Steve Kilbane's Report

• Walking in through the main doors on Friday at noon, thinking, "We're *here*"
• Setting up the PA for the bar quiz:
  "Know anything about tech?"
  "Such as?"
  "Can you set up a PA?"
  "Nope."
  "Fine. Can you lift one?"

• Coming back into the Rocky Horror disco, to see half the con following Jason during Bohemian Rhapsody.
• The b5 bloopers tape: "CnC - this is Sinclair", and a clockwork Starfury.
• Being very nervous at the start of the cabaret - trying to rehearse the chords, and being hassled by a Klingon who wanted to borrow the guitar.
• Rehearsing in our room with Jenni and Fifi, and thinking "We can do this."
• Watching Chris and Rachel jamming during the cabaret rehearsal, and thinking "Why are we doing this?"
• Putting on the Sandman makeup. Oh, yeah, I remember that. I wake up _sweating_ about it, in fact.
• Sheelagh: being nice to a possibly illegal degree.
• "Peril sensitive hair".
• Londo. In costume. And in character. Permanently.
• Dancing to "Sweet Transvestite" with k.
• The sound of my heels in a silent hall, while taking the stage for the first time.
• Seeing a _very_ blonde-haired person going into the main hall, and thinking, "Bet that's Robert."
  
• Steve Rogerson in Klingon outfit, recognisable by the tribble impaled on his large, um, weapon.
• Jem's Henry V.
• The Space City party (and the geeky upmanship - upnerdship? - with Richard and Robert. Robert won. :-> )
  
• Judith producing three filk verses to "House of the Rising Sun" in ten minutes, from a standing start.
• Having *no* idea when I'd last eaten, or whether I should be hungry.
• Being at least slightly squiffy, for 60 straight hours.
• Being *hugely* thankful I'd brought the Enter Sandman music for the hustings; music meant I was first on, which meant I was last to answer any of the questions, which meant I had a chance to think of something funny.
• Having *no* idea who people were voting for (with the shades, boots, long coat and bright lights, it's a miracle I didn't trip and fall off the stage)
• Una's enunciation of _penetrating_.
• A cigar labelled "Vere".
• Tom and Louise discovering that the last two quiz posters were in the lifts.
• Playing along to Tom's Time Warp filk on Sunday night.
• Judith's Children of Auron.
• Jane Killick's experiences of dealing with, um, "personalities", from b5.
• Knowing _nothing_ in the bar quiz.
• Desperately trying to think of an opening platform for the opening ceremony.
• And the same again, for the hustings.
• Having a good ol' whinge in Una's panel.

Plus, of course, not wanting it to end. It was great, all of it.

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