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Sunday, February 08, 2004
 | A New Doctor Who convention
I'm still under orders from my doctor to relax more, and what better way than to visit United Fan Con East, a new SF convention run by the United Fan Con people (who hold an annual con in early November). This convention, scheduled for March 26 - 28, promises to bring us Liz Sladen, the woman who played Sarah Jane Smith. As I write the Sarah Jane Smith character in my Third Doctor series of adventures, I would really like to go. It may be a real penny pincher to get there, not to mention a certain amount of risk to my back, but I still hope for the best. I am planning on going. |
The laid back Kevin Parker, one of my convention buddies from Chicago TARDIS will be "running a table" (ie, selling merchandise). In return for helping him mind the store, he has offered to give me one of the convention memberships that come with the price of a dealer table. I've agreed. I plan to purchase tickets to the banquet and the breakfast. At the moment it looks certain that I wll travel by train, and I may meet up with Kevin along the way and travel together.
| Kevin warns me that Liz Sladen has canceled trips to cons theee times in the past. She has family obligations that she clearly puts first, and any of the actors are free to cancel, even at the last minute, if a professional commitment comes up (ie, if they get a better offer). But I still want to go, and I hope I meet her, as well as the rest of the guests and convention people. I have a whole list of conventioneers from the Chicago TARDIS people to e-mail to see if they will be attending. |  |
