Monday, February 8, 2010

Maddeningly Unhelpful Advice-Save Me

If you are a regular reader of my blog then you know it is a habit of mine to make a fool of myself. Let's call this piece of advice: Let's save Kasie from looking like a fool....again. Here's how you can help. This advice is mainly for the people I will be seeing this week at the LTUE conference, but seeing how at some point in the future it is very likely that I will meet all of you, the following will be quite helpful.

*Please wear a name tag. On your name tag include: The picture you have as your "avatar" on twitter or on your blog. If this picture is an animal or flower or stack of books, then it is even more necessary. Next write your screen name. Again, if your screen name is something like "hotbookluvr" or "I kill people with my pen but those people are all fake", this would be good to know. Under that should be your real name. And finally, how you phonetically pronounce your real name. (For example, my name is spelled Kasie, but many of you might not know that it is pronounced K. C.) Will all this information on a name tag ensure that I will be staring at your chest for a long, uncomfortable moment of silence. Why yes, yes it will, but at least I will know who you are and how to say your name.

*Next, if I am not wearing my glasses and you are more than ten feet away from me, please expect that I will have absolutely no idea who you are. You could be one of my closest friends and I will just wave like an idiot thinking, I have no idea who that is. Much like when you are talking to your grandma whose hearing aides are turned down and you have to yell at the top of your lungs so she can hear you, make sure you get into my vision bubble if you want me to remember having seen you.

*If you do not like to be hugged, hold up finger crosses because I'm known to attack.

Of course I don't expect you to do any of this. It is basically just my warning to you that I will probably pronounce all your names wrong and imagine you as the pet dog used as your profile pic. :) For those of you who aren't going, I hope to run into you somewhere in the real world one day--maybe at your book signings. And for those who are, I am so excited to meet you!

I probably won't be blogging the rest of the week while I'm away at the conference. Mainly because I'm thinking *cough* about leaving *gag* my computer *sniffle* at home...........maybe........

20 comments:

  1. Too funny! Are you sure these tips are for you and not for me, because I could write a post a lot like this one?! Have fun and good luck with faces and names and no glasses... :-)

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  2. I don't mind when you mistake me for someone else without your glasses, but when we're driving together and you ask me what a sign says...

    I can't wait to meet Hotbookluvr, that dude/chick has probably got it going on.

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  3. Have fun at your conference, don't hug too many strangers.

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  4. This is so funny, because it's exactly what I would want people to do! I'm the teensiest bit jealous of your time there. Hope it's awesome!

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  5. Have a fab time at the conference. How could you even consider leaving the laptop at home?

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  6. Too funny! I think I'm going to part of that conference too :) I'm super excited.

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  7. Your blog is very funny. I need glasses, too, and I am also attending the LTUE conference. Maybe we can bump into each other...

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  8. This made me laugh out loud! Great post. I'll see if I can make up that nametag. See you this week!

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  9. Conferences rock! Have an awesome time! :)

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  10. Well, Attack Hugger is officially your new moniker. Classic. Now, I'm really disappointed I won't be attending the conference because I lose the chance to make the aforementioned badge (which I would make up a twitter name for, use Debbie Schubert's photo on, and then make you feel bad when you didn't remember my name... Gladiola Shiny Pants).

    Have a great time, and I'll be pining for your blog while you're away! And you know, Kiersten let Laptop blog when she was away. Just saying. :)

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  11. You're going to be just a few blocks from us this weekend?? Does that mean we will see you in your short trip? It looks like a good conference.

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  12. I hope you're going to the dinner on Friday night so I can see you!!!

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  13. I'm looking forward to meeting you at dinner Friday night. Sorry - I don't like nametags and my chest is so big I don't need to add a reason for people to stare at it, but I think we'll recognize each other or we'll figure it out.

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  14. I wish I was going to be there to meet everyone. Hopefully I will be able to meet some people when I'm in Utah in April. I will try to remember your advice.

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  15. Several people who I know from online are attending. Please give them all hugs for me! LOL

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