GC/JC report
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jainaI had a really, really good time at JadeCon this year. And I think it was because I just relaxed and didn't try to do a million things and wear multiple costumes every day. In fact, I didn't even buy a GenCon badge, I went to the floor for just an hour and a half and didn't buy anything, and the only costume I wore was in the suite on Saturday night. So mostly I just hung out with people. Nice, relaxing, wonderful hanging out. It was exactly what I needed.
I can't really even type up a proper con report. It would read mostly like "Woke up. Got dressed. Went to suite and sat there for hours talking to people. Had lunch. Talked some more." Let's see what happens if I just start typing stuff I remember:
- Rogue and I had an early Wednesday flight; we got there even before Mary, so we waited in the lobby of the Hyatt until she got there so we could go into the suite. We tried to use our router to play Diablo II together but it wasn't cooperating; grr. See, I tried to game at GenCon! I was just thwarted!
- We had dinner with the Boston types (minus Elise, sadly) on Wednesday night. It was kind of weird. But I got to talk Stargate with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tirianmal.
- Got woken up at an eminently respectable hour (10 am) on Wednesday byraykel's voice. No worries though, Kelly; I needed to get up. :)
- Games Night was at Rock Bottom again, and I spent most of it chatting withslyvermont, kataline, and knitress. Eventually I did play a game of Kill General Jar-Jar with kataline, knitress, hlynn, and VJ. Nancy killed him, hurray!
- The Mustafar Meltdown is the most spectacular drink in existence.
- Never ever lethokie have, like, ten drinks in a row on an empty stomach. It leads to yick.
- I slept till noon on Friday. Well, with lots of interruptions. Roommates who got up at 8 am to game; what the hell is up with that? I completely missed the ROTS discussion.
- Shaun of the Dead is a funny movie. But it's got some yick. I was glad to have my knitting to occupy myself. Emperor Aaron's film is going to be cool, even if there is also yick. And the freaking Hyatt doesn't get SciFi! But we did watch some Arrested Development in the other room, hurray.
- The Harry Potter discussion on Saturday morning was very entertaining and blissfully free of 'ship bitching. The best part was the "death pool" to call who's going to bite it in book 7.
- I went to the con floor withslyvermont, kataline, and evilbearhunter on Saturday, and then kataline and evilbearhunter and I sat around for a really long time talking Alias and Buffy and Angel and whatever else we thought of. Summary of Angel S4: "Possessed Cordelia gives birth to Gina Torres!"
- Skating! We went skating! It was so cool! I was in my skates for two hours and I was okay! *pats skates*kataline, evilbearhunter, and hokie recruited me for Team Scoreboard for Survivor: Hoth. We built a Little Orange Riding Tauntaun and I actually blocked a hockey puck while blindfolded thanks to the excellent advice of hokie and sirrogue.
- I somehow ended up in the final two of Survivor:Hoth (withblusurfer) thanks to luck with dice-rolling and the fact that I used to do a lot of origami. blusurfer and I decided we should just get married and split the prize, like Rob and Amber. But she won the dice roll so she got the grand prize. I got a giant General Grievous PEZ dispenser!
- I brought my camera but took no pictures at all. Alas.
- I wore my Sith Cheerleader outfit on Saturday because I was a backup singer fornmissi's filk. And I finally wrote and sang "Where Have All the Jedi Gone?" which I've been wanting to write for five years. I made Yav cry. Aaron said, "You've redeemed Paula Cole." Go me.
- Met some very cool guests on Saturday night. Derek is really good at that guest-intro stuff. Metamberleewriter and admired her Mon Mothma costume.
- Had a largely unremarkable Sunday, except for the part wherekataline is now my padawan. cyndisuesue, you're a grand-master! PG drove us and yav_14 to the airport because it's just her favorite place to go! We discovered that we were on the same flight as yav_14 to Chicago Midway so we got to stave off PCD a little longer.
And that's pretty much it. Home now. Lots of stuff to do before Sunday. Yikes!
ETA: I can't believe I forgot about singing the Strong Bad Techno song with a bunch of our guests on Saturday night! We had all the parts going, it was totally awesome.
I can't really even type up a proper con report. It would read mostly like "Woke up. Got dressed. Went to suite and sat there for hours talking to people. Had lunch. Talked some more." Let's see what happens if I just start typing stuff I remember:
- Rogue and I had an early Wednesday flight; we got there even before Mary, so we waited in the lobby of the Hyatt until she got there so we could go into the suite. We tried to use our router to play Diablo II together but it wasn't cooperating; grr. See, I tried to game at GenCon! I was just thwarted!
- We had dinner with the Boston types (minus Elise, sadly) on Wednesday night. It was kind of weird. But I got to talk Stargate with
tirianmal.- Got woken up at an eminently respectable hour (10 am) on Wednesday by
raykel's voice. No worries though, Kelly; I needed to get up. :)- Games Night was at Rock Bottom again, and I spent most of it chatting with
slyvermont, kataline, and knitress. Eventually I did play a game of Kill General Jar-Jar with kataline, knitress, hlynn, and VJ. Nancy killed him, hurray!- The Mustafar Meltdown is the most spectacular drink in existence.
- Never ever let
hokie have, like, ten drinks in a row on an empty stomach. It leads to yick.- I slept till noon on Friday. Well, with lots of interruptions. Roommates who got up at 8 am to game; what the hell is up with that? I completely missed the ROTS discussion.
- Shaun of the Dead is a funny movie. But it's got some yick. I was glad to have my knitting to occupy myself. Emperor Aaron's film is going to be cool, even if there is also yick. And the freaking Hyatt doesn't get SciFi! But we did watch some Arrested Development in the other room, hurray.
- The Harry Potter discussion on Saturday morning was very entertaining and blissfully free of 'ship bitching. The best part was the "death pool" to call who's going to bite it in book 7.
- I went to the con floor with
slyvermont, kataline, and evilbearhunter on Saturday, and then kataline and evilbearhunter and I sat around for a really long time talking Alias and Buffy and Angel and whatever else we thought of. Summary of Angel S4: "Possessed Cordelia gives birth to Gina Torres!" - Skating! We went skating! It was so cool! I was in my skates for two hours and I was okay! *pats skates*
kataline, evilbearhunter, and hokie recruited me for Team Scoreboard for Survivor: Hoth. We built a Little Orange Riding Tauntaun and I actually blocked a hockey puck while blindfolded thanks to the excellent advice of hokie and sirrogue.- I somehow ended up in the final two of Survivor:Hoth (with
blusurfer) thanks to luck with dice-rolling and the fact that I used to do a lot of origami. blusurfer and I decided we should just get married and split the prize, like Rob and Amber. But she won the dice roll so she got the grand prize. I got a giant General Grievous PEZ dispenser!- I brought my camera but took no pictures at all. Alas.
- I wore my Sith Cheerleader outfit on Saturday because I was a backup singer for
nmissi's filk. And I finally wrote and sang "Where Have All the Jedi Gone?" which I've been wanting to write for five years. I made Yav cry. Aaron said, "You've redeemed Paula Cole." Go me.- Met some very cool guests on Saturday night. Derek is really good at that guest-intro stuff. Met
amberleewriter and admired her Mon Mothma costume.- Had a largely unremarkable Sunday, except for the part where
kataline is now my padawan. cyndisuesue, you're a grand-master! PG drove us and yav_14 to the airport because it's just her favorite place to go! We discovered that we were on the same flight as yav_14 to Chicago Midway so we got to stave off PCD a little longer.And that's pretty much it. Home now. Lots of stuff to do before Sunday. Yikes!
ETA: I can't believe I forgot about singing the Strong Bad Techno song with a bunch of our guests on Saturday night! We had all the parts going, it was totally awesome.
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Date: 2005-08-22 09:50 pm (UTC)Ok, that's enough fairness.
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Date: 2005-08-23 08:46 pm (UTC)It was quite spectacular.
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