The first time I remember hearing anything about International Women’s Day was when I was working on my MBA. It came up because I was in a class that dealt with some businesses overseas, and we needed to communicate with them, but we couldn’t because it was a national holiday in that country, and they were closed for the day. This intrigued me. Why had I never heard of this holiday before? If it was a holiday celebrating women, why didn’t we do anything for it here in the U.S.?

So where was I? Oh yeah – I bought tickets to Wizard World in Chicago and was planning to meet the stars of The X-Files. And I was really excited about it. Let’s just start there.

[Part 1 can be found here]

X-Files, Here I Come

Leading up to the time of the convention, I started seeing other people post about it. Of course, the fact that I was in several X-Files groups on Facebook kind of helped with that. It seemed that I wasn’t alone. There were others just as excited about this convention as me, and also coming from other states and even countries to Chicago, even as far away as Australia (Hi, Alicia!). There were even people that had gone to see Gillian’s play in New York and then gone to Philadelphia for the Wizard World there that David, Mitch Pileggi (Skinner), and William B. Davis (the Cigarette-Smoking Man) were all at. And because all of them were going to be in Chicago WITH Gillian, these people were heading there to see them all again, together.

It Begins

To really tell the story of this trip, I have to go back a bit of a long time. Something like 20 years, probably even a few more than that. When I was in high school, my best friend was a girl who was a bit quirky, but in a lovable way. While we don’t live near each other anymore, and drifted apart a bit after high school, we reconnected via Facebook and now do chat a bit on occasion or even try to get together when I visit Indy. She is still one of the most fun people I’ve ever met, and I love her. Thanks go to her for my love of the TV show The X-Files. She is the one who first introduced me to it, and there it began.