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Drooling Mutant Fangirl's Weblog
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Saturday, December 07, 2002
Finally, the long-awaited CON REPORT! (And the crowd goes wild...or is that the crickets?)
LOSCON 29 aka PLANET LOSCON!
FRIDAY
We got down there in time to drag our stuff up to the room before programming started. It took forever to get our stuff up, in part because the hotel didn't have enough carts for everyone arriving at once, but mostly because I kept skibbling off to say "hi" to one long-lost friend or another.
Perhaps I should put a disclaimer in here...despite the fact that I say I'm going to see panels, usually, that's the least of it. Mostly, I just hang out and socialize.
And it didn't take me long to find some vital socialization to do, either. While I was in the dealer's room, lusting after a new picture by Denise "used to be Boye but is now Jensen or Johnson or something," I noticed two women sitting with a Mah-Jongg set. Of course, that was just too much to pass by. When they said they would be interested in a game if we only had a fourth, I ran off and found my sweetie, dragged him back, and we played for a while. But before long, he had a panel he wanted to go to. I stayed, and someone else took over.
Well, to make a long story short, I kicked butt. I had a huge stack of green disks (100 points each). Yet again, luck trumps skill!
But at 6, they closed the art show, and kicked us all out. So I went up to the room, and changed for the ice cream social.
My sweetie, BTW, is an original member of the Partying Centauri. So he was all dressed up, in his costume and wig. He makes quite an impression. And the Ice Cream Social is our 4th Anniversary.
As the actual entertainment portion of the Ice Cream Social didn't seem to be forthcoming any time soon (fannish time) I headed over to the Regency Dance. I stayed for all 6 dances (I wish every con had Regency Dances) stayed a little while to ask John Hertz, the instructor, a few more questions, then went to find my Sweetie and our friends. We spent a short time in the main dance, but then headed upstairs to the party floor.
Our friends were putting on the Hellmouth Party, which was fun...they had a mini-quiz on Buffy esoterica (I got one out of three), a twister game (which I was not dressed for...still dressed nicely from the Regency dancing) and a "shoot Spike with a crossbow" game (I missed the heart, and got "bitten"). Oh, yeah, and they had punch. ;)
After that, I wandered into a room when they were having an interleaved round-robin reading of "the Rules," the guide to catching a husband through game-playing, and the "guide to imaginative lovemaking" or something like that, by the guy who wrote the Gor novels.
Yeah, pretty much what you'd imagine.
Anyway, the object of the game was to last as long as you could, without laughing. I didn't even last the chapter heading. It was "The Captured Cave-Girl" or something like that. I just burst out laughing.
After that party broke up, I went back to my room, to get a couple hours sleep before the panels started for Saturday.
6:27 PM
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