Con Squee

India Fisher has been added to the guest list for Chicago TARDIS. Whilst I'm definitely a part of the crowd that thinks the Eight/Charley duo could have ended a lot earlier than it did, I generally enjoy her on the BFAs and, I must admit, I'm actually quite keen to see how the whole ( BFA SPOILER )

dynamic plays out.

Some of the members of the convention attendees mailing list are making suggestions for other guests. For this year's event. Y'know, the one that's happening in, um, three months. Clearly, these folks have never staffed a con. Well, it's that or they're high as kites...

This weekend, I'm re-listing some items on ebay. The prices for T'Giving weekend flights is starting to wobble downwards, again, so I need the dosh!

Meanwhile, a bit to my surprise, plans for Gallifrey One are already starting to manifest - costuming plans, I mean. It looks like Suzie Costello might come out of retirement, as I've a couple of pals who might be dressing as Jack and Ianto for an afternoon, and iamradar has mentioned wanting to do Gwen. And I seem to have received a dare from the universe regarding costumes for both The Eighth Doctor and The Rani. When one discovers a stash of pinkish-russet leopard print velour in one's sewing room, what else can one do but decide it must be time to make The Rani's oh-so-1980s red ensemble?

Escape, escape, escape.

Well, I'll be jiggered.

Real world misery aside - and, yeah, there's a pretty bad outbreak going on over in the Supposedly I'm An Adult part of my life - I think praedestinatio has managed to source an - old school costume that I could conceivably get away with, particularly if I keep up with this walking-two-miles-a-day thing - thanks to my new job - and thus shuck a few of my flabbier pounds.

It's Mary Tamm's cheerfullly purple-on-purple and did we mention it's purple - but there's some aqua accents - rig from The Androids of Tara. If I can get down to 130lbs (a loss of about 15 lbs) in time for Gally, my cheekbones and chin will come out of hiding, thus helping things enormously, features-wise.

I like this idea, especially as a con like Gally is not short on Fourth Doctors to run around with.

As Chicago is, once again, in jeopardy, I'm not going to plan to make anything for it, although I don't suppose anyone's got 24,000 United frequent flier miles they'd like to give me? I think that's how many I'd need to make the booking for the flight... ;)

But, anyways, dreaming is free. Speaking of which, the valium's kicking in. Time for me to go to sleep.