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Nov. 21st, 2006 07:51 pmMidwest Furfest has come and gone, and I'm back to the daily grind, for a few days anyway. I'm back off work for another four days after this Wednesday. I'm rather glad of that; I can transition slowly back in after my ten days in a row of being entirely on my own schedule.
The costume contingent was in fine form this year, and I don't mean just the fursuits. There was a fantastic color-changing tail that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
posicat, who talked to its maker, tells me was comprised of 512 individually addressable LEDs driven by a custom board and microcontroller. There was a very memorable manticore complete with arched scorpion tail and bat wings, not to mention a thick swatch of fur for discretionary purposes; that was a neat touch. There was a very cute boy with his hair in short little pigtails who was wearing a black, lacy maid's outfit, and another one who had a shirt that said "I'd just like you to know that I'm a girl and I want to wear ribbons in my hair and kiss all the boys." *giggles* So cute! To my regret, I missed the fursuit parade. A group of us had gone to Cici's for pizza lunch buffet and I completely forgot that it was the day of the parade. By all accounts it was a really good one too, so I feel a little bad that I didn't get to see it.
I talked to an amazing number of people, both old friends and new. Andrea and I got to talk todaveqat and his partner Jim for a while and it impressed upon me how much I've missed the both of them. Since I didn't have any adequate answer to why I haven't been seeing more of them, I guess we will! I think my mate and I are definitely going to go down to Chicago to visit them more frequently.
I spent a while chatting with a handsome bear from Minneapolis about how I met Dave and Jim (they were the people we had in common), about the house he and his partner are fixing up, and much other rambling (and a little flirting that was really flattering).
Speaking of being flattered, maybe I'm just learning to be a little less shy, but I got more attention at this convention than anything else I've ever been too! The most memorable of said attention was that paid me by two extremely attractive gentlemen who, were they not greater than ten hours drive away, I would love to spend more time with. They were both long-haired rennies who totally pinged my radar.
Due to other circumstances, I'd actually been feeling a little bit unpretty on Friday evening, so their attention, as well as hugs and snugs from other friends (Thank you Serin and Todd and Posi and Tybis and...and... everyone else!), really helped pick my mood up. I was in the most amazingly nice headspace through Saturday and Sunday.
I didn't quite get the group together for a birthday dinner that I'd been hoping to, but I did make it out to Cici's for pizza buffet with most of them. We also had Thai food at a cozy little restaurant that was really good. The only problem I had was that my food was, as usual, not quite hot enough. One of these days I'll find a place that makes things how I like them; hot enough to blister paint. It was still great food though; my pad thai was yummy and Andrea said her tom-yum soup was great!
Moving on to more Asian food, another group of us went for sushi buffet at Todai in the mall across the road. Jim and Andrea worked together to get me to try some inari and some barbecued eel on rice, and while they were both pretty decent, there's a part of my brain that just can't quite wrap itself around it all being cold! I would like to acclimate myself to that sort of thing a little more if I'm serious about visiting Japan someday, but at least for now, the all you can eat sushi buffet just isn't a good value for me. There was a small hot food section, so I ended up eating like I was at a very expensive chinese buffet with a very small selection. This was, of course, through no fault of the restaurant at all; the buffet selection was one of the biggest I've ever seen! Now, if it had been a dim-sum buffet instead of sushi: well!
I made it to just one panel that I went to withserinthia; the trans-fur meeting. I was a little bit unsure about how I'd fit in there since, while I do really like being a girl once in a while, I don't know if I really consider myself transgendered or where I fall on that spectrum. Maybe just a little bit between genders. There were a couple other things I'd intended to get to as well like the drum jam and the canid panel, but somehow the timing didn't work out quite right. I did get to Kage's story hour though, bringing my total of scheduled events attended to two, which is two more than most of the other cons I've been to lately. Maybe I'll get to more of it next time; I just spent so much time talking to people and working registration!
Registration, by the way, was really interesting. I got a little bit stressed during the initial rush on Thursday, but after that it wasn't that hectic and was really kind of fun. I do like having something to do at a convention that gives me a sense of purpose. I feel really bad about having not been able to make my first shift on Friday when my mouth was giving me a hard time and my tummy was adjusting to the pain meds that the dentist gave me. Fortunately, my absence was understood and they had enough people anyway.
Well, at this point, I'm about done with the con report, and I've been sitting in the dentist's parking lot for about forty-five minutes now. I wonder if I got the time or date wrong or something. We talked yesterday about getting together today, and I'm quite sure I said between six and six-thirty, but it's nearly seven now and I haven't seen anybody yet. If I hadn't been having more pain through the course of the day, and if I didn't still have a stitch in my mouth that needs to come out, I wouldn't be so concerned. I'll have to give him a call tomorrow morning and see what's going on, becuase I'm starving right now and I'm going home to have dinner.
'Till later!
*edit*
Got home, Andrea called the doctor and found out that my appointment was at 7:00 rather than 6:30, and I rushed back out the door. He took the stitch out, said it's healing well, put more clove oil on it, and sent me back home. He seemed unsurprised that I had a little more pain this afternoon. Hopefully that's a good sign. And now, my mate has pierogies on a plate in front of me *bounce*, so I should probably sign off again.
The costume contingent was in fine form this year, and I don't mean just the fursuits. There was a fantastic color-changing tail that
posicat, who talked to its maker, tells me was comprised of 512 individually addressable LEDs driven by a custom board and microcontroller. There was a very memorable manticore complete with arched scorpion tail and bat wings, not to mention a thick swatch of fur for discretionary purposes; that was a neat touch. There was a very cute boy with his hair in short little pigtails who was wearing a black, lacy maid's outfit, and another one who had a shirt that said "I'd just like you to know that I'm a girl and I want to wear ribbons in my hair and kiss all the boys." *giggles* So cute! To my regret, I missed the fursuit parade. A group of us had gone to Cici's for pizza lunch buffet and I completely forgot that it was the day of the parade. By all accounts it was a really good one too, so I feel a little bad that I didn't get to see it.I talked to an amazing number of people, both old friends and new. Andrea and I got to talk to
daveqat and his partner Jim for a while and it impressed upon me how much I've missed the both of them. Since I didn't have any adequate answer to why I haven't been seeing more of them, I guess we will! I think my mate and I are definitely going to go down to Chicago to visit them more frequently. I spent a while chatting with a handsome bear from Minneapolis about how I met Dave and Jim (they were the people we had in common), about the house he and his partner are fixing up, and much other rambling (and a little flirting that was really flattering).
Speaking of being flattered, maybe I'm just learning to be a little less shy, but I got more attention at this convention than anything else I've ever been too! The most memorable of said attention was that paid me by two extremely attractive gentlemen who, were they not greater than ten hours drive away, I would love to spend more time with. They were both long-haired rennies who totally pinged my radar.
Due to other circumstances, I'd actually been feeling a little bit unpretty on Friday evening, so their attention, as well as hugs and snugs from other friends (Thank you Serin and Todd and Posi and Tybis and...and... everyone else!), really helped pick my mood up. I was in the most amazingly nice headspace through Saturday and Sunday.
I didn't quite get the group together for a birthday dinner that I'd been hoping to, but I did make it out to Cici's for pizza buffet with most of them. We also had Thai food at a cozy little restaurant that was really good. The only problem I had was that my food was, as usual, not quite hot enough. One of these days I'll find a place that makes things how I like them; hot enough to blister paint. It was still great food though; my pad thai was yummy and Andrea said her tom-yum soup was great!
Moving on to more Asian food, another group of us went for sushi buffet at Todai in the mall across the road. Jim and Andrea worked together to get me to try some inari and some barbecued eel on rice, and while they were both pretty decent, there's a part of my brain that just can't quite wrap itself around it all being cold! I would like to acclimate myself to that sort of thing a little more if I'm serious about visiting Japan someday, but at least for now, the all you can eat sushi buffet just isn't a good value for me. There was a small hot food section, so I ended up eating like I was at a very expensive chinese buffet with a very small selection. This was, of course, through no fault of the restaurant at all; the buffet selection was one of the biggest I've ever seen! Now, if it had been a dim-sum buffet instead of sushi: well!
I made it to just one panel that I went to with
serinthia; the trans-fur meeting. I was a little bit unsure about how I'd fit in there since, while I do really like being a girl once in a while, I don't know if I really consider myself transgendered or where I fall on that spectrum. Maybe just a little bit between genders. There were a couple other things I'd intended to get to as well like the drum jam and the canid panel, but somehow the timing didn't work out quite right. I did get to Kage's story hour though, bringing my total of scheduled events attended to two, which is two more than most of the other cons I've been to lately. Maybe I'll get to more of it next time; I just spent so much time talking to people and working registration!Registration, by the way, was really interesting. I got a little bit stressed during the initial rush on Thursday, but after that it wasn't that hectic and was really kind of fun. I do like having something to do at a convention that gives me a sense of purpose. I feel really bad about having not been able to make my first shift on Friday when my mouth was giving me a hard time and my tummy was adjusting to the pain meds that the dentist gave me. Fortunately, my absence was understood and they had enough people anyway.
Well, at this point, I'm about done with the con report, and I've been sitting in the dentist's parking lot for about forty-five minutes now. I wonder if I got the time or date wrong or something. We talked yesterday about getting together today, and I'm quite sure I said between six and six-thirty, but it's nearly seven now and I haven't seen anybody yet. If I hadn't been having more pain through the course of the day, and if I didn't still have a stitch in my mouth that needs to come out, I wouldn't be so concerned. I'll have to give him a call tomorrow morning and see what's going on, becuase I'm starving right now and I'm going home to have dinner.
'Till later!
*edit*
Got home, Andrea called the doctor and found out that my appointment was at 7:00 rather than 6:30, and I rushed back out the door. He took the stitch out, said it's healing well, put more clove oil on it, and sent me back home. He seemed unsurprised that I had a little more pain this afternoon. Hopefully that's a good sign. And now, my mate has pierogies on a plate in front of me *bounce*, so I should probably sign off again.
