after an enlightening talk with one of my best friends I can say that corona started my third wave of puberty. but now I call it reverse development and cackle about it bc I love it. so far it has given me Noel Fielding, The IT Crowd, GBBO, The Mighty Boosh, StarKid, Joe Moses, JMOMS, and more yt channels than I can possibly list off the top of my head. my horizon has *exploded*! I'm happy :D this is growth too!
Since I know it’s what a lot of you guys have been waiting for, I actually talk about meeting guests starting in this one.
Friday
- Idk how I feel about this day overall because some pretty awesome stuff happened but I also had a lot of breakdowns over things and spent way too much time on those.
- I had some bad abdominal pain in the early morning and was scared it was appendicitis. Thankfully it passed quickly. I didn’t get any signing or photobooth wristbands but I didn’t plan on doing any of those that day except for the Lit one I was already given anyway.
- The first event I went to was the Glee meetup. On the way there a staff member banged into me and I apologized and we laughed about it. The meetup was awesome but I think I put my hand up to speak a little TOO often lol. But we could only cover so much in less than an hour!
- I’d planned to go to a Lit event next but ended up having a panic attack because I couldn’t find any of my friends and passed a bunch of special guests including a bunch of wrockers and pretty much all of Team StarKid that was at the con. I ended up in tears for like an hour and watched the guests play around on those roller things from afar. Then I was taken to First Aid by Margeaux, the staff member I’d previously bumped into, and was given food and water. They were all very nice to me but I kept crying because I flt so ashamed for freaking out over nothing.
- When I’d finally sort of managed to compose myself I went downstairs and lined up for JMOMS with a bunch of friends I finally ran into! At one point right before we went down to get seats Rob Manion showed up and they all went to hug him. I didn’t, partly because I was shy (even though we’re in a twitter mutual I was a bit nervous for some reason) but mostly because they just ran up to him abandoning everything and someone had to hold our place in line! :P
- JMOMS was awesome. PMC was great as always (especially Tessa’s interview :P) but the best was when they did the Frozen parody musical. I think it’s on YouTube but if not I’m sure it will be soon! It was so funny.
- After JMOMS I had another panic attack for some reason but still managed to get through the Lit signing for the authors I wanted to meet. Katie Rain Hill-my fave out of the entire Lit Track- was awesome, as were Maureen Johnson and Ransom Riggs! And the others as well of course. :)
- Once I was done with the Lit signing I noticed a familiar face on the Full-Time Geek stage (where Dana who was part of Not Literally was interviewing guests and staff who work in Geeky professions). It was Julia Albain from StarKid! She talked about how she wants to calm her life down and be emotionally healthy, and she also told some funny nannying stories (including one when a cousin of her charges knew who she was and told the parents :P).
- Once she was done she told us she’d be having a meetup about astrology and other real-life witchy things a half hour later, so when that happened there were like seven of us who got to have a discussion with her about all that stuff. It was so great and I filmed some of it for YouTube! She also said she had to leave the next morning because of her job so I was super happy and lucky I got to meet her at all, let alone spend a full hour with her!
- Then it was time for my first panel (as a panelist) “What’s in a Name? The Power of Names in Fiction” Some other people were on the panel too, including Chelsea from the Wicked meetup! I was expecting only a few people to show up because a lot of popular events were in that timeslot, but we had a really good crowd! It was a great discussion and I did mange to film most of it so it will probably be on my YouTube channel in the near future.
- I had accumulated a lot of things buy that point so I took them back to my hotel room. When I got back to the convention center I headed to the team quiz but after only a minute or two I started having yet ANOTHER panic attack for some reason and realized I couldn’t do it for whatever reason. I felt bad abandoning my team but didn’t want to make a scene in the room so I went back to the medical area downstairs and Margeaux and another staffer talked to me again. I was embarrassed again because I didn’t even know WHY I was upset I just couldn’t handle it. Looking back I guess I was frustrated because my friends kept running here there and everywhere and since I was international with a limited phone plan while in America I was pretty much dependent on wifi since I had no data. Also I was stressed because I was dead tired, and I kept freaking out over everything, and for some reason I felt I wasn’t making the most of my week,
- For some reason during all this we passed a group on StarKids yet AGAIN and Margeaux called Dylan Saunders over to say hi (yeah idk why she did that especially then but apparently they’re friends or something lol). I of course turned the other way because I was shy as usual and didn’t want to make a big thing but he insisted on a fistbump so that happened.
- After that I felt okay enough to go to The Lounge, which I had been looking forward to all week! It was a highly-recommended panel with Maureen Johnson and a bunch of other authors and Geekystaffers telling stories, taking questions, and just talking about anything. They mostly talked about weird restaurants in the area and made a deal with one of the staffers that he had to go to one and vlog his experience if all of the books in the marketplace were sold by the end of the con. I don’t think we quite got there but apparently the place had closed anyway so it didn’t matter. :P
- I don’t really remember a lot of what went down after that. Again, I debated going to wrock but decided against it because I was even more exhausted than I had been the previous night and I wanted to get a good night’s sleep to ensure Saturday was as good as it could possibly be! (But while in the medical area I did get to hear the soundcheck for one of my fave Whomping Willows songs so that was kinda cool.) I did find Bethany and we walked around for a bit before I got dinner and went to bed.
- So yeah idk how I feel about this day. Like I said there was a lot of awesomeness but I still feel quite ashamed for all of the breakdowns I had so it’s kind of strange and embarrassing to talk about or even think about.
