Dragon*Con 2008!!!!!!
POSTED BY: EngineAngel
UPDATED: Saturday, March 8, 2008 17:15
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Yipee! I'm going along with dear daughter! It'll be a fantastic time!
I just bought our memberships....BTW get yours tonight. The are $60 tonight and $65 tomorrow.
Got the hotel reservations. Staying about a block or two away so I can at least get a few hours of sleep.
Looking forward to seeing all of you there!
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I'm hoping I'll get to go to D*C. It depends on what happens. *crosses fingers*
"I swear, having you guys in my corner is like being friends with Zorro."
-Joss on us fans and our persistent reputation
Thanks, Joss!
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Rosie if you don't come I'll never be able to get into my sari properly.... and it'll be all your fault if I accidentally unwind and end up flashing everyone... so you have to come!!! HUGS
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Ain't Love GRAND!!!
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Actually, the best deal for places to stay are the nicer motels (i.e.-Holiday Inn, Best Western, etc.) in Atlanta's suburbs. They're something like $65/night and 20 minutes away from downtown Atlanta. (Though, don't take my word for it. I heard this from someone else--my dad.)
"I swear, having you guys in my corner is like being friends with Zorro."
-Joss on us fans and our persistent reputation
Thanks, Joss!
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Trust me, Phyre, at this con you do NOT want to be that far away from where all the action is. Not much sleep happens and everyone is up late. Twenty minutes away? Hell no, I don't want to be FIVE minutes away.
And I won't be 
You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.
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Im sorta interested. If one of you could explain what dragon con better to me that would help. Is it more than a bunch of people dressing up as misc sci-fi characters? What do you do during the day / night?
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Surely six months is enough notice to get the time off, honey. And I haven't heard anything lately, but I think the room crisis was a little exaggerated. Bet you could still get one, or find a roomie who has one, or somethin. You have to come!
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I can give all the lead time on a request I want, but if they can't spare the manpower I'm fooked.
We've got one nurse whose BF/BD is getting out of jail in a couple of weeks, and she's announcing loudly that she's going to try for a third child. There's maternity leave right there. She's also not going to be happy at all when our manager does away with the 10 hour day shifts (only work 4 days). This nurse is a large portion of why the rest of us are working so hard to pick up the slack. I'm hoping she leaves in a huff when she can't arrange her second job as easily as she wants (not that she doesn't take time during the day to arrange her other schedule and disapears for an hour or more regularly to "take care of my business"). They started offering 10 hour days so that people (her, mostly) could have a whole day during the week to take care of business. Funny, that.
What about our brand new shiny nurse that we just hired through an agency to replace the one that left in JULY, you ask?
HAH! She has divulged information to me, on her second day, that she made me promise not to tell about. I suggested perhaps she discuss it with at least one other person after hearing it, sooner rather than later. She's going to talk to our manager Monday about it.
I'm not holding my breath on this one.
It takes a while to train a nurse in their new job, especially if they've never worked in that field before, and until they get up to speed it's like walking with a shoe that's the wrong size and has a different heel style (sneaker with a stiletto for a mate). After 10 to 12 weeks an agency nurse has a review to see if she's fitting in and if both parties want to make it permanent. This is just about the time they're starting to really get up to speed from what I've seen so far.
If the answer is "no" you have to start interviewing and hiring all over again, and it's another 12 weeks before you've got someone permanent.
So no, unfortunately, six months is not always enough time to request vacation. In fact, we just had to put in for time through June in late January. Furthermore, the manager can deny the request or even cancel the approval if we're desperate for manpower at the time.
(Don't you hate it when people do that, especially when you know it's going to be something that other people probably really ought to know *before they even tell you what it is*? That dread phrase "I need to tell you something, but you can't tell ANYONE!") You never know if it's going to be "I can't stand the smell of the lotion that nurse uses, and I may have to kill her" or "Aliens are sending messages to my brain telling me to steal all the paperclips".
Let's just say that at this rate there may only be three nurses working in the clinic on any given day by August.
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Originally posted by FearTheMullet:
Im sorta interested. If one of you could explain what dragon con better to me that would help. Is it more than a bunch of people dressing up as misc sci-fi characters? What do you do during the day / night?
The question is more one of what don't you do during the day/night...
Lots of people don't dress up. There is a significant number of amusing and entertaining Tshirts.
There are lots of presentations, parties, discussion groups, classes, parties, interviews, vendors, concerts, parties, costume contests, and random silliness. Did I mention parties?
Three (or more) hotels which are in a straight line are invaded and overrun for the weekend. People pretty much do just about anything and everything you can think of during the day, then once the sun goes down the more sedate stuff falls by the wayside and they do everything even more outrageously. Sometimes sleep is involved, but not if you're in the Hyatt. (From personal experience). There's also a lot of waiting around for and in elevators.
I spent the whole time hanging out with my new friends and gawking. Oh, and walking a lot.
I only made it to one panel (Ron Glass), and didn't feel like I'd missed a thing. Somebody pointed out that I'd just spent $!?!? to attend and didn't go to anything, but I really was having too much fun to notice.
There are lots of things with conflicting time slots, and you cannot possibly be in three places in three different buildings all at the same exact time, so you might as well get over that before you even step foot in the registration line (which is an event unto itself).
If you don't like crowds and personal space is of great importance to you this may not be your gig. Picture a human anthill and you'll get the idea. They need traffic monitors for the hotels to make sure people don't end up standing in one place for an hour without meaning to (elevators notwithstanding).
But where else do you have a chance to see things like the real (yes, really) Chewbacca in a face-off with a cardboard box wookie?
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MsB wrote:
Rosie if you don't come I'll never be able to get into my sari properly.... and it'll be all your fault if I accidentally unwind and end up flashing everyone... so you have to come!!! HUGS
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You know dear, there are people who would pay me good money to stay home for exactly that reason.
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Originally posted by stinkingrose:
MsB wrote:
Rosie if you don't come I'll never be able to get into my sari properly.... and it'll be all your fault if I accidentally unwind and end up flashing everyone... so you have to come!!! HUGS
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You know dear, there are people who would pay me good money to stay home for exactly that reason.
*raises hand*
~jimi
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