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Like most of you, I am super excited for PAX. Last year was my first and I must say, was an experience I will never forget. My friends from work and I made some great memories.
Anticipating PAX for this year has always been at a dull roar and started to become "real" when the passes went on sale back in April. My friends and I would make PAX references on a regular basis to keep the fire burning this whole time.
Like some of you (maybe), my life as a nerd/geek has been suppressed a bit after marriage. It's not that my wife doesn't appreciate that part of me, it's that our life together has different priorities and for me, it was hard to balance them all without repressing some of my own desires. Recently I have found that we both have been making more time for ourselves as individuals and this has let me go back to my "roots" by getting together with friends and doing some of the things I love. But one weekend a year (and possibly two next year!), I get to experience what has made me who I am inside so long ago. Penny Arcade Expo is that outlet, that escape, that necessity to remind me where I came from. I just wish I could have found it sooner.
All that being said, I wanted to say, PAX is here in just HOURS!!! LET THE NERD ORGY COMMENCE!
Anticipating PAX for this year has always been at a dull roar and started to become "real" when the passes went on sale back in April. My friends and I would make PAX references on a regular basis to keep the fire burning this whole time.
Like some of you (maybe), my life as a nerd/geek has been suppressed a bit after marriage. It's not that my wife doesn't appreciate that part of me, it's that our life together has different priorities and for me, it was hard to balance them all without repressing some of my own desires. Recently I have found that we both have been making more time for ourselves as individuals and this has let me go back to my "roots" by getting together with friends and doing some of the things I love. But one weekend a year (and possibly two next year!), I get to experience what has made me who I am inside so long ago. Penny Arcade Expo is that outlet, that escape, that necessity to remind me where I came from. I just wish I could have found it sooner.
All that being said, I wanted to say, PAX is here in just HOURS!!! LET THE NERD ORGY COMMENCE!
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How's that for nerdy love :winky:
I'm SOOOOOO glad I went to learn that it was about so much more than PA, and much more about nerd-dom in general.
This year, I'm actually very excited because I get to share this awesome experience with my Girlfriend, who decided to go of her own accord.
So, yeah. The PAX dreams have started.
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Satellite Theater for life!
This year, I have a hotel room rather than crashing with a friend in Redmond. I'm going with the same group, but really looking to just break out of my shell and meet and interact.
All in all, I think this year is gonna be totally awesome. </AVPM>
-Italo Calvino
Last year we just did the show, none of the community events or anything. This year: added a +1, doing the Triwizard, Buttoneering, Pokemon-leaguing, Girls Meetup (for me, not the boys!), etc etc
Should be even more fun this year.
Protip: Carry a sharpie so you can get your stuff signed. Last year I collected autographs on my badge
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Seriously. I have become way more organized to what I want to do more of this time around. starting with owning a hand sanitizer i'm not getting sick again!
This is my third Prime, and I also went to the first East. This year I will be getting in earlier than previous years, as I've never experienced the line. I know, weird thing to count as a new experience... Also am hanging around Seattle a bit longer the day after PAX to just have fun and relax.
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That was my first year (PAX '08). To be fair, it's hard to do PAX "well" in your first year. There's just so much, you end up overwhelmed. My second PAX was a lot better because I kind of knew what I wanted to do: I did a lot of forumer events and gaming in the tabletop/console freeplay areas, which for me is the highlight of PAX. I also made it a personal quest to get as many t-shirts as possible from the expo hall (18).
Getting a hotel room is also awesome. It really cuts down on time wasted traveling to and from, and gives you a very convenient place to crash, drop stuff, change clothes, whatever.
So, yeah. You're in great shape for this year.
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
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There is something transcendental about this gathering, for me, it is something akin to a reunion, a reunion with my bretheren in geekery, yet also a communion with the gods of that pantheon.
So yes my friends, let the rejoicing begin, we are coming home.
I totally felt this last year. It sounds really trite when you say it out loud, but there really is no better way to describe it.
-Italo Calvino
That's us in a nutshell! I too, ended up with a case of H1Nerd1 which sucked, but this time around, hand sanitizer ftw!
Yep. I can't wait.
(And I've been waiting for a thread like this since February.)
Really!?! Only three weeks away!!! WoooHoooo!!! The PAX adventure is so amazing!! I can't think of any other way I'd want to spend my first weekend in Sept. PAX FTW!!
I am doubly excited!
seeing as this is my first Pax, I'm uberexcited for that.
But it's also my next chance to see my boyfriend! Hooray! haven't seen each other since January, so this is like, UBERHOORAY!!!
THREEEEEEEEEWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Move it, time. The suspense is driving me crazy! I can't wait to get home to my ever-extended family.
Haha, I totally did that when my hubby was in Iraq. Poor bastid. I sent him tons of photos tho and he exerpienced PAX as a part of me (wow, that sounds asexual).
Im accepting that Im going to miss a lot of stuff, but Im looking forward to getting to the keynote speech, Metacampain 2010, and do some walk abouts for booths and such.
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I went to PAX in '06. Lots of fun. Had plans to go in '07, but the Navy changed those for me. Missed '08 because I was transfering out here to Japan. Didn't even bother trying to go to '09. But now, I decided I needed a serious break from work, so I decided to do PAX this year and jump in full force with all the pre- and post-PAX festivities.
But am I going crazy? There's no schedule yet. Would really like to see it so I can get my ideas flowing on what/who I want to see.
The schedule is not far away! The official twitter account posted that it will be up with a few days. A quick google search told me that the 2009 schedule hit on or close to this day last year, so no cause for worry yet. I can't wait to get a peek at that thing though.
Having gotten the overwhelmed thing out of the way last year, I am MORE than ready this year to rock this out. Preferably without the upper respiratory virus I came home with last year...
Now I just have to decide which hat to bring.
Ah yes H1Nerd1. got lucky and avoided it last year, but my friend... lets just say he wasn't so lucky.
I'm coming home to a place I've never been before (Ghod, and I hate John Denver).
This year, my husband can't go-- so I recruited two other girls to come with me! It's the first PAX for both of them and we are one giant babbling ball of PAX plans.
My classes start a week before PAX-- have I even put together my list of school supplies? Of course not. But my Buttoneer buttons have been ordered and my PAX packing list has been compiled. ^_~
At least you have the proper priorities.
I'm on double-wait... Myself and the new hubby are headed to Kauai the week before PAX, and the day before THAT I'm hoping our new Kindles will arrive.
So let's see... Anticipating the arrival of my buttons, a bag from Waterfield (which won't arrive until after we leave), two new Kindles, wanting to pack already, etc etc etc.
But it's kind of good there's some time before PAX... I have Pokemon that need to be level 50, and then get far enough into DQIX to get the social stuff. Whew!
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Steam: Thera
I'll be in town starting Tuesday, so I can rest up before the fun begins (and actually SEE Seattle). Also, RAVENCLAW!
This will be my first PAX..in fact, my first game convention outside of the UK. to say i'm ultra excited would be a major understatement!
*does happy dance*
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Fortunately that was all a dream and it is absolutely impossible for even a single one of those events to occur. I hope.
It never ceases to amaze me every year we go!
Managed to recruit a person every year ever since we started to go, it's infectious!
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You're not kidding.
I will be in Seattle in 13 days.
Oh, and I got my Badges.
SQUEEEEEEEEEEE
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13 days then, got my assassin badge the other day and just ordered my buttons. Starting to get very excited.
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I am way too obsessed with this.
13 days until I fly out.
12 days until PAX.
...and a pile of work at the office between now and then. A final battle until the hallowed days.
‘Lo, there do I see my father.
'Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers.
'Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.
'Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them.
In the halls of Valhalla...
Where the brave may live forever.
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