I guess it would be best if I go ahead and finish my write-up of my experience at AWA. So, Saturday...
I
spent my Saturday in the same manner as Friday--working the autograph
lines. But, unlike Friday, I assigned myself the task of autograph line
end cap. Basically, I took either a "Lines Start Here" sign or a "Do
Not Enter" sign and situated myself at the back of the longest line at
the time, which for Saturday was Stephanie Sheh and Christopher Sabat. A
funny thing occurred while serving in my newly created role for
Christopher Sabat's line:
A
few minutes after the scheduled start of the signing session, the guest
had yet to arrive and the line had been capped for almost an hour when a
random individual approached me and asked about the line.
Instinctively, I replied (as I had dozens of times previously) that it
was for Christopher Sabat and that it had already been capped--giving
little notice to the individual that was inquiring. Of course, the
person asking was indeed Christopher Sabat and I felt ridiculous, but he
took it in stride, I gave him a bro hug and he made his way to his
position to begin the session. Fortunately, the only ones that took
notice were the small handful of people at the end of the line that I
had become acquainted while we waited.
Anyways,
I spent about seven hours working the autograph area before I finally
threw in the towel and called it quits for the day. I returned to my
hotel room with the intention of taking a "power" nap before heading
back to catch up with my friend who worked the duration of my leave. Of
course, the nap ran long and that caused some grogginess, which did not
help my commute back to the Galleria Centre.
I eventually caught up with my friend and we sort of just roamed the
convention because (1) we weren't really on duty and (2) there was
nothing we wanted to see or that we could get into anyways.
Now,
the big event on Saturday is the "Dance" (don't call it a rave). This
kicked off about 10-ish and my friend and I thought we'd hang around and
take in the scenes. Eventually, he left the convention around
midnight, which left me to linger around on my own for a little while. I
could have left with my friend, but I wanted to wait and see if
anything jumped off like it did last year when someone pulled a fire
alarm, which led to a full evacuation of the Renaissance Waverly. And all of this occurred around midnight last year
and that's why I hung around, but at about 1 AM I called it night
because (1) I guess nothing was going to happen and (2) I was feeling
hungry (I had only eaten a couple of hot dogs) and I wanted to make my
yearly pilgrimage to the Marietta
Diner (probably, the most expensive diner I have been to). I got back
to my room around 2:30 AM and was just relaxing when I noticed a
Facebook post from AWA that fifth-floor fire alarm had been set off by
someone smoking in their room--I had missed the excitement again. And
this was not even the most interesting part of the evening, within the
comments of that thread, it was noted that the dance was abandoned early
due to a gas leak. Seriously, I miss all of the excitement.
Well, I think that's all for now. Until next time, take care and DFTBA!
