Business and pleasure collide for five days while B and I are in Austin for SxSW Interactive. I can focus on two tags (wife and consultant) rather than three, while Sosie gets super crazy carnival time with her grandparents and aunt & uncle. We’re talking TWO pairs of new shoes super crazy carnival time. With SPARKLES.
This year’s SxSWi was filled with ups and downs. Up: Great foundation for the future with content strategy really taking center stage and shoring up immediacy in the industry. Down: B sick with some freaky stomach bug that made eating and having fun a complete chore for him. Down: So much work hanging over my head it made focusing on the here and now of the conference nearly impossible. Up: Meeting, by complete chance, my blogging hero—the woman I read back in 1998 that made me decide to start whirlygirl and dig up all this mess.
Two early girly blogs in the late nineties, two different life paths with hairpin curvy roads, two currently dusty blogs reaching out for relevancy, and a lot of Spinanes songs in-between. SxSWi always makes me nostalgic for those dimly lit, late night posts, authored over a glass of wine. But now, when I stay up late trying to recreate the moment, I just find I’d so much rather be in bed snuggled next to B, listening to my Munchkin snore from across the room. That’s relevant.
