Dragon*Con Day One
Aug. 29th, 2008 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13My feet hurt.
Got up too early, was at the convention by 8am. Finished setting up "my" booth, complete with giant microbes. Wore this shirt, and had 3 folks take my picture in it. Was on my feet pretty much all the time until 7pm, working on the outside of the booth, folding shirts, answering questions, and finding goggles and hats and shirts and shirt sizes for folks.
I saw some truly excellent costumes: a really great Captain Vimes, a 9-year-old Stormtrooper in very good armor, a large group of Colonial Marines and an Alien, a very nice Spiderman and a Green Lantern, and many more. Funniest costume moment: we were leaving the hotel and there was a Darth Vader walking towards us--it took a second, but we realized the person inside the armor was singing the Imperial March--he was his own musical accompaniment!
And while they did a very nice job in refurbishing the Marriott, the lovely new bathrooms don't seem to have any A/C, they are very very warm.
Celebrity signing: Well, none, unless you count the nice little bat that was flying around in our Exhibit Hall. Poor little guy finally took refuge in the huge chandeliers. Not sure of the species, but it looked significantly larger than the Mexican Freetail bats we get in Austin. The hotel crew had fetched a pool net and they were going to catch it tonight and let it out. (eyes them suspiciously) They'd better.
My feet still hurt.
Got up too early, was at the convention by 8am. Finished setting up "my" booth, complete with giant microbes. Wore this shirt, and had 3 folks take my picture in it. Was on my feet pretty much all the time until 7pm, working on the outside of the booth, folding shirts, answering questions, and finding goggles and hats and shirts and shirt sizes for folks.
I saw some truly excellent costumes: a really great Captain Vimes, a 9-year-old Stormtrooper in very good armor, a large group of Colonial Marines and an Alien, a very nice Spiderman and a Green Lantern, and many more. Funniest costume moment: we were leaving the hotel and there was a Darth Vader walking towards us--it took a second, but we realized the person inside the armor was singing the Imperial March--he was his own musical accompaniment!
And while they did a very nice job in refurbishing the Marriott, the lovely new bathrooms don't seem to have any A/C, they are very very warm.
Celebrity signing: Well, none, unless you count the nice little bat that was flying around in our Exhibit Hall. Poor little guy finally took refuge in the huge chandeliers. Not sure of the species, but it looked significantly larger than the Mexican Freetail bats we get in Austin. The hotel crew had fetched a pool net and they were going to catch it tonight and let it out. (eyes them suspiciously) They'd better.
My feet still hurt.
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Date: 2008-08-30 02:24 am (UTC)You know, in two years I lived in Austin, I never got to see the bats. It's so crazy that one was flying around exhibit hall! I wonder how he got there. Poor thing must have been terrified!
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Date: 2008-08-30 03:37 am (UTC)