This weekend is the Toronto Fan Expo, which basically brings together every excuse for nerd-dom that there is: Comics, Science Fiction, Horror, Anime, and Gaming.  There will be merch to buy, artists to see and meet, a few movie screenings, cosplayers, the 501^st Legion, celebrities of varying degrees, and generaly geektasticness.

I have enjoyed Fan Expo the last few years I’ve gone, and expect that I will enjoy it this year as well.  I enjoy watching geeks of all stripes come together in one place.  I love watching the cosplayers strut their stuff, and how a great costume will make everyone geek out.  I love seeing merch that you can really only find at a convention like this, the kind of nerd specific stuff that you can’t walk into a store to find.  I love that exhibitors range from people hawking hand-made merchandise, to publishers like Udon, to independent new media like Team Epic.

This year, I intend to take in more than just the merch floor and the cosplayers.  I intend to go to some panels (a few look interesting) and meet some people.  I even have a business meeting on Sunday before the con opens (that’s a first for me).

The weekend can’t come soon enough.

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This summer has been just brutal on my asthma.  Its almost as though things held off just until the Fringe show was over (thank you, Doctor Theatre) but as soon as the show was done: BAM asthma city.  This has meant that I pretty much have not had a day when i wasn’t wheezing and coughing, though today the cough has just been getting worse.  I have already been to the hospital once. Fortunately, I haven’t had to go back yet.  However, with the way the cough is going, I’m beginning to be afraid that I may have to.

I have been having some irrational fear about the breathing that I’ve been experiencing, that it might be something more than just asthma.  Normally one might just go to the doctor and ask them for their opinion, but I don’t have a family doctor, and haven’t for many years.  I have to to to the walk-in clinic, which is not exactly condusive to expressing concerns.  Most walk-in clinics operate on a revolving door system: get the patient in, turn them around, get them out as quickly as possible.    So I should probably find a doctor, at they very least to allay these silly fears.

If you are curious what the last visit to the hospital looked like, here’s a taste.

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