Mary Morman attended her first Worldcon (and her first science fiction convention) at Baycon in Berkeley in over Labor Day of 1968. She vividly remembers seeing a naked Astrid Anderson as Dejah Thoris at the masquerade, reveling in table after table of used paperbacks in the dealers room, having a pass made at her by Harlan Ellison in said dealer's room. This eye-opening weekend led her into fandom and she attended cons for the next forty years while she finished college, married, and even had babies - reading SF all the while. Bidding for, and winning, the 2008 Worldcon has been full of more cons than Mary felt it possible to actually attend. Mundanely, Mary works as a Business Intelligence Manager for the support organization of a major software firm - dealing with global hiring,