I-CON 30

[bonnie_rocks]

Last weekend was the weekend when Freaks, Geeks, Nerds, and Dorks happen upon SUNY Stony Brook for an annual Science Fiction/Fantasy/Fact Convention. This was my 10th I-CON. :) I had a Tooooooooooooooooooon of fun, as I usually do, being surrounded by the people I love.

The Con, for me, in bullet points:

FRIDAY

Got my Staff badge and hung out/helped out in Staff/Program Participant/Guest badges until the fire alarm went off.

Helped Bill Burns bring in Snacks/drinks for Membership/Disabilities

Glomped hoskie :)

Hologrammed badges.

Membership opened at 4:30. Worked Pre-Reg. I ended up giving dqg_neal his badge :)

Off at 6pm. Was swayed by the prospect of getting food with karistan and dqg_neal. Out went the window of what I was originally planning to do.

Had tasty dinner, went to the hotel, and filmed a very silly video.

We then met up with kradical and wrenn and went to the Meet the Pros party, which I had never gone to. Was neat. I got to see a 4mite I hadn't seen in a year and it was fun to introduce him to everyone :-P

Soon after, we hightailed it back to campus for kradical and dqg_neal to be part of the I-CON 30 edition of DESTINIES: THE VOICE OF SCIECE FICTION, where I then met up with Barbara and Sean.

After that, myself, Barbara, and Sean bumped into slimgatsby in the parking lot, who invited us to Denny's.

We got home and collapsed around 2am.

SATURDAY

Back at Membership bright and early at 9am. Hologrammed badges & then worked Non-Reg from 9:30 til a little after Noon with alorarose.

Met up with Amy and Joe. Hung out in the lounge with them for a while.

Went to Uncle Kage's Story Hour. He's hilarious. :)

Headed over to Javits where Voltaire was supposed to have a Stop Motion Panel, but transportation issues arose, so that was cancelled.

Hung out on the couch until the Julie Benz Q&A was over so that I could head back over to the SAC with alorarose. Hung out a bit with Anon while waiting.

Then we saw wormquartet who I absolutely adore. After his show, I bought all of his CDs :-P

Grabbed lunch.

Headed to the Dealer's Room. Woooo stuff I can't afford!

Hilariously got caught in the rain. hoskie took pictures. Really. Hilarious. I was laughing the whole way. I needed a towel by the time we got back over to the SAC. Stupid wind.

Saw Bonnie, who gave me an adorable card with pictures of her baby... d'awwwwwwwww

Headed upstairs to join karistan, wrenn, kradical, and Carol in the lounging area. Seriously, the couches up there are really comfy. kradical zonked out for a bit. alorarose joined us upstairs.

When kradical woke up, he signed all the stuff I had brought for him to sign. There were some hilarious personalizations. "Why... Why?!" was what he wrote for GARGANTUA. I love kradical :)

alorarose and I headed to kradical's panel "Writing in a Setting the Fans Know Better Than You" which was amusing :)

Dinner was at John Harvard's with EVERYBODY I have already mentioned (minus Hoskie and Wormquartet), plus some other people who were really nifty.

Headed back to campus for Voltaire's Midnight show.

Bumped into tropism and we caught up on each other's lives.

Found out Howard Margolin (host of DESTINIES) won I-CON's Got Talent. Continued to talk to Howie pretty much up until show time for Voltaire.

So glad Voltaire was given an hour and a half. That meant actually getting to hear his old stuff :)

Headed back home with Barbara and Sean.

SUNDAY

Dammit, last day of I-CON already?? ::Pouty face:: Worked Non-Reg with alorarose until 11:30am.

I got dqg_neal to come with us to see Captain Zorikh perform. I adore him too. :)

Then it was off to kradical's panel "Mongols to Klingons". Despite not knowing what they were really going to talk about, the panel worked out fine :) It was entertaining and informative. :) And I bought Star Trek Captain's Log: Jellico \o/

Went to another wormquartet performance :)

And now it was time to spend money on the Dealer's Floor. On our way there, we bumped into auntiesiannan and phantomtoe and they gave me SOCKS!! Ended up walking to the ISC with wormquartet and his wife Kim. I didn't spend money at the Duck table, but I got new readers for greyduck's webcomic Quacked Panes

Ended up purchasing books from Patrick Thomas, who I had met back in February at dqg_neal's 40th bday party.

All money I spent on Merch went to people I know personally. SCORE!! :)

All in all it was a great Convention, as it always is. Can't wait until next year to do it all again!!

~*::Meow::*~