Danielle Bean, Rockstar

One huge part of attending last weekend’s CNMC was meeting my sister-of-the-heart Danielle Bean. I’m sure you know who I’m talking about. She’s awesome.

Obviously there were lots of totally cool people at the conference/celebration. A few, like Lisa Hendey and the Willits‘ I had met before. A few more, like Robyn Lee and Sarah Reinhard, Maria Johnson and Pat Gohn, I knew but had not done a ton of chatting with. Danielle was someone I have become really tight with but had still not met in person.

The thing is, and this speaks to the awesomeness of the Internet — it was like meeting someone I already knew. Like it was fun to get to finally hug the real person who I already knew, between reading her stuff, emails and talks on the phone. We had a blast. I pretty much had a blast all around. I can’t wait until I get to see all these people, Danielle especially included, sometime soon.

I will write more later and how meeting people in real life gives the Internet a soul, but for now I will post this picture, a photo that I stole from Danielle who stole it from Robyn. This is pretty much how things went for us this weekend.

(yes, I laugh a lot. Also, based of my review of the blogging panel footage, I say the word “y”all” waaaay too much. Y’all, it’s so embarrassing.) And here, below, is a more serious photo that I stole from Aquinas and More, of us at the Fake Cheers Bar in Faneuil Hall. Important networking going on right here.