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<DIV>In a message dated 7/9/2004 11:46:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mrgrooism@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I know
you're<BR>going to want to do SG-1 BADLY, but damn you've GOTTA<BR>hit
Quickdraw. too bad they don't make a Reality-Tivo!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>I have no intention of missing Quick Draw. SG-1 may be my favorite TV
show, but, darn it, this is seeing Sergio in action! We plan on
seeing The Sergio and Mark Show and just holing up in Room 6AB all Saturday for
the marathon of ME-moderated panels. I'm holding out hope that the SG-1
panel will be rescheduled.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Plan to
split up with Elie, plan your rendezvous back<BR>together, but realize you
WILL miss each other and<BR>often. You get held up, and it can take forever
to<BR>navigate the 4-color jungle!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>We've tried splitting up at cons to cover more ground, and it doesn't
work. Conventions are no fun without someone there for you to
say "Hey, look at this!" or "That's what our house is missing! A
life-sized Yoda!" Usually, Elie stops to look at the back issues
and I check for Groos then wander within a 3-4 booth radius until he's done
looking for all of his comics. Once, he tried going to a Buck Rogers panel
while I checked on the progress of our sketchbook (at the time, Joe Corroney was
adding to it), and I felt so naked, I just couldn't stand it and snuck
back to the speaker room. Sure, it sounds pathetic to read it, but people
who've met us usually find our attachment to one another cute and/or
nauseating. Plus, I need him in strange places. Apparently, I have a
misplaced confidence in signs, and if it weren't for him, I would have spent the
last four years trying to get out of the terminal at JFK airport.</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Check
out POVonline for Mark's convention tips,<BR>they're a fun and useful read,
even if YOU don't need<BR>to be reminded to bathe...</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Have read and committed to memory. I plan on bringing two kinds of
soap on top of what the hotel provides, just to be on the safe side, and I'm
shopping today for extra-turbo-powered deoderant. I've gotten whiffs
of people at smaller cons who are charitably described as
"gamey." That stays in your nose forever.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anyway, thanks for all the hints. Look forward to seeing everyone who
will be there in a couple weeks.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Janet</DIV>
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