The Other Sandy

Breakfast was the same as yesterday (provided by the con), but there was more conversation this time. There are so few people here that everyone had met new people and most of the con was on a first name basis by this point.

Panel session #1 was Psych 101: Sam Winchester, which I hosted with Karen W. I was a little worried about going first thing in the morning because everybody is usually pretty bleary-eyed that early in the morning on Day 2 of a con, but everybody was great. We managed to talk for the full hour and still not cover all the topics Karen and I had come up with. I had never met Karen before this weekend, but we turned out to have very compatible hosting styles, so I thought we meshed well. The funny thing was that the room was mostly full of Dean girls. There were two con badges to choose from at registration, a Sam one and a Dean one. Dean outnumbers Sam 2 to 1 (poor Sammy). I was expecting to see a small group of Sam badges at the panel this morning, but there were only 4 (me, Karen, and 2 audience members). All the rest were Dean girls, but we had a great time talking about Sam. I was expecting more people, but we were on opposite a panel hosted by K Hanna Korossy and Jeanne Gold. If I hadn't had to be at my own panel, I would have gone to theirs too. They were joking with me at breakfast because they had actually wanted to attend this panel, but we were all stuck because we were on opposite each other.

For session #2, I attended Life, Death, and Krazy Glue hosted by MistWraith and Wolve2110, which was a discussion of our favorite on-screen brother moments.

There was a lunch break (a buffet provided by the con), then panel session #3, which was a no-conflict session. We all attended a presentation by a representative from Paranormal Activity Investigators, who talked about what her group does and how. I wish she had spent more time explaining the investigative process, because that part was interesting. Much of the session was actually spent listening to EVP recordings. I didn't hear any of the words she claimed to have heard. Interestingly enough, many audience members couldn't either until she read the transcript, then they could suddenly hear it. That's the primary reason I don't believe in EVP. She also said that even though they use new audio tape for each recording, they don't listen to the tape first, which makes me wonder if the EVP is actually a tape artifact. I was also interested to find out that the whole theory about EMF being possible evidence of paranormal activity can actually be traced back to a horror movie and not any scientific study (can you tell I read Skeptical Inquirer?).

For session #4, I attended Metallicar and Other Perks of the Trade hosted by the 2 Robs. Both are very knowledgeable about weapons and talked about how realistic the weapon choices and uses were on Supernatural (they were both very impressed). They also brought examples of weapons used on the show that they both own (real ones, not replicas).

The only panel offered in session #5 was a spoiler panel, so I skipped it.

For session #6, I attended He's Not Heavy hosted by JM Griffin, Wolve2110, and MistWraith, which was a discussion of Sam and Dean's relationship.

The theme party just ended. I didn't win any of the raffles. ::sobs:: There's a classic rock karaoke party going on now, but that's not really my thing, so I'm calling it a night. And I have to get off the computer anyway because my time is up.

The con officially starts tomorrow, but I made the 560 mile drive today. I used to make this drive (and then some) every year when my best friend lived in Kansas, but I don't seem to have the stamina for it that I did 10 years ago.

This is a small con, but I've already seen 6 familiar faces from MediaWest. I've already registered and put my tickets in the drawing. Two very nice ladies I'd never met before saw my registration packet and invited me to sit with them for dinner because I was by myself.

I'm blogging this entry in Squinty Vision from my PDA, and the hotel's wi-fi keeps dropping me (11 times and counting), so I'm going to call it a night.

More later.