New Illness. by Teachdaire

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New Illness.

POSTED BY: TEACHDAIRE
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:22
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Monday, March 19, 2007 12:01 PM

Conventioneer’s Malady and how to deal with the short term symptoms.

I have discovered (or at least come up with a name for) a new type of illness.

Symptoms include:-

Tiredness
Apathy
Muscular and joint aches
Headache
Digestive discomfort
Unexplained bumps, bruises, scratches marks from magic marker pens
Pockets full of telephone numbers, flyers, e-mail addresses and website URLs where large amounts of cash used to be.
Memory lapses.

I have named this new malady CONVENTIONEER’S MALADY.

I am a relatively minor sufferer, having only had bouts of this twice in the last six months (as opposed to friends of mine who have this up to 10 times per year). And I have discovered the cause.

Conventions.

I have just had a storming long weekend in Glasgow at Serenity 4 (this being written on the train home), and as a consequence, am now suffering from a bout of conventioneers lethargy. I will admit to having a great time this weekend, meeting old friends and making new ones, but 3 days on a diet of alcohol, fast food, nicotine and caffeine (and missing such things as sleep, nutritional food and non-alcoholic drinks) tends to extract punishment from the human body.

However, I have found a cure from the physical symptoms of this new and unusual malady.

First class travel.

When I made my travel arrangements, I made out like a bandit from the Virgintrains.com website (thank you Mr. Branson), and got a first class return for less than a standard class single booked from my local station, and am very grateful that I did.

First of all, I do not travel very well at the best of times, and usually fare even worse on a train that tilts as it goes around corners at a fair fraction of the speed of light, but the seats are comfortable, the staff is attentive (3 stewardesses and 1 steward for a total of six people sitting in first class) despite the fact that everyone else is in business suits, and I’m in old combat pants and a shirt that say’s “Which part of ‘Dong Ma?’ don’t you understand?”
The other advantage is the fact that they come along every 15 minutes or so offering free drinks (the orange juice and the coffee are godsends). On top of that, as the train is travelling at lunch time, they offered lunch as well (all included in the cost of the ticket). If you ever do travel this way, which I heartily recommend to my fellow Brits going on long journeys, I suggest going for the Hungarian Goulash soup. It’s hot, hearty, and for travel food, tasted pretty damn good being loaded with real beef and vegetables.

The result of this is that in under an hour, I have gone from something that looked and felt like an escapee from a George Romero movie, to feeling refreshed, alive, and able to flirt with the stewardesses.

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Monday, March 19, 2007 12:38 PM

RMMC

Ah, I used to suffer from all of the symptoms. There are a few things you can do to reduce/eliminate some of these problems.

1.) Pack a cooler of "good" food, ie: veggies, fruit (bananas and apples are really good for this), whole grain snacks/cereal and small single-serving bottles of fruit juices that don't require refrigeration. This should help with the digestive issues and also help prevent Con Crud. Con Crud is that cold/flu-like thingy you get shortly after the con from some delightful soul who just couldn't miss the event and decided to share their current affliction will all and assundry. edit: Also try taking vitamins!

2.) Carve out about an hour a day and decompress in your hotel room...alone. It'll help with the headache, apathy and fatigue. Read, nap, listen to music, but just chill out.

3.) Get either a notebook with a new pen or a Palm Pilot to cut down the little slips of paper thet'll only get lost.

The money, well that's gonna happen at a con, so just give it up.

So, it sounds like you had fun in spite of all that. Don't forget to give us a con report when you're up for it.

*****
RMMC

When we're down, don't frown. Come join the camp-out at serenitymovie.org.

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“Any idea why they’d take his heart if it wasn’t to worship the demon of the week?” -- Lieutenant Eve Dallas, Conspiracy In Death by J. D. Robb

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:53 AM

TEACHDAIRE

A con report?

OMG, I drank a bit too much to be able to do that. *lol*

Give me a couple of days to recover and unscramble my mind, and I'll see what I can do.

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For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die along, unremembered and unsung...

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:22 AM

RMMC

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Originally posted by Teachdaire:
A con report?

OMG, I drank a bit too much to be able to do that. *lol*

Give me a couple of days to recover and unscramble my mind, and I'll see what I can do.

In your own time, dear. *hugs*

It sounds like you had a wonderful time, so us poor benighted souls who couldn't go wanna live vicariously through you.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:22 AM

ORANGEHAT

Living in Winnipeg (That's in Manitoba...ya know...Canada? Big thing above the US :P) I have yet to experience the glory of convention pain, though it sounds a bit like how I was feeling after the Alexisonfire concert though I blame the moshing... and the kid dropped on my head. At some point I will have to experience a convention its just a matter of hunting one down and finding the time to travel to it (I doubt one would bless the waters of Winnipeg, though I probably should have said prairie)

But when you feel this illness coming on I say KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD and everything will be okay again

That nerdy hat

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