leakycon day four part one

sunday morning chelley, auto, and i went to church, then sadly, auto and i watched chelley go. she had to get back and wasn't able to stay any longer. we were very sad, but then had to catch the bus to the hilton one last time. on the way we saw a bunch of people running in a field playing some game. auto and i were both confused by their lack of brooms. that fact made us both happy.

day four was the feast. hoping there would be something harry potter-y, like butterbeer or pumpkin juice, auto and i were slightly disappointed to find just your average brunch spread. it was nice, though, to have one final thing. we sat with some girls who seemed almost offended that we didn't care about starkids, but after they left some nice normal girls joined us. (leakycon is seriously not the place to go to meet men. the only one who intrigued me was about 50 and average-looking, and there with his 15-year-old daughter. i really liked what he was saying at the books vs. movie discussion, as well as what she was saying. it made me believe they were both intelligent and Christian. but he had a ring, so i couldn't even hit on an old widower.)

very few people were in costume that last day. i'm sure they were all packed, because people would've had to check out of the hotel already. it made for a sad feeling of things winding down, though. they had a little farewell message, with a drawing (which we didn't know about so we couldn't have entered) and announcement of where the next leakycon will be (there will actually be two - portland, OR and london, england). and then that was about it. oh, except that we headed downstairs to go to the bathroom, which meant that we got to come back up from the basement one last time. the elevators had been a highlight. we called them the floo network, though they were very reminiscent of the elevators in the ministry of magic.

as we left the hotel and got on the bus, a feeling of overwhelming sorrow came upon me. it had been so fun to see all the people and go to the classes and watch a little quidditch. i loved the feeling of having an automatic bond with these strangers. i told auto that it made me want to spend my life going to conventions of some sort or other, because i really like being with people who at least understand a part of me. so from leakycon i want to go to the oxenmoot and then to some Christian thing or other and then i'd say something twins-y, but i'm afraid of obnoxious drunks and hos. maybe i could go to a conference on philology or something. it's disheartening to never be around people who get you. it's lovely to be with people who do.