Sunday morning I got up around 7am again and wrote the Saturday review
Than it seemed like a bit of hanging around the room before going to the convention center, though we were able to catch a bus to the convention center right away when we went down stairs, that's a first no waiting for it. Once we got to the convention center I stopped at one of the first booths there to say hi to Gavin and got him to sign my Season 4 DVD cover
Yay I swung by and peeked at Go Comi but David wasn't in yet, so I went over to the booth I was working. I helped with a few sales, go t-shirts
before going to try and find breakfast.
Mission: Not to spend too much money
Mission was a failure!
I first went by the food court, only thing open - Chinese - anyone who knows me, knows I'm not a huge fan of chinese all I really eat there is egg drop soup and I'm very picky at where I get it from cause I've had more bad tastes than good. So when I'm super hungry like I was, I'm not experimental. So I decided to go for the Waffles and Smoothie.... One Waffle two toppings $7 and one Smoothie $6! Though cash only and I didn't have the cash on me. So I went on the hunt to find the ATM machine! Find it, wait in line, and than get declined when I try to withdrawal money. I have MORE than enough in my account for what I'm asking, so I try a second time and it fails again. Third try I do different, first I checked the balance sure enough the amount I knew was in there was marked in there than instead of putting in fast cash I went the long rout around to get the money out and it worked. yay! Than came the line for the Waffle... I felt bad cause it was taking me so long just to go grab some food! I got a Strawberry and Ice Cream Waffle than a strawberry and banana Smoothie. Than went straight back to the booth. I ate my food as fast as I could and got back to selling.
I was also getting some art from Dave Simons who was a story board artist for the original TMNT series worked on episodes like "New York's Shinest" and worked on one episode for 4Kids TMNT, the first episode. Though he wasn't in yet, so I mainly hung out at the booth for a bit here doing sales. The sales were going easy for me, cause people seem to be in the "I'm here to buy" mood. And we had good product, with DVD box sets that are hard to find and a lot of good T-Shirts. I talked with a lot of girls at the convention and handed out a lot of cards for TMNT-L. Some for TMNT fans and others for people to have help looking for stuff like - convention information to meet their favorite voice actors. One of which really wants to meet Vic, so I'm going to show her how I look up convention information for TMNT-L
Oh and I met R2s Cousin! That was funny, cause she was telling me to go onto DA and search up R2 and how she's a Raphael fan. I blinked... "R2?! I know her!" She seemed surprised and I mentioned how I've met R2 at Anime Next and know here here online
What a small world eh?
I did some walking around here and there to make sure I said good bye to people like Go Comi! I got to say good bye to David
Though earlier than I excepted I thought I'd be able to make it back one more time before they left but I was wrong. I also stopped by the Kappa Mikey booth and asked if Mike's around, he was doing a panel at that time! A contest to become a voice actor (I would never enter this type of contest on a Sunday at a convention! My throat is way too cracked!!). So I went and told Casey I was going to run to that panel. I caught only the second half of it, but it was good and they got some great talent up there trying out! The one who won really deserved it. This is when I saw Veronica was really there which made me happy. After the panel I said hi to her real quick.
I noticed Dark Angel hanging around, so I went to try and talk to her but she said she was working. I asked for a chance to be able to talk, hoping we could get to know each other a little better. Though she said she'd stop by the booth at some point, I guess she didn't get the chance. Maybe another con we'll get a chance.
I went back to the booth for 10 minutes to work, before the next panel started up which had Veronica and Rachel in it along with another VA, Jamie. This was mainly a Q&A panel, and than they gave away some free Slayer Sample DVDs. I than back to the booth for the rest of the show, I got to meet up with Dave Simons and get the art work I was buying, he was happy cause he got to check out the convention this time around and usually he doesn't get to. We stayed open till the con was closed and than started to pack up.
When I felt the cold air come into the dealer room I got concerned... but kept pushing myself. I realized I was slowing down and even went down to my knees a few times. I was hoping I wouldn't have to really stop working I wanted to be there as help for the guys with the booth, there's only Casey and the owner there to do this. I packed a lot of the DVDs for the shelves into boxes. But after too much cold my body gave up... I sat on the inside of the booth and just started to daze out from the pain, I couldn't fight it any longer. When Casey realized this he dropped food in front of me, got me my coat. Than he helped me into a chair, though realized that it'd only get worse if I stayed here and got me up taking me out of the dealer room. I heard voices but didn't see the faces of the people he was talking to... trying to find me somewhere warm.
One guy was on a go cart or something and had me sit down on it to give me a ride to some place warm. This had it's good and bad points for me. Good: Hurt worse to try and walk or move any part of my body. Bad: Wind hitting the back of me (since I was riding backwards). Good: Smooth rides no bumps. Casey came with and went into a room to ask if I could sit in the room, it was the Show Room. There was a handful of people in there and they said yes.
When I went in I was hurting so bad, I didn't really like being seen like that. I'm not a big fan of any special treatment when I'm in pain... I know it'll pass and I don't want to make a big deal about something that's going to hurt no matter what I do. I sat down in a chair and they started to offer me stuff, all I asked for was some water so they gave me a bottle water. Casey went back to help finish with the booth.
The person I was talking to name is Peter, and he's head of programming at the convention. So we started to have some interesting talks... it helped get me to think more and start looking around. And it was warmer so things did lighten up a little bit, though it took me over two hours before I even felt safe to stand up. In time Peter and the others in the room all left for the night, and I was in the room alone for a long time. I started to call people, to have someone to talk to. Anytime I tried to get near the door and felt the cold from the dealer room blowing this way it got me to go back to the seat. The reason the dealer room got so cold was because they opened the bay doors so that's all outside air coming in and I don't take well to that at all.
My phone ended up dieing, though Casey did bring my lap top at some point the only thing I could do was watch my own videos and play games. Since the internet there was $5 an hour and I didn't know if I was even going to be there another hour. When he first brought it, I could of used it if I knew. We were the last ones out of the buildings and we had to leave Casey behind and to do a second trip back there to pick up the rest of their stuff. I didn't get back to the room till around midnight. Signed on for a little bit than took a hot bath to try and help with the pain and went to sleep as soon as my body allowed me.
I will post pictures from the con as soon as I can
