SDCC Wednesday and Gini Koch

It’s Wednesday.  It’s SDCC.  It has begun.

Overly dramatic?  Eh, maybe.  Not if you have been eating and living SDCC for the last month.

The wife had to cancel at the last minute: WORK. Note the capitals?  Work is important.  As much as it might interfere with plans, it’s also what gives us the opportunity to make and partake in those plans.  The wife worked a lot of hours that week and throughout the weekend.

We (well, it was just I) stayed at the uber close hotel, Omni, this year.  Yeah, very cool. And the wife couldn’t enjoy that.  However, she did add her Omni rewards card to our room account.  That boon almost was a bust. When I wanted to check in, they said she needed to be with me.  Luckily everyone was calm and rational and that became a nonfactor very quickly.

Her card also allowed me to check in early.  Non-rewards people were being told to come back in a few hours when rooms were available for check in.  I got a nice room that overlooked the ballpark.  I could have watched the Padres play if they were in town.

Amanda WB dress lady #SDCC 2013

Okay, I’ve debated what to call Amanda.  What I want to say is: Amanda the Bag Lady.  It’s descriptive and accurate but that appellation does have a diminutive connotation.  It’s slightly clever and I like to think myself slightly clever even at the expense of others.  I have to I admit, even though I barely know her, I respect Amanda too much to let that stand.

2007 - where it all began for AWBBDL

Hence forth she will be called the unwieldy mouthful: Amanda the Warner Bros Bag Dress Lady. AWBBDL for short.

Amanda makes dresses out of the bags that the WB booth gives out.  She does a good enough job that even lowly old me noticed and was impressed.

I first saw Amanda the year she made her first dress.  It was back when the WB booth was a mosh pit. As the bags were given out it was insane. Think of a fire ant hill being knocked over.  These bags are large and hard to get. People swarmed the booth when the bags were handed out.  The uglier side of nerd-dom came out with this prized swag.  Not everyone that ventured into the 'shoving and pushing and elbow flying' crowd got a bag.  If you got a bag, it might be pulled for your hands before you could escape to safety.