September Chicago Con

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September Chicago Con

Postby Aikiweezie » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:33 pm

Connor and Dominic are coming!!!!!!!!!! :trip: :happyjump: :mal: :happyjump:

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Postby enterprikayak » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:37 pm

And me and Ann and John and Ellie!

(Oh wait, did I type that out loud? Wishful thinking I guess lol)
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby Aikiweezie » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:29 pm

enterprikayak wrote:And me and Ann and John and Ellie!

(Oh wait, did I type that out loud? Wishful thinking I guess lol)


Why not? Got 6 months to plan!

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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby enterprikayak » Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:07 am

hey! Yeah!
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby starwatcher » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:27 am

Believe me, I would love to go, and if it had been last year then I totally would have been there. But I'll be back at home in the UK, looking for a job and probably not getting very far :-(

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Postby Elessar » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:27 am

we'll see - ellie's expected to be back in the UK by then.
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby starwatcher » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:13 am

Y'all will have to take some pics for me, or Skype it so I can watch it at home with a cup of tea and some decent toast with my dog on my knee :-)

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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby Elessar » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:47 am

Any updates, who's all going?
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby Aikiweezie » Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:48 pm

Elessar wrote:Any updates, who's all going?


Me :wave:

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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby justTripn » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:11 am

If I were to do it, it would be at the last minute, so as not to feel guilty for long about spending all that money. :lol: But no, . . . . I shouldn't. I've had enouph. I'll be there for the big 50th anniversary! :D
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby Distracted » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:18 am

In today's economy I'm pretty much done with cons until I need to go to market my novel...which at my current speed of completion might very well be the 50th anniversary or later. :roll:
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby WarpGirl » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:54 am

Dis you do not want to know the state of mine.

Honestly, I never thought I'd like to go to a Con. I don't do well in crowds, and I nearly fainted when Chef Martin Yen (Yen Can Cook) kissed my hand at a cooking demonstration at a local winery when I was 14. I was so panicked I wouldn't even let daddy stay to get the cookbook. If I ever met someone from Trek (even Scott Bakula) I'd need Dis around with Valium and Oxygen...

But if I could pay for it, in this moment I'd book a flight I swear to god. I'm just so sick of my life I need a diversion.
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby Aikiweezie » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:08 am

WarpGirl wrote:Dis you do not want to know the state of mine.

Honestly, I never thought I'd like to go to a Con. I don't do well in crowds, and I nearly fainted when Chef Martin Yen (Yen Can Cook) kissed my hand at a cooking demonstration at a local winery when I was 14. I was so panicked I wouldn't even let daddy stay to get the cookbook. If I ever met someone from Trek (even Scott Bakula) I'd need Dis around with Valium and Oxygen...

But if I could pay for it, in this moment I'd book a flight I swear to god. I'm just so sick of my life I need a diversion.


WG, one thing I learned from working on TV and movie sets is that they are just regular people. ESPECIALLY celebrities that go to cons. If they have star-trips or huge egos they don't GO to conventions and interract with fans.

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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby WarpGirl » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:03 am

I don't think you can get more humble than Martin Yen. I was 14 years old and I swear I was almost a foot taller than the man, but he bowed and kissed my hand, and I was holding on to crutches. And for some reason I was mortified. I couldn't fantom it, I was a chubby, cranky 14 year old and this tiny old gentleman treated me like Queen Elizabeth, and said I was beautiful. I burst into tears. Dad got so mad, and I told mom I'm crying because I don't understand why he was so nice! I'm NOTHING!

Ahhhh teen angst. Only I still get embarrassed if anyone is so nice to me... :oops: I mean if by some miracle I met :tom: and :torres: and they were nice. Forget it. I'd die of a stroke. I practically go into convulsions if my mom tells me I look pretty.
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Re: September Chicago Con

Postby justTripn » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:00 pm

Then don't go to conventions, because I met Robbie Duncan McNeil, and he's nice. :lol:
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