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puppetmaker) wrote2009-07-27 08:29 am
puppetmaker) wrote2009-07-27 08:29 am
RTBTCKI (The Cats Woke Us Up Early Edition)
This morning at 6:30 I heard all three cats outside my door. I tried to ignore them but they woke the rest of the house up as well. I figured out pretty fast what was wrong. I usually check their food dish before I go to bed and I didn’t last night. They were out of food and water so they did have a complaint. I fed and watered them and they are now sleeping in their various sleeping spots but I am now awake as is Caroline. Ariel woke up but went back to sleep so I don’t expect to see her much before noon.
My handwriting is not the greatest. Cursive was one of my curses in grade school. As soon as my teachers would allow me to go back to printing, I did. In college and Graduate school I worked very hard on making my handwriting legible. I have two forms of writing, those things I write for me and those that I write for others to read. I was reading an article in this weeks Time about the slow death of cursive in our schools. Part of it probably stems from that fact that we read in print not cursive for most of our lives between computers and books. I can still read cursive and my mother has excellent penmanship but I really have to work hard at it if it is going to be legible at all. I’d hate to see cursive go the way of the abacus but we are heading in that direction.
San Diego is over and the reports and final write-ups are trickling in. I have noticed a number of people stating that SDCC is too big and not enough about comics. Considering the number of films presented which have comic elements or are based on comic books, I don’t think we have lost the comic side of this convention. Other people were complaining about the crowds and the lines that seem to continue to increase each year. The convention is limited as to the number of people who can attend so the number this year was no bigger than last year really because they sold out of each day last year on the morning of the day. This year all passes were sold way before the convention. Fake badges aside which is a problem for these conventions. So there are a limited number of passes to attend. Somebody said that they found DragonCon less intimidating than SDCC and I pointed out that DragonCon takes place in 3 to 4 hotels so it is spread out over a large space than SDCC. I don’t think there is a building that could hold all of DragonCon in the city of Atlanta. Also it would make the evenings activities much harder to hold.
I may make a How to Survive a DragonCon post soon. There are tricks I have learned that has made my life just that much easier at that convention and they are not limited to the guests of the convention. 38 days to D’Con and counting.
I am grateful for cats who are very forgiving once they have food and water.
My handwriting is not the greatest. Cursive was one of my curses in grade school. As soon as my teachers would allow me to go back to printing, I did. In college and Graduate school I worked very hard on making my handwriting legible. I have two forms of writing, those things I write for me and those that I write for others to read. I was reading an article in this weeks Time about the slow death of cursive in our schools. Part of it probably stems from that fact that we read in print not cursive for most of our lives between computers and books. I can still read cursive and my mother has excellent penmanship but I really have to work hard at it if it is going to be legible at all. I’d hate to see cursive go the way of the abacus but we are heading in that direction.
San Diego is over and the reports and final write-ups are trickling in. I have noticed a number of people stating that SDCC is too big and not enough about comics. Considering the number of films presented which have comic elements or are based on comic books, I don’t think we have lost the comic side of this convention. Other people were complaining about the crowds and the lines that seem to continue to increase each year. The convention is limited as to the number of people who can attend so the number this year was no bigger than last year really because they sold out of each day last year on the morning of the day. This year all passes were sold way before the convention. Fake badges aside which is a problem for these conventions. So there are a limited number of passes to attend. Somebody said that they found DragonCon less intimidating than SDCC and I pointed out that DragonCon takes place in 3 to 4 hotels so it is spread out over a large space than SDCC. I don’t think there is a building that could hold all of DragonCon in the city of Atlanta. Also it would make the evenings activities much harder to hold.
I may make a How to Survive a DragonCon post soon. There are tricks I have learned that has made my life just that much easier at that convention and they are not limited to the guests of the convention. 38 days to D’Con and counting.
I am grateful for cats who are very forgiving once they have food and water.
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