1. Tomorrow starts CONvergence, the BIG, multi-genre, multi-medium science fiction and fantasy convention here in the Twin Cities. And I do mean big. The economic downturn is expected to take a slight dent out of it, but I’m still expecting a packed hotel.
I really like CONvergence. Its parent convention, Minicon (the one it split away from over a decade ago in an extremely acrimonious fannish divorce,) was my First Convention. At my first Minicon I ended up shanghaied by the Volunteers department and ran the Consuite Bar for three hours on Saturday night after Something Had Happened to the Consuite Department Head. Thrown into the deep end of the pool, indeed.
CONvergence is sometimes described as having no focus. I dispute that. It does have a focus, and that focus is “we are all geeks together.” Anime and comics and NASA and RPGs and movies and books and elves and Klingons — everybody’s got space at this con. I walk into the hotel and I grin, knowing that it’s the weekend celebration of my tribe.
2. Comics are so good right now. My spring malaise has passed, and I am merely super excited each week.
3. My mom got rear-ended on the Stephenson Expressway yesterday morning, crossed three lanes of traffic twice, and somehow ended up unhurt. Thank goodness.
4. I bought a new car yesterday! Well, a used car. I have said this already, but omg, if you ever need to buy a car, try to do so on the last day of the month on the last day of the fiscal quarter during a massive economic recession. Sure, the dealership had the car I wanted. But. I had 1) a working car, and 2) four other similar models for similar prices in the metro area. When the salesguy didn’t give me what I wanted, my family and I started to leave. We didn’t get out the door.
Let me note that the car salesmen (and I didn’t see ANY women selling cars in the last few weeks) were universally smarmy.
Filed under: Autobiography, Conventions | Tagged: car, CONvergence09
