When I was in Boston, I got the opportunity to meet up with the brilliant and stylish woman behind the style blog
Chalkdust and Boots. We had been connecting with on the internets for a little over a year, and it was great to meet her in person. We had dinner and drinks at the Cambridge Brewing Company with some of my other friends and then continued chatting for a couple more hours on the balcony of my friends' apartment. Boots and I have a lot in common. We both are Spanish speakers; we both pursued PhDs; we both love style and boots; we are both teachers of some sort; we've both been runners.
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| At the Cambridge Brewing Company |
Recently Boots headed to Hamburg, Germany to defend her dissertation in Sanskrit literature and passed with flying colors. Go give her some props on her major accomplishment (I have run two marathons so far but only defended one dissertation - and in my opinion finishing a dissertation is harder and takes even more grit than running 26.2 miles). Also, if you like shoe porn, Dr. Boots has some pretty excellent kicks.
This was the third time that I'd met up with a blogger, and every time so far it has exceeded my expectations. Have you ever met up with another blogger/other bloggers? Is there a blogger that you would particularly love to meet IRL?
Fun meet-up.
ReplyDeleteI've met some local bloggers. And one in CA when I helped my son move into his dorm for his freshman year of college.
There are lots of bloggers I'd like to meet!
Very cool! I love this picture of you gals, though wow, your hair looks so light next to C&B!
ReplyDeleteI've met up with a few local bloggers, and it's always been a blast. I'd want to meet some of the bloggers that I interact with the most. I read their blogs because they're smart, funny and creative, and I'm guessing they're all pretty cool IRL. You and C&B would both be cool to meet, along with Cynthia of BFD, the ladies of IPF, Allison of Tallgirlblogging, Gracey of Fashion for Giants... I could go on.
We (and SFE) should definitely meet up when I'm in Chicago in October for the marathon!
ReplyDeleteOh, how fun! I met Jenna of Eat Live Run a few years ago, and she was super-sweet and tons of fun. I think that if she and I were in the same town, we would be friends in real life :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm always jealous when bloggers get to meet up. I've never met up with a blogger IRL (although I have a few friends who are also bloggers), but I'm going to do a race with a few of them in December and I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteOh fun! It's so great to meet fellow bloggers. So far, everyone I have met has been exactly like they are in their blog! I have done quite a few meet-ups now - my first one was last August and since then, I've been on 3 other trips to either travel with or visit bloggers... and at the end of August, 3 bloggers are coming to visit me... and then I meet up with the same bloggers I ran my marathon with for my 1/2 marathon.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to meeting you in Sept when we do that 10 mile race. Another blogger I know who is working in St Louis might fly in for that!
How great that you got to meet such an awesome blogger! I love meeting bloggers in real life - it always feels like we're old friends.
ReplyDeleteWow. I don't think it gets much tougher than Sanskrit literature. I would like to me Jill in CO and Meg in CA. I think meeting you would be way fun since we both have academia in common. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to meeting you in September too! What pace are you planning on running during that race? Maybe we could even run a mile or two together!
ReplyDeleteI think I will prob run that race as a progressive race. So maybe start out and run the first 1/4 at 10:30. Then increase my speed by :30/mi each 1/4?? I def don't think I will be running it at my half marathon pace! We should def try to run a couple of miles together. And I am flexible on the pace of those first miles. :)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to meeting you!!!
Yes, definitely! :)
ReplyDeleteAaah! I just found this! Thanks for posting it! You were the second blogger I met. The first was Cynthia, of BFD, just back in March. Both times were way fun. Well-dressed academics? YES.
ReplyDeleteI've met up with that very same blogger you are sitting with right there, and she was awesome. And we had elderflower cocktails. All win.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to meet a blogger IRL, but how cool is it to see the two of you together.
ReplyDeleteYou two look like sisters!
ReplyDeleteI will probably be shooting for more or less the same. I don't want to run too fast since it's just two weeks before Chicago, so I will probably start around 10:30 and try to increase by :10 every 2.5 - 3 miles. We should definitely start together and see about brunching together after the race! (I would suggest dinner the night before, but I'm hoping to go to the opera.)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great plan! There is a good brunch place that is sort of
ReplyDeleteclose to the race called "Longfellow Grill". Have you been there before?
It's right along the river.
We will see what I end up doing for my pace. It's close to my race, too, so
I definitely don't want to over do it!
Yay! I haven't been there! Let's touch base when the race gets closer about the details.
ReplyDeleteI kid you not, just the other day I was craving some Cambridge Brewing Company! My friends and I would go there after every college visit back in high school.
ReplyDeleteI've gotten to meet Clare of BLD, Jenny of All the Pretty Dresses, Raych of Books I Done Read and some others I think I've forgotten. I'd probably meet more if I just confessed to where I live. I think most people know, but I'm still trying to be mysterious.