Whedonverse update
Well, It is 3 in the morning, and I am finally getting to bed. The night was great. The panels I went to today were great. The best panel was one on chosen family. Later on, I was talking to one of the presenters at this panel. It was fun getting to know some of the presenters. When I got back from the conference at 10:30, William, Tish, Pam, Zach, and I were gonna just chill in the room, since everyone was tired. I went to get a soda, and bumped into Yael, the presenter I had been talking to earlier. She invited me to come over to a little room party her and some of her friends were having. Ironically, it was right next door mine, William, and Zach's room. I said I would probably stop by, and went into my room. I told Zach about what happened, and wondered if I should ditch the group, and go to the party? He looked at me and said, that I could see them all anytime, and I should go. It was probably something that would be good for me. (Paraphrasing of course) Zach's words were exactly what I needed to hear, especially after we had talked at the Waffle House the previous night. And then I realized, I wanted to go, it was nice to be invited to an event from someone I had met just a earlier in that day, and I had already been told that this convention wasn't about hanging out, it was about the Buffy Convention. I wanted to attend this convention TO hang out and share some good times with Buffy people, either in our traveling group, or outside it. The socialization and the idea of enjoyment of Whedon, were hand and hand to me. I wanted both, not one or the other, which had been implied to me. Now I had this beautiful, intelligent, woman wanting me to come to a gathering, based off of just our interactions during the day. It was a contradiction, to the opinion that it didn't matter whether I was here or not, this was about the conference, that had been expressed to me. So, I took Zach's advice, I went. And man, a couple of hours later, with discussions ranging the spectrum of anything possible from the 12 presenters that were all in the room, a few beers, some flirting, a discussion on what all of our roles would be on Buffy based on looks and attitude noticed (I was the easy choice for Xander in the room of strangers, no surprise), and would I rather sleep with Spike or Angel, it was the best night of the trip. (So Far) I am glad Zach gave me the push, and I keep thinking of an old Partridge Family song lyric, "Doesn't somebody want to be wanted, like me, just like me." After listening to talks all day on Chosen Family, this night had a perfect ending.