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BrennaCeDria
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Seriously, with 95+ temperatures consistently in Savannah, I'm ready to go already. Add to that a full time job and full time school even during the summer, and I'm burnt out and desperately need the vacation PAX is going to provide. How's everyone else handling the wait? Good? Bad? Skin-crawling crazy-bad? How is everyone coping until time to go?
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I feel like I'm about to drive at least parts of my group crazy. Well, I know I'm probably already there with my husband, as well as the poor girls at work that I keep babbling to about Seattle (they don't care about the PAX part, since they're traditional "girls" and I'm not). I'm trying right now to plan-without-overplanning for the trip, ie make the list of things I want to do, order them from most important to least, and start to figure out what to do Wednesday (when most of my group won't have arrived yet) and what to do Thursday once all of my group is in town. The Needle, for instance, is a Thursday thing since there are people in the Thursday group that haven't gone. The aquarium will probably be a Wednesday thing, though.
Other than that, I'm mostly trying to plan ahead for food and spending money, so that I can make it from Wednesday to Monday and still get to eat every day. Eating on time is good.
That reminds me of last year, the Naruto booth - their main prize was "Win Your Weight In Ramen," so they had like 50 billion tons of the stuff behind the desk. The closer it got to the end, the more liberal they were in handing it out, to the point that on the last half of Sunday you couldn't leave your bag unattended near the booth for a second, or they'd snatch it, fill it to the brim with Ramen, and put it back (no joke, I got hit while filling out a reg card 3 booths over!) They were even throwing packs at random into the leaving crowd, they were so desperate to get rid of it.
My point is: if all else fails in the eating category, search out the Naruto booth
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But really, I'll so glad when this ship finally sails, as much for the Pre-PAX Dinner as PAX itself. Organizing the dinner this year has been several magnitudes harder than previous years... so many obstacles, logistical problems, internal division, external antagonism, technical difficulties (without which we'd actually have launched registration last night)...
I've also been proselytizing for PAX at work. I really wonder what sort of attendance there will be now that PAX is the top dog in the Western Hemisphere. (Which reminds me of the weird irony that PAX's ultimate prize at the end of the Omegathon are tickets to the the Tokyo Game Show, the biggest in the Eastern Hemisphere. Analogous to a sister city association perhaps?) Could attendance be so huge as to make it as "bad" as 2006? Those poor WSCTC food vendors are going to get even more reamed than last year...
I made the obvious choice, and now paying for it by seeing the same damn wall for another week
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I can't wait for the Pub Crawl, new beer to conquer, new people to meet. And best of all, PAX the next day!
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PAX is the ultimate hybrid. It has a huge corporate buy-in from all industries tied to gaming, but because it's the product of two gamer satirists (however much their control may have become delegated) the end result is that the event (amazingly, for its size) still has a soul. Not to mention the community involvement, both official in the form of enforcers, and unofficial like the Supertrips, bar crawl, breakfasts, dinner, parties, tours, raids, etc. just feeds so much sincere individuality into the event as to be compelling.
Though, in the extreme unlikelihood that I get selected as an Omeganaut, that's all moot. x.x
I'm still trying to decide if participating in the forums makes the wait better or worse! Every time I get on here I get pumped to go, then have to wait some more!
I'm reminded of the glory that is PAX every morning as I drag myself into the office...
It's like torture.
I'm thinking it makes it worse, but you notice that hasn't really kept me away.
I'm with you on this one, PAX has become an all-year-round obsession with a constant check for good flights, multiplayer DS games, pre and post PAX events and general forum hilarities.
Same here. I only have Eddie Izzard and ComicCon to tie me over until PAX--but both of those are not until near the end of July. Mer.
Been itching for PAX since I also joined the Forums. I so need time away from work.
there is one thing that i know i will be wishing there was more time between PAX and now: my cosplay. i'm aiming to make an epic cosplay, so time is always of the cruch then. >.<