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Today Jordan would start with a signing session, having a public interview and audience questions in the afternoon. (Just the opposite of Terry Pratchett’s schedule, so that they’d always manage to keep the number of people seeing the other small enough to actually fit in the rooms.)
At 10:00 I went up, seeing only one other person standing in line. In fact, when the doors opened half an hour later, there were still less than 50 people there, as opposed to the 150-200 people of the day before. Early mornings are good.
I liked how everything went today. I liked it very much. I actually got to talk an unbelievable amount of time with Jordan…
Let’s see, seeing how many people there were I’d already decided to just keep on going back to the end of the line each time, having yet another thing signed. The first time I came to Jordan (as the third person in line, KuraFire had managed to sneak past me earlier… ), the conversation went something like this:
Good morning.
Good morning Sander, how are you today?
Fine, thank you. And you? Slept well?
Well, no, actually not. I only got back to the hotel from the restaurant at 1 last night, after having been talked into eating traditional Dutch food. The food was very tasty, but that late at night, I think it was a bit…
… and on. I don’t know, maybe Jordan secretly thinks I’m a horrible person and would like nothing better than to scream at me to get away, but if he does, he manages to hide it very well…I like the guy. He’s got a great sense of humor and can talk very interesting. Plus he’s the author of WoT of course.
Anyway, getting back in line for the first time I noticed that Isabel had finally arrived as well. Well, actually, she noticed and recognized me and said hi. As the line moved forward we talked and I began to like her. Now that she has left the nervousness of the first few days behind she’s pretty cool. (Well, besides the tendency to still talk a lot about WoT-related subjects using the translated words… *shivers*) Oh, and when she arrived at Jordan for the first time, he said something like “I’m sorry for teasing you so much”, and then loudly stated that she really was 17, so we could all jump on her.
Ah, it’s like the passport scene, something for which you should have been there to truly comprehend; it’s hard to capture the humor in a report like this.
I also saw Iwitness again, and Beidomon Sedai and Lord Agelmar, two of my friends who very occasionally post here, showed up as well. Plus a few TFD members…
Isabel, KuraFire, Iwitness and me made quite a few rounds, having something signed (I had a lot of cards from the card game with me), asking questions, moving back to the end of the line, discussing what questions we’d ask next and what the previous answers meant, and then all over again. I think we made at least 10 rounds, although the group changed every now and then with one of the other stopping for a moment, not making the round. And if people who hadn’t been there yet showed up just as we stood at the back of the line, we let them go first, and waited on each other, and took pictures, and discussed WoT and talked more to Jordan and… It was just amazing fun. We got a few RAFOs here and there of course, but the amount of questions answered was really awesome.
Let’s see what my memo-recorder has…
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