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Okay, so!
Uhm, con report. I will try to do this without excessive flailing, but I do have to say that the crew we had were EXCELLENT. And the guests were all amazing and oh god it was so much fun.
Okay so, on friday it was just general faffing about. We got everything sorted and I ran between the front desk and lauren and generally made myself as useful as I could. It was COLD. We had three really nice days weather though, aside from it being frikkin freezing. We had an awesome time just setting up. Poor Cas was sick though, and that continued straight through to saturday, which I will get to next.
Saturday:
Uh, okay so. We got there in the morning, and cassie was feeling like absolute shit. Which got pretty damn bad, but she can tell people about that. I was really rather worried, though. Auugh, I felt so useless because SHE DOESNT FUCKING TELL PEOPLE THE LYING LYING COW. (ilubb)
But uhm, okay. So I was told in the morning that I would be PAing for someone. And they're like "yeah, you're sitting with a guest" and I was already frikkin star struck just by that, and I'm sure I annoyed everyone around me with my gushing. But I was PAing for DAVE MOTHERFUCKING GIBBONS. HOLY SHIT. HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. HE. AAAAAUGH.
The man has like, no ego. Whatsoever. His favourite thing to do with his work is collaboration and he's such a NICE MAN.He put up with me for two days, the poor sod. And his wife is absolutely LOVELY. I'm sure I was very awkward to be around, but he's just a regular guy who is sort of a genius and I was absolutely privelidged to get to watch him to some sketches and rough drawings and just. Gah. He's an amazing man and he's such a fantastic orator. A real role-model for all comic artists.
Sunday: Cassie was feeling better, which was fantastic. Uhm, I got to hang out with Mr.Gibbons again (!!!!!!!!!) and talk to Jennifer Fallon (!!!!!!!!!) and Emily was there and she got one of her pictures critiqued by said Mr.Gibbons (!!!!!!!!) and stormtroopers were there and Missy (the guest coordinator, her and Felicity handle everything with the guests) likes me which I'm constantly flabbergasted at because I'm sure I was too star struck to actually get my brain around the fact that I was sitting next to Dave Gibbons. My god.
And uhm, then we tried to sort out an after party thing and that didn't work so cass and I fucked off (well, cass fucked off and I trailed along like a quietly retarded puppy) to see the cool-shite guys (I'm so sure I embarassed myself) and to see the podcast and oh god, I haven't laughed so hard in a while.
Monday!: Uhm, we were supposed to head in and have breakfast at nine, but that so didn't happen. We went to tiger tiger for lunch/breakfast and then we hung out at gloria jeans. THen we came home and got cassie on a plane with jarod and now I am here and writing this!
You can get all the podcasts off itunes next week, or the coolshite website. They've got a link to their store, and their stuff is free, I think? The guys who run it are really nice. I was rather awkward.
Uhm, con report. I will try to do this without excessive flailing, but I do have to say that the crew we had were EXCELLENT. And the guests were all amazing and oh god it was so much fun.
Okay so, on friday it was just general faffing about. We got everything sorted and I ran between the front desk and lauren and generally made myself as useful as I could. It was COLD. We had three really nice days weather though, aside from it being frikkin freezing. We had an awesome time just setting up. Poor Cas was sick though, and that continued straight through to saturday, which I will get to next.
Saturday:
Uh, okay so. We got there in the morning, and cassie was feeling like absolute shit. Which got pretty damn bad, but she can tell people about that. I was really rather worried, though. Auugh, I felt so useless because SHE DOESNT FUCKING TELL PEOPLE THE LYING LYING COW. (ilubb)
But uhm, okay. So I was told in the morning that I would be PAing for someone. And they're like "yeah, you're sitting with a guest" and I was already frikkin star struck just by that, and I'm sure I annoyed everyone around me with my gushing. But I was PAing for DAVE MOTHERFUCKING GIBBONS. HOLY SHIT. HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. HE. AAAAAUGH.
The man has like, no ego. Whatsoever. His favourite thing to do with his work is collaboration and he's such a NICE MAN.He put up with me for two days, the poor sod. And his wife is absolutely LOVELY. I'm sure I was very awkward to be around, but he's just a regular guy who is sort of a genius and I was absolutely privelidged to get to watch him to some sketches and rough drawings and just. Gah. He's an amazing man and he's such a fantastic orator. A real role-model for all comic artists.
Sunday: Cassie was feeling better, which was fantastic. Uhm, I got to hang out with Mr.Gibbons again (!!!!!!!!!) and talk to Jennifer Fallon (!!!!!!!!!) and Emily was there and she got one of her pictures critiqued by said Mr.Gibbons (!!!!!!!!) and stormtroopers were there and Missy (the guest coordinator, her and Felicity handle everything with the guests) likes me which I'm constantly flabbergasted at because I'm sure I was too star struck to actually get my brain around the fact that I was sitting next to Dave Gibbons. My god.
And uhm, then we tried to sort out an after party thing and that didn't work so cass and I fucked off (well, cass fucked off and I trailed along like a quietly retarded puppy) to see the cool-shite guys (I'm so sure I embarassed myself) and to see the podcast and oh god, I haven't laughed so hard in a while.
Monday!: Uhm, we were supposed to head in and have breakfast at nine, but that so didn't happen. We went to tiger tiger for lunch/breakfast and then we hung out at gloria jeans. THen we came home and got cassie on a plane with jarod and now I am here and writing this!
You can get all the podcasts off itunes next week, or the coolshite website. They've got a link to their store, and their stuff is free, I think? The guys who run it are really nice. I was rather awkward.