. I was pretty overwhelmed by the response.

Unfotunately, the panel didn't really go the way I had hoped it might, and I wasn't able to share your experiences with the audience at all. The session could have used a moderator, but we didn't have one, and chose to let audience questions determine the course of the discussion. In the end, I felt that I wasn't really a good fit - the session was on group blogging, and I don't have a group blog. The idea to put me in that session was an inspired and interesting one; the coordinator's thought was that the knit-blogging community functions, in some ways, as a large group blog. When we (the coordinator and panelists) discussed the session in a conference call beforehand, the discussion was really interesting and it seemed like a good fit. However, the audience ended up asking a lot of practical questions about running a group blog, so I ddn't have a lot to contribute in the end. Ah well.

I did enjoy BlogHer, though. I attended a couple of really interesting session, which I'll write a bit more about later. For now, though, I have to get back to work. The fall issue of Knitty will have some really lovely sweaters, and unfortunately (or fortunately, or I wouldn't have a job) the patterns for these sweaters aren't going to edit themselves. (Man, I hate it when people say things like that. I'm afraid I've been reduced to irritating clichés. Even my title sucks.)

I'll write more soon. I just wanted to drop in and let you know I'm still here.