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Well, today has been a pretty freaking awesome day. Great weather, I got out to the Carp Farmer's Market and then helped out with getting the fish pond outside ready (I got to catch the fish!), got caught up with Once Upon a Time, had a great dinner, and yeah ... awesome. Only sorta downside is that I didn't get any serious writing time in but hey, I still have two days to do that.

Also, while I haven't quite mastered step one of the small changes diet yet, I have really done a great job with the sleep stuff and it's definitely showing. Now I just need to get a replacement blind for my room (long story) and maybe I can sleep longer past sunrise on days when I'm not working (like today, tomorrow, and Monday, squee!).

Finally GIP because omg Vampire Diaries, you never cease to shock and amaze!

I am so excited for this weekend, mostly because until yesterday I had completely forgotten that it was a long weekend. Hurrah for Victoria Me Day!!!

Tonight I am going to go hang out with Ria, which is very exciting since I have not seen her for a couple of years. I've been trying to get myself to prioritize seeing my friends a bit more, since my social life has fallen to the wayside in the last couple of years. So now it's ranked right below writing in lists of things I want to have my life actually focus on (work is #3, for the record).

Speaking of work, I have had some exciting developments lately. Nothing with any of my regular stuff but I have signed up to be a mystery shopper, as well as had a brief paid writing job (with the chance that it might continue in the future). Finally, yesterday I heard from Isla, the woman I worked for many summers ago, and she has a new project and could use a hand with it. So suddenly I have lots of potential for income, yay! This is especially good since the deadline to pay my Algonquin tuition is looming. I would love it if I didn't have to borrow too much money from my grandma (I should also actually ASK her about that some year XD).

Uh ... so yeah, long weekend will be awesome. I currently don't really have many/any plans but I hope to get some serious work done on writing, especially on my original stuff since it has not gotten the attention it deserves of late because my fanfic plotbunnies are louder and more demanding.

Also need to continue my current Dragon Age playthrough because I want to get another chance to play Awakening and DA2. And because I freaking love the Aeducan Warden story, definitely my favourite (and I've played them all except Brosca which I really need to get around to at some point @_@).

I decided not to go into the office with Mom today because I just needed a break after all the craziness of last week and the con. I had hoped that last night would suffice, until I found out I had a meeting at church that I needed to go to. And then I came home and went to bed. At 8.

I am going to be going over to Jean's later today but that's the only big plan, which means I've had time to go watch some TV (OMG THE VAMPIRE DIARIES FINALE!!!!) and read (almost done with 52), and now I am going to clean a bit and then focus on getting some writing done.

Plus I need to get my ass moving in Himitsu since I've just had no time/energy for it lately and, as a result, have fallen behind.

Another awesome day at Comic Con! I got Marina Sirtis' autograph and she is also very nice. I waved at Brent Spiner too. And I got some comics (first volume of Lucifer and Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid) as well as a Kyubey plushie which I have wanted for awhile now (can't wait until my Madoka Blurays get here!!!).

It definitely is a completely different experience volunteering at a con rather than just being a con-goer. I didn't actually SEE all that much but I just felt really part of everything.

The head of scheduling came by at the end to thank us all and gave out his card for people who have feedback about how things ran. All and all I still think it was very impressive for a first year con, there were issues but nothing that experience cannot fix.

I am still so pleased about Jamie Bamber though. Only 7 more cast members to go until I get them all!

I had an awesome day at Comic Con! It started at 10, when I got to man the doors at the main event room. Lou Ferrigno, aka The Incredible Hulk (from the 60's show) was up first and it went well. We also watched the MASSIVE line out the window. It wrapped around the building, snaked around at a back, and then headed around the parking lot and out to the traffic lights.

Very happy I was not dealing with registration or the like @_@

Afterwards, I hit the dealer room and found Vol 4 of 52, which I had hoped to get since apparently it can't be ordered in at the moment. And then I found out that Jamie Bamber was signing autographs again in 20 minutes and was second in line for that. So I now have 4 signatures on my cast picture, only 7 more to go!

The big excitement of the day was with William Shatner's panel. I was at the doors again and it was confusing, because we have VIP passholders who go in right away and everyone else needed to line up in a different room. Except they kept changing their mind and saying things and it was confusing. But hey, a con without confusion just wouldn't be right.

All and all, I'm really impressed with how well things are going, since it is the first year for the con and there are SO MANY PEOPLE!!! Tomorrow I plan to get Marina Sirtis' autograph and maybe hit the dealer room again, along with my volunteering (I'm at one of the smaller rooms). I haven't seen or done a lot as far as events go but it's been a lot of fun to be involved with a con again, I didn't realize how much I missed it.

I am also exhausted though, even though I left at 5:30 or so. Definitely going to bed early tonight ... unless I don't. Which is definitely possible.

Shower went really well, yay! And now time to sleep and then off to the con in the morning. I'm doing crowd control in one of the halls tomorrow, which I think sounds like a great assignment since I will presumably also get to see whatever is happening in said hall as well.

Now I just need to make sure I do NOT FORGET MY CAST PICTURE @________@

Under an hour left until the shower happens. At the moment, we are expecting 10 people (originally hoped to maybe get 3x that many but time crunch didn't allow it). I think everything is going to go well, it's not going to be a big thing but it will be fun and nice and stuff. Hopefully. Sigh.

I also finished reading Mockingjay today. Not quite sure how I feel about the ending yet, though I am not 100% happy with the handling of Finnick, who ended up becoming my favourite character (though this is a cast where I love almost everyone, only real exceptions would be Gale, who I'm ambivalent about, and Snow who was okay as a villain but not great, though he improved at the end ... and in the movie he is Donald Sutherland and thus I must love him there.) All and all though I really do love that a book series like this was written for the teenage demographic because it's complex and challenging, more so than what you usually get in YA.

I really want to see the movie again, now that I've read the books and have a better appreciation and understanding of the world.

In other movie news, I have not seen the Avengers and am still not sure when I will. I'm sure I'll like the movie but the characters are just not ones that really excite/interest me that much. So it will probably be a rental down the lines though who knows, really.

Finally, OMG Jamie Bamber is coming to Ottawa Comic Con, which means I can get another signature for my BSG cast picture. And it's from one of the actors I was most worried about tracking down too, seeing as he is British and all (my other main worry naturally is James Callis, for the same reason, though at least he hasn't gone off to start in British television like Jamie).

Very excited for the con. Just need to survive the shower first.

Why is the weekend over already? Especially given that this is going to be a busy week since I work five days, have Shannon's bridal shower on Friday, and then am volunteering at Ottawa Comic Con all weekend (sadly it will now be without Patrick Stewart but I'm still looking forward to crazy geeky fun!).

As people who've read this for awhile probably already know, I tend to go a little crazy when there is just too much to be done. Hopefully this week will turn out to have more rest periods in it than currently expected but I'm not exactly counting on it :(

I think I'm getting sick. I've been working uh ... every day since last Monday, I guess. And last night I ended up only getting a couple of hours of sleep. Feeling very crappy today and I have three full days of work ahead of me ;_________________;

In happier news, Shannon's sister Laura finally had her baby today (she was in early labour since Wednesday). Most hilarious part of it all was that the whole time she was in the hospital she was texting and updating Facebook (apparently in between pushes even). Oh technology, how we love you.

And now I am going to go lie down for a bit, feeling even worse but I took some painkillers so hopefully those will kick in ASAP.

Edit because apparently first crosspost about being sick didn't take