A lot of fun is happening around here. But at the same time, I'm also highly disappointed by some of the things that's been going on around here this year. I don't know why, but that just doesn't feel like the ideal convention the way Creation's cons always felt. Chicago 2011 & 2012 were amazing, literally the best, and now all of a sudden... Maybe it's been too long since then and I was idealizing them a bit, but even my con reports say otherwise.

Um, so the past couple of days have been pretty fun. We've met a few actors, had a few photo ops, had a few autograph sessions and met an awful lot of people. The main bad thing was surprisingly on Creation's part - they are completely unorganized, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand does, they mix the schedule all the time and they are running later at 10am, when the convention's just started for that day. The only time I experienced something worse was in HalfWay Con, but that was the first con they ever did, so I can accept that.

Anywho... On Friday we met Gary Jones and Tony Amendola. It was great to see Tony again, even though the autographs were all rushed because of Creation's screw-ups. Still, I gave him the photo we took in Chicago 2012, and he was like, "when did we take this?". Um, Gary had his own autograph table, so we could actually talk a bit, and I spent 50$ there (yeah, I'm horrible, I know) on some awesome Walter stuff. He was really lovely and it was great to have him back here onstage. Really enjoyed both panels, which is totally not surprising. Had a photo with him, too (he wore Walter's uniform!).

Yesterday was a bit busier, although it was still nothing like the 2012 con. I had a photo with Paul and David (wearing the same vest! Hahaha), saw Cliff onstage (as brilliant as always!), participated in the Yes/No Trivia and did an amazingly stupid mistake, watched the Trio panel (which was fun but a bit too long), had my photo with the Trio and with Jason and Joe (two different photos, obviously) and saw David Nykl onstage, which was as fun as always, because he really is a great guy.

Other than that, we also had Jason Momoa's panel and photo op, Teryl's autographs and the general autograph session. Meeting Joe and Paul again was fun (although meeting Paul was disappointing), meeting David again was great (he's so fun!), meeting Cliff again was awesome (man, I love that guy), and then there was Jason. And that's a completely different story that requires an entire paragraph devoted to him.

So Jason. I gotta tell you, Ronon never really attracted me. He's totally not my type. And well, after everything we're heard from the cast about Jason's pranks and everything, I expected a completely different guy. But there he was onstage, being really sweet and slightly nervous, going, "I feel like this was a test, did I get the answer right?" and being totally cool. He hugged someone because somebody stole her question, he called a kid to stage because he was dressed like Ronon and it was totally sweet. He's really really amazing, absolutely NOTHING like Ronon/Conan/Drugu. I got my photo with him and a hug (<3) and then when he did the autographs he asked if I got it and how it turned out. I told him it turned out pretty good (he's looking great and I'm, well, not), and he asked to see it. I showed it to him, and he just took it out of the album and asked if he can sign it. And I was like, "be my guest!" and inside my mind thinking "omg omg omg omg" :D So yeah, I'm developing a slight crush for Jason.

The other thing we did yesterday was get Teryl's autograph. She is just so lovely. She, too, was autographing seperately, so we really had the chance to talk. We told her about where we're from, she said she always wanted to come here, we talked a bit about Chicago, making the journey here and Janet... Told her I still can't watch Heroes (7X17-18)... She loved Janet too. She's just really really lovely!

So yeah, those were definitely the highlights of yesterday.

Socially-wise (is that even a thing?) I got to meet a few new people and a few people I know from twitter. It was really really fun to get to know all these folks. I also got to chat with a few random people and just ride elevators with people and everything. It's definitely the most social convention I've ever had, and it's really great to do that. On the other hand, being an introvert, I need my own space sometime... and you just don't get that around here. I was totally tired yesterday, I think partly because of that.

And that's it. Today we have MICHAEL and Teryl, and generally that's it. Quiet day.

Hopefully it'll be as great as it's supposed to be.