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Con is over!!... sob.
May. 29th, 2006 03:04 pmI always have a little feeling of letdown after a con. Everyone worked so hard to make it a success, people came from miles around, there were too many panels and video rooms to see everything (not that everything was quite YOUR cup of tea, but too many panels and video showings you wanted to attend were at the same time...), and there was too much swag you wanted to get for the money you had available to blow in the dealers' room.
But then, Sunday afternoon comes far, far too early. The dealers' room becomes frantic with the last-minute wheeling and dealing, the final panels and video showings come to an end, and finally even the all-fansub anime channel is shut down (Grrr... right in the middle of a cool episode of Twin Spica... you couldn't have left it run to the end, could you?). Everyone packs up, and by Sunday evening most people have gone home. By Monday, there are only the handful of melancholy-inducing reminders that over 10,000 people were gathered in this one special place for three (or four) special days. Yes there will be a Next Year Con, but this year's is carefully wrapped and put away in that place in your mental attic where you store all those precious memories of happy days spent with dearly loved friends, to be taken out and examined anew on a rainy day when you need to know you aren't alone in the world.
But I met friends I haven't seen for far too long (since, say, last week), met new friends, saw shows I didn't know existed ("Karin" - wuv it!), ate too much and stayed up too late. For me, this was a wonderful, exciting, fun, satisfying con. I hope everyone else had the same experience.
I stayed one day longer than I ever have at a con before, and yet I still feel it was somehow too short. It was like four days had been compressed into one. I want more, somehow, but I know it's not a reasonable "want". I'm not little Oliver Twist saying, "Please, sir, I want some more!", but there is that nagging ache.
Maybe my version of heaven will be a never-ending con, where the sake flows freely, the swag is available cheaply, the money never ends, the friends never leave, and Hisakawa Aya is waiting for me in my room. Maybe everyone's Heaven is just a variation on that theme, doing whatever they find enjoyable, with the energy to keep going as long as they want.
But then, Sunday afternoon comes far, far too early. The dealers' room becomes frantic with the last-minute wheeling and dealing, the final panels and video showings come to an end, and finally even the all-fansub anime channel is shut down (Grrr... right in the middle of a cool episode of Twin Spica... you couldn't have left it run to the end, could you?). Everyone packs up, and by Sunday evening most people have gone home. By Monday, there are only the handful of melancholy-inducing reminders that over 10,000 people were gathered in this one special place for three (or four) special days. Yes there will be a Next Year Con, but this year's is carefully wrapped and put away in that place in your mental attic where you store all those precious memories of happy days spent with dearly loved friends, to be taken out and examined anew on a rainy day when you need to know you aren't alone in the world.
But I met friends I haven't seen for far too long (since, say, last week), met new friends, saw shows I didn't know existed ("Karin" - wuv it!), ate too much and stayed up too late. For me, this was a wonderful, exciting, fun, satisfying con. I hope everyone else had the same experience.
I stayed one day longer than I ever have at a con before, and yet I still feel it was somehow too short. It was like four days had been compressed into one. I want more, somehow, but I know it's not a reasonable "want". I'm not little Oliver Twist saying, "Please, sir, I want some more!", but there is that nagging ache.
Maybe my version of heaven will be a never-ending con, where the sake flows freely, the swag is available cheaply, the money never ends, the friends never leave, and Hisakawa Aya is waiting for me in my room. Maybe everyone's Heaven is just a variation on that theme, doing whatever they find enjoyable, with the energy to keep going as long as they want.
