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Animefest 2015!
10 years ago
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An Old Fox's life
Yes Here I am again at Animefest. Its another year and again I am in the usual place as Registration staff. You can find the Grey Haired old Lady sitting doing the cash transactions as usual. I have been working A-fest for a few years now and have always enjoyed it. From the large amount of people that come to the event each year to the wonderful cosplay outfits. An anime con is never a boring place to be.
Much to a Fury's surprise one can and does suit up for a con if they like and no one says anything but gives them Glonps and hugs! Still for me its seeing old friends that are distant and as the years go by growing older each year. This year my normal breakfast friend is missing. The slightly older man that I would see every year is very much missing so far and I am afraid that some real life issue has happened to him.
Sadly, we were only the once a year hello lets eat and chat kind of friends but still I do miss him anyways. It is rather lonely eating alone in the hotel these days and I can also blame that on the hotel do to their exorbitant prices for food these days. Years back a buffet was reasonable and affordable to con goers. Lately its outrageous as is the normal menu. How about ten dollars for a bowl of oatmeal! Its really sad that Sheraton misses the point and opportunity at bringing in lots of customers and money by not having a special "Con Only Buffet" at a reasonable cost to the attendees....
Instead they would rather have this huge restaurant sit empty while all the con attendees walk down the way to the local restaurants and pay 1/3 less for food. Its such a waste and also a stupid move on the hotel's part to do this. Any normal business person would shake their head at this. Still I see it and roll my eyes and tomorrow I will join the walk to the eatery's down the road for reasonable food!
Speaking of the Convention. If you volunteer to work it you really need to show up and work it. Cons need help and for that help you get in this case free entry into the con. The normal at the door cost is sixty five dollars for the weekend. They asked that you work 18 hours of the four and a half day con to wave this fee. To top it off your not working all day but normally a three to five hour shift each day to get it out of the way. It gives you plenty of time to attend most of the Con and to explore the artist ally and dealer's room.
So, If your bored and need something to do.. Come down to downtown Dallas and visit AnimeFest!
https://animefest.org/
Much to a Fury's surprise one can and does suit up for a con if they like and no one says anything but gives them Glonps and hugs! Still for me its seeing old friends that are distant and as the years go by growing older each year. This year my normal breakfast friend is missing. The slightly older man that I would see every year is very much missing so far and I am afraid that some real life issue has happened to him.
Sadly, we were only the once a year hello lets eat and chat kind of friends but still I do miss him anyways. It is rather lonely eating alone in the hotel these days and I can also blame that on the hotel do to their exorbitant prices for food these days. Years back a buffet was reasonable and affordable to con goers. Lately its outrageous as is the normal menu. How about ten dollars for a bowl of oatmeal! Its really sad that Sheraton misses the point and opportunity at bringing in lots of customers and money by not having a special "Con Only Buffet" at a reasonable cost to the attendees....
Instead they would rather have this huge restaurant sit empty while all the con attendees walk down the way to the local restaurants and pay 1/3 less for food. Its such a waste and also a stupid move on the hotel's part to do this. Any normal business person would shake their head at this. Still I see it and roll my eyes and tomorrow I will join the walk to the eatery's down the road for reasonable food!
Speaking of the Convention. If you volunteer to work it you really need to show up and work it. Cons need help and for that help you get in this case free entry into the con. The normal at the door cost is sixty five dollars for the weekend. They asked that you work 18 hours of the four and a half day con to wave this fee. To top it off your not working all day but normally a three to five hour shift each day to get it out of the way. It gives you plenty of time to attend most of the Con and to explore the artist ally and dealer's room.
So, If your bored and need something to do.. Come down to downtown Dallas and visit AnimeFest!
https://animefest.org/
I used to work security at Animefest once upon an eon ago. I don't remember what actually happened to cause me to decide not to go back, but I haven't been in years. I don't know if you were around for when some drunk kids (they were 20 and 21, I think) set off the fire alarm (I think they messed with valves for the sprinkler system). Animefest was in the basement of the hotel that year, and we (I was on security then) cleared out the whole floor and stood guard at the entry. We wouldn't even let one of the con directors back down until we received the all clear from hotel and fire... hehe. We got major kudos from both Dallas Fire Department and from the hotel for our reaction to the fire alarms. That was my last Animefest, I think.
