Night of the living fangirl

[soc_puppet]

Hello, internets! I am back!

In case you hadn't noticed my absence, well. I was gone. Starting Thursday afternoon (more like evening, really - pretty much immediately after my guest post on Shakesville went up), I was working near constantly at AnimeIowa.

And things went great this year! We only had one huge flub (that I know of) in pre-reg, which resulted in me being chewed out, but there were at least two similar incidents that I know of where we were able to get things straightened out, or at least the person to whom it happened was more laid-back. Saturday was taaaaame as compared to Friday, and even to Sunday (we offer pre-reg for the next year on Sundays, so we understandably get more traffic). And while we're definitely going to change one or two things next year, it's on a much smaller scale than was changed this year (IIRC).

Next year, though, I am definitely not both opening and closing on Friday. More to the point, I expect to have at least a good hour off for every two hours I work, which I plan to enforce not only for myself, but for the rest of my staff. We just. Need more staff to be able to pull it off ._.a I was completely incoherent by the time we shut down on Saturday evening, even though it was six hours earlier than we shut down on Friday, and today I was still having trouble thinking right before I got some freedom to go walk around and socialize and spend money and stuff. After that, though, I was pretty good.

Going to sleep early tonight, and panicking tomorrow. Have to do dry runs before school starts on Thursday, and I haven't had a chance to drive through mine in a car yet, so I'm going to be horribly lost half an hour into it, I'm sure T-T Also, having to be up at six in the morning the day after convention weekend? Hell. I am so glad we're moving it up next year, even if we do have to compete with Otakon again.

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[ningen-demonai.livejournal.com]

*Rooooooolls on you*

[soc_puppet]

Ack! *is rolled on wtf* &-♥?

[moritheil.livejournal.com]

Sounds fantastic - and yikes, opening AND closing? That sounds masochistic :(

It'll be interesting to see what happens if you go up against Otakon. I know of many people who wanted to go to a con, but were on the wrong coast to go to Otakon.

[soc_puppet]

XD Yeah, pretty much! It's that, or I don't trust the rest of the staff to do it "right" without me. Which, well. I should really give them the benefit of the doubt. And we'll not get into how we opened early every day this year, even if it was only by a few minutes.

Well, we've done it before and survived fairly well, so I'm not too worried. Also, we have dibs on Greg Ayres. And we're always happy to have new people ^_^

[hime-no-nishi.livejournal.com]

Wow. I was going to ask you about possibly doing AnimeFEST which is like the first weekend on September but now I feel bad about doing so because you'll be completely run down if you go to Otakon. Since you've had a Hiatus from the Intarwebs you probably didn't hear the news on the Two Lumps front.

[soc_puppet]

XD It's more like we're running opposite Otakon. I'm still not sure how I'd feel about it, though, since school usually starts around then, and the chances that I'd be able to get a day off in that time period are pretty slim :/

I just saw D: He will live on in internet glory T-T

[hime-no-nishi.livejournal.com]

Ah. I think that you'll get enough people actually because people that like going to smaller conventions tend to stay away from Super Madhouse cons like AX, Otakon, A-Kon, ACEN and others. Over 10,000 people is just WAY TO MANY. The reason why I was asking is that we're looking for another person to room with us so the price goes down. If you know anyone that is and is still looking for a room send them my way. They can note me.

On the note of the Lumps I'm just dreading the day when Raistlin goes because animals that have lived together that long usually don't survive long after one goes.