Rhapsodies

Well to start with, it was raining and I hadn’t slept as well as I would have liked. I had a touch of sore throat, probably a bit of the so called “convention crud” the day before and had gone to bed early to nip it in the bud. Easier said than done and I woke up way too early… But at least it mostly took care of the cold.

So anyway I was up by six with two hours to spare and caught my bus right on schedule. Regrettably my assistant for the day, Raven was not quite as lucky and was late… Very late. It was the bus’s fault but it still had me waiting and worrying way too long. By the time Raven finally arrived there was hardly enough time to do all the things I like before the show starts. The main reason I like to get to the con ridiculously early along, with sucking up the bad luck, is getting to meet and talk to potential colleagues before we all have to start working our own tables. I was also finding myself torn between pessimism and optimism as the countdown began. I had decided to make due with my current stash of petty cash rather then get more from the bank. Because of this i was a little worried if I would have enough five dollar bills and I might want to get more before it was too late. (of course this concern was based on the assumption eight people would give me twenty dollar bills before the bank closed at one.

Any way it was certainly a busy day. With more fun watching all of the different fans and all of the costumes they wore. It was extremely crowded to the point the fire marshal closed registration for a couple of hours. Frankly it kept reminding me of the time I was in Venice during Carnival. On our end we did good selling two books thus making this convention a much bigger success than last year (and still a day to go!) The biggest thing I’d noticed is that my biggest seller is the first book. Id’ been wanting to retire the title as the quality of the art is a little bit embarrassing compared to what I’m producing these days but it looks like everyone wants to star at the beginning. Something I’m going to have to look into perhaps I’ll merge the first two books together.

Thoughts?

Anyway the day left me quite drained and I think I will sleep well tonight.