Not quite a guitar gently weeping, is it? Trust me, it’s better than last night’s ‘dying caribou moaning over the sound of a biplane crashing’ noises I barely managed to sleep through.
So, Day Two (of FIVE) is done, and it basically feels like we’ve “done a Memorabilia” only with more Germans. A lot more Germans. Tomorrow the show extends from today’s 9am to 6pm stint, to a staggering 11-hour opening time – 9am to 8pm. While we do have just about all the catered food and drinks we can ask for (don’t get excited; I’m talking sandwiches and soda) the sheer physical endurance side of things starts to really come in now.
Hence all of us collapsing into bed early. Well, early-ish. Having working Internet is too good an opportunity to pass up.
Anyway. It’s going well. It feels like an odd mix of our ‘usual show’ (especially as we’re here with some familiar faces) and something much, much larger and crazier. Also as we don’t have one big event as we did two years ago (the Guild Wars Factions World Championships) the spotlight is much more on the community team, who I’m proud to help soar to new heights.
If yesterday was really the early rehearsals, and today was full dress, then tomorrow’s the first performance. Let’s hope we’re good.
#1 by Gangrel at August 22nd, 2008
I would have never thought that Mat snored… well i suppose that if it gets too bad you can always throw a pillow at him (you dont have to aim through walls
)
Or gaffer tap does the trick
Watched the video feeds today, and also listened to the podcasts. I have to admit i was impressed with them (not to mention the stunning photos that Mat took
)
Have a good night sleep and enjoy tomorrow… just try not to beat back the germans too hard… they might take offence!
#2 by Aero at August 22nd, 2008
Yeh – having been “show roomies” with Mat before, I had to do a little double-take at the thread title! Although I wouldn’t have come up with it myself (I think ‘tractor’ was about as close to an analogy as I got), the ‘dying caribou’ version is astoundingly accurate!!!
Good luck for today!
#3 by Shadowe at August 22nd, 2008
Once I shared a room at a convention with a guy who did a passable impression of a backfiring car. I know how awful it is to share with someone who snores.
My sympathies and best wishes for today’s chaos!
#4 by Rockjaw at August 23rd, 2008
I should point out, before accused of character assassination, that I snore probably just as bad as Mat. And the night before the night I wrote about here, he’d had a bit of a late one.