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Katarina Whimsy ([personal profile] sorcyress) wrote2008-01-27 02:18 am

Vericon!

Gyuh, I haven't even finished the conreports for the last con, I can't already have 'em for this one!

Anywho:

Vericon is awesome. Eeee, holyshit, I now have original Randall Munroe and Jeph Jacques art up next to my original Randy Milholland. I also now own something incredible, which is secret for the time being.

Anyways. The Vericon Masquerade.

It was a bit like prom, if prom had been filled with geeks and the DJ had known what he was doing, and all the music was fabulous.

*thinks a minute*

I take it back. It was nothing like prom.

But I was completely sold on the idea of a bouncy geek club-masquerade dance thing when the DJ played 'Yatta'. And then I was COMPLETELY sold on the idea, when the very next song was "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"

Ahem: Eeeee!!!

Things of note: I taught a guy to waltz to "A Little Priest" (And missed my clone terribly while doing so), I learned how to 'chain' (grab hands, run in a really big circle, repeat), I watched Dr. McNinja and Pheonix Wright dance together (I lawled) I got a chance to do the dance from the music video of "Birdhouse in your Soul", I danced to Skullcrusher Mountain and Code Monkey, I pretty much agreed to join HRSFA*, I joined in a wonderful congo line for "King of Spain" (Yay Moxy Fruvous --thanks Eric! (As opposed to OtherEric or Eric (in elevators) or Eric the tomato or Eric-who-likes-my-hat, or Erik)

Other stuff happened too, but afterwards it was a general 'lets go sit in this building and chill for a while'. I wound up teaching Fluxx to a bunch of people, which was nice.

And, while it is definently trickier to go to a con without anyone else I know, by the end of tonight I was discussing sex and drugs with random people, so I suspect I'm doing it right.

Anyways, I'm going to try and go to sleep, but I suspect I won't get very far, what with the clone thing. Also, Jeph is built like a linebacker (even though you'd suspect him to be built like Martean), Pete is terribly nice and easily confused (I signed this book already! Yes, when my mom bought it for me. Now you're signing it for ME!) and Randall is still comprised win and more win. And sex.

That's all.

~Sor
MOOP!

*Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. Harvards skiffy club. I'm totally allowed to join, even though I'm not a Harvard student, which is really good as I think if Lesley tried to start a skiffy club, there'd be like...eight of us. Total.

[identity profile] macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Wait...aren't I Eric the tomato, and I introduced you to Moxy Früvous?

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You are on ocassion Eric-the-tomato, but that's only to tease you. The actual Eric-the-Tomato is round, red, and tomatolike.

You did introduce me to Moxy Fruvous!

~Sor

[identity profile] macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. See I get confused.

Good. You're welcome! :D

[identity profile] fairychild86.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
um, that sounds super awesome...can i like...come to one and meet The Randall???

please lets have contact today so i can see some hott original art!! ;D

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll let you know when the next con Randall will be at that I know of is.

~Sor

[identity profile] leenah.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
yay moxy fruvous!!!!

one of the (two) Buffy cons i attended had a Prom. i found a *real prom dress* for wicked cheap at Burlington Coat Factory, and i wore that. and i LOVED it.

i didn't go to my own prom 'cause i had made other plans with friends from another high school. THEY got to go to their prom 'cause each school had prom on a different night. we went to the beach for the weekend. no prom there. :)

so far the best time i've had at a con was my first Buffy con. i think it was because i had travelled so far to get there, and didn't know anyone. i threw myself at events, but then could go hide in my hotel room when i got burned out. gods, that was *fun*!

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohman, I love finding cheap dresses. They make me feel both gorgeous and really really smug.

Beach for weekend >>> prom, methinks.

I've had lots of good times at lots of cons. I don't know that I've had a best con, though I've had lots and lots of really good moments.

~Sor

[identity profile] eurika.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't aware that the HRSFA had opened its membership to non-alums and non-students. What is the story on that? Thanks

[identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com 2008-01-27 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I honestly don't know what the actual story is. But I went to the guy hosting the con and asked if I could join HRSFA, even if I didn't attend Harvard, and he said yes. I have been told (at another time) that I could join, I just couldn't become an officer of any sort, which makes lots of sense.

Part of it may be that I attend Lesley University, which is a very small college surrounded by Harvard on three sides. I really couldn't get a sci-fi club here, which makes it exceptionally sweet of HRSFA to be willing to let me join.

~Sor