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Con Jose part 1

2002-09-02 - 8:18 p.m.

Okay, this is my first post recapping Con Jose. I got 4 hours of sleep last night (yes, night time, which is why my body decided I was just taking a nap), and spent the whole day at the con just before dropping off Debbie and going to work. So I may not make the most sense I've ever made, or remember everything I want to remember.

I'm trying to remember Thursday, when the con started, but it's all a jumble, so I'll try some free association. I had some hanging out, talking, and cuddling time with Menolly. Not a lot, lots of con stuff going on and sleeping during the day mostly... must visit again. I hung out with Debbie a lot, and realised I don't hang out with Debbie often enough. Cause she's... Debbie.

I also spent lots of time with my Domestic Partner, all of it good, which was nice. That reminds me, I tried to pick up her badge Thursday. "I would like to pick up my domestic partner's badge. Same address, purchased at the same time, same check." Registration person: "Do you have his I.D. or Con Jose mailing?" I was amused at first that they assumed my domestic partner was male. Then I thought it could be a discriminatory assumption. Anyway, I like using the term, even though it's awkward. I may be helping to bring it into common usage.

I think it's partly Debbie's fault, but I seem to be getting better at DDR. I even got an A on a very easy song!

I didn't make it to any panels. I didn't dress up. I didn't throw a party or even get Zero shown at a party (I came close... compatibility issues won).

I did hand out a few CDs (and one tape) of Zero. I did buy some earrings in the dealer's room (frog stud-type earrings, which I'm wearing now). I did give money to other conventions: full membership, pre-support, and conversion to full membership. I did volunteer to help out the bid for Worldcon 2007 in Japan. They said they could use help from native English speakers to clean up materials translated from Japanese into English. Yay! I did hit most of the parties, though lots of them seemed way too crowded and loud and boring, bad combination. Thinking back on it, Sunday night, the Green Realms party, though it seemed eerie and almost scary, and some of the food was unrecognizable (it was described as food from alien worlds), it was creative and relaxed and probably the most interesting party I made it to that night. They were hyping a book they were still trying to sell to a publisher, by the way.

I hit Tapestry this morning looking for food and found someone willing to make me a falafel at 8:30am! It was just the right thing to eat after sleeping 4 hours at night, too.

I'm crazy for staying at the con all day after half enough sleep, then going right to work for a 12-hour shift. But if I'd gone back home to sleep for work, I would have felt crazy for missing the last of the con. It may seem crazy to offer to take someone home "later" who is still under some degree of parental rule, miss the train to the car, get the car around 5am, then take that person to go eat and return hir home at 6:30am, but there was no set time limit, and we were hungry. I would do both things again.

I know it was a good con... I'm quite sad that it's over. The post-con blues aren't too bad though, as the next two months have two cons each that I will be attending (both times it's consecutive weekends too!). Even odder, October has two local cons I'm going to, while November I'll be going from Portland to L.A.

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