Howdy, campers!! Long delay between visits again... been busy as a bee now that the second security company has fell in love with me and thrown hours at me (green's fees, that is). If only I could find a woman who liked me that much... (oh well, lucky in life--unlucky in love... boo hoo, poor me, yadda yadda yadda...) As you can tell I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that life happens and if you can't make things happen, just prepare to meet the challenges the best you can and roll with the punches... In the immortal words of Doris Day "Que Sera, Sera" (how's that for an obscure reference?). But enough waxing philosophic... I need to catch you up on the goings ons out here in the Wild West...
When I last talked to you, I was at Comic-Con in San Diego working the convention... They had people from Fresno, Orange County, L.A. as well as Phoenix brought in to work this event... (this company has locations nationwide). The first day I was supervising the lobby where vendors, exhibitors, professionals and media were registering for the event... As with every first day of any big event, it was organized chaos and was pretty much reduced to crowd control by the time I assumed the post at 2pm... everyone wanted to register and then hang in the lobby to see what they could see...(which was nothing---hello!---starts TOMORROW! Move along). Already the line-up of geeks was spectacular...people dressed as their faves (and let me tell you, there were some obscure characters being portrayed) and parading around posing for photographs... Then there were the "Uber-geeks"...the pasty, I just came out of my Mom's basement for this event, squinting against the sun and realizing too late that the lack of people skills was a problem with a crowd of over 100,000 present... People watching was an incredible perk to this post... (Princess Leia in the slave costume and several Poison Ivys from Batman were among my faves)... Time flew by and before I knew it I was posting overnight people and finally signed out at 12:30am. Forty minute drive later, we were back at the hotel and asleep because we had an 8am call the next (sorry, the same) morning...
I figured that they would keep me in the same position but I was sent to the front lines handling line control for the regular patrons... That was where they handed me a bullhorn!! (they obviously don't know what they are doing, no?) As all of you know, I have fun pretty much every where I am, but this was beyond fun! No instructions just wing it...and wing it I did. I welcomed every wave of customers that swarmed in... (I was positioned where the trolleys and buses from the hotels dropped off and there was a small gap provided by traffic lights and the trains so I got a few minutes between bullhorn blasts. The only problem was that I had no hat and sunblock and all I got pretty singed that day... But the event people and the patrons loved me... every time they sent someone to relieve me they complained and asked for me to return... The local media and some other film crews filmed me all day making my spiel and doing sound bites around "WELCOME TO COMIC-CON!!" (my fifteen minutes of fame lasted two days). Even some of the patrons were taking pictures with me as mementos of their visit... (8 am -3:45pm on Thursday and 8am-4pm on Friday). By the time I was finished my voice was completely shot because then I did crowd control exiting the venue til around 9 pm each day... Needless to say, I didn't have any extra time to scout the area. My total knowledge of San Diego was the front of the convention center...
Next up...the greatest gig ever.
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