RTX 2012

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Friday

-arrive
-take city bus, $1, drops me off one block away from the hotel
-head over to registration with chii and mari
-see geoff, but don't bother because he looks busy
-see kara
-see jack...doesn't look busy, grabs photo w/beard

-congoer needs food badly
-mongolian grille, memory fortune + memory is the key shirt

-head over to buffalo billiards
-downtown austin is lovely, eat at pub
-wait in godawful long line at buffalo billiards
-auction time!
-hey that looks like kathleen

-talk to kathleen
-hey that looks like monty
-oh that's monty
-hey that looks like chris
-picture with chris (on phone)
-realize when I think I recognize someone I probably do

-kraks and the bidding war

-kraks wins, picture with burnie

-burnie whispers she needs to attend panel tomorrow for reasons

Saturday

-kraks gets up at crack o dawn to attend panel
-wait in line to enter exhibit hall, stormtroopers and pedobear

-get in, play a little minecraft, look around
-con is mostly dudes, we seem like a huge group of girls when there are 4 of us

-run into matt!

-get in line for freddiew panel as room will not clear before rt panel

-pretty good seat
-elijah fucking wood

-stay for 343 panel
-mongolian grille again
-oh look sean and matt signing autographs too bad the line is slow

-realize sean is due to end session soon
-wait around to stalk sean
-track down sean and ask for picture, start up conversation

-sean likes my necklace so much he asks for a picture
-buy grifball, get signatures


-kathleen recognizes me
-picture with shannon

-mixer
-trocadero :D
-accost staff members



-john marshall reid says I am tiny

-jeff williams, matt sings sarge's songs
-sleep

Sunday

-wake up at 5 for live action shoot
-it is very early

-walk around and then lay down randomly


-return and nap
-go to booth 509 so Luke McKay can hug Kraks

-wait around for a while, tell nico he is awesome


-get sketched

-wait in line staggered, gus is signing, jeff williams passes along hug to niriall

-sean recognizes me!

-sean and joel talk about mark bellman

-go upstairs to meet chii and mari in line for freelancer panel
-york cosplay in halls

-front row seats :D :D :D

-freelancer panel is best panel
-sean says I KNEW YOU'D BE HERE
-pic with brandon

-sean does not like to talk about what happens to york
-nobody from nowhere = shannon says it's arya from game of thrones
-john erler: "when my charcter is alive, I try to sound alive"
-who would win in freelancer free-for-all? room points to kathleen, jen challenges with arm wrestle, kathleen wins (at 30 mins on livestream video)

-Samantha's favorite line is "Don't call me Connie, it makes me sound like a fucking kid"
-most of sean's lines are written specifically for him since they know his sense of humor
-kathleen, re: shannon being surprised that Wash came back to life after r1: "Shannon, I was dead like four times."
-sean: "Stay tuned, we have a lot of neat stuff coming."
-john marshall reid subtext w/kathleen. "director and tex have a little something~" "why of course darling. what were you expecting?" "can you just wake me up saing that?" "any time before my wife comes home" then later at a question asking guy asking guy "plus his voice rocks me to sleep at night" "any time before my wife comes home"
-theta is empathy
-sean had vocal training for a rock band which is where he met matt
-sean says york is like him, "I was not a great kid" he was kicked out of high schools for delinquency, york "has got a heart, he's a good guy, but look at what he's doing when we meet him" and they're like "just do your own voice"
-when asked about who is most like their character, john marshall reid "I would really like to rule the world" = cult of church
-carolina is not british for a reason
- http://www.twitch.tv/rtxlive4/b/324151465 see my head! archived livestream of panel
-sadly the con is now over...but not this panel!
-grab shana on the way out

-afterwards sean comes out and talks with us a bit, we invite him to dinner but he has to decline :( but he says we should go to pax with him
-dinner at Iron Cactus, had prickly pear margarita and saw burnie statue


Monday

-at airport next morning, one of the johns makes comment about IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME KIND OF HANDHELD DEVICE....I love it when people make podcast jokes
-fly home :(