so this is not like, a plan yet

[seperis]

Randomly, and there is no context for this other than an email exchange I just had, some day I am going to fulfill my dream of hosting a party for people who have never managed to hook up with anyone at a con so we can all sit together and ponder this.

It's not that I think we lack social skills other people seem to have. See, I think someone at each con hates us and spreads rumors about us and together, we can find out who that is and make spreadsheets together eliminating all the suspects on our laptops. I will provide the alcohol and no less than three (3) separate templates for our spreadsheet, and I am thinking in multiple colors and with rotating three-dimensional pie chart and like, okay, call me crazy but we could write macros and conditional statements and I just got multiple workbook formulas working really well.

Please bring your laptop, alcoholic beverage of choice, one type of chips, and maybe, DK, a dip of some kind? And a spreadsheet application. I think leverage and castle vids playing in teh background would give the right atmosphere.

One day. *shakes fist* One day.

[Note: cherry chocolate tea should be a schedule three substance. I don't think I've stopped drinking it for the last three days. Also, I see colors. Lots of colors. Everywhere.]

eta: To respond to concerns I feel need to be seriously addressed, you may bring your web-enabled smartphone in lieu of your laptop, which let's face it, might as well be a laptop because God knows my phone is very possibly sentient, for your spreadsheeting needs.

Comments

[brownbetty]

I'm trying to imagine the rumours. Betty bites without invitation? Farts stinkily? Pillow princess?

[seperis]

You see why this is a party that really has to happen.

Ooh, we can track potential rumors with the spreadsheet too! *makes note*

[morgandawn]

use cloud computing and keep the spreadsheet on Google Docs.

But I note you fail to disclose your location - I fear your visitors will get lost trying to input your LJ into Google Maps.

[tazlet]

And is this cherry chocolate tea of which you speak, where does one get it?

[seperis]

It's a mix from adagio. Two parts cherry tea, one part chocolate tea, steep, sugar, drink. I'm kind of finding the meaning of life in it right now.

[scy]

Is this the awesome tea that keeps you from plotting Bacchus' takeover with me?

*eyebrow*

If so...

[seperis]

*whistles*

[saraht]

people who have never managed to hook up with anyone at a con

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[seperis]

Yet the mean people rumors theory allows for spreadsheets. I mean, add alcohol and vids, it's like the best party ever.

[zvi]

I would love to attend this party, but, uh, perhaps we should avoid wasting the opportunity before us, and think about hooking up there.

[seperis]

I like the way there could be a secondary purpose to this party!

[vito_excalibur]

I will resentfully join you, with GDocs spreadsheets and homemade hummus!

[seperis]

YAY HUMMUS!

Gdocs will make it easier for us to find the suspect.

[jrho]

This sounds like an awesome party that I am very unqualified for as I managed to hook up the very first night of my very first con ever (Akon 2001). I am still baffled that I managed this as I usually have all the pull of a limp noodle.

[seperis]

...I couldn't even carry on a conversation at my first con without being sure everyone wanted to kill me until I died in a fire.

*PROJECTS STEALTHY SILENT RESENTMENT AND SEETHING HATE*

[jrho]

To this day, I am still not sure how I managed hooking up in a stairwell after I had been in the con hotel less than 12 hours. (I had been talking to the guy for less than 4 hours. I didn't even get his last name until the next day.)

[niqaeli]

This sounds like an awesome party.

Do I get to come if I've managed drunken snogging at a con?

[seperis]

You have to lie and say you don't remember it, so it won't count. It's like, IDK, virginity; technicalities count.

[niqaeli]

I can fib. I don't remember it very well.

[fyrdrakken]

Oh, geeze. See, I was going to say that I qualified, and then I remembered the wee local con I brought my then-boyfriend to. But I don't think that counts as "hooking up at" (and even if it does, it probably doesn't because of the way he was trying to pick up other girls right there in front of me).

[zulu]

Hey, wasn't that with me? :D?

(Completely unrelatedly, my experiences of hooking up at cons will soon be released in a pamphlet series entitled Hooking Up At Cons: Great, Really, Until The Next Morning...Or The Next Year's Con; Hell, Let's Just Say, For The Rest Of Your Life Afterwards. It's a clunky title, but I really feel it speaks to my experience.)

[niqaeli]

*grin* Yes, it was.

[seperis]

*wipes tears* This entry brought people together!

[dragojustine]

You know, I'd hook up with you at a con JUST for making me laugh with posts like this. Despite the Rumor about the Thing.

Okay, is it weird to segue straight from that into mentioning that I hope I get to meet you for OMG ADAM LAMBERT? I just spoke to Sandy, who has apparently collected about 10 people. I'll be driving and bringing a few folding chairs. I plan on handing out my cell number to all and sundry, and finding the fangirl furthest up in line and hanging out there playing cards (perhaps with excursions from the line for alcohol). Participate Y/y? Shall I PM you my number?

(I'm not creepy, I'm just EXCITED. ADAM FUCKING LAMBERT)

[seperis]

Yes please! I'll PM back. I'm staying with scynneh and boggit is probably joining us and YES LARGE GROUP OF FANGIRLS BETTER.

Sorry for the delay on answering--I lost where this commment was until I remembered, right, my post to unite those who fail at basic con social skills. *G*

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Under what precise definition are you talking about hooking up? ~_^

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Technicalities. The real question here is, do you like spreadsheets?

[mylenn.livejournal.com]

Any plan of yours seems to involve spreadsheets. I'm thinking an intervention of some sort may be in order.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I can schedule that into the party! *makes note on spreadsheet*

[ccmom.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I would love to crash this party.

When and where? I'll bring cheese dip!

I don't own a laptop. Suggestions?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

The nuclear bomb of dip--cheese dip.

A smartphone with web access can be substituted.

[ccmom.livejournal.com]

I don't have a smartphone either. I'm just a poor lonely mommy with 4 kids and no money. *sighs* know any rich desperate men?

[eponymousanon.livejournal.com]

If I were anywhere near your con I would crash this with my patented cream cheese, roasted red pepper and garlic dip, just for the spreadsheets. Well, and the alcohol.

[lexstar29.livejournal.com]

Cherry Chocolate Tea? I need this in my life so much you don't even know! Can I ask you where you found it?

[cadencecascade.livejournal.com]

I wish to know which con you're referring to...

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I had an email exchange with a friend and she is like "I HAVE HOOKED UP AT ALL THE CONS".

I am not saying I did not tyr to give her hives with my mind.

[cadencecascade.livejournal.com]

I have only been to one con so far, and was just wondering, as a n00b, if there were cons that were, I guess, easier(?) to hook up at than others? This is information I need to know. For, you know, information purposes. So I can be informed.

[tricksterquinn.livejournal.com]

See, ok, I haven't*, but I also haven't tried. But you know how I feel about color-coded spreadsheets! *gathers butcher paper, colored pencils, and highlighters*

*unless we count the Nerd Houseparty over the 4th weekend every year, and then I might discuss precise definitions of "hook up" in a couple of different dimensions, but really is irrelevant because it isn't a fangirl-specific space.

[tricksterquinn.livejournal.com]

Relatedly, yesterday I asked someone if she would like to have a torrid one-afternoon romance some time when she has a free day, just so we could add a line between our names on the (YES) labeled chart of awesome that maps the relationships of people in or affiliated with the group in question.

Fuck I love nerds sometimes.