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Eurofurence Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shironeko on 23.08.2011, 18:07:39
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I promised some friends I made at EF that I would post a topic like this so we could al share together our terrible post-con depression and start counting the days to the next one. ::)
This is not intended to be a "serious" post, but feel free to share your experiences, how you feel, what you think and maybe even post your plans for the next year. What Ideas has this year's EF given you and what would you like to do next year?
Just talk about yourself and how you feel :D
Cheers!
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I have no PCD (a little maybe) because I think about next Eurofurence (and other furcons) and this makes me happy ^_^
This was my first EF and it was very… Very very (i have no words to describe my feelings)!
Dont be unhappy, just think, that you'll go to the next EF or other furcon! ^__^
P.S.: pawpet show makes me double-happy!
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EF is over, WOHOOO FINALLY! \o/
No seriously, PCD hit me in the face like everyone else. Altough I'm not depressed, my mind is so damn off, I should just dig myself into the ground and sleep until my brain is ready to boot up again.
1) Go buy stuff to eat
2) Notice that your hands are full, so lay some things aside and rearrange your load
3) Go straight to the checkout
4) Back home, start cooking
5) Notice that half of your ingredients are missing
6) ? ? ? ? ?
7) Profit.
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It's been a while since I suffered from a hard PCD but this convention truly did it to me. It started on Sunday when sitting at the greek restaurant next door, watching the sun set. It was then that I realised that EF is over and that this small but so special microcosmos is gone for another year. I still try to figure out what makes it so special. I mean, it's a con, right? And there are dozens but somehow it brings us a small step closer to what we all like but can never have for real. Just when it was gone I realised, once more, how much this unreal and fragile world means to me.
I'm still up and I don't want to go to bed (but I have to) because I know that tomorrow I'll be back in RL and Eurofurence won't feel like real any longer but more than a dream.
Bedtime now. See you next year when the magic returns for another few precious days.
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I came home to find by basement flooded. Nothing life-threatening happened, but I lost a lot of stuff - some of it which I held very dear, such as old convention photos and stuff. I could salvage a bit of it, but not nearly everything. I'm doubly depressed now.
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Oh that must suck badly. Well for my part I`ve not even unpacked yet, I`ve just been sleeping most of the day since EF I think I`ve gotten some sort of flu or something, I`m just so freeking tired maybe it`s because I was drunk snce last sunday, and now it`s all coming to bite me in the ass?
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PCD is moderate, con crud is close to zero, but my mind is really wandering.
The fact that I have to keep the window blinds down in my apartment because of the heat makes it a little worse, stuck in the dark with just shades of gray is a crass contrast to the bright, colourful and fluffy "reality" of the Maritim's Lobby during EF17.
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I just woken up. No, I'm not kidding. I slept two times around 16 hours in a row and slowly my body recovers from the torture of that week. Half of my skull is still inflamed, including my right eye and my feet hurt, but everything is getting better by now.
I still have not unpacked my stuff and I just realized something very funny: After new-years-eve, I thought "Okay, a new year". Now, after Eurofurence I'm starting to make plans and goals I want to reach during the year till the next eurofurence. It IS crazy how deep this one convention is settled in my life by now and I happen to know that there are quite a few furs that feel the same.
But there is something that really helps fighting the PCD: Working on Eurofurence 18 :D
After EF is before EF! So keep your coats clean and your whiskers straight - we have a con to prepare!
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PCD is moderate, con crud is close to zero, but my mind is really wandering.
The fact that I have to keep the window blinds down in my apartment because of the heat makes it a little worse, stuck in the dark with just shades of gray is a crass contrast to the bright, colourful and fluffy "reality" of the Maritim's Lobby during EF17.
That's it. No con crud, but I miss the great time, that I have... :-[
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I came home to find by basement flooded. Nothing life-threatening happened, but I lost a lot of stuff - some of it which I held very dear, such as old convention photos and stuff. I could salvage a bit of it, but not nearly everything. I'm doubly depressed now.
Oh no >.<
Can't we help you out somehow by trying to find and reprint some of the photo's you lost. I don't know if they where hard copy of the old fashion camera kind and if any one else got those pictures. Or if you got negatives that can be reprinted.
For my part. I slept for 8 hours after a 550 km drive and that went well enough. Woke up multiple times thinking I still had stuff to do on the con, but apart from that I feel a tad tired and relatively ok. I have had far to much to do since then to feel down.
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I had quite severe PCD but that's because I'm dealing with a lot of problems IRL now and when EF was over it was hard to go back to all of that again. I tried to keep PCD at bay with videos and pictures and talking to people in #eurofurence and #eurofurs channels which helped a bit.
Also thank you Shiro for being such an angel as a roommate! *hugs*
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Going back from EF, and especially arriving at my place, was like waking up from a beautifull dream which was full of colours, sounds, aws and mind blasting impressions, the con beeing a fairy tale to speak of.
I must say that now I feel strangely at peace. As if the magic of EF, all the warmth, kindness and happy moments of the con would still stuck to me. I feel as if I stored those wonderfull impressions inside myself, and am ready to go back to work tomorrow after 3 weeks of holidays. And: winter can come ;)
Also, I think of positive furry things to follow:
- My first suit should get ready over the next weeks
- I will visit "Raubkatzenasyl" once the suit is done, and help them to entertain their visitors
- Planning about staffing on the next EF
- Suhlvester??? or one other furry event during winter...
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PCD has not hit me just yet. Mostly because many fuzzies are still around me. I think it will hit me when I am working again, next week or so. But the meerkat shall survive!
Nonetheless, I really do look forward to next year, this installment really rocked my world. And no concrud whatsoever! Shower often at the con, and take your vitamins. Works like a charm.
I think I do sleep a bit worse though thanks to EF, so many ideas buzzing in my head.
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no concrud, i tryed everything to get one...including a 40h shift at the last con day/night/day
my body stands...
pcd got me completly, something quantum quark effect, as far from con as harder it goes
my soul crushed...
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What? EF is over and nobody told me?
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After attending the funeral of my beloved grandmother yesterday, RL got me back the "right into your face" way. But EF isn't gone. I spend a good amount of time rearranging the pictures on my wall, reading the conbook and watching photos online.
I came home to find by basement flooded. Nothing life-threatening happened, but I lost a lot of stuff - some of it which I held very dear, such as old convention photos and stuff. I could salvage a bit of it, but not nearly everything. I'm doubly depressed now.
Oh dear. I was so happy for you that this Con went without big personal trouble like broken cars or teeth-thingies. And now this. You've my empathy on the loss. I know how dear the fandom and therefore those stuff is (was) to you and therefore I have some ideas about how you feel but more likely it's even worser then I can imagone. Feel a paw of empathy on your back, when you feel for it...
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possitive! no con-cruds! THO the longer nights, lots of walking/running around and alcohol and dances and stuff felt like some sort of con-crud when the adrenalin went back to normal levels and the body felt the abuse :P
negative...
PCD hit me like a sledgehammer in the back of my head on my way home i just started sobing and allmost howling at berlin tegel airport.
lots of nice people offering me tissues tho^^
and i still feel down, all tho i'm keeping at bay, for now, by doing a lot of photo and video-editing from the con^^
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I packed my full PCD into the EF-Sunday, which had seen my crying in tears like I haven't done for years... not the best way to end a convention, but gave me the possibility to get back to emotional neutral during the Dead-Dog-Night :) (Thanks to Reesa, Loriana, SibCrow & Mendra here)
Now I'm back at work, and although my psychological levels are back to boring normal, my body isn't: bad headache for the first day (needed to go home), even worse back pain for today. ConCrud a bit different, I guess.
But I'll manage. And I'm looking forward to the next fur activities. And all the photos and reports. And so should you :)
*purrrr*
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What? EF is over and nobody told me?
Autism is bliss!
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I came home to find by basement flooded. .
Do we live in the same house? i had the same when i came back yesterday (was a few days in Berlin) Good thing it was the second time it happens so i had nothing there...
But i have no PCD, because next Con is soon, in November
Now its time for Unpacking
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Well, I still have PCD after these postcon-weeks. It was so amazing... and now I'll have to wait for next year... To be honest, when I was on the trainstation, I almost cried a bit.
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No PCD whatsoever. No time for that.
After the con it's car-unloading, inventory-counting, printing, collecting, packing, shipping, checking and reminding payments due,
restocking, handling returned shipments that where not picked up, keeping books, balancing accounts, lots and lots and lots of emails, ...
oh and moving the store's office while the taxes are due again ....while I'm at panicking anyway.
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I felt like having some sort of pre-pcd already on sunday even though I had extra day. But lot of people were packing their stuff and leaving, I felt so bad knowing it's end now :( But then I had super nice evening meal with friend of mine, went bed early and still had change to chat to many furries on monday and I actually felt really good when on my way to airport :) When back home, I've been busy with work and stuff so no time for real pcd, fortunately?
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Hi,
my second con after Anthrocon 2011 to attend, and I'm deeply afraid. Afraid that my body's and mind's solution to counteract future fits of PCD may be to become a severe & irrevocable case of con-addiction. I'm already feeling it coming to me, bookmarking confuzzled, hanging a 2012 calendar (uhh, when's EF18 scheduled btw? need to ask for leave) racking wikifur for more info and other cons, commissioning a suit, hibbeldyhibbeldyhibbeldy aaargh.
I loved it, next thing to be in heaven. My con-crud consisted of a nasty cold.
cu next con
Ragear
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heh, this is my first european con, and i think im as vunerable to PCD as after AC.
im not shure when or if i can get to a con, so that adds to the vunerability part...
but when having 1 or 2 furs around, i feel ok :)
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When I went back to holland, there were 2 more furs on the railwaystation, not even saying goodbye to little old me. (some dutch furs were saying goodbye at the hotel) :'(
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Well my first con was Eurofurence 13, and I never really got the PCD thing.
What I did get was the fantom tail syndrom.
Walking around for a week with a strapped tail to your waist, just gives you some strange feeling that something is missing when you get back home :P
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The only cure for PCD is to look forward to the next convention.
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I couldn't agree more with Suran, the only cure for PCD is: Go to another con! ;D
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What I did get was the fantom tail syndrom.
Walking around for a week with a strapped tail to your waist, just gives you some strange feeling that something is missing when you get back home :P
Haha! I've had that same several time.
One gets so used to that weight waving from side to side that after a while it actually feels weird not to have it :)
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I couldn't agree more with Suran, the only cure for PCD is: Go to another con! ;D
If you have the money/resources for it, you can. If you can't, wel... m(
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No local furmeets?
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No local furmeets?
Well yeah, but they aren't locally widespread...