HallowCon 2008

Well... i got back from hallowcon this year, (a 3 day halloween party) and boy are my arms tired...

So are my legs, feet, back, fingers, and mental capacity, all diminished from a weekened of hard work... but i love it.

I worked in the Con Suite, which, for those of you who don't go to conventions, are the place where con-goers can go to get fed and properly socially lubcricated (drink)for free. Not all conventions do full out meals, but this convention does!

I worked there with all of my friends from the previous convention and it was VERY AWESOME to see them again! Time goes by way too long before i get a chance to see them each con... but... when we do see each other, it's just like old times!

Despite the fact that it's a lot of work, and it is... A LOT OF WORK! I really enjoy it... i think it's partly the italian in me wanting to make sure everyone is fed.

So... here were some of the goings on...

It was in a new hotel this year... a (former) Howard Johnsons... and let me tell you... I will N E V E R E V E R E V E R step a foot in that place again...

hair all over the bathroom, fresh towels that were dirty, and a kitchen, that had i known what it looked like, i wouldn't have bothered eating breakfast from the resteraunt the day before. (i kinda got back at him un-intentionally though, when i thought his kitchen garbage disposal worked and dumped roughly 4 lbs of corn and stringbeans down the drain (industrial kitchen) only to find out it didn't work... ooops...) It really was an accident!!! one of those accidents that... i guess was just karma related.

It was sad, as they appeared to take no pride in the hotel appearance at all... such a shame...

I gave several backrubs to people who needed them, and in one... i accidentally undid a bra! yeah... me... undid a bra... this so called "slick move" had me mortified... she actually thought it was slick and didn't believe me when i told her it was un-intentional... but she thought i was straight... i then debunked that myth and she realized that perhaps it really was unintentional!

I bought 2 slaves at the slave auction... got them for 1 hour to do whatever i wanted them to do (within reason ofcourse) So what did i do? put them to work in the con suite having them help the staff clean up! One of my slaves was an awesome worker... the other, i paid too much for and she wasn't worth her weight in dead leaves. oh well... such is life..

lets see... what else... well... aside from getting to see and hang with friends that i just don't get a chance to see enough of, i get to see a type of people you just don't see in the city... even in Atlanta... Country Folk... and trust me... they ARE country folk...

I have seen cute toddlers with mullets, some people with fewer teeth than a broken 5 toothed comb, very red neck fashions, and people acting stupid... But despite me being, pretty much the only open gay person there, i was not lynched or bashed or anything... All of the people who go are extremely nice, and go out of their way to help.

Most of them are just like what is described as hometown america... except most of them aren't christian, and that's okay!!!!!!!! (EAT YOUR HEART OUT VICE-PRESIDENTAL CANDIDATE PSYCHO LADY!)

Anyhow... HallowCon was fun, and I will be looking forward to going again... i already pre-regged for their Science Fiction convention in March...

All in all... a hard working stellar weekend!!!!! I am really looking forward to the next one!!!!