Not entirely GIP!
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40cakesPictures will be later, but for now...
Casey's Magical Deep Space Future Con Action!
Thursday: Went through airline security with no problems. Had a muffin, met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
irenak, talked about politics, ethics, and Spuffy. Took two half-filled planes to Cincinatti, then Columbus. Met up with arafel and greyvorfeed, then jaina picked us up! Caught up with sarcasticval at the hotel, and then on to Gameworks! Ladies' Night! Played DDR, Guitar Freaks (FUN), and some Sky Pirates (OMG RILLY RILLY FUN). We then retired to watch some Heat Guy J, I believe. Dubbed, of course, because of JYB as Claire Leonelli (who is now called "Evil Vash"). And then, Kare Kano, because I like the manga, but I fell asleep last time we watched some. True to form, I fell asleep again.
Friday: Got up at 7 and threw on clothes to go register (Pre-reg is against my religion. My mantra: LAZY.) Other people seemed to think registration started at 7, because they were there with me. Unfortunately, it started at 9. Waiting for two hours outweighed going back upstairs, sleeping, and coming back down later. Also, by waiting in line, I got to see the confused expressions of members of two other conventions scheduled at the same time: The Board of Elections ("Cool! Support gay marriage!"), and a bunch of Army fellows. Nothing like seeing senior citizens get wide-eyed at a girl in a green wig and a tiger-striped bikini at 8 am.
Went to Best Buy and GameStop. Picked up Sailor Moon SuperS 1-3 on DVD for $8 each. WHOOT. Didn't pick up anything at Best Buy, hoping there would be really good prices at the con.
Hit the Dealer's Room. Not a lot of new/different stuff or really good prices, except that I FINALLY got the Fujiko Mine figure I've been looking for for about a year. She x Lupin figure OTP. I also picked up Hellsing: Raid and FLCL: Addict Soundtracks, Haibane Renmei 2&3 on DVD, the Utena movie artbook, and a few "interesting" doujin. Horrifying scans will follow. Ooh, and RILLY COOL little Mirielle keychain ^_^
Went to bd's - a neato Mongolian barbecue that I enjoyed and luckilyarafel rules and spotted me money because Casey is teh dum and did not go to ATM before dinner. Domo arigatou gozaimasu [/fangirl japanese]. Came back, watched some Haibane Renmei, some Witch Hunter Robin (insecure Vash!), and played some Soul Calibur II and Dynasty Warriors 4 (both of which involved me having my ass handed to me on a silver platter, with a hollandaise sauce and white wine [He was gay and Nick had no clue]).
Saturday: Day of early wakey wakey. AMVs at 11, and of course I voted forjaina, not because she is my friend, but because Hallelujah is teh good. My problem with the AMVs was that a lot of vidoes felt misfiled. There was a nice comedy video that was under the "action" category. So I can't vote for it, because though it was a good comedy video, I'm supposed to be picking if it's a good action video, compared to other action videos, and oy vey.
WANKFEST! Inu-Yasha voice actor panel. Three of the most patient people in the universe. I applaud you, I do.
ADV voice actor panel totally ruled. Amanda Winn-Lee wasn't there, and no one even brought up her absence. I think she was still hungover. Monica Rial and Tiffany Grant are awesome, and I guess Greg Ayers had a neat hairstyle. Matt Greenfield is the "voice" of the EVAs. Who knew? Got Monica and Tiffany's autographs on my Noir box (Monica's autograph smudged on the trip home ;_; ), and pic of the two of them. Monica liked my purse. :p
Hung around the Dealer's Room a little bit more, and bought GTO 7, Black Heaven 1, Noir 5&6, and Lupin the 3rd 5.
Founddialogue! Found sushi! Sushi was good. As was edamame, which I now love. And banana fritters and mochi ice cream. dialogue brought me "Doko wa RUM?", my fake doujin cover commissioned at Otakon. I heart.
And then we decided to takejaina's laptop to artist's alley and hold up a sign proclaiming "Will Write Smut for Attention!" (As well as "VxM OTP!!!!1", "We will accept Pocky and money in lieu of attention," and "Free special for VALL members!") We got a lot of requests. Hopefully we can get them out rather quickly. I'm really looking forward to irenak's though. Spike Girl x Wiry One OTP!
We were only gonna do that for 15 minutes or so. An hour and a half later, we retired to watch Pretear and the Big O. Hee, Big O is neat once I get past "OMG it looks liek Batman."
Sunday: was a sad day ;_;arafel left us early, and then there were 5. sarcasticval packed up her stuff and left with her boyfriend, and we said tearful bye byes.
And then we checked out. The hotel said it had accomodations for luggage to be checked, should anyone want to stick around post-checkout time. We inquired. "Just have the valet pull your car around, stick your luggage in it, and have him park it again," was his reply. So we waited. And waited. And waited. We finally notice the van has been brought up, but parked not in the line of sight of anyone waiting by the front doors. The valet gets all rude withgreyvorfeed, who is not someone to get rude with. By the time we've gotten into the van (45 minutes later, at least), we're just tired and hungry and don't feel like stopping by anything else. Drove to the airport, had some lunch.
Our flight got cancelled! Delta says our flight has been cancelled, but we've been redirected to another flight at 3:55pm (earlier) if we'd like. Sure, why not, get home earlier equals good. Booked with United Airlines now. United says we're with US Airways. Go to US Airways. SCORE! Let Rob know he had to pick me up earlier.
Said sad goodbye tojaina, as our love is forbidden by security. And then we got searched! I think they were only doing it to people who had changed/cancelled flights, because they searched irenak also, but not greyvorfeed. Hmm. Luckily, America's Women: 400 Years of Heroines is a patriotic-lookin' book, and was stacked on top of dirty, dirty, wrong doujinshi. So when they searched my carryon, they didn't find those. Whew. I think that book, plus Sailor Moon SuperS DVDs on top held up my secret identity as "Just your average, adorable, innocent girl! Tee hee!"
greyvorfeed stayed with us until our flight showed up; she stil had at least another hour to wait. Hugs and promises to bring her doujin to translate :) as we said goodbye. Flight was straight through, Columbus to Philly. Whoot. Rob was there to pick me up ^_^, and luggage arrived at a reasonable time and with no beatups or scrapes n stuff. Finally, hugged irenak goodbye. We should go to Dave and Buster's sometime.
Sniff. Fun times. Oh, and, new icon!
>^..^
Casey's Magical Deep Space Future Con Action!
Thursday: Went through airline security with no problems. Had a muffin, met up with
irenak, talked about politics, ethics, and Spuffy. Took two half-filled planes to Cincinatti, then Columbus. Met up with arafel and greyvorfeed, then jaina picked us up! Caught up with sarcasticval at the hotel, and then on to Gameworks! Ladies' Night! Played DDR, Guitar Freaks (FUN), and some Sky Pirates (OMG RILLY RILLY FUN). We then retired to watch some Heat Guy J, I believe. Dubbed, of course, because of JYB as Claire Leonelli (who is now called "Evil Vash"). And then, Kare Kano, because I like the manga, but I fell asleep last time we watched some. True to form, I fell asleep again.Friday: Got up at 7 and threw on clothes to go register (Pre-reg is against my religion. My mantra: LAZY.) Other people seemed to think registration started at 7, because they were there with me. Unfortunately, it started at 9. Waiting for two hours outweighed going back upstairs, sleeping, and coming back down later. Also, by waiting in line, I got to see the confused expressions of members of two other conventions scheduled at the same time: The Board of Elections ("Cool! Support gay marriage!"), and a bunch of Army fellows. Nothing like seeing senior citizens get wide-eyed at a girl in a green wig and a tiger-striped bikini at 8 am.
Went to Best Buy and GameStop. Picked up Sailor Moon SuperS 1-3 on DVD for $8 each. WHOOT. Didn't pick up anything at Best Buy, hoping there would be really good prices at the con.
Hit the Dealer's Room. Not a lot of new/different stuff or really good prices, except that I FINALLY got the Fujiko Mine figure I've been looking for for about a year. She x Lupin figure OTP. I also picked up Hellsing: Raid and FLCL: Addict Soundtracks, Haibane Renmei 2&3 on DVD, the Utena movie artbook, and a few "interesting" doujin. Horrifying scans will follow. Ooh, and RILLY COOL little Mirielle keychain ^_^
Went to bd's - a neato Mongolian barbecue that I enjoyed and luckily
arafel rules and spotted me money because Casey is teh dum and did not go to ATM before dinner. Domo arigatou gozaimasu [/fangirl japanese]. Came back, watched some Haibane Renmei, some Witch Hunter Robin (insecure Vash!), and played some Soul Calibur II and Dynasty Warriors 4 (both of which involved me having my ass handed to me on a silver platter, with a hollandaise sauce and white wine [He was gay and Nick had no clue]).Saturday: Day of early wakey wakey. AMVs at 11, and of course I voted for
jaina, not because she is my friend, but because Hallelujah is teh good. My problem with the AMVs was that a lot of vidoes felt misfiled. There was a nice comedy video that was under the "action" category. So I can't vote for it, because though it was a good comedy video, I'm supposed to be picking if it's a good action video, compared to other action videos, and oy vey. WANKFEST! Inu-Yasha voice actor panel. Three of the most patient people in the universe. I applaud you, I do.
ADV voice actor panel totally ruled. Amanda Winn-Lee wasn't there, and no one even brought up her absence. I think she was still hungover. Monica Rial and Tiffany Grant are awesome, and I guess Greg Ayers had a neat hairstyle. Matt Greenfield is the "voice" of the EVAs. Who knew? Got Monica and Tiffany's autographs on my Noir box (Monica's autograph smudged on the trip home ;_; ), and pic of the two of them. Monica liked my purse. :p
Hung around the Dealer's Room a little bit more, and bought GTO 7, Black Heaven 1, Noir 5&6, and Lupin the 3rd 5.
Found
dialogue! Found sushi! Sushi was good. As was edamame, which I now love. And banana fritters and mochi ice cream. dialogue brought me "Doko wa RUM?", my fake doujin cover commissioned at Otakon. I heart.And then we decided to take
jaina's laptop to artist's alley and hold up a sign proclaiming "Will Write Smut for Attention!" (As well as "VxM OTP!!!!1", "We will accept Pocky and money in lieu of attention," and "Free special for VALL members!") We got a lot of requests. Hopefully we can get them out rather quickly. I'm really looking forward to irenak's though. Spike Girl x Wiry One OTP!We were only gonna do that for 15 minutes or so. An hour and a half later, we retired to watch Pretear and the Big O. Hee, Big O is neat once I get past "OMG it looks liek Batman."
Sunday: was a sad day ;_;
arafel left us early, and then there were 5. sarcasticval packed up her stuff and left with her boyfriend, and we said tearful bye byes. And then we checked out. The hotel said it had accomodations for luggage to be checked, should anyone want to stick around post-checkout time. We inquired. "Just have the valet pull your car around, stick your luggage in it, and have him park it again," was his reply. So we waited. And waited. And waited. We finally notice the van has been brought up, but parked not in the line of sight of anyone waiting by the front doors. The valet gets all rude with
greyvorfeed, who is not someone to get rude with. By the time we've gotten into the van (45 minutes later, at least), we're just tired and hungry and don't feel like stopping by anything else. Drove to the airport, had some lunch. Our flight got cancelled! Delta says our flight has been cancelled, but we've been redirected to another flight at 3:55pm (earlier) if we'd like. Sure, why not, get home earlier equals good. Booked with United Airlines now. United says we're with US Airways. Go to US Airways. SCORE! Let Rob know he had to pick me up earlier.
Said sad goodbye to
jaina, as our love is forbidden by security. And then we got searched! I think they were only doing it to people who had changed/cancelled flights, because they searched irenak also, but not greyvorfeed. Hmm. Luckily, America's Women: 400 Years of Heroines is a patriotic-lookin' book, and was stacked on top of dirty, dirty, wrong doujinshi. So when they searched my carryon, they didn't find those. Whew. I think that book, plus Sailor Moon SuperS DVDs on top held up my secret identity as "Just your average, adorable, innocent girl! Tee hee!"greyvorfeed stayed with us until our flight showed up; she stil had at least another hour to wait. Hugs and promises to bring her doujin to translate :) as we said goodbye. Flight was straight through, Columbus to Philly. Whoot. Rob was there to pick me up ^_^, and luggage arrived at a reasonable time and with no beatups or scrapes n stuff. Finally, hugged irenak goodbye. We should go to Dave and Buster's sometime.Sniff. Fun times. Oh, and, new icon!
>^..^
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Date: 2004-01-25 09:21 pm (UTC)I love how your icon seems to say just "will write smut." NO qualifier for Casey, the equal-opportunity perv.
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Date: 2004-01-25 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-26 05:01 pm (UTC)>^..^
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Date: 2004-01-26 08:42 am (UTC)Oh, and lurve the icon. Tee hee.
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Date: 2004-01-26 09:53 am (UTC)::sigh:: Post-con wind down is always a little sad. Although the ability to actually, y'know, sleep is kinda nice. ^_^
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Date: 2004-01-26 05:08 pm (UTC)>^..^
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Date: 2004-01-26 05:13 pm (UTC)I wish we had otaku on our plane. Teh snif.
>^..^<
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Date: 2004-01-26 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-30 11:48 am (UTC)anywho, were you the chick in the leopard bikini and green wig? if so... WHY?!
and somehow I feel as if I should be saying 'you kids with your internet speak'. I barely made it through the entry....am I allowed to put "well versed in 'netspeak'" on my resume? I'd put it second to Spanish.
WOO! CONS!
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Date: 2004-01-30 06:16 pm (UTC)LOL. NOOOOOO.
Also, my magical post appears when it chooses. It's like Brigadoon in a way.
>^..^