Have some free time? Want to let your watchers get to know you better? My original 20 Questions Challenge may still be found here: [link]So I went to the Toronto meet on the dA World Tour stop. I didn't stay forever, because my cousin had to be home early and I was basically her ride. Anywayyyy, uhh... I stayed for about two hours? Enough for a crapload of group photos and I'm sure even more moments wherein I looked incredibly lame. Here are some of my observations of the time I spent at the event:
We got there on time. Yayyy. We stood around for a while, looking for someone with name tags. Finally, we found and got some. Then we stood around talking... to each other. My cousin isn't on dA, I brought her in case I was accosted or... I don't know, mostly moral support. Yeah, so I found the event awfully cliquey and not... not that friendly? I mean, everyone was nice enough, but nobody was like... making an effort to talk to people who were clearly by themselves. And the few people I tried talking to just kind of ran away like I was RUINING THEIR DAY BY SAYING HELLO OMG. Seriously, I said hi to people walking by on more than five separate occasions and every single time I got a weak "hi" back and they would just walk away with this look on their face like I just toppled their Jenga tower.
After a while at the top of the hill where everyone was meeting we kind of started moving down to the more open park-y area. Listened to $
spyed talk for a while, and then some other idiots making noise and being stupid while he was trying to say stuff. Aaaaand then... uhm. There was an annoying kid trying to spray everyone with a sprinkler, which I wouldn't have minded since it was so hot... but the shrieks of girls (and some boys) was enough to make me wish he'd stop. From there we split into groups regarding our style of art. Digital art... traditional... I don't know, I couldn't hear anything after he said "photography group, follow this guy" and then I just decided that applied to me well enough and followed him! In the group we stood around... introduced ourselves, and then sat down to talk about the site with $
Moonbeam13. It was nice, but that portion was for the site. People who spend loads of time here and browse and actually take the whole thing seriously.
I am not one of those people.
Anyway, that's about the point where I left.
I got in the car at about 4:00pm to drive home.
I had arrived at 2:06pm.
Two hours was not enough to make it worthwhile for me.
But then again, I didn't stick it out until the very end, so perhaps it got much better as the day went on.
So, my overall opinion:
-Not really the place for networking. Nobody introduced themselves to me. Nobody let me introduce myself to them. It's definitely a place to go WITH or TO MEET WITH someone you already know/talk to from the site. The people there already have their groups and it's not likely they'll let you into them.
-If you don't have much time to spend there, don't expect it to be fabulous. I'm not at all clear on what happened once I left, but it was fairly unexciting for the time I was actually there.
- If you're a fan of the site and spend a lot of time here, definitely go to one of these. There's so much for you to learn about and people you can suggest things to.
- Easily amused? Loud? DEFINITELY GO TO A MEET WOOOO OMG LOLOLOL WOO.
Anyway. Yeah. The end. That's my assessment.
I'll definitely go to another one of these in the future, but not before I "haz buddeh" to meet up with.
... I also have just found pictures of me from the event.
I look awful.
... And will most likely be joining a gym in the near future.
Ew.
Lights out.
Tearful
Optimism
I've been having a totally super summer thus far, and I hope I've got another whole month left to go. Here are some random anecdotes and observations that I hope will give you all some idea of where I am life-wise. Or at least in my progress therapy-wise.
Thanks guys.
Neglect
Nervous
Welcoming
