I registered!

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Huzzah! I'm going to San Diego Comic Con 2008 with irrel and her peeps!

If you're there, and you see a tallish woman in glasses with curly red-blonde hair and a tag that says "Profession: Tea Taster" and "Company: Cauda Pavonis Perilous Tea Corps" then hello! That's me.

I'm excited about the guest list-- Ray Bradbury's awesome of course, but I'm also interested in Dean Koonts, J. Michael Straczynski, Jim Butcher, Wendy Pini, the author of World War Z (which I might try to get autographed) and others.

I'm interested in the blood drive as well, though I'll be one month short of my year-long-limit for donating blood after getting a tattoo. I hope it's a year, not 18 months... I can't quite remember.

Anyway, I'm SUPER psyched about this. And since I just signed over my credit card for registration, I'm definitely committed. Whee! ::claps:: I've only ever been to Fanime Con before... this should be much bigger and much crazier.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

This is what you'll have to put up with the whole trip. You poor thing.

I am an excitability sponge. I am fiercely boring when left to my own devices, but I get ridiculously giddy when paired with other giddy people. So we might just have to feel sorry for everyone ELSE, then, because I plan to have a fine high time.

BTW, did I mention that I have an accent? Because I so do.

I knew English wasn't your native language (not that you can tell by your vocabulary), but only because you've mentioned it. I guess I sort-of knew you would have an accent, but haven't thought about it much.

I have an accent that is pure California-tainted Standard, but I once had someone ask me, after more than one acquaintance conversation, if I was from Europe. That surprised the hell out of me, since I always thought it would be massively hard to confuse my speech with anything but Northern California-tainted American. And this from another person born and raised in America. That just reminded me of how ego-centric and self-based our perceptions can be when it comes to something we take for granted culturally...like the expectation that other people in our own country and speaking our same language will automatically identify us without error.

[irrel.livejournal.com]

Talking about perceptions... Most people say that my accent sounds german, but I think that's because they think I'm too white to be hispanic LOL

I'm just saying the accent thing as a warning 'cause I hate it when people can't understand what I'm saying (don't we all?) So, just ask me 'what, pardon me, can you repeat that' as many times as you need XD

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

:laugh: I'll have no shyness in asking, then. For a year and a half in college I worked for a older Taiwanese couple who ran a photo developing shop, and both had heavy accents despite living in the U.S for more than 40 years. For Grace, the wife, it was okay because she spoke very loudly and very fast, so I always got the gist of her message even if I missed the occasional word. For Gene, though, it was a constant game of guessing. Imagine this incredibly patient and sweet old grandfather, who shuffles around and rarely speaks higher than a whisper, and his whisper has a heavy accent. I was always telling him, "Okay. Sure. ...um, I didn't understand anything you just said." It was funny to me to realize after about a month that no one could ever hear what he was saying, and even his daughter, co-owner of the store, had trouble sometimes.