Mandi: My inaugural photo. This lovely picture of Jenny and Sarah was taken Thursday morning before we got into the convention. See, they feel the need to herd us like cattle before we can have any fun. You get to the convention center and you wait in a line. And you think that's the line to get into the convention. But it's not. It's the line to get into the line to get into the convention. Sound complex? It is. And it make no sense to me but you gotta do it on the first day.

Jenny: Yeah, and I'm sure that next year, we'll still gather round like cattle. I'll make you. I'm one of those assholes that needs to see everything first.

But this is a pretty cool picture. I look cool. If I saw me on the street, I'd think, damn, she looks cool. And Sarah looks scared. She stopped looking scared once she realized that Mandi and Moe kick major ass (no bad pun intended).

Jim: Huh? You can tell all that in one picture?

Mandi: My Moe! You know, all in all, convention X-Men are a disappointment. Take this picture as a prime example. Wolverine was scary, Cyclops was gay and Storm was butt fugly. I mean, come on! Storm is a beautiful, regal looking character and this woman? Not fitting the description. Not at all.

Jim: X-Men to the right of us X-Men to the left of us never a fire hose around when you need one.

Mandi: Sarah and the Ugly X-People. If I hadn't known she could kick their butts, I would have feared for her. I didn't want to get that close.

Jenny: My Sarah! I had no worries at all. Sarah just showed them up. Storm couldn't do anything but look down on Sarah from her platform shoes of excessiveness. I mean, find someone tall. In those shoes, I'd even be 6'1" or so.

Jim: Foam Scott ya that's par for the course.

Mandi: The Tao Cow cookies! We came back to the hotel Thursday afternoon to discover that the lovely Tammy had sent us a cookie bouquet. Dammit if that wasn't one of the nicest things I've ever seen.

Jenny: You know? Allan was going to send me flowers. But the people at the front desk couldn't figure out where I was staying. Just like they couldn't find me when my package o' mats came in, and gave me a big fucking heart attack by not telling me. Hundreds of dollars in the bargain, and they didn't even tell me. Bastards.

Mandi: Along with the cookies, Tammy brought her belly dancer outfit for Jenny to try on. This was just the trial run. Notice Jenny's wearing the jingly bra over her "I'm super rare" tanktop. Pretty nice. Swordmaker Peter Steigerwald would have been proud.

Jenny: Made me even more super-rare. That jinglybra ruled.

Jim: I laughed I cried it was a Oscar caliber performance (HA).