clearly not processing this as fast as I'd hoped
11:58 PM 4/18/07 · For reasons she still won't entirely own up to, or just doesn't feel like she needs to share, 
DKtm stopped going to BayCon since about 3 years back. This bugged me a bit as we didn't see each other hardly at all away from the event, it's where I met her, and it is only in a great while I hear from her as it is. Ever an adversarial and mischief filled association...I've happily considered her my nemesis for some time.
As does she to me.
The closest I ever got to an explanation was that there were certain policies coming down from on high, and some more personal stuff, which roughly translated to her having issues with the people that ran the convention.
DKtm's been going a bit longer than I have and I've been going since about 1992; '93 being the first year I worked one. You put that much effort/time into a place it begins to be more than just a regular thing and almost give a sense of family to it all...
...but even families let you down.
I've had a few issues with BayCon but nothing so major as to get me to stop going. While I fully intend to go this year, though I'll be giving up my room a day earlier seeing as I'm not part of the crew that sets up and takes the convention down again, I'm more than toying with the notion of never going after. This may just be how I'm feeling right now, which is royally fucking betrayed, and my mind may change by the 2008 event...
...but if I'm getting more than a subtle brush off, the ol' "get the fuck outta here" thang, then I'm really seeing little to any purpose to being there.
I enjoy the convention insofar as my usual goings on and the crowd but about ½ of that comes from my activities as a gopher. No other department that I'm aware of has that kinda comraderie or stuff to do or anything. Sure, I've seen them hang and do what they do in their areas but it's not the same thing.
Was toying around with attending WesterCon this year for this first time, especially as they're looking for people to help out with the convention, but seeing as de guy who's pushing that the most is the same one that told me my services as a gopher were no longer required...it seems really unlikely he'll let me gopher at that event.
That's what it comes down to really. I've enjoyed being a gopher so long that if I can't be one then I don't see the point in the event. Most of my friends are gophers, the people I largely hang with at conventions are gophers, when I've little if anything to do I often swing by the gopher hole and checkout what's going there.
No more being a gopher.
No more going to BayCon.
Simple, no?
This so fucking sucks!
DKtm stopped going to BayCon since about 3 years back. This bugged me a bit as we didn't see each other hardly at all away from the event, it's where I met her, and it is only in a great while I hear from her as it is. Ever an adversarial and mischief filled association...I've happily considered her my nemesis for some time.
As does she to me.
The closest I ever got to an explanation was that there were certain policies coming down from on high, and some more personal stuff, which roughly translated to her having issues with the people that ran the convention.
DKtm's been going a bit longer than I have and I've been going since about 1992; '93 being the first year I worked one. You put that much effort/time into a place it begins to be more than just a regular thing and almost give a sense of family to it all...
...but even families let you down.
I've had a few issues with BayCon but nothing so major as to get me to stop going. While I fully intend to go this year, though I'll be giving up my room a day earlier seeing as I'm not part of the crew that sets up and takes the convention down again, I'm more than toying with the notion of never going after. This may just be how I'm feeling right now, which is royally fucking betrayed, and my mind may change by the 2008 event...
...but if I'm getting more than a subtle brush off, the ol' "get the fuck outta here" thang, then I'm really seeing little to any purpose to being there.
I enjoy the convention insofar as my usual goings on and the crowd but about ½ of that comes from my activities as a gopher. No other department that I'm aware of has that kinda comraderie or stuff to do or anything. Sure, I've seen them hang and do what they do in their areas but it's not the same thing.
Was toying around with attending WesterCon this year for this first time, especially as they're looking for people to help out with the convention, but seeing as de guy who's pushing that the most is the same one that told me my services as a gopher were no longer required...it seems really unlikely he'll let me gopher at that event.
That's what it comes down to really. I've enjoyed being a gopher so long that if I can't be one then I don't see the point in the event. Most of my friends are gophers, the people I largely hang with at conventions are gophers, when I've little if anything to do I often swing by the gopher hole and checkout what's going there.
No more being a gopher.
No more going to BayCon.
Simple, no?
This so fucking sucks!