Okay, so here is some of the most exciting news that I will ever have in my life.
I am officially going to VidCon in July.
Whooooo.
I will have, not a panel, but an one hour workshop on closed captioning.
A couple of months ago, I tweeted Hank Green and I suggested that there be some sort of
deaf accessibility panel or just a disability panel in general at VidCon for the next year
and when I tweeted him, I didn’t expect any reply because it’s Hank Green and John
Green and they’re busy, but not too long after I tweeted, Hank wrote me back and said,
“That’s a good idea. Can I nominate you?” and I nearly shit my pants.
So it turns out since Chescaleigh helped me with the Deaf Awareness stuff, the very original
video, he and John had been, you know, following my work and, you know, what have you and that
was something I didn’t expect.
Like, how can Hank and John Green be following my exploits and not tell me?
That’s big stuff. You have to tell a girl that.
So, Laura, the guest manager, and I, we started getting into contact and I pretty much just
had to wait until official VidCon stuff was, you know, being released and in March -
Last month, I got my official e-mail saying that I am invited to VidCon and I’m gonna
be sent over there and holy crap, I get to work for VidCon.
Or with VidCon or whatever.
So I won’t be doing a panel. I will be doing an one hour hands on workshop about closed
captioning on YouTube, the Internet in general.
And the idea of that makes me want to shit my pants because I have no idea how I’m
going to do this thing.
I have an idea, but it’s all in my head and I’m trying to set it up on Google Docs
and stuff, writing out, like, a speech to read off of and a slide show and do other
things so I can get it all in order, and I’m just looking at it and thinking, “I have
no idea how I’m going to do this.”
So, it’s a lot of work. I am excited. And I’m going to try not to, you know, trip
and fall and get into a bunch of tongue twisters because that would be bad.
I am trying to find an interpreter because it wouldn’t be wise to do this and not have
somebody there just in case.
Problem is, I could try to bring some friends that I know, but I don’t know if they would
have the time and I’m slightly afraid to ask them to go out of their way so I also
need to contact CSUN and see if they can find me somebody or VidCon will help me find somebody,
which isn’t a problem.
If you haven’t noticed already, they did show the featured creator list and I am on
there which is pretty exciting.
When I first saw it, I was like, “Oh, crap. Like, oh my god, that’s actually me on there.”
Which shouldn’t be so shocking because I knew I was gonna be there but just seeing
it was pretty shocking.
So yeah, other than what I just told you, I’m not really sure what else is going on.
I’m not sure where it’s going to be. I just know it’s supposed to be an hour long.
Hopefully, I can make it an hour long. And I’m going to be doing this for three days.
And, yes, I even get the privilege to stay an extra day so I can go to Disneyland which
I’ve never been to before.
Yeah. I’m pretty excited. I’m very scared, but very excited and, hopefully, I can make
a very good workshop because, obviously, me doing this closed captioning stuff is important
stuff and -
If I can’t convince people in this workshop then why are they gonna wanna do it?
If you have any ideas, like, organization tips and, you know, running workshop tips,
just put them down in the comments, please, because I have no idea what I’m doing and
I’d like to know what I’m doing, get an idea of what the hell I’m supposed to be
doing.
So just leave ‘em in the comments, alright?
This viral infection is kicking my butt.
Alright, so, if you’re going to VidCon, let me know, and, hopefully, you will come
see me at the workshop and I can’t wait to see all of you there. Alright. Bye.