Feeling weirdly OK about missing ECCC

[alicebentley]

ECCC is the Emerald City Comic Con, an event I participated in every year for about 20 years. I've gone as a regular attendee, as a volunteer staff member (and oh boy was THAT a lot of work!) and as a delighted member of the Studio Foglio support team.

There are so many aspects to this show that I love - meeting the creators of works I already follow, learning about new things to enjoy, helping to connect people with things I know they will like.

And it's all happening right now just a couple hours and a handful of money away. But between the risks of bringing COVID home, watching our spending while Mike is still job hunting, not really wanting to add a lot more paper-copy books to the stash and not having a particular task to help with, I'm sitting this one out.

I thought I would be a lot more sad about it, but find that it's fine. It's really true that the only constant is change.

Comments

[minnehaha]

You do something enough times and you switch from delighted anticipation to comfortable familiarity. Enough more times, and you hit boredom and restlessness. Where is that line for "enough"? Varies wildly from one to another, I guess. "Comfortable familiarity" makes it a little easier to not go and not be bereft about it.

K. [has had to re-learn how to dye Easter eggs these last years]