One Abnormal Girl

OH MAN.

So I’ve been lazy in writing this, but I did take notes, so I’m hoping I remember it all.  You can check out crazyloststar’s post for cross-referencing XD  Also, this is probably too much detail for most people, but I want to remember it!

About a month before the con, crazyloststar and I came up with the idea to do Greed!Ling and Briggs!Ed for a convention in January, but then decided we needed to do it for Yaoi-con as a surprise to sky_dark, on top of the FAKE cosplay we’d already planned on doing.  Yaoi-con is three days, so we’d have a cosplay for each day, but only a month to make four cosplays, two for each of us.  And what was worse, we had to keep one of them a big secret.  SO DIFFICULT.  But we managed!

Many thanks to rattmice, sky_dark, psycholullaby, inugrlrayn, and militsa for the photos.  You can find out whose pictures are whose by checking out the image name.

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So I’m still in California!

This came as a mild surprise to me upon returning from Anime Expo–for once, when the festivities ended, I did not pack up my things and get on a plane, foregoing physical peer contact for months into the future.  Nope, I got all my things back into a car and then I came home to an apartment not so far away, still in the company of crazyloststar.  And that’s totally awesome.  We had shabu shabu for dinner, and that was also awesome.

My first AX was a very good time, though it had its dubious moments, such as the one where some group in charge of some part of the shuttle process decided that only those people whose names were actually listed on their hotel rooms could ride the shuttle to the hotels.  Anyone who has ever been to an anime convention knows that, for good reason, not all parties in a room are on the room bill.  This presented a large problem.  Luckily, some registration officials were less strict about the rule, and the problem was solved (for our room, at least), but I would expect it to be enforced more universally next year, since we will have apparently learned how it works by then.  But it remains to be seen.

Still had an awesome time among awesome company.  Only bought for myself 3 doujin at the Yaoi-con booth price, which is far less than I usually spend.  I had taken two cosplays, but one had a partner cosplay that didn’t work out in time, so I rather happily stuck to the movie!Roy.  Eventually I will have something new, something different, but it’s a good fallback that I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of.

Highlights of the con were:

• being recognized with crazyloststar through livejournal
• learning some Para Para
• actually going to the rave
• the Ghost Stories dub
• Paprika
• MEETING LACIDIANA FINALLY
• SEEING THEREGALTIGRESS AGAIN
• discovering that one of the doujin featured Hyuroi in a phonebooth
• peanut butter [and jelly] sandwiches around 4pm in the hotel room
• meeting new people!

We did have a string of rotten convention-related incidents leading up to, and slightly overlapping, the convention, but all in all it worked out and it was good times.  The swelling from my sunburn from the beach last weekend had gone down enough that I wasn’t too bothered by it, which was a blessing.  I’m only glad I was so covered by my cosplay that I didn’t have to worry about the random red/tan skin patterns.

And now, I have other things to think about!  This includes finding a job, temporary or otherwise; planning out upcoming cosplays; possibly writing something for y-con; and reading 07-Ghost, which we learned about through the con.  Huzzah!

One of these days I’d love to start and maintain a blog about something clever, funny, and/or interesting, but I still haven’t come up with the idea.  (Presumably I have the education.)  Until then, I’ve only got this.  Personal fodder is always in abundance.

I recently told my supervisor about my plans to book it on the 20th of June.  \o/  It was earlier than the requisite 3 weeks, and they could have decided just to let me go instead of letting me work until THE VERY END, but she said they’d keep me as long as they could.  And I may or may not have to train someone, which keeps me occupied.  When idle, I often maintain an involuntary internal monologue wherein I explain things.  If I didn’t dislike children so much, I’d be a teacher.

Here’s the part in the post where–OMG I MISS CRAZYLOSTSTAR LIKE BURNING

I mean, here’s the part where I name some random things that I’m into lately.  (BUT SERIOUSLY I DO, SHE IS ABROAD FOR LIKE A MILLION YEARS, OMG COME BACK, BUT ALSO HAVE A GOOD TIME)

I never mentioned Torchwood, but I’m totally into it even though I don’t have cable, or I didn’t have cable before I reverted to parental living.  The Captain Jack Harkness episode was everything I’d wanted and never expected out of it, and maybe out of television in general. ohnom.  Also I’m all antsy for the Supernatural finale that I can’t watch yet ad;jdfj DEEEEAN.

There were some other things I think I meant to say, but apparently I have trouble recapping.  I also am having trouble focusing on anything but the night of June 19th and the events that will follow.  I don’t know if it’s really sunk in, yet.  I should be more scared, but at this point my optimism just can’t be bothered to worry.  It was just a short time ago that “zomg why aren’t we closer together” became an actual question to me, and there just wasn’t a valid answer for it.  It was barely two months ago that I thought maybe this huge change in my life just might be possible, with some help.  It’s been a crazy turn of events even since then.  And I know once I begin to anticipate the departure realistically, once it’s two weeks, or one week away instead of just sometime in the future, I’m going to be a lot more nervous, a lot more incredulous that I thought I could do this.  But we all have that reaction to big changes when they are soon to be a reality.  It’s always more comfortable in the rut, but it’s not necessarily the right place to be, and not going is just not an option.

HOHO so anyway, Dad’s phone broke, and he can’t get a new one until I’m off the plan (and he can renew the contract), so I now have a new plan, or I will when the phone arrives.  I haven’t had a new phone in about 3 or 4 years, so I’m also excited for that, even if it’s an unexpected expense at a bad time.  My economic relief check was also not the $600 I was expecting, and lulz I forgot my final gas bill was going to be huge.  Yay for my parents. \o/ ?

OH but one other thing that makes me excited is that on our cross-country trip, I’ll finally have an awesome reason to use Twitter!   So we can chronicle our grueling 4-day journey for anyone wondering if we’ll ever get there.

And now I have to watch Stephen Colbert, because he is insanely adorable.

I MISS CRAZYLOSTSTAR.