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Monday, September 13, 2004 ( 1:47 PM ) Melody Got to see Zonker on Sunday. He was passing through Illinois on his way to see his father in Wisconsin, so I met him in Springfield for pizza. I haven't seen him in 3 1/2 years. I met him via phone and e-mail when I was his editor back at Prima. I met him in person in Vegas at Linux Business Expo in November 2000. This was during my first few months as an acquisitions editor, and that was my first trade show. I was 2 years out of college and really still getting my feet wet in publishing, in the working world in general. LBE was part of Comdex that year, and there were something like 30,000 people in town just for the show. Zonker and I just hit it off. We had dinner one night, and I asked him for coffee afterwards. We took in the water show at the Bellagio together, one of the only truly beautiful things in Las Vegas if you ask me, and ended up spending the entire evening walking and talking. It was my first visit to Vegas, a city I mostly despise, but that's one of my fondest memories. We've stayed close ever since. It was wonderful to see him again. I hope that we can shorten the length of time between visits in the future. I told him I'd try to update this thing more often, not that he chastised me. I chastised myself. I stopped blogging on a regular basis because it made me feel so exposed. I have half a dozen or so partially written entries that I never posted. Some don't get posted because I get distracted halfway through, but most of the time I don't post because this blog makes me feel so exposed. I worry about who reads it. I worry about hurting someone's feelings. I worry about looking like a dork. I'm not making any promises about regular posting, but I'm going to try not to worry so much. # |
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