I just realized that I didn’t do a photo summary of the 2018 Automattic GM. Since I really like these people and our time together, and Automattic is why I have and try to maintain this site, here it is! Better late than never, right?

This one was extra special because I came straight out of my sabbatical (3 months off of work). It was great to have a week to catch up IRL, recover from vacation-brain, and kick things back into high gear.

These photos are a random, disjointed glimpse of my GM, minus the work stuff. They’re imperfect, but they capture fun moments from a special week. And yes, I tend to get sentimental and excited and make people take selfies. :)

Not pictured: plenty of work and meetings, great speakers (like Cheryl Strayed!), and people I care lots about, but did not have a chance to coerce into taking photos.

GDPaRty complete with cookies!

When I discovered memoji…

and created my own!

Before…

And after he said it’ll be sad that we’ll never see each other again (since we thought this was the last GM)

I’ll never tire of faceswaps.

I’ll never tire of faceswaps.

The happiest.

Trying to figure out how to play my request. :)

Tarot card reading

Cuties

Catching rays in between meetings.

I could not stop laughing at this pitiful dinner plate

Silent disco!

Silent disco!

Silent disco!

Silent disco!

Pizzaaaaaaaaaaaa

White party!

Legal team!

Greeted with cans of budlight and not mad about it

Twinsies

Late night McDonald’s and cupcakes

Late night McDonald’s and cupcakes