Blogher – Saturday – Post #1

Hellooooo!

LOVING. THIS. CONFERENCE.

Yesterday afernoon I took a nap before the cocktail party and when I woke up, I was feeling kind of foggy. I called Whinger and organized meeting up today and then ventured into the cocktail party. I don’t know if it was the nap or what, but I was feeling kind of lonely for the first time. I circled the perimeter with my plate of hors de’ouvres, awkwardly searching for a familiar face. I needn’t have worried, of course. I ended up partying until 1am with 4 awesome women who are now wonderful new friends*!

Even though there have been technical difficulties and organizational snafus, this conference is just so cool. There have been small moments that illustrate the beauty and power of a big group of women. This morning, the sound wasn’t working on a slide show and someone started the ‘bah… bah… bah…’ of All You Need is Love’, and soon all 700 of us were singing it. A technical difficulty turned into a spontaneous, lovely moment. Women are so cool!

Whinger and She Walks have arrived and they are both so fun! I can’t believe I am getting to meet them IRL. She Walks was the first blog I ever read, linked on the Best of Craigslist. She started this whole thing for me!

I am looking forward to today’s events. I was going to go to a session called ‘Get Deeply Geeky’ because I felt like I should since I am entering the tech industry. But I couldn’t keep up with some of the tech stuff in sessions not specifically designated as geeky yesterday, so I think I am going to a mommyblogging thing instead. Those ladies are fun. After that I am going to a session led by dooce on blog entrepreneurship. I don’t think I will ever go that route, but I have such a crush on her I would listen to her talk about anything.

Tonight’s keynote speaker is Arianna Fucking Huffington. OH. MY. GOD. So excited!

I’ll be back with more later. Thanks for reading!

* Kelly, Becky, Erika, and Karen. Links to be added later.