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Sep. 10th, 2012
con report: dragoncon 2012
Sep. 10th, 2012 10:42 pmDragonCon 2012: August 30 - September 3, 2012
A lot of this switches tenses, but I'm too lazy to rewrite everything. This year I tried to keep track of things with the iPod using Nebulous, which was much easier than using a notebook. Except I sort of miss the physical notes. Oh well.
Not noted in my trip journal are the handful of times I kept passing Spat and James Hsiao in the hallway (though I was able to chat with James a little). Also saw Will & Kristin Sirota a few times. I never did find Gareth, but I saw a bunch of Xenos that were not Abe.
Thursday, August 30
Woke up at 3 am and, having slept only three hours, that kind of sucked. Showered, got dressed, and even had time to eat breakfast. Mom drove me to the airport and I got checked in without too much hassle. Flight was on time and I actually arrived in BWI early. Freezing though...why the heck is the airport so cold?! Used the free wifi while waiting for my connecting flight. I was sort of worried about the storm but it was all good and my flight was on time. Arrived in ATL at 11:45am and met with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
athenaktt at baggage claim.
Got on the train to Peachtree and walked on the street to the Marriott - it was kind of weird not being able to just walk into the Peachtree Center. When I checked in, the lady at the desk asked ifathenaktt was arysani... I said no, which was the wrong answer. She said there was a charge for 3 people and added $10 per night to my room. Ergh. Frak you Marriott. Whatever. At least we got two doubles! That was kind of up in the air for a bit.
( registration, meeting up with people, first day shenanigans )
Friday, August 31
Oh man what a day! Got up in the morning about 9:30am. Showered and dressed in my Captain America tunic dress.arysani, ainulindale, athenaktt and I went to the food court. I got pancakes from Jack's... and saw John Barrowman & his boyfriend, Scott there. No one bothered them, which was cool. Anyway, that was probably the closest I will get to Barrowman all weekend. Hahah.
Dean and Carlos met up with us there - Dean was dressed as Steve Austin the Six Million Dollar Man. Carlos was in an Atlantis uniform. Dean ran off a few minutes later to do a group costume thing, though. I think we ended up leaving the food court before Carlos? I don't remember.
After food, we went back to the room and when the girls decided to get dressed in costumes. I sort of hemmed and hawed, but I decided put on my arc reactor rig with my Threadless Decay shirt. It was actually pretty fun to wear and ended up getting some attention. Unfortunately I don't have photos of this.
( walk of fame, shopping, hawkeye costume )
Saturday, September 1
Woke up at 8am and sort of slowly got dressed for going to the parade. We didn't leave until after 9am. Oops.ainulindale and I went ahead to find a place to stand and basically ended up at Woodruff Park. arysani & athenaktt met up with us a little before the parade started. It was pretty cool but felt like some of the groups were sort of small this year.
After the parade we went to Peachtree and got lunch from Jack's and went to the Marriott Atrium to eat while waiting for the Vampire Diaries line. I wanted to get some stuff from the room before the line started and when I got up, I realized I had sat in some sticky crap stuck to my pants. Ugh. So while back in the room, I changed my clothes and grabbed my stuff before getting an elevator back down to meet witharysani.
( tvd panel, sga panel, walk of fame )
Sunday, September 2
Woke up at 9am. Showered. Got all geared up in Hawkeye, which took about an hour for some reason. Went to the food court and grabbed some food from Cafe Momo. While looking at the buffet, a guy saw me and got excited that I was in a Hawkeye costume and said he wanted to take a photo but didn't want to bother me as I was trying to do something normal. I didn't have any food yet and the place was sort of empty so I was going to tell him it was okay, but he said maybe he'd get a picture of me later and moved along. I never did see him again.
Decided to hit the Walk of Fame. Said hello to Eddie finally. He picked a Module postcard and asked if I was going to NYCC. I said I wasn't because I was going to see Zoe. He asked about her music then suggested some artists for me to check out. As I was leaving, he said to stop by and see him again.
Nothing else to do, I headed to the dealers room in the pit. Stopped and said hello to Ken. I was sorry I missed his Spike costume - his first con costume! He said it was well-received, though, so that's good. Got myself a B-Mo figure! On the way out, I ran intoathenaktt & ainulindale.
( more shopping, eat all the shawarma, sopio! )
Monday, September 3
arysani and ainulindale left at 8am. Booo! Wish we got to hang out longer. athenaktt and I got up about 9am and started getting ready to go. By 10am, we were ready to roll out, but it took half an hour to get an elevators down. An employee took pity on us and let us use the service elevator. Checked out and put our luggage in storage so we could walk around some more.
Went to the dealer's room and found that BPAL was there. Ahhh! Bought two bottles! Hee. I wanted to smell all the things! They'll be at NYCC which I'm not going to. Boo.athenaktt had to go once we were done shopping there, so I said goodbye.
( more shopping, getting home )
Additional links and media:
+ all my photos are here
+ daily tweets: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5a, day 5b
+ Richard Dean Anderson
+ John Barrowman & Kai Owen on Friday (5 parts)
+ Saturday Vampire Diaries Panel (not awesome quality) part 1, part 2, part 3
+ Saturday Vampire Diaries panel (better quality) - part 1, part 2
+ John Barrowman & Scott Gill Saturday Panel (5 parts)
And that is the end of DragonCon 2012! I believe people are already planning for next year as some hotels opened reservations already. I bought my pass, so I've got that at least!
A lot of this switches tenses, but I'm too lazy to rewrite everything. This year I tried to keep track of things with the iPod using Nebulous, which was much easier than using a notebook. Except I sort of miss the physical notes. Oh well.
Not noted in my trip journal are the handful of times I kept passing Spat and James Hsiao in the hallway (though I was able to chat with James a little). Also saw Will & Kristin Sirota a few times. I never did find Gareth, but I saw a bunch of Xenos that were not Abe.
Thursday, August 30
Woke up at 3 am and, having slept only three hours, that kind of sucked. Showered, got dressed, and even had time to eat breakfast. Mom drove me to the airport and I got checked in without too much hassle. Flight was on time and I actually arrived in BWI early. Freezing though...why the heck is the airport so cold?! Used the free wifi while waiting for my connecting flight. I was sort of worried about the storm but it was all good and my flight was on time. Arrived in ATL at 11:45am and met with
athenaktt at baggage claim.Got on the train to Peachtree and walked on the street to the Marriott - it was kind of weird not being able to just walk into the Peachtree Center. When I checked in, the lady at the desk asked if
athenaktt was arysani... I said no, which was the wrong answer. She said there was a charge for 3 people and added $10 per night to my room. Ergh. Frak you Marriott. Whatever. At least we got two doubles! That was kind of up in the air for a bit.( registration, meeting up with people, first day shenanigans )
Friday, August 31
Oh man what a day! Got up in the morning about 9:30am. Showered and dressed in my Captain America tunic dress.
arysani, ainulindale, athenaktt and I went to the food court. I got pancakes from Jack's... and saw John Barrowman & his boyfriend, Scott there. No one bothered them, which was cool. Anyway, that was probably the closest I will get to Barrowman all weekend. Hahah.Dean and Carlos met up with us there - Dean was dressed as Steve Austin the Six Million Dollar Man. Carlos was in an Atlantis uniform. Dean ran off a few minutes later to do a group costume thing, though. I think we ended up leaving the food court before Carlos? I don't remember.
After food, we went back to the room and when the girls decided to get dressed in costumes. I sort of hemmed and hawed, but I decided put on my arc reactor rig with my Threadless Decay shirt. It was actually pretty fun to wear and ended up getting some attention. Unfortunately I don't have photos of this.
( walk of fame, shopping, hawkeye costume )
Saturday, September 1
Woke up at 8am and sort of slowly got dressed for going to the parade. We didn't leave until after 9am. Oops.
ainulindale and I went ahead to find a place to stand and basically ended up at Woodruff Park. arysani & athenaktt met up with us a little before the parade started. It was pretty cool but felt like some of the groups were sort of small this year.After the parade we went to Peachtree and got lunch from Jack's and went to the Marriott Atrium to eat while waiting for the Vampire Diaries line. I wanted to get some stuff from the room before the line started and when I got up, I realized I had sat in some sticky crap stuck to my pants. Ugh. So while back in the room, I changed my clothes and grabbed my stuff before getting an elevator back down to meet with
arysani.( tvd panel, sga panel, walk of fame )
Sunday, September 2
Woke up at 9am. Showered. Got all geared up in Hawkeye, which took about an hour for some reason. Went to the food court and grabbed some food from Cafe Momo. While looking at the buffet, a guy saw me and got excited that I was in a Hawkeye costume and said he wanted to take a photo but didn't want to bother me as I was trying to do something normal. I didn't have any food yet and the place was sort of empty so I was going to tell him it was okay, but he said maybe he'd get a picture of me later and moved along. I never did see him again.
Decided to hit the Walk of Fame. Said hello to Eddie finally. He picked a Module postcard and asked if I was going to NYCC. I said I wasn't because I was going to see Zoe. He asked about her music then suggested some artists for me to check out. As I was leaving, he said to stop by and see him again.
Nothing else to do, I headed to the dealers room in the pit. Stopped and said hello to Ken. I was sorry I missed his Spike costume - his first con costume! He said it was well-received, though, so that's good. Got myself a B-Mo figure! On the way out, I ran into
athenaktt & ainulindale.( more shopping, eat all the shawarma, sopio! )
Monday, September 3
arysani and ainulindale left at 8am. Booo! Wish we got to hang out longer. athenaktt and I got up about 9am and started getting ready to go. By 10am, we were ready to roll out, but it took half an hour to get an elevators down. An employee took pity on us and let us use the service elevator. Checked out and put our luggage in storage so we could walk around some more.Went to the dealer's room and found that BPAL was there. Ahhh! Bought two bottles! Hee. I wanted to smell all the things! They'll be at NYCC which I'm not going to. Boo.
athenaktt had to go once we were done shopping there, so I said goodbye. ( more shopping, getting home )
Additional links and media:
+ all my photos are here
+ daily tweets: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5a, day 5b
+ Richard Dean Anderson
+ John Barrowman & Kai Owen on Friday (5 parts)
+ Saturday Vampire Diaries Panel (not awesome quality) part 1, part 2, part 3
+ Saturday Vampire Diaries panel (better quality) - part 1, part 2
+ John Barrowman & Scott Gill Saturday Panel (5 parts)
And that is the end of DragonCon 2012! I believe people are already planning for next year as some hotels opened reservations already. I bought my pass, so I've got that at least!
