everything but the girl

Show. Nearly single-digit-hour-counting mode for Show.

Meep.

Hopefully Aaron will be home from Nashville in time to enable me to watch Show in real-time.

I am completely unspoiled for everything other than what was at the end of 3.15, and if I can just make it through the day...

Most of my flist seems to be in spoiler-avoidance mode, too. Those of you who are into SPN - are you more spoiled for this year's finale than you were for last year's (assuming you watched it the week it aired last year)?

Special shout-out to all the wonderful people I watched 2.22 with at Phoenix Rising last year, and the lovely ladies who joined me for 3.14 two weeks ago in NYC - I miss you all!

Is there any interest in a watching party in Orlando the day before EyeCon starts? Maybe we should discuss this when we actually know the Friday schedule, but it could be *fun*.

Today is the last day to sign up for spn_summergen - there's so many fantastic prompts in the comm this time, and I just can't wait to see what amazingness the fandom creates this summer, between this challenge and spn_j2_bigbang.

In Portus news - TaxMagic brings you our last discount before Portus!

It's May, and owls are flying all over the country dropping off those
much desired tax refunds. To celebrate all the extra galleons and
sickles being dropped at our doorsteps, we have decided to present you
with one last discount before Portus arrives this July! From May 13th
through May 31st, enter the code TAXMAN when registering for Portus,
and you will receive a 20% discount on full and day registrations.
It's the perfect time to give your friend or relative a gift
registration for Portus! To register, please click here!

If you're not interested in a full day registration, but you're in the Dallas area, you should consider coming for lunch on Friday to hear Dr Henry Jenkins speak about fandom and fan creativity, or come on Saturday to hear moniquetrottier, lately of Raincoast Books, speak about marketing the Harry Potter novels in Canada, and about books, technology and publishing. Or join us at the afternoon teas (or, coming soon, the Sweet Shoppe Hangout). Tickets for those events are available to the general public, separate from a registration, and if you have any questions, let me know!

ETA - oh, SQUEE! Just solidified something smashing for Portus - more info coming this weekend...

No, not that kind of plug.

As a part of my project to Avoid Being Spoiled for Tonight's Supernatural, I'm in an HP kind of mood today, so...

1. The hard drive on the HPEF server crashed completely, so while we're still getting everything back online (wow, there was a lot of content there!) you can get info about the event, and register, via portus_2008 - and if you haven't made your hotel reservation yet, you should do so now! You can do so by going here - and if you have any questions before the site goes back up (hopefully this weekend) you can ask them here.

2. Coming soon - submit a play for the SpellCast Podcast Plays that we'll be recording at Terminus and Portus this summer. And if you're attending either event, please consider setting aside some time to participate in the recording, either as an actor or an audience member.

3. If you're a full-time college or grad-school student, the Katie O'Brien Scholarship Applications are open for a few more weeks - we're awarding a writer, an artist and a community service volunteer each a $500 scholarship. Rules, info and the application are on the website.

And in non-HP news, has everyone heard the casting spoiler for S3 of Heroes? If you haven't, the spoiler info is here. Now it's time for me to go avoiding those SPN spoilers again....

Maybe I should head back to Target and pick up another Tater of the Lost Ark.

1. Now I'm back home and at a desktop computer, I can start fixing my alternate Journal options. When I registered or JF back in 2004 there was no "heidi" so I got that there, and ETA I just managed to get back onto the heidi journal on GJ. Wheee.

Friend me on JournalFen (I'm Heidi there).

Friend me on GreatestJournal (I'm heidi there, too! I just figured out how to get back into it, so I'll be using that instead of the 8heidi8 one! Wheee!). I know a bunch of you have friended heidi8 on GJ. She isn't me.

My plan is to back up my LJ onto GJ and crosspost onto GJ, and use both GJ and JF as reading lists. I'd rather not overload JF's servers, so I'm not going to upload all sixish years of posts there, but I will start posting fandomy things on JF, and posting both fandomy and RL stuff on GJ, going forward. However, since I regularly post onto LJ via email (from my sidekick) and since I don;'t seem to be able to post by email to GJ or JF (and I'd be happy to get a paid account at either or both if such an option was offered) the postings there won't necessarily be as timely as they are on LJ - I'll try to make sure I crosspost within 24 hours, though.

Also, did any of you set up the InsaneJournal account for me yesterday? Because someone registered heidi8 there yesterday and it isn't me - I went and grabbed 8heidi8 as a justincase there, but I would love to have the heidi8 one there, too.


2. So I can friend those of you who've relocated...

[Poll #1034377]

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3. I've been asked to help take on the Vendor Room Coordination role at Portus in Texas next summer for the time being (although they are still looking for a someone to fill the role permanently, as I am 100% sure I won't be able to attend the entire event (because of multiple family weddings & bat mitzvahs next summer) and this is a job someone needs to be on-site for). So if there's something you particularly want to see in the Vendor Room, let me know! We've already got some sensational ideas on the table for, er, the tables!

4. I also learned this morning that the reason there were too few lunches at the Saturday keynote at Prophecy was because someone either stole some 50 stickers, or possibly because someone scanned the sticker and made extra copies. We're working with hotel security to see if it was the former, but we have strong intelligence that it was the latter and either way, it was theft from the con of pushing two thousand dollars, and theft of a good time from the other attendees, and it's a horrible way to treat your fellow fans.

And fearsclave let me know about prophecy in the Toronto Star and MacLeans!

More later this week re SpellCast's Podcast Plays in the show's second season, as well as an update on FictionAlley Park's setup (I HOPE!).

And for now...
5. cutecoati has "acquired" some emails sent among the cast of the Harry Potter films sent while they were reading DH. Real Person Fic. Very funny and worth reading even if you don't normally read fanfic.