The weekend

Another convention has come and gone. And I am exhausted. Sunday I slept for about 11-12 hours and Monday when I arrived home from work around 6 I fell asleep until Midnight, then shuffled downstairs and didn't wake up until my alarm this morning. I guess all the stress from the convention and my job is finally catching up to me.

Anyway, back to the weekend.

J took lead on a lot of this--again--because I can't get work off in order to make it all 3 days. Wednesday set-up didn't go exactly as planned, but they ended up figuring out something to make it work. Thursday I made it up there in the evening and they seemed to be doing okay. We had some people working the booth that their costumes really weren't up to snuff (meaning they weren't members of Rogue Base but they were telling people they were) and that drive me bonkers. J said he took care of it and when I saw these people again on Saturday, it was a little better.

This convention is a bit smaller than the one in September, but it seemed just as packed. I wasn't able to make it away to any of the panels (and Twisted Toonz was at a time I could actually make it) because we didn't have enough people to cover the booth, but Z went and recorded bits and pieces for me. Loved it.

The hardest part of the weekend for me was to drive an hour up after teaching, then realize that I forgot my food and have to buy something there; and believe me, finding something safe for me to eat was hard! And I failed. I'm still dealing with the consequences, but I'm hoping in the next couple days my system will recover and I can move forward again.

I'm just happy this weekend is over and we don't have to deal with another one until September.

On a more personal front, I'm 4 classes away from finishing my Masters. YAY!!! I have liked the format of doing it completely online. I feel like I can take my time with things that don't make sense to me and not feel like a fool in front of everyone else. I can also speed through things I understand without having to wait for anyone else. Maybe in a year or 2 when I've recovered a bit, I may start on a doctorate. We'll see. My mom wants me to since it'll open up other opportunities for me outside of public education, but I'm not sure if I can just yet. This master's has kind of killed me and I need a break.

My vehicle has decided that I needed new tires, and it did it in spectacular fashion. For the past couple weeks, my tire monitoring system has been giving me a "tire fault" warning. I kind of ignored it because a visual look at the tires, I didn't see anything wrong. Apparently 3 out of the 4 tires had grown extremely thin. 1 wasn't holding pressure for long anymore, 2 were on the verge of shredding. And then over a bump I go and gone goes one tire, then the other, then the third. So $700, an hour, and 4 new tires later, lets just say that I'm happy to pay attention to my tire monitoring system now. My mechanic was surprised I didn't roll or cause any bigger damage; although we now need to take a look at the transmission and the coolant system. Ugh, this is not what I had planned for the money.

Other than that, life moves on. It's really rainy here which brightens my mood. I love the rain. This morning when I arrived at work, I arrived just a bit earlier than normal and sat in my car, listening to the rain. Nice way to start the day. I just need the snow to stay up in the mountains and not make it's way down here to the valley.

Most of the people we had at the booth. This was Saturday right before we finished.
We're all getting a little goofy.

The four who were there most if not all of the three days and the majority of the time at the booth.

Yes, the flip side. This was about 6:30 on Saturday.