A quick update...

Dragon*Con, day two.

This will be short and sweet because it took me two hours to read my email tonight... and so it's 5am and I'm tired.

Best costumes seen today: a pair of guys in Stormtrooper armour, except that the helmets were made from garbage pails, and they were carrying brooms. They had "Vader's Cleaners" (or something like that) written on their shoulders. Very funny. I also saw someone in a Darth Vader helmet, wearing a collar and being led around on a leash by a young woman.

There were other costumes that I saw today but I can't remember them now. :( Perhaps I should carry my notebook around with me tomorrow.

I walked into the "Cavalcade Of Trek Authors" panel, which featured terri_osborne and kradical. Perhaps because I walked in ten minutes late, kradical called out, "Hey, Lance!" when I walked in, to which I replied, "Long time, no see!" Keith responded, "Yes, it's been days!" and then explained that I, like he and terri_osborne, was a crazy person who had been at Worldcon last week. Then he got back to the panel in progress, on Trek literature. After the panel, omahastar came up and introduced himself. We only chatted for a few minutes, but it was nice to meet him. He didn't seem nearly as forward in person as he is on TrekBBS.

This evening I attended the Buffy sing-along, which was great fun. I ran into Scott, the 2007 Gaylaxicon Chair, while I was lined up outside, and chatted for a few minutes.

The show itself was great - they did it Rocky Horror style, much the same way as is done at TT (from what I understand... I've never actually made it into the room at TT, as I'm usually hosting a room party at the same time). I was singing along, and apparently my musical theatre background was kind of apparent, as a young (and very cute) man turned from across the aisle and a row in front of me to give me a thumbs-up during "Rest In Peace". :)

Following that, I saw assetic this evening in the bar, and I saw whitesangria while she was working this afternoon, but have yet to see any of the other Toronto contingent. I miss our late-night trips to the diner in the Days Inn to compare notes on our respective days. :(

I saw Richard Hatch in the bar tonight, and chatted very briefly with Mira Furlan and Julie Caitlin Brown this afternoon (both of them said that they loved having the chance to come to Toronto for TT this year), and chatted briefly with Peter S. Beagle in the Walk Of Fame area. I congratulated him on his recent Hugo win, and he seemed only too happy to chat even though I wasn't buying any books. I also ran into rasiler a few times, and I've seen wananga twice so far. I managed to get something for the 2007 Gaylaxicon people which I hope will help. :)

(BTW, rockgoddes and summ3r_daze, you may remember wananga from last year - he's the guy I ran into in the Registration line while we were waiting for Stephen. Guess where I ran into him the first time this weekend? This is becoming a habit.)

Before I go to bed, here are a couple of today's pictures. I only took three, and have only uploaded two so far.

First, I was standing about ten feet away and setting up the shot, and didn't realize until after I had taken it that the person I was photographing had seen me and was posing:



The man pointing at me, in case it's not clear (and I know it's not) is, in fact, Rip Taylor. And yes, he was throwing confetti everywhere. I had some stuck to my shoe for hours.

And here:



is Mickey Rooney. I was surprised at how few people were lining up for his autograph; I think I was the sixth or seventh person to get it. And I was equally surprised that he was only charging $20. I wasn't planning on spending a lot of money on things other than food this weekend... but hey, it's MICKEY ROONEY! My mother made me watch Andy Hardy movies constantly when I was a kid (and yes, she has a lot to answer for ;) ).

There were three or four people in front of me when I initially started to set up the shot... and naturally, my phone rang while I was doing it. It turned out to be the headhunter I had been dealing with last week regarding a position at ADP; they're very interested in me. I managed to say goodbye to the headhunter an instant before the group of people in front of me all departed en masse and it was my turn to get Mickey's autograph, so I couldn't get the picture until after he'd signed. I then had to go and find a quiet corner to call the headhunter back, and remind him that I wasn't going to be available for an interview until Wednesday at the earliest as I was here in Atlanta. I then told him that he'd called while I was in line for Mickey Rooney's autograph, and he burst out laughing. That's probably the oddest thing anyone has every said to him while they've been on the phone with him...

And now, bed. I need sleep if I'm going to be meeting evil_admiral for lunch tomorrow... and tomorrow is likely to be a long day as well, as there's the Outworlders' party tomorrow night. I plan on dragging evil_admiral along and introducing him to some of my Atlanta fannish friends, since he's always talking about how hard it is to meet cute geeks down here. The guys I know are likely a bit old for him, but they may know people...