The Day I Volunteered at Dublin Comic Con - A Soggy Memoir
Big Nedry Energy! Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind yearning to learn about the secret, inner workings of Ireland's largest Comic Con; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your nerdy appetite. Sunday, March 12th, 6am: Up! Up! GEDDUUUUP! Bellows the internal scream, as I externally sob. Ireland is in the grips of a dual monsoon-season/snow-spell; it is as bitterly miserable a Sunday morning as you can possibly imagine. Only madmen or those being paid to be up at this time, in these conditions, would be up. But I am not gaining financially from being up at this ungodly hour, I am in fact volunteering my sacred Sunday to help out at Dublin Comic Con . Not only that, but I even PAID a volunteer deposit to offer up my (not so) free time. Does this mean I fall under the latter, "madmen", category? Unequivocally. 8am: Armed with a belly-full of porridge, comfortable shoes, my ref...