I haven’t been around much lately (err, more so than usual). Since October, four of my friends and I have been planning a small anime convention here in Guelph: Con-G.

It was this past weekend, and it was AWESOME! It was bigger and better than we dared to hope! We got about 350 people (about three and a half times what we were hoping for), and have had amazing positive feedback and great suggestions for things to improve upon next year.

I had next to no sleep and very little food and water all weekend (it’s not like it wasn’t provided, I just didn’t have time to go eat or drink, what with running around and making sure things were running smoothly, and averting crises such as when we ran out of walk-in registration forms… twice.) and felt pretty darn hung over yesterday. Ugh. Today is much better, especially after having a debriefing meeting with the rest of the con staff yesterday (remember, there were only 5 of us) and running the numbers and seeing the online feedback. We are already planning next year, though we do hope that it will take a bit less time to get up and running in 2010. We pulled Con-G out of the air with an almost $0 budget in 4 months, but we worked on it practically every after-work moment.
I hope to have a full report up later, plus some more updates on what happened with my job situation, since I never did write up the end of that saga.