This will be the last big Sanrio plush I will purchase. I have limited space in my apartment and I wish to do other things with any extra or gift  money I have on hand. I will still buy smaller items.

This is my third Orycon Science Fiction convention I attended. My adventure or misadventure started around January attempt to volunteer for staff. Volunteer days ended due to lack of communications and direction by the volunteering and PR departments of Orycon to the point I became discouraged and decided it better to focus on other conventions. With Thursday freed up, I decide to go visit my mother in
Tacoma for Thanksgiving dinner. Next day I woke up had breakfast dove back to
Portland and the Hotel, I got in around 2:00pm and picked up my badge.

Like at Kumoricon and Rainfurrest I took my big Hello Kitty plush around and she was a hit.  The first panel I attended was What Is This Thing Called Filk. They did a better job in discussing what is Filk  but eventually I could not find a real definition because like many   fan produced genres, Filk music is open to interpretation and is dynamic, not being held  to a single definition. Next panel was drawing with real artist, at first I was intimidated, I men me drawing in front of real good artist, but the way very patient and helpful and put me at ease, I did amuse them working on my fury art.

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