Shakabutt wrote:PS : Emberchiyld is hot
Uhmmmm
.... Thanks...
Although that does help me segueway in a really roundabout way to the q/a with Connor. I really enjoyed bantering with him about engineers and geekiness.
I was really nervous about going up there (you know, fear of having verbal diarrhea like "OHMIGODILOOOOOOVEYOUANDTRIPANDENTERPRISEANDuhmYEAHuhmANDTRIPisSOOOnotDEADokimgoingnowBYE"), but Elessar needed a buffer person between questions. So... I get up to the mic and first thank him for making engineers look cool, since we're usually viewed as geeks with pocket protectors and stuff. Forgive me if I missed anything, I was soooo buzzed about being up there that I can't remember it all
CT: You're not wearing a pocket protector
Me: Well, I'm not in uniform
CT: I don't believe that you have a pocket protector or one of those TI...
Me: TI 85? (I make a motion to whip out a calculator)
CT was just sooo funny and engaging, and I really enjoyed his answer to the Treknobabble question I asked him (He said that he asked how things worked and they didn't really give him anything. Except for a set of blueprints)
Then I thanked him and was like "And thanks again for being an engineer that was cool"
I don't know if it was him or me that said about getting the "hot girl"
, but he then said "I don't believe that you don't get the hot guys"
Me (shaking head): Remember, I'm out of uniform
CT (motioning to the room) Well, guys?
And then I run away, blushing furiously, and hide in our row, wondering: "Now, why couldn't I have been a
normal person and have just asked a darn question. I just haaaaaad to babble!"
(After the dinner, a guy and his son came up to me and the guy asked me what kind of engineer I was... when I said Mechanical, the guy turned to his son and said "See, I thought so!" Maybe us M.E.s babble....)
Connor was also awesome during the dinner, kneeling right between T'Sara and myself, getting an earful about what we each do (we let him know that he was between two engineers), and talking about his vacation to Spain.
On Engineering and work:
CT made a comment about how we have neat jobs (I think he was more interested in finding out exactly what was top secret about T'Sara's job than anything else! I know that I totally threw him off with my dead bodies comment), and we said "Well, it's not like we're leaping off of warp cores and stuff. We just sit at desks all day." And CT replied "My job has a lot of sitting around, too"
On travel:
I asked where in Spain he and his wife had visited-- Seville, Madrid (and I can't remember the third city! Oh, wait-- it was Valliadolid, where the Alhambra is located)-- he and I both agree that Seville is the most amazing city (ahem, if CT and I both say that the city is great, then it must be. And it is!). He said that he wants to go back to visit Barcelona, the Costa del Sol, and (can't remember third city yet again!), but I put in a plug for Portugal as well-- I told him that if he loved Seville, he'd at least like Lisbon.
On Harry Potter:
So, as the annoying lady started poking Connor to leave the table, he asked us if we were going to the Cabaret show later, and T'Sara said that she had to go home because of work (CT was funny in his reaction to that!), and I said that I unfortunately had a Harry Potter party at Borders to attend. He said that he didn't blame me-- if he was back home, he'd be doing the same. I told him that it wasn't too late-- if he wanted, he could just hop over to a local Borders or B&N 'cause it wasn't til midnight. (I don't think that any of the ladies at whatever bookstore he'd pop into would mind him being there
)
And then he left. It was neat to watch him on the phone with with y2kelly and with table #2 of the Triaxian silk gang.
I did stop by today around 4ish for a few minutes to pick up a MU Enterprise patch from the vendor tables and tried to give JT a call, but I think the convention was winding down at that point and most of the group had probably left. (would have come earlier, but had too much stuff to do because I had been gone on Sat.)
All in all, a lot of fun and I hope I can make another con soon! It was a lot of fun meeting everyone. (and I apologize for the babbling manner in which these posts have been written-- now you can see why I didn't become a journalist.)