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Well, another Santa Barbara Writers Conference come and gone.

It’s like both a family and alumni reunion at the same time. Except you actually go be a family and take all your favorite classes again to remind yourself why it was so important to you. And, you know, it’s living and breathing the writeblr tag for a week.

I definitely think one of the larger regrets of my life is going to be having been “reasonable” and not attending from 2002 to 2018. 16 missed wonderful years.

The downside is that we still live in the age of Covid. I feel fine and haven’t tested yet but I would definitely classify myself as at high risk now. 1 person went home Wednesday. 4 people went home Thursday. And the allergy attack one of my own subgroup was having at our table last night turned out to be covid and as of now at least two of us have it.

So, I am locked up in my room and I have now contacted everyone I can, I think. And now I’ll rest and try and figure out what to do next. Probably figure out about getting tested. And dream that it’s next year so I can go right back.

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I feel like this one has so much room to play around in.

Like, are we talking, I go back knowing everything I know and it's just, do you wanna do it again? Or are we talking I rewind time and only remember enough of the future to know that in some alternate timeline I had my current opinions about my education? Or... some other variable, like if you went and did this degree instead I know my life would be different in these particular ways? And how often can one redo and compare? And how big can the change fallout be, etc? Oh! and how far back are we talking? Like are we just going back to first day of class registrations or are we going younger to prep for a different major and things like that?

I know a lot of the stuff that I am most pleased with in my life are emergent effects from decisions that include my BA. So I would be EXTREMELY hesitant to seriously change it. I even met @coatntails specifically because of mutual school connections. We were both friends with findingsherlock and minion who were in my major with me. I'm even fairly certain we would never have gotten together if findingsherlock hadn't made it her freaking mission to get us together, which we finally did ON THEIR WEDDING DAY. @coatntails was one of the bridesmaids and I was the officiant. And findingsherlock and minion gave up their fourth wedding anniversary to return the favor and officiate for us. Come to think of it... pretty much all the people from college that I still talk to regularly, I met through my major. So... you know... I don't really want to give that up.

But I could certainly enjoy tweaking it. Like, I would absolutely send a very emphatic message back in time to my college age self looking sadly at statistics requirements and demanding that I buy myself a copy of excel and take the damn "Statistical Methods in Psychological & Brain Sciences" course because I really do regret how close I came to getting a minor in Psychology and giving up. If I went back with everything I know, I would abuse the hell out of my priveleges and aim hard for a dual major in Psychology instead of just a BA in Creative Studies with a literature emphasis. Get the damn double major.

I would also damn well send myself a message to NEVER take a break from the SBWC, that is a HUGE regret for me. It nourishes my soul. And, you know, it might offer some huge advantages.

Where I would seriously consider changing is actually my Masters. My Masters Degree was good. But I'm not sure I couldn't have done better with less pain by taking another path. And the easiest way to do that would be a very stern message to my past self to really go all out on language learning.

If I could go far enough back and really communicate or hold onto knowledge, I think I'd try to convince my former self to not just stick with but actually try significantly harder with Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian. Actually can I go back and talk to my parents? (Very Dangerous Idea) but like just to say, hey, start Hebrew REALLY early, like immediately, I'm gonna have a really hard time with it so I'm gonna need a lot more help a lot earlier if you want any possibility of me being able to work with any of it. Also, talk to your kid about Talmud and Kabbalah instead of... whatever we called Sunday School (Thursday school? Temple school? Can't remember). Religion and what passes for history isn't gonna work. Go with ethics and mysticism, those things your child actually cares about. Then I wouldn't have the impulse to choose the grad school I did because a decent chunk of my choice was based around finding a school that both offered a PhD (which I now know I do not actually want in writing or literature, at least not enough to do that much work for that little return) but also didn't require me to know two foreign languages (which I do not).

But you know, if you're going that far back and can communicate or even just remember everything, like can you just try and track down your people vastly early. Most of the people who are my primary attachements in my current life not only lived in my country but in my home state. Three not only lived in my state but in my county! Minion, even though I never met him until college, actually lived closer to me in time and mileage than I went to school in 4th, 5th, and 6th.

Of course then there's the convincing of people... hi, is ____ at home. Heuy, ____! Look, I know you've never met me but I have traveled back in time from a future where you are important to me and I miss you and don't want to wait until we actually enter each other's lives naturally. Might be a bit awkward.

...though I do wonder if I could save some friends pain. Like, could I interfere somehow with people who I know will be hurt if I kind of know where-ish, when-ish, and how-ish they were hurt? Would they then end up the same people? Hmmmm....

This is how we end up with alternate lives stories... huh.

If I can keep the people and what I know, though... then I wouldn't have to keep the places. Then, yeah, I'd probably change my major so I could have more knowledge because I LOVE being an insufferable know it all. Of course then I'd have to decide if I wanted psychology, education, or linguistics. Maybe religious studies but I'm always fascinated by religious studies UNTIL I'm actually taking classes and then I'm bored out of my mind, so probably not. There's also media studies :/ that would be useful.

Hmmph... I'd probably need to go back early enough to give some thought to what I'd actually want to study XD.

I think I'd still want the same ideal job that I ideally want now (and am not going to get). So... probably education, I guess. Yeah, there's a change I think I'd rather... just going so much harder after the job I wanted when there was time, energy, and momentum on my side.

Bleh... that sounds depressing.

Hmmmph.

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Me listening to SBWC 2017 #fannieflagg ‘s #keynote....gearing up for another memorable #SBWC2018 conference #june17th -22nd-interested? please check out the site 4options-if I can answer any questions here? glad2 - @sbwriters #SantaBarbaraWritersConference -founded in 1972- or thereabouts- By #storyteller #artist big #hearted #creative #BarnabyConrad -his morning #workshop shaped my #writing life and I am blessed to deliver #sbwc workshops that I always hope make a difference in a writer’s life ...#writinglife canB #tough - these opportunities cut through the isolation #averygoodthing✅ (at Santa Barbara, California)

[talkingtea]

Ngl scrolling through sbwc made me question myself. Then I realized literally every comment on videos of tf are filled w WA grandice or just complimenting candice so this blog just trashing candice constantly is the minority not majority

Why are you even scrolling through that cesspool?

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The Policy: The State employs a team of Illness Intervention Specialists (DIS) through the Division of Well being and Social Services. This team is assigned for the Division of Public Health. Each and every team member has the responsibility to make sure that persons who're infected with, or had an exposure to, a sexually transmitted infection (STI), get proper healthcare care at the earliest probable period. As a very important part of the STI investigation and companion notification course of action, the Illness Intervention Specialists' shall correctly collaborate using the Center's representative as part of the operational protocol. The following are utility points that shall serve as a functional guide, which outline an method that really should be useful, in the point of engagement with the Wellness Center's team representative, when a Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) conducts a student interview using a College appointed participant.

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Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) connected Difficulties pursuant to this policy Proposal:

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2) The DIS will confidentially inform the student of his/her STI infection. DIS shall also conduct an educational discussion that addresses re-infection, companion notification, and threat reduction.

3) The student shall be provided (2) selections with regards to remedy possibilities: Choice A: The Student is informed that he/she may well obtain remedy by way of the School's program.

Option B: The student is informed that treatment could be administered through a medical provider of his/her decision.

four) If therapy will be to be administered through the system, facts relative for the student's well being status is instantly transmitted towards the appropriate representative in the School Based Wellness plan, in an effort to initiate efficient remedy protocol.

5) At the point the student decides to seek therapy from a provider apart from the School's Wellness system, info pertaining to the student's overall health status shall stay confidential and protected based on HIPAA protocol. The DIS shall provide his/her appreciation to the College Primarily based Wellness staff for delivering the necessary cooperation, stating with out which successful get in touch with together with the student couldn't have been made.

six) When the student's sex partners are elicited or shared, as a part of an intervention with all the representative, then all information pertaining to that intervention shall be forwarded to, and discussed with, the DIS for attainable resolution and follow-up.

7) Really should irregularities or hard situations create throughout the collaborative course of action amongst the DIS as well as the School chosen representative, the DIS is usually to seek help by way of the acceptable chain of command.

8) The DIS will handle each predicament in a skilled manner to ensure that the privacy of every student is properly safeguarded.

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[emptymanuscript]

The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU

I do not know why I waited so long to watch this one. I think it may give a good fight to Simon Sinek’s Start With Why for my favorite TED Talk.

Definitely don’t skip him playing the Ukulele.

Though several things in particular catch my attention in the talk which make me feel like I’ll need to buy the book to go deeper into it (same as Sinek), one point really stood out powerfully to me: that one of the biggest barriers to entry for skill acquisition is emotional.

We avoid practice because we’re awful and we KNOW we’re awful and that feels bad. We get frustrated and want to quit. It’s not a logical problem, it’s an emotional one. And when we have acquired the skill we’re often in the opposite position. Even when we screw up, it’s not the end of the world because we know that even though this particular iteration was terrible and frustrating, that doesn’t mean we must quit. We are confident that we can go on to do something better. It feels bad but there is a base level of self assurance.

And that really rings true to my experience. I by no means know everything about writing. Compared to people with better pedigrees, I actually don’t know much. I even recently had someone go check me out after I made a comment and mention that writers with so few publications don’t usually sound as confident I do. But that’s the mistake of confusing authorship with writing. As an author, my pedigree is short. As a writer, I have been on this path with dedication for a long, long time. And that gives me a lot of confidence. No matter how bad I screw up, I know down to my bones that I am competent. That’s just not my issue anymore.

But that does call the reverse to mind. And I think back to the summer of 1992 and first stepping into Matt Pallamary’s Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror workshop. Literally my first time away from home alone besides for being forced to go to YMCA summercamp as a child. The guy laying on the floor like he co-owned the workshop had been coming to the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference for about as long as I had been alive. The only person in there younger than me was sitting next to his mother. The guy leaning in the doorway currently owns the conference and grew up coming with his own father, Charles Schulz. Intimidated barely begins to cover my emotions.

I will love every single person in that room like family until the day I die because they took me seriously. They accepted where I was. They accepted that I was trying. They accepted that I meant it. They took me under their collective wings as one of their own. Eileen Workman took such good care of me, frankly, I am still quoting writing advice she gave me verbatim because I still have it on my computers, in files I still know how to get to, because I’m still taking notes.

I’m not going to say I wouldn’t be a writer if it weren’t for them. I was on the path. That’s what my teacher / mentor / friend (who I would link to but her site seems to be down at the moment) Jane St. Clair saw in me, which is why she brought me to the SBWC. But, for as long as it is taking me, I think it would have taken so much longer and involved so much more doubt if it hadn’t been for all of them. There’s the famous quote from Newton, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.“ Well, they were my giants. They lifted me up.

Which makes me think that perhaps that should be a 5th recommendation IF POSSIBLE. If you can get people in your corner to cheer and lift you up, it makes everything else much easier.

I also remember how pleased I was to be the worst writer in the room. I remember the thought hitting me that there was nowhere to go but up. No one to turn to that I couldn’t learn something from. Which is not my average state of mind at all. But it turned me into an eager clingy sponge. That one week was my gleeful first 20 hours in my opinion. And the gleefulness, the excitement, also just made everything so much easier.

Thank you for reading this second supporting TED Talk ;)

[drnotreallystrange]

I’m still confused watercooler attacks WA fans and attacks Candice. Someone she doesn’t know or never met. She makes claims and falsehoods and assumptions about her because she wants SB and sees CP as a road block. CP can simply post a selfie and she says she’s got plastic surgery is depressed has no friends. From a selfie. Both blogs do the exact same thing. You can’t hate one and not the other so I agree with the other anon

The difference is whether they go out and harass people. Posting stuff on a blog is not harassment - it’s freedom of opinion and speech. But going to (for example) Dani Nicolet’s IG post and commenting hateful and insulting stuff is harassment and bullying. Come on. It’s not that hard to understand. As soon as you see SBWC (or some other account) commenting hateful stuff on a Candice (or other actors) post we can discuss again.

If WA/CP stans stick to their own little bubble, I’d have no problem with it (other than disagreeing with their opinion). But they don’t, they go out and harass and bully everyone they consider an “enemy”.

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