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First of all, Chicago traffic is THE WORST traffic I have ever been in, and this includes LA traffic. It took me nearly 3 hours to get 30 miles. Of course it was 5 pm on a Friday afternoon but still. Ridiculous. And then when I left (at 5 am on a Monday!) it was still pretty bad for as early as it was. Sigh. This is why I could never be a big city girl.

So, ChiCon was cool. As usual. I arrived late Friday afternoon, so I didn't see anyone speak on Friday at all. Met up with build_the_moon for the first time, which was fun, though we didn't actually spend too much time together, too busy doing ALL THE THINGS, but it's always cool to meet online folks in real life. Spent most of my time Kelly and Kate, though, which is what I planned. I think it was probably my last Chicon, though. Nothing will top last year, and Nashcon is cheaper and closer to me. So yeah. Last hurrah.

As you have seen here and there via awesomely stealthy people (like seriously, I roomed with volunteers, I know how strict they are about recording video. People are NINJAS) there was plenty of totally PG fun. LOLOLOL. I think the only panel that was legit PG was Jared and Jensen's. But yeah. Sebastian and Mark are the bestest. As long as you're not an 11 year old child.

I had a wonderful seat in the second row of Silver, on the aisle, even. I see now why people pay so much money for reserved seats. I unfortunately do not have a good camera, but eh, I prefer to watch than take pics anyway. I did get a few when everyone wondered up and down the aisle, though.

( this post is huuuuuge )

Since As I'm looking around on the SuperWiki, there aren't very many videos linked, and I know agt_spooky didn't record her usual awesome vids because her seat was a couple rows behind mine (I kept looking over wondering if she was recording and hoping she was!), I will try and give a brief panel summary of what I remember of J2 since, let's face it, they will always be the main event.

( jay squared dude )

( photo ops and autographs )

So that's that. I did have lots of fun, as one does at a convention, but like I said, I think nothing will ever top surprise!Jensen and J2M panel from last year, so I'm probably done with ChiCon. This was my fifth convention and at some point I've got to say 'okay enough,' you know? So yeah. Two conventions a year is far too much, Nashcon is much closer and much cheaper, and at some point I'd like to make it to Vancouver. Though the idea of flying there terrifies me, let alone the idea of being able to afford it.

Alas, until Nashcon.

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So in other news, went and saw CONAN THE BARBARIAN yesterday. Yes it deserves caps. And uh, guys, I love Conan. I loved the originals, Aaaahnald and all. And this one was...everything I expected it to be. Jason Momoa, man. KHAL DROGO MAN. Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng. I mean honestly. The movie was really bloody and gory, like, gagged in couple of places gory, and the one sex scene was incredibly incredibly hot (and so so awkward to watch with my mother because she is that annoying person in the theater who talks. through. EVERYTHING. I always think I can ignore her and then I never can. I WAS FOUR ROWS AWAY.) Anyway, was so so so glad I forgot that Conan could've been Jared Padalecki because there's no way he would've worked as well in that role as Jason Momoa did. No way. Plus I would've just been so distracted by AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABS. :P

But uh...where are the J2 Conan AUs. I want Conan!Jared rescuing Tamara!Jensen now. GIMME.

I bet you were starting to wonder if I'd ever make a post at all about this? ...no, probably not.

Nashcon by the numbers: Total miles - 530.9; Total money spent: around $300; Total amount of sleep: 32 hours in 5 days. Amount of fun had: Priceless.

Bah, I'm too lazy to upload photos to go with the story now, oh well. Here have our photo op to make up for the lack of other pics:



There was a very adorable litte boy in a Superman shirt in line in front of us that Misha picked up for their photo op. That was cute.

Anyway.

Thursday I worked until 8am, slept a few hours and drove to Nashville.

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aks;ljfsldkjf so many cool things I'm sure I'm forgetting but whatever. I'd like to take this moment to thank twofourteen for selling me her ticket so that I didn't have to deal with Creation (who always seems to screw up my order somehow), as well as toolazytowork for allowing me not only to stay in her house but like, trusting me with a house key and leaving me alone (with her adorable pets) to bumble around. Please please stop worrying about Friday night, I'm just glad you recovered and everything was glorious for the next two days.

In related news, every time Jared tweets I flail. I set up my phone to receive his and Misha's tweets AT ALL TIMES because I don't want to miss this shit, it's G L O R I O U S.

I'm working 6 days in a row, then going to Muncie with aplethora (or should I say "rescuing her from a life of boredom") and then working 6 more days, all on top of coming back from Nashville and then working the next day, so essentially I don't have a free day until June 24th, so if you don't see me around anywhere, that's why.

Sorry this post is long and rambly and really probably not all that exciting since I didn't discuss any of what was said in the panels or anything (THEY WERE ALL HILARIOUS). If you follow my twitter, you know I updated about pretty much everything that happened to me this weekend no matter how absurd or mundane, as well as tweeted through all the panels as best I could. But in short: I HAD AN AWESOME TIME AND WAS SAD TO GO.

SO HIII. Obviously I'm home and shit, if you couldn't tell by the influx of comments on some of your journals. I did make it through 5 days worth of LJ entries, someone give me a fucking medal. I didn't comment a lot, but I did comment.

I couldn't deal with the hotel's slow wireless combined with my slow old fogie of a laptop so I just barely got by. HOMG it is SO HARD not to see twitter all the time. I'm sure I missed so many amazing tweets. But yeah.

BEST. WEEKEND. OF MY LIFE. Which is what I said last year at Chicon but this weekend...omg how do you top suprise!Jensen fucking Ackles. And so many fucking awesome people I met this weekend! It got to where I couldn't even keep track. I should've carried around a little notebook or something because I can't remember everyone's names/LJ names to look them up on The Google. (Also I have a ridiculous amount of inside jokes now. The sheer number rivals the size of Matt Cohen's penis.)

OKAY WELL YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED because for once Creation was not douchey and let people record glorious footage. Sweeeet glorious footage. I actually already watched a bunch of agt_spooky's vids again and discovered there were things I'd missed, especially during the J2M panel because I was laughing so goddamned hard.

I will make a post with my memories and favorites and highlights and whatnot...at a later date. This one is for pretty pictures. I didn't actually take but a handful of my own pics b/c I figured ppl w/far better quality camera than me would be sharing and caring after the con. I thought wolfpup2000 would be there, but apparently she had a family emergency and was not. So hopefully someone else took equally amazing photos like she usually does. Especially of their shoes and jewelry.

( Photo Ops & Autos under here! ) So there's that. Now I'm going to bed as I've had about 4 hours of sleep per night since Thursday morning and I honestly don't know how my body is still going. It's also really confused to be sober for the whole day, I think. I've had a headache since I got going. But that could just have been from all the screaming children. (Oh PS I substitute teached...taught at the elementary school today. First day on the job. Were we that crazy as 1st/2nd/3rd graders? I somehow think not.)

So anyway. GOODNIGHT. I MISS ALL OF YOU #CHICON FOLKS DEARLY, crimsonkitty88, dauntdraws, uglyduckling_me, crackedeggie, aplethora, unreckless, karabou, vehiclesshockme, toolazytowork, slayerkate, dugindeep, gembat, _mournthewicked, ibroketuesday, quantum_speck, woodstarling, cullencharm, crawleysnakes and my god I don't even remember everyone's usernames tbqh. But I miss you all. Hell I miss people I never even got introduced to, lol.

SO HIII. Obviously I'm home and shit, if you couldn't tell by the influx of comments on some of your journals. I did make it through 5 days worth of LJ entries, someone give me a fucking medal. I didn't comment a lot, but I did comment.

I couldn't deal with the hotel's slow wireless combined with my slow old fogie of a laptop so I just barely got by. HOMG it is SO HARD not to see twitter all the time. I'm sure I missed so many amazing tweets. But yeah.

BEST. WEEKEND. OF MY LIFE. Which is what I said last year at Chicon but this weekend...omg how do you top suprise!Jensen fucking Ackles. And so many fucking awesome people I met this weekend! It got to where I couldn't even keep track. I should've carried around a little notebook or something because I can't remember everyone's names/LJ names to look them up on The Google. (Also I have a ridiculous amount of inside jokes now. The sheer number rivals the size of Matt Cohen's penis.)

OKAY WELL YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED because for once Creation was not douchey and let people record glorious footage. Sweeeet glorious footage. I actually already watched a bunch of agt_spooky's vids again and discovered there were things I'd missed, especially during the J2M panel because I was laughing so goddamned hard.

I will make a post with my memories and favorites and highlights and whatnot...at a later date. This one is for pretty pictures. I didn't actually take but a handful of my own pics b/c I figured ppl w/far better quality camera than me would be sharing and caring after the con. I thought wolfpup2000 would be there, but apparently she had a family emergency and was not. So hopefully someone else took equally amazing photos like she usually does. Especially of their shoes and jewelry.

( Photo Ops & Autos under here! ) So there's that. Now I'm going to bed as I've had about 4 hours of sleep per night since Thursday morning and I honestly don't know how my body is still going. It's also really confused to be sober for the whole day, I think. I've had a headache since I got going. But that could just have been from all the screaming children. (Oh PS I substitute teached...taught at the elementary school today. First day on the job. Were we that crazy as 1st/2nd/3rd graders? I somehow think not.)

So anyway. GOODNIGHT. I MISS ALL OF YOU #CHICON FOLKS DEARLY, crimsonkitty88, dauntdraws, uglyduckling_me, crackedeggie, aplethora, unreckless, karabou, vehiclesshockme, toolazytowork, slayerkate, dugindeep, gembat, _mournthewicked, ibroketuesday, quantum_speck, woodstarling, cullencharm, crawleysnakes and my god I don't even remember everyone's usernames tbqh. But I miss you all. Hell I miss people I never even got introduced to, lol.

The way Jared and Jensen talked about the show, the passion they have for their characters and for the craft of acting. The way they seemed to genuinely like us who support the show, I don't know it just made something click ... It's not about who is engaged to who, it's not about the show turning out exactly as we each individually have dreamt, it's not about the gossip, the rumors, its not about any of that. It's about loving a show that we all watch and watching a show that we all love. It's about these two boys who, god dammit, put everything into each and every scene, working hard with a collective group of talented people to produce something we all adore.
from shannon_doll here

I saw this and just had to share because it's such a perfect description of what fandom SHOULD be and what it WAS during the convention, not what it has become lately.

In other news, I feel like I'm never gonna catch up on everything I've missed. Including sleep. I haven't seen Glee or V or Castle, and I barely managed to squeeze in Supernatural (which I didn't really like...).

The good news is that remission is the word of the day as far as Brett's concerned, and I actually have the chance to go job-hunting now. Whee.

So anyway. TELL ME WHAT I'VE MISSED POINT ME TO THE BEST PICTURES OF THE CONVENTION SO I CAN SEE IT ALL AGAIN. I've been posting the ones I really love to my tumblr, but like a dumbass haven't actually been saving them to my hardrive. OH WELL. Also I'm never getting caught up on comments, it's inevitable as there's like 70 in my inbox and growing, so it's not that I don't love you enough to respond, it's just that I love having feeling in my wrists more. :)

So yeah, Sunday the big day. Gotta admit, I was pretty exhausted by this point, so I definitely missed some of the little nuances that made it so perfect.

( Supernatural Chicago Con 2009, Sunday )

So yeah, Sunday the big day. Gotta admit, I was pretty exhausted by this point, so I definitely missed some of the little nuances that made it so perfect.

( Supernatural Chicago Con 2009, Sunday )

Oh, lordy, I'd love to thank Jensen and Danneel for making my really shitty day/days a little brighter and dimmer at the same time. And here I was gonna go to bed early tonight, lol.

Well, this is me now:


I never get the chance to use that gif appropriately. Whee.

And you know what the awesomest thing is? I may get the chance to congratulate her IN PERSON if she's at Chicago Con. I wouldn't congratulate Jensen, you see, as Jared might be around, and I don't want his heart to hurt anymore than it probably already is.

My apologies to the sane tinhatters. Looks like Het's the word. But hey, maybe they all have it worked out, the four of them, in some epic secret foursome that works perfectly for them. I hope so. I also hope no one ever finds out about it, really.

In other news, I friended Clif like a week ago and didn't even get the chance to look at all his peeectures before he locked down and deleted us fangirls. Le Sigh.

It amazes me how well the Zeppelin songs they choose for titles of Supernatural fit with the episodes, really. Also, has anyone else noticed that the best episodes of the show are the ones with Zeppelin titles?

After taking a few steps back and recovering, I finally decided to watch 4.21 again. I've always known that I was way too invested in this show and the characters, but I can honestly say I'll be glad when the season finale is over so I can stop having my heart ache for those boys. Even if it is a cliffhanger, I'll have the whole summer to put it behind me. I forget they aren't real people. :((

( When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay )
Gosh. I love the writing on this show. I really do.

On a totally not really related note, caught up on Dollhouse. Amy Acker + Alan Tudyk is very relevant to my interests. He's much hotter than he was as Wash as...the character he's playing on Dollhouse. I think that might say something bad about me, but whatever. I'm gonna be pissed if Dollhouse is canceled and suffers the fate of Fox hating anyone ever associated with Joss Whedon. *cries* Is Joss like Power Rangers? Once you go Joss, you can't go back? Or anywhere good? BOO.

~ Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down south
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.~