The annual comic book convention is this weekend. As some of you might recall, I went last year and met Morena and Christina. I was on the fence about going again, but the con people have fixed things up this year so hopefully it's a lot better. There's no one Whedonverse related this year, well, Jo Chen and another artist who did covers for the first Serenity comic, but Six and Sulu are coming. Tricia Helfer should be interesting since she is Albertan and could probably locate Calgary on a map if prompted. I always think that the guests who come to Calgary probably have no idea where they are and are only coming to make some money. ;-) And George Takei should also be exciting. He's exciting enough that my mother's coming, too. Yes, geekery runs in the family. I'm tempted to ask him for an autograph but ask him if he could sign it to Melllvar and not to my name, just to see if he remembers the joke from Futurama ("I think I've been to enough conventions to know how to spell Melllvar."). Too geeky? Too weird?

At the very least, it'll be a nice break from studying. I've been writing so much I get a hand cramp by the afternoon. Of course, this is the weekend that transit decides it needs to do some maintenance on the tracks. Getting to the grounds won't be as easy now. Doesn't city transit realize all the geeks in the city need to get downtown this weekend?

I'll actually have to put off watching Doctor Who for a few hours. Strangely, I'm not too worried. Every time I see the new costumes for the Sontarans, I feel less inclined to like the episode. Grey and blue rubber suits aren't threatening! Sigh.

I'm always complaining that no cool actors ever come here, but the local comic book convention proved me wrong. They managed to book Morena and Christina along with other notable people like Robert Picardo, Bruce Timm and Paul Dini (who made the Justice League cartoon so I absolutely adore them), and Ray Park who turned out to be very amusing and very cute with his, I assume, Scottish accent. Shelled over some money to get Morena and Christina's autographs and my sister, being super nice, paid for the photo-op. She used her digital camera so I'll post the pictures whenever I get the photos I took with my regular camera back. I'll talk more about the day along the pictures, but overall, it was a cool experience but I don't know what I would ever do if I went to a big comic book convention like SFX or Comic Con. I'd be totally lost.