Adrian

Today was fun and busy and fun.

I went to a number fun panels - on things like Sherlock, Doctor Who, Fairy Tales, gay characters, and Star Trek: Into Darkness. And there were just fun conversations and coloring. And having an afternoon tea. And a vid show tonight with awesome vids. (Will have to find and post some of them.)

And now I'm at the weird stage where I'm starting to get tired and really should have gone to bed already, but I'm still excited and wired

Sadly, tribalforces is done for another year. So now the countdown is on until next year's - which will be April 12-14th.

I've always had a great time there. It's always so much fun. And the panels tend to be great too - whether it's for a specific show/fandom, or for a specific topic like writing or SOPA/etc. Or having it be decided after I make the off-hand comment "No shit, Sherlock," to someone (in a "White Collar" panel), that we need to have that as a panel next year. :-P And we do things like a vid show, a chocolate party, room parties, games, random squeeing.... :-D

I love it and it always goes by too quickly.

I'm currently in the tribalforces hotel lobby hanging out with some of the other con-goers.

Today started early, but it went well getting everything set up and ready to go. I think we're going to have a great weekend. :-D

Today was fun. Went to a bunch of fun panels that included a few multifandom ones, one for "White Collar", and one for the new "Sherlock".

I won all six seasons of OZ in an auction for $28 total.

We're now doing a vid show, which is a lot of fun. Some of the vids are from congoers and some are from other people.

And I'm surprised that Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark are going to be at the local Wegman's tomorrow. This both amuses and confuses me because it's a supermarket.

Today was fun. I moderated two panels, the second of which didn't really happen, but it was at 3pm on a Sunday, so it's understandable. But watching the pilot of "Leverage" again after everything that's happened was interesting and quite cool because you can see the seeds for the group interactions even then.

Clean-up took hardly any time and we were able to get in a quick debrief before leaving. (And we'll do a more in-depth one later on with the evaluations we got back.) Coming home was a little harder than I expected. There were the normal post-con blues - which are to be expected, but it was also hard to not have Patch greet me when I got in. (Which surprised me, because it's been almost a month and I figured I'd be okay about it.)

I'm glad I got to spend the weekend with everyone and having wesleysgirl was an extra treat. :-D


Day 18 - A song that you wish you heard on the radio

"More Than I Deserve" by Christian Kane. With the amount of country music that's crossing over to mainstream stations, I think it would do well. And I prefer this version - which is the acoustic one he and Steve Carlson did in London a few years ago - to the one that's going to be on the cd.



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The first day of the con went well. We got up and threw everything in the back of my truck and headed over to the hotel and got everything set up. Then we went to Wegman's and got lunch before picking up a few things. (And! I got Pocky!) Came back and did a few odds and ends and checked in.

Didn't go on the trip because no one materialized to go. As much as I would've loved to go to the museum again, it was fun just hanging out at the hotel. And it's great seeing wesleysgirl again, among everyone I haven't seen since last year.

The dinner went over really well and everyone loved elven_wolf's vegetarian chili.

A few of us watched the first two episodes of the new "Doctor Who" - which were fun.

I'm surprised how tired I am.


Day 16 - A song that you used to love but now hate

Probably "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. If it hadn't been so freakin' overplayed, I might still like it.

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Today was fun. Went to a few panels today - one on Heroes, one on AUs, part of the "pimp my fandom", and I ran the "I'll watch anything with ____ in it!" panel. In general, lots of fun discussions and fellowship.

Tonight, I helped out with the live auction we had for a couple things from our silent auction. Then we had our chocolate part and watched vids and in general had lots of geeky, fannish fun (like we've been). I just finished cleaning up the consuite, so I'm going to see if any of the room parties are still going.

Today worked out well. Got up here to the hotel without any problems. mashfanficchick and I accidentally went to a completely different grocery store, but we still got what we needed.

mirnell, elven_wolf, akina16, ladyivy, mashfanficchick, and I went and had a lot of fun at the Franklin Institute. And the Star Wars exhibit was pretty neat and we had fun with the rest of the museum too.

This evening we had a cookout and then some watched Ark of Truth and some watched Serenity.

I'm already wishing I had more time with all these people.

Quick note for anaidiana - yes, that was me you saw Friday morning.

I had a *great* time at the con and it went by *way* too quickly.

Friday morning was an adventure in getting gas, since I didn't have any. First, I tried to find a place that had more than just the premium option, and when that didn't work and I gave in, I got about 6 gallons of gas before the station Ran. Out. Of. Gas. So I found *another* station that actually had regular gas and filled up. Other than that, getting up to the actual con hotel was quite easy.

Friday afternoon, six of us went to UPenn's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, which was pretty cool and gave us many things to squee fannishly about. On the way back to the hotel, there was one scary bit in which Chi, Selkie, and I were almost pushed into another vehicle by a tractor trailer, who knew we were there.

Friday night, we had a Sentinel/SG-1 room party. We had a great time aside from the lady in the room next to us who kept calling security on us because "we were too loud" starting at about 8 pm. Aside from two outbursts of laughter, we were talking in normal indoor voices and the tvs (we were in a suite) were at a normal, if slightly lower, volume, and when we were first asked to keep it down, we actually did drop our voice volume. (And it didn't help that sound carries *very* easily in that hotel.) We found out later that she was so pissed because she had to get up for a 4 am flight the next morning. Obviously, it was too hard for her to come over and knock on the door and politely explain this. And we couldn't have been that bad if the people in the other room we shared walls with didn't complain.

Saturday day went well. I helped out with registration and mainly signed in dvd sets people were sharing for watching purposes during the con. Because there were only about 20-25 of us, we were in this tiny meeting room that was loosely set up with three dealers' tables, an area with chairs for the panels, and an area with chairs and and a make-shift entertainment center. My first panel (Canon vs Fanon) went quite well and we had a good discussion, even if we didn't always stay on topic. The second (Plot Bunnies) kind of imploded, but that was fine because it was basically meant to share plot bunnies and we all know what fickle beings those things can be and we ended up watching some vids on someone's laptop. During dinner, Sarah, Barrie, and I went to the mall for food and because they wanted to pick up some cheesecakes for the room party that night.

Saturday night was lots of fun. I fully enjoyed the jacuzzi bathtub that was in our room. (It was *huge* and bubbled very nicely and I stayed in it for almost an hour, by which point I was a raisin.) We didn't have any complaints about our room party and we watched lots of songvids (information about which I will be sharing soon) and ate too much chocolate and other junk food.

This morning was...interesting. Yesterday, one of my lenses popped out of the frame while I was cleaning them. This has happened before, so I popped it back in and figured I'd be careful until I got home, at which point I'd tighten the screw. Well, when I got dressed, the lens popped out and the frame came apart. Thankfully, I didn't lose the screw. So I finished up packing things up, took some of my stuff out to my truck, and then went in search of a repair kit. Mind you, at this point, while I can see - everything's *really* fuzzy. I was informed at my registration desk (since there are two hotels that are connected together), that they don't have any eyeglasses repair kits, but that the gift shop in the other hotel does. So I trek about half-way or so to Jabip (which is where our meeting room was located) and asked at their desk if they had one, so I wouldn't have to buy one if I didn't need to. But they didn't. So I went into the gift shop and some how managed to procure one. Glasses were fixed and then I finished trekking the rest of the way to Jabip for the first panel which was - surprise, surprise - mine and I was a little late for.

The Unique Fandoms panel also went really well. And we had a nice discussion. After that, we watched Richard Dean Anderson's episode of "The Simpsons", which was lots of fun. Then there was a brief recess while a few of us went to either move belongings around or check-out. During our closing panel, there was a raffle for a signed photo of Michael Shanks and a free pass for next year's Tribal Forces - which I won. Talk about surprised. I'm one of those people that wins something once every 7 or 8 years, if that, and what I get isn't usually all that spectacular.

We hung out for a little while after that when a few of us decided that it would be a good idea to go get lunch. I told them I wanted to get my truck and I'd meet them, since they had parked in front of the Radisson and I was still in front of the Scanticon. Somehow, we missed each other and didn't have lunch together. So after waiting around and looking for them, I said good-bye to the other con people who were left, found my own food, and then went home.

When I got home, I left almost immediately because my Bible study time had been changed and ended up spending the next three and a half hours or so at church for different things.

And now I'm really tired and I think that I threw my body far enough out of whack this weekend that I just might be able to get it back into whack.

So, in summary, very good weekend, and shall be repeated next year, but at the end of April (so we don't have to deal with any pesky Key Clubbers, among other reasons, I'm sure).