theoriginalspy | Polaris 22: The Friday Report

theoriginalspy got to the Double Tree at 12:30 p.m. and attempted to do the logical thing and check in. At which point the theme of

theoriginalspy's weekend: She's invisible.

Proof that she is invisible, is the front desk person couldn't see her name on the reservation which was under

travellingone who was in transit from work.

After reciting all of

travellingone's information with the exception of her SIN, she was told not only was that not good enough, but also if she wanted to check in, she would take her own separate room. So even though Spy could not check into the hotel, she at least took comfort she could steal Travellingone's identity and she left a message on Travellingone's phone to snark at the front desk.

Homeless, Spy was dejected and mildly pissed off until someone recognized her by her hair and her skirt (long story). Said savior of Spy's mood was

elysium1996 and her snarkliciously awesome husband, Mr. Ely. The couple took the poor weary traveller - Spy up to their hotel room, which must be the dark side because they had cookies.

Suddenly Spy received a phone call.

*scene change*

travellingone got out of the cab and sauntered into the lobby of the hotel. She stopped to get her cellphone to call Spy who was not in her line of sight. She tried calling, but the call didn't go through. Knowing that Spy was in the hotel, Travellingone went to the front desk only to be told,

"Hai, you've been upgraded!"

Travellingone, "What?"

Front desk, "But just you as we couldn't see anyone else on the reservation."

Travellingone frowned, but saw her best friend, pointed and said, "That's her, that's the other person on the reservation."

Thus Travellingone and Spy checked in, but clearly front desk did not believe there was a second person as they only magnetized one key card for the room.

Spy and Travellingone went to pick up their pre-reg packages where they were joined by Mrs. and Mr. Ely. Their time in the pre-reg line while it resulted in interesting conversation was fruitless for pre-registration because panelists needed to be in another line. Apparently, Concom thinks panelists are slightly psychic as only psychic people would be able to see the invisible sign. Spy and Travellingone had to sign the panelists' code of conduct. Travellingone, being not bothered to read it, probably just signed away her first born while Spy surreptitiously crossed everything out and replaced it with "I solemnly swearr I'm up to no good.' and happily signed.

More proof that Spy is invisible, no one caught her on that all weekend, but she was probably panelist who lived up to 100% of what she signed.

After pre-reg, Travellingone wandered around to find concom members she knew while Spy and Ely got contest information.

Travellingone ran into Metro, whose brother Legal, Spy fangirled more than GDL during the convention.

*scene change*

Travellingone runs into Metro and after hugs, settles in for a chat. They play catch up and Travellingone makes an ass of herself by fangirling Gareth David-Lloyd, includinhg her love for most U.K. accents.

Then she decides to ask Metro who he was guest liasing for this year.

He grins at her.

She wants to melt into the floor and die. She immmediately apologies for her fangirliness, fortunately Metro is so mellow, he didn't give a rat's ass, but probably began to plot evilly.

Sometime during this embarrassing conversation, Spy walks by and mentions that she was heading up to Ely's room. Travellingone acknowledges her distractedly, because she was still drowning in her shame.

Metro, who still doesn't give a crap, goes back to work and Travellingone meanders up to Ely's room.

*scene change*

Meanwhile, in the dark side (and yes, there were still cookies) Spy is introduced to

bubbleslayer who provided Travellingone with much amusement. Insert obligatory fangirly discussion while Mr. Ely mocks it and plans to go to I liked Vampire Lesbian Highschool Girls 4 and Terry Farrell all by himself.

Travellingone arrives and tells all and sundry of her gaffe, providing much amusement and mocking.

The group spilts up for dinner, Spy and Travellingone go to Swiss Chalet for a much needed meal. At this point, Spy starts stressing out about her first first modding of her panel, Doctor Who Series 3 Review. Travellingone, who has done this before offers advice including issuing the occasional bitch slap.

Back at the hotel, Travellingone sees Concom chair P and goes to say hi and relate her gaffe once again. During this time, Travellingone asks to come back on concom and Spy is distracted by a glimpse of GDL who was being shepherded out for a smoke.

Travellingone and Spy head up to the room to freshen up when Spy freaks out at the sound of beeping in the room. It was exactly the same sound made by the security cameras at her workplace. Not a comforting sound. After investigating the two realize it's the broken television making the noise and it's promptly unplugged.

They head downstairs to complain about the tv. Spy does most of the complaining. Obviously because she was invisible, they didn't hear her.

Opening ceremonies were disappointing, so the pair went to get their entries for the story on a card contest. They headed to the equally disappointing dealers' room where there were no trinkets Spy wanted. Travellingone got her own personal Captain Jack and immediately plotted dirty things.

Travellingone went off to say hi to more concom members while Spy went to see Terrifying Pertwee and Sarah Jane in

nexstarman's AV room.

Travellingone eventually went to get Spy and headed to the Dollhouse panel where Spy got an introduction to rabid Whedon fans and moderators who don't know what they were talking about. They walked out after being flashed by a woman who felt that both breasts needed to be exposed while feeding her baby. (This woman also felt the need to turn around and flash everyone while breastfeeding.) Spy and Travellingone did not appreciate being forced into voyeurism because it was very 'my boobs, let me show you them.'

Coming out of the panel they meet up with programming co-head L and Travellingone immediately volunteers to put up signs. Spy gives Travellingone the same look Martha gave the Doctor when the Doctor volunteers to go into the sewers.

Once that task was completed, Spy and Travellingone settled onto the lobby couches to chill and for Spy to make a phone call because that was one of the places where cellphones would work.

Calling her family, Spy opened the conversation with a very vibrant, "Hello!" Without realizing it, at exactly the same moment, Metro was shepherding GDL out for another cigarette. GDL turns around to see if someone is shouting at him. Refusing to get suckered into the most embarrassing moment of her entire life, Spy refuses to look back and continues the conversation as if GDL was as invisible as she was. Spy does not want to known as one of irritating fangirls unless it's Legal.

During the Blast Off party Spy and Travellingone talked to concom member A who is manning the table outside the Blast Off. During this, Metro who was standing next to GDL nods evilly at Travellingone who was oblivious to what he was plotting.

After caffeination, Travellingone sees Concom member P where the two shoot the shit. The topic of the conversation was irrelevant, other than the fact Spy did not know half the people about whom they were speaking. While phasing out of the conversation momentarily, Spy looks in the window, only to see the reflection of Metro and GDL standing behind Travellingone. Although Spy tried to be subtle in alerting her best friend, eventually she had to result in a slap on the shoulder to tell Travellingone to turn around. That still didn't work until P informed Travellingone there were people behind her.

"So, I hear you have a thing for accents," Metro smirks.

"You do, hello," GDL says to Travellingone.

Gracefully introducing herself, Travellingone promptly threatened Metro's life. Spy snickered that Metro should do things like that to Travellingone more often. Since Metro's evil plan to embarrass Travellingone had come to fruition, he shepherded GDL and his girlfriend out for a cigarette. Throughout this entire conversation, both Travellingone and P were acknowledged by both Metro and GDL. Spy, on the other hand, was completely invisible, even though there were only six people in the lobby.

Travellingone wanted the floor to open up and swallow her, but only after killing Metro through some painful method, like 1000 paper cuts. She promptly swore never to be in GDL's path for the rest of the weekend to avoid appearing fanbratty. This was fine with Spy since, due to the fact GDL doesn't even know she exists, she can continue to call Ianto Jones her fictional Welsh boyfriend without a smidgen of guilt, or feeling stalkerish.

Spy's very first panel was on the third season of Doctor Who. While everything went well, she was completely terrified. The only concerning issue was one woman,who kept discussing how she would air the episodes at lunch to her class of grade 4s. This woman also discussed how she was in a area with a variety of new immigrants, as if that was somehow relevant to the enjoyment of the show. While Spy would have loved to have cut off this vein of conversation other members of the audience kept asking about it. Fortunately, when one of the panelists started to do the whole "I wouldn't want my kid to watch that in school" Spy finally had the chance to cut off the conversation and get it back on track. In fact, when she did it, one member of the audience shouted out "good modding!" which definitely helped Spy's confidence. For the record, Spy would like to say now that when she see that teacher's name in the blue pages for showing inappropriate material, she will not be surprised.

Spy was very grateful her audience were mostly articulate people who didn't feel the need to companion-bash and were open to a variety of opinions. They were all very respectful of each other. Travellingone, who never doubted Spy could handle herself, was very pleased to be right.

Immediately after the Doctor Who panel, the pair had to run to the room next door for the Torchwood Series 2 Retrospective panel.

Travellingone modded that panel and recognizing most of the same faces from the previous panel, knew the audience would want to talk. After panel introductions, she immediately opened the subject for comments despite a panelist getting upset by the fact that she thought the panel would discuss the show and if there was time, open the subject for the audience. There was general agreement that Season Two was much better than one. Travellingone did offer a lesson on how to raise your hand.

Spy made a joke about Captain Jack and office furniture and being the biggest head in the universe. Travellingone repressed/denied/refused to acknowledge the Face of Boe. Travellingone also managed to keep the panel on track without devolving entirely into boykissing.

Spy, Bubbleslayer and Ely went over to the AV room to catch the last 3/4 of Cyberwoman and to this day Travellingone had no idea where she was as she only made the last ten minutes. After Ianto-angst, drinks were necessary, but considering the latest of the hour, it was only one drink as last call had been announced.

After some girly bonding because Mr. Ely wasn't there, Spy and Travellingone finally made it to bed at 3 a.m. in the morning.

And that concludes day one of Polaris 22.

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Date: 2008-07-14 09:52 pm (UTC)

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