{"id":2884,"date":"2014-01-18T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2015-06-09T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:44:44","slug":"live-tweeting-the-genuine-feminine-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2014\/01\/live-tweeting-the-genuine-feminine-conference.html","title":{"rendered":"Live-Tweeting the Genuine Feminine Conference!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Ogre signed me up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genuinefeminine.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Genuine Feminine <\/a>conference this weekend. When he told me, I was all<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-eyeroll.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2885 aligncenter\" title=\"tina fey eyeroll\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-eyeroll.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then he said, \u201cyou need to get out of the house! It\u2019ll make you feel better!\u201d and I was like<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-not-hosting-oscars.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2886 aligncenter\" title=\"tina-fey-not-hosting-oscars\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-not-hosting-oscars.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That same night, I checked my blog email for the first time in about a month, just to see if anyone was feeling so sorry for me being blue that they actually sent me an email. (They weren\u2019t, except GeekLady, because she\u2019s the best ever. The rest of you suck. Just kidding. A little.) But there was this one email from the Genuine Feminine peeps, asking me to SPEAK at their CONFERENCE.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t believe it. No one\u2019s ever asked me to speak at <em>anything<\/em> before! I mean, I had no idea what kind of coherent contribution I would be expected to make, since it\u2019s unlikely that I could bring my laptop and communicate through GIFs and they probably didn\u2019t want me swearing, which basically eliminates all my forms of communication, but still! They like me! <em>They really like me!<\/em> I told the Ogre and we were like<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-dancing.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2887 aligncenter\" title=\"tina fey dancing\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-dancing.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>till I noticed the date of the email, four days previous. Then I asked the Ogre when the conference started and he checked the website and was all<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/this-is-tomorrow-gif.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2888 aligncenter\" title=\"this is tomorrow gif\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/this-is-tomorrow-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I had to write an email apologizing like an adult for my childish refusal to responsibly check email and be all<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/ashamed-of-myself-gif.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2889 aligncenter\" title=\"ashamed of myself gif\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/ashamed-of-myself-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"379\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had already filled the slot with Dr. Catherine Pakuluk, who I\u2019ve never heard swear and who is 1000% more coherent than I am, so I think it was a win-win for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Except me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tantrum.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2890 aligncenter\" title=\"tantrum\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tantrum.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"135\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I did go to the kick-off talk last night by<a href=\"http:\/\/verilymag.com\/the-team\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> the editor of Verily magazine<\/a>, Ashley Crouch, and it was<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/absolutely-fantastic.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2892 aligncenter\" title=\"absolutely fantastic\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/absolutely-fantastic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"143\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s because her speech was laced with Platonic imagery and she\u2019s a fellow UD alum (BECAUSE UD IS THE BEST EVER!!!!), but it was the first time I\u2019ve listened to someone talk about fashion and not wanted to shove red-hot pokers through my ears to stop the awful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/what-makes-you-think-im-not-interested-in-fashion.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2893 aligncenter\" title=\"what makes you think i'm not interested in fashion\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/what-makes-you-think-im-not-interested-in-fashion.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, it was so awesome that I wanted to find her afterward like a total creeper and beg for her notes so I could blog about it, but lots of people were asking questions, and there was a pub just next door. So I was like<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/i-choose-vodka.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2891 aligncenter\" title=\"i choose vodka\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/i-choose-vodka.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"247\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was so pumped about the conference I initially rolled my eyes about, though, that I decided at 10 pm last night to live-tweet it.<\/p>\n<p>Like, today. Or right now, rather. I mean, the continental breakfast started half an hour ago, and I still have to publish this post, shower, and frantically facebook message Brandon Vogt and ask him how to live-tweet things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/therockclapgif.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2895 aligncenter\" title=\"therockclapgif\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/therockclapgif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"296\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalahAlexander\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Come over to Twitter <\/a>and watch this train wreck unfold! I can\u2019t promise not to swear, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-thumbs-up.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2896 aligncenter\" title=\"tina fey thumbs up\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/01\/tina-fey-thumbs-up.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ogre signed me up for the Genuine Feminine conference this weekend. When he told me, I was all Then he said, \u201cyou need to get out of the house! 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