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If there's one thing I learned from the first Eclipse con, it's that it doesn't really matter which guests we get in the end - it'll still be a great weekend. Whoever we get will probably turn out to be wonderful, even if we hadn't thought we were interested in meeting them in the first place. I'd love Zach to turn up this time, but I'd also like David to come back, so we can actually ask him questions about his role in Heroes without worrying about spoilers ruining it for other attendees.

This was my first Con. Many thanks to the Jedi Chefs - particularly Neil, Steve & Vada - who adopted me and made me feel so welcome, particularly as I went on my own. As a newbie, I haven't got anything to compare it to but, other than things that Showmasters are already planning on improving for next time, my main comments are related to the differences between Saturday and Sunday. I found the structure of Saturday much better than Sunday: photos and autographs in the morning; talks in the afternoon. I missed 2 of the 3 talks on Sunday morning (only caught the Jessalyn and David one), as they coincided with my 3 photoshoots. As I couldn't afford to book the extra group photo, I then ended up with a huge gap until the final autograph sessions after lunch. By then I had already got all of my autographs, and had been round the dealers' rooms several times, so I weakened and bought an extra autograph to fill the time when the open queues opened. (That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!) I just hope Showmasters can arrange the schedules for both days next time so that I can see all of the talks, and that they produce a DVD of Eclipse so that I can catch up with what I missed this time.

I've come to the conclusion that I already have the power to time travel. Every morning I arrive at work with a list of things to do, and the next thing I know it's the end of the day and I haven't done a single one of them! Now all I need to do is work out how to go back in time as well as forwards

David Anders was at the table next to the one I was sat at, but he was so surrounded by people trying to get photos with him that I didn't even notice him for a while. (I wondered why it was so crowded when I arrived.) I think I might even have barged right between him and his girlfriend at one point, when trying to get out to get a drink, so apologies to them for that, and to anyone who ended up with me in their picture instead of him, but we were asked to give them some space during their evenings off and he certainly didn't get it. Hopefully it won't put any of them off coming back in the future.