Youmacon was a lot of fun. I agree with what seems to be the general consensus that it felt too short despite most of us having gone down Thursday...
Awesomeness of Youma in short:
- shopping! <3 mall.
- TGI Friday's = <3...need in Canadaland
- moterboating...way too much of this.
- cake pops! <3
- drinking <3 <3 <3
Shitty:
- my math brain failed me. I miscalculated the room cost breakdown for both the regular rooms. Canadian + Meg room was told @ con. I only just emailed Rynn about their room now. Tara wins for doing her own math instead of listening to my wrong math. DX
- the con plague. I think I have it.
I went with the intention of spending half my time in Artist Alley and half fooling around, but I wound up not sitting in AA much at all. Meh. I've never been so meh at not spending much time in AA, so you know the jackassery must have been good if it was better than making $...and you all know how much I like making $.
( My surprisingly uninformative review of Youma '09 AA )That said, I know you Youma staffers are on my F-list. I heard (from Nikolai?) that the reason why no seating plan was made was because the people/person running AA didn't have time to do all the work and no one else wanted to help out. Can anyone confirm if this is the case? If it means that this won't happen again next year, I will happily volunteer my time to help with the organization of AA to ensure that the organization is done by the organizers, and not by the attendees.
Here's a written mathematical proof of why seating arrangement of AA should not be left to the artists:
Assumption: The general demographic of dumbasses amongst the attendees are distributed evenly across all attendee types.
Some attendees = dumbasses
Some attendees = artists
all artists = attendees
Therefore, some artists = dumbasses
BAM!...
QED, bitches.(I know, I'm lame and a nerd.)
Oh yeah, and I returned to so much junk food at work yesterday. I now have
$50+ worth of Dunkaroo's (for free) sitting beside my desk cause there was a surplus from last Friday's halloween events at work, so my Office Services friends decided to fill my arms w/ them. If anyone's ever downtown in the area and feeling like Dunkaroo's, you know who to turn to. >=D
Edit: And LAWL, AA girl actually turned down my offer for free help. I forsee her + shot in the foot next year. Oh well, not that I mind. Even if I get on staff for helping, the free badge isn't worth it to me. I'm actually relieved I was turned down. The day job keeps me plenty busy/stressed each fall without me being an idiot and volunteering for other shit. Next year's Youma AA will be "interesting".