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So everyone’s home from the BlogHer 2007 conference. Yay you! I, on the other hand, am among the Chicago-deprived. I didn’t go at all; something about airlines not preferring to let enormously pregnant women board planes. Also something about not wanting to leave the toddler who nurses to sleep. And something else about Dane having to work and therefore not being available to hang out with the kids while I traipse across the country.
At any rate! I tried reading all the zillions of liveblogging posts to see what you jetsetting bloggers were learning, because I’m conference-happy that way. But liveblogging, as it turns out, feels too much like interrupted conversations among harried mothers at the playground: half a quote from this person, half a response from that one, and no real sense of what the heck the sessions were about.
Then I got distracted by the zillions of pretty pictures and only slightly fewer witty anecdotes, and forgot about trying to figure out what the take-home message might have been. (What? The pictures are so shiny! And everybody’s so smiley! And clean! And smashingly dressed! I can always try to learn something next year.)
Ah, a fellow onlooker. I would have liked to have gone as well. Not pregnant, but baby is just 3 months. Would they have let her in on all the meetings?
I have no idea how the baby aspect of the conference goes. But really, when you’re three months old, how much of a disruption can you be? Your lungs are still much smaller than anyone else’s. Though I guess maybe you’re more willing to test them out than the bigger people might be…
Last year I was bummed I didn’t go, not so much this year. Although I tried to avoid all the recaps like the plauge as to ensure I didn’t get bummed.