Still kinda worn out from the Marathon Con Weekend. Haven't downloaded the few pictures that I got yet, so those'll be in a separate post, but I thought I'd do a bit of a report.

It was hectic and busy and tiring but I had a GREAT time! Got to hang out with tierfal and friend who's internet name I don't know (ack sorry!!) and also got to meet up with actionranger.

But first, the con itself:

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It's less than a month to Fanime and I'm starting to get paranoid. I'm not in Artists' Alley this year but I would like to do the Art Gallery - the problem is, the Art Gallery seems to be the red-headed stepchild of the con. Year before last the website kept saying the info was "coming" and it never came. Last year the info never made it onto the web site at all, despite the fact that the guy who runs the Gallery gave them the info months before. I have no idea where people were signing up for spaces but they were all full by the time I got there. Keep in mind that since I had a table I was there before Artists' Alley opened. I asked him how I could have signed up and he said "the website." I pointed out that I had searched the whole damn site multiple times. (He was super nice and gave me a space when someone didn't show.)

This year the Art Gallery seems to have disappeared from the website entirely. It used to be mentioned under the Artists' Alley blurb, but now it's gone. The guy said he would be sending out emails to everyone who had space last year, but I've never gotten one. The Clockwork Alchemy site has a page for an Art Gallery, and now I'm starting to wonder if that's the only one. In which case - well, fuck me. My stuff is anime/manga, not steampunk.

I've emailed the Artists' Alley coordinators, but it's all run by volunteers, so.... yeah. Not holding my breath.

Back from con and slightly ded. Seem to have picked up a cold or something. Will post more later when slightly less ded.

Fanime is barely 4 weeks away so I'm in a bit of a frenzy. I probably don't need to be, but you have to understand the ADD sense of time: everything is either NOW ("OMGthismustgetdoneRIGHTAWAYpanicpanic") or NOT NOW ("eh....I'll do it later"). So to keep myself from doing things at the last minute (again), Fanime is very much NOW. I could go with what I have and be fine, as far as items for the table, but there's five pieces of art that I want to mat in hopes of displaying them in the art gallery (can't find anything on the art gallery on fanime's web site, which isn't helping any), small prints and bookmarks to make, and FOOD (we learned our lesson last year), and just generally assessing things and getting the display planned out. Oh, and I have to call the BOE because they've changed the rules and I need to get a sub-permit to sell at a separate location -_-;;. Which I can see the reason for, but it's one more thing to have to deal with.

Anyway, this means that things that don't have this deadline have been pushed aside for now. There's a growing list of "I'll do that after Fanime". Unfortunately some things can't wait, or wait long, like the overgrown weeds in the back yard. I'm sure someone with better time sense would be able to work more things in, but do with what we have ^^;