The Return of the Jen
updated with the rest now! (hehehe.. I used the blink tag... hehehe)
Arrived late on Wednesday...
but it was okay... Sam took my back to his place, but we made a stop at the grocery store.
"there isn't alot of food at my place" Sam said. Okay, so we went!
Snacks, drinks, and fruit. Except that Sam was eyeing the ripening bag for the peaches with a strange look of mistrust...
"but it's just a paper bag!" yep, yep it is, but it helps to ripen the fruit! Wish I had a photo of that look. classic.
so we return with arms laden with my crap and food. I start to put things away, chips on the counter, drinks in the fridg- holy cow Sam! Do you EAT? I swear, I think I saw tumbleweeds in his fridge. I check his freezer, and lo and behold, vodka, rum, and ice! I giggled. A severe sense of mothering overtook me, but I brushed it aside.
So we set up the aero matress, (very cool!), and then I went to bed and Sam went to "just level up a little more" on EverCrack. We all know what that means! No sleep for Sam!
Thursday dawns...
So I awake early, go back to sleep for a half hour, wake up, back to sleep. From about 7-10. At 10, I decided to creep by Sam, (bathroom is thru his bed room), and take my shower, get ready, etc.
Sam's so busy that he can't join us at the con, but he has hopes for Sat.
So at 12, I'm done, we go have some food, (pic o' dat later), and then Sam drops me off at the con. I go to pick up my badge after a minor snafu, (I wasn't on the list, but they gave it to me anyway), and then find the Udon booth with out any problems.
I knew SDCC would be huge, but this wasn't brought home to me until after leaving the Udon booth to check things out for a bit and then I couldn't find the booth for like... 20 minutes... I kept walking by it on the other side of the row. sigh.
That night was the Diamond party. We were there primarily for the goodie bags and the free food. Kinda lame, but it was okay.
I went back with the Udon boys to their hotel and called Sam a while later for pickup. But I was telling Erik that I felt so bad that Sam was driving me back and forth... kinda like my dad. *g* So Erik told me to stay in their rooms, since Long's room, (a.k.a. the XD room), had only three people in it. I agreed that I'd go the next night. Long looked at me funny and said, "why don't you just call Sam now and get him to bring your stuff?" DURF. I called back right away and asked Sam to gather my stuff. It made things easier for him and me too. Made me less guilty...
Friday...
was fairly uneventful. I can't remember what happened. did some sketches. CRAZY. Even when we told people we didn't do a single thing in the SF book... they still didn't care! odd.
Friday night I think we went to eat... at a Thai place! (thanks for the remind, mai!), and tasty it was. but man did we ever have to wait. We originally had like... 13 people, but since a whole bunch of us hopped on board, it turned out to be 22! I felt horrible though since half of us got served food first and the other half didn't even get until we were nearly done.
On the bright side, they had the fried bannana dessert. with coconut ice cream! but the bestest one is a thai place up on Leslie and Steeles. the coconut milk is frozen on top of the ice cream for a coconutty shell... *drool*
But I was horribly sad. I lost this pencil board that I lurve. ;;___;;
Saturday..
Insane. in-fricken-sane. I went to buy another pencilboard, as markering w/o one really can suck. I bought a nice Totoro one that costed me only $5.. not bad. the dude gave me a deal when I was all indecisive about which Totoro one to buy. I settled on the one with the scene where they were at the bus stop and he did that... JUMP~! very cute.
I, of course, proceeded to loose this one as well. SO SAD. ;;__;;
This night, the rest of the crew went to the mall to eat and Jamie and I tagged along with Erik and Jim and Ken to.. some party. we were horribly robbed, as the finger foods were scarce and dissapeared entirely too quickly. So Jamie and I hightailed it outta there. Poor Erik. He's more obligated to stay and schmooze. I don't mind schmoozing, but not with my bag full of sketchbook and markers. @__@ too heavy.
Jami and I, being ULTRA LAZY took one of those rickshaw thingies. that was kinda fun. YOu know, wind blowing, fear of death as the driver suddenly swerves around a car. yeah.
after we grabbed something to eat, (this time on the tail end of Mai, Vo, Derek, Laine, Marcial and others' dinners), we returned to the Marriott and sat down for a Jam.
Cool note: Shane Glines was there!
cool note 2: I got to meet Stephanie Law!! OMG so good art. Apparently, she met XD the year before at another con. That girl is fearsomely smart. O_O Comp Eng. AND art. yikes. I think she might be working/or has a phd!
Sunday
more later.. going home now..
Monday
Arrived late on Wednesday...
but it was okay... Sam took my back to his place, but we made a stop at the grocery store.
"there isn't alot of food at my place" Sam said. Okay, so we went!
Snacks, drinks, and fruit. Except that Sam was eyeing the ripening bag for the peaches with a strange look of mistrust...
"but it's just a paper bag!" yep, yep it is, but it helps to ripen the fruit! Wish I had a photo of that look. classic.
so we return with arms laden with my crap and food. I start to put things away, chips on the counter, drinks in the fridg- holy cow Sam! Do you EAT? I swear, I think I saw tumbleweeds in his fridge. I check his freezer, and lo and behold, vodka, rum, and ice! I giggled. A severe sense of mothering overtook me, but I brushed it aside.
So we set up the aero matress, (very cool!), and then I went to bed and Sam went to "just level up a little more" on EverCrack. We all know what that means! No sleep for Sam!
Thursday dawns...
So I awake early, go back to sleep for a half hour, wake up, back to sleep. From about 7-10. At 10, I decided to creep by Sam, (bathroom is thru his bed room), and take my shower, get ready, etc.
Sam's so busy that he can't join us at the con, but he has hopes for Sat.
So at 12, I'm done, we go have some food, (pic o' dat later), and then Sam drops me off at the con. I go to pick up my badge after a minor snafu, (I wasn't on the list, but they gave it to me anyway), and then find the Udon booth with out any problems.
I knew SDCC would be huge, but this wasn't brought home to me until after leaving the Udon booth to check things out for a bit and then I couldn't find the booth for like... 20 minutes... I kept walking by it on the other side of the row. sigh.
That night was the Diamond party. We were there primarily for the goodie bags and the free food. Kinda lame, but it was okay.
I went back with the Udon boys to their hotel and called Sam a while later for pickup. But I was telling Erik that I felt so bad that Sam was driving me back and forth... kinda like my dad. *g* So Erik told me to stay in their rooms, since Long's room, (a.k.a. the XD room), had only three people in it. I agreed that I'd go the next night. Long looked at me funny and said, "why don't you just call Sam now and get him to bring your stuff?" DURF. I called back right away and asked Sam to gather my stuff. It made things easier for him and me too. Made me less guilty...
Friday...
was fairly uneventful. I can't remember what happened. did some sketches. CRAZY. Even when we told people we didn't do a single thing in the SF book... they still didn't care! odd.
Friday night I think we went to eat... at a Thai place! (thanks for the remind, mai!), and tasty it was. but man did we ever have to wait. We originally had like... 13 people, but since a whole bunch of us hopped on board, it turned out to be 22! I felt horrible though since half of us got served food first and the other half didn't even get until we were nearly done.
On the bright side, they had the fried bannana dessert. with coconut ice cream! but the bestest one is a thai place up on Leslie and Steeles. the coconut milk is frozen on top of the ice cream for a coconutty shell... *drool*
But I was horribly sad. I lost this pencil board that I lurve. ;;___;;
Saturday..
Insane. in-fricken-sane. I went to buy another pencilboard, as markering w/o one really can suck. I bought a nice Totoro one that costed me only $5.. not bad. the dude gave me a deal when I was all indecisive about which Totoro one to buy. I settled on the one with the scene where they were at the bus stop and he did that... JUMP~! very cute.
I, of course, proceeded to loose this one as well. SO SAD. ;;__;;
This night, the rest of the crew went to the mall to eat and Jamie and I tagged along with Erik and Jim and Ken to.. some party. we were horribly robbed, as the finger foods were scarce and dissapeared entirely too quickly. So Jamie and I hightailed it outta there. Poor Erik. He's more obligated to stay and schmooze. I don't mind schmoozing, but not with my bag full of sketchbook and markers. @__@ too heavy.
Jami and I, being ULTRA LAZY took one of those rickshaw thingies. that was kinda fun. YOu know, wind blowing, fear of death as the driver suddenly swerves around a car. yeah.
after we grabbed something to eat, (this time on the tail end of Mai, Vo, Derek, Laine, Marcial and others' dinners), we returned to the Marriott and sat down for a Jam.
Cool note: Shane Glines was there!
cool note 2: I got to meet Stephanie Law!! OMG so good art. Apparently, she met XD the year before at another con. That girl is fearsomely smart. O_O Comp Eng. AND art. yikes. I think she might be working/or has a phd!
Sunday
more later.. going home now..
Monday