Project A-Kon - Day 1 Journal Entry : June 1, 2001

I guess you could say that my day began at midnight Friday morning as Josh, formerly Rex Racer of this site, and I arrived at the Sheraton Hotel in search of the security headquarters. We wander around for a good thirty minutes before learning the headquarters are in the Westin. We get there and sign up for our shifts and then head back to Josh’s place to crash. 

We get up around 9:30 A.M. and get ready, then head out around 9:50. At 10 A.M., we arrive at the Westin and head upstairs to the dealer’s room, which opens an hour later. At roughly 11:15, it finally opens. I kind of glance over the booths, making my way to the back where FUNimation is set up, selling t-shirts, cards, and videos. I get the scoop that Sean Schemmel will be signing autographs at 2 P.M. with Eric Johnson joining him at 3 P.M.

I do some shopping and buy a cool poster of all the DBZ characters. At 12:30, Josh and I stop to get lunch and then head back to the dealer’s room at 1:15. Inside, I run into Kyle Hebert, my third time to see him in person. He is having a great time shopping and meeting people. We chat for a while about PS2 games and DBZ before I head over to the FUNimation booth again to get in line for Schemmel. He arrives at 2 P.M. and starts signing autographs and talking in character as Goku and King Kai. I get him to sign my new poster as well as a t-shirt and a wall scroll that feature Goku and Bardock. I took a few pictures and got back in line to wait for Eric Johnson. While waiting, I met a guy named Daniel that works for Saiyanlegacyx.com and FUNimation and chatted about his site and this one. At 3 P.M., Johnson arrives and starts signing as well. He and Schemmel then do a dialog in their respective characters; specifically the scene where Goku finds out that Bulma is Trunks’ mom. The crowd got a big kick out of it. I get Johnson to sign my items and then browse around the room some more.

At 4 P.M., Josh and I report to security headquarters for our shift and get assigned to the dealer’s room door to check badges before entry into the room. Thus began the most boring three hours of my life. I got really bored and tired just sitting there. I did see Kyle Hebert one more time and chatted again with him. He told me to come by his both tomorrow for his signing to get an original sketch he did of Mystic Gohan and another of Trunks. At 7 P.M. the dealer’s room closed and I was told to go back to HQ. They had nothing for me to do so Josh and I left and I dropped him off at his place before arriving home around 8:30. I was dead tired and went to bed early, around 11:00. However, I woke up at 3:30 A.M. feeling sick and could not get back to sleep. Not a good sign for the day to come.