Thursday, October 27, 2005

Ok, my trip, in all of it's loveliness.

Last Tuesday: Decide I'm gonna leave on Tuesday night instead of Wednesday afternoon. But it's my sister's birthday. So stay til dinner, then leave Chicago like 8 or 9 pm. Start heading to Tyler.

Last Wednesday: Get to Tyler. Check into the Best Western there. Head over to this BBQ place where Kayoubi works, and meet her for the first time. First thoughts....man is she cute. Head over to the local mall/arcade, get some PPP and other stuff in. She calls saying she's done with work, but then angry mom call, so home she must go.

Last Thursday: Wake up, meet Kayoubi and her friend Amanda for Starbucks. They go to school, I go back to the hotel room. Around 3pm, I head over to the mall, but I'm lacking cell phone service. Tyler was a weird town as far as cell signal went... Seeing how I'm waiting for Kayoubi to call, I head back to the hotel. Which is exactly when she gets to the mall. Go figure. I go back, we go shopping, good stuff. Do some random driving around, then go back to the mall. Meet her mom and the local arcade people. A group decides to go to this park thing, and I follow. It's 5 people... Amanda and her bf, Kayoubi, Joseph, me. Kayoubi's seemingly hitting on Joseph while Amanda and her bf do their thing. Thus making me feel like the meaningless 5th wheel. As often as I was the 5th wheel when hanging out with other people, I started feeling down and depressed, and they all could tell. Well, that, and I was hoping she'd flirt with me, but oh well... Go back to her place as a group, then her and Amanda retire for the night.

Friday: Wake up hella early, cause I'm driving Kayoubi and Amanda to the con. Get to their place, they're not even up yet. XD Wake em up, get packed, get driving. Get to Houston, and switch into Kankuro in the car. Run in to Geoff and Kim right when I walk in. Get the badge, then start meeting up with random people of awesomeness. Minty, Phlinx, Levi, Newbeh, Suger, others. Call Marzgurl to see where they are, still a ways off. No biggie. Head out to my car to get some awesome cd's, then blare some Euro on my little boombox. A Naruto Para Para group forms! Not much going on with the con, so I go get some other CD's. Notice a sign saying parking is 20 bucks a day.....call Marzgurl to inform. Says they're almost there, so wait for them in the lobby. They all get there, we check in to the room. Very nice room. We didn't have the mold infested, curtains slashed, fire alarm missing, roach motel; problems that lot of other people had. All we had was a missing light fixture that wasn't really missed. My only real complaint was the low-flo toilets. How you had to flush like 3 or 4 times to get everything down... But I digress. Take a shower, get out of Kankuro, and relax for a while. Not much con wise that I'm interested in, so I just do random stuff. Kayoubi wants to hot tub, so I switch to my suit. Kevin from Marz's group joins, as does Amanda. Kayoubi's flirting with Kevin now. =( Half an hour later, I get out (much to everyone's disappointment), and try to go on a booze run. But NOOOOOOOOO......damn liquor stores close at 9pm. WTF?!? So I just buy a 6-pk of Smirnoff for the girls and call it a bust. Get back, drink, Kayoubi leaves for the night. Leaving me to talk to Amanda. We talked for a good hour or so. She is so totally cool. I then decide to get my sticks and head to the dance. First the Masq Ball, where I run in to Danzig and Kim, and they say it sucks. Yeah, it did. Then to Greg Ayer's, and raved for a bit with Phlinx, but I just couldn't get in to the music. Went to sleep.

Saturday: Woke up, went exploring. Lots of people in Naruto stuff, so I head back to the room and throw Kanky on. And just in time too cause there was a pretty decent sized photoshoot going on when I got downstairs. I missed most of it, but oh well. Plus, at this point, I had my cd with We Like To Party, so that was cool. Karasu's really starting to fall apart at this point. Go to the Para Para panel with Levi, and we pwn everyone. XD Then more photoshoot stuff, including the giant Naruto mob against the giant Bleach mob. Then I head up to the room and throw my Texas stuff on. Take over a TV, and watch the Texas/Texas Tech game. XD Now at this point, I was originally supposed to go out on a "date" with Kayoubi. I was gonna take her to Olive Garden, then go from there. These plans were made long before she started going out with her boyfriend, but I knew they probably wouldn't happen, for one reason or another. And to be honest.....with the amount of being ignored that I was getting from her..... I didn't really want to go out. Plus, she was saying she didn't want to leave for an hour and get nailed by her parents and junk. So whatever. Didn't happen. So instead, I order some pizzas for me and the roomies, and watch the Sox/Astros game. Amanda calls, I invite her over for some pizza too. Good times. After the game, change into Raver Kankuro, and head out. But the band is still playing in the room we're supposed to have the rave in.... I run into Kei, and he says they're moving the rave to PR1. So we head out. Run in to Phlinx and a couple of the other Raver Ninjas. And we rave.......til the hotel turns the lights on, and basically tells us to get the fuck out cause they're shutting us down. This had been a longstanding issue with the hotel all weekend....the way they were treating con-attendees, saying we all had to be in our rooms by 2am, and all this other bullshit.. A mini-riot breaks out, and a dozen-man march to the front desk begins. Phlinx and I stay behind, kinda bummed, but whatever. The small group of us that are left head out to the gazeebo area, and I start beat-boxing a bit. We have a small makeshift thing going for a couple minutes. That was pretty amusing. Then I head up to the room to see if I can find Kaylyn to film me complaining about the hotel. (much like the Ushi video) She's not there, so I head back down. Run in to her, and while filming the rant, find out they moved the dance to Main Programming, so we all just go there, and the raving continues. And that was pretty much it. See an extremely cute girl, but this is me... I don't say anything, and only afterwards think of it. XD After the dance, got to sleep.

Sunday: Woke up in an EXTREME amount of pain. My arms and legs were killing me. (they still are actually) But yeah. Showered, packed, loaded up, then went to Shoneys for breakfast. Kayoubi calls saying she's being forced to leave, and Andrew calls saying they need me at the Pose Off. So much for a quick bite to eat. XD Head to my car, get the stuff that Kayoubi/Amanda left in it, call Kayoubi back, no answer. =/ Call Amanda, answers. Give her the stuff, then head to the Pose Off. Never did get to say bye to Kayoubi... And actually......we haven't spoken since. Maybe if she didn't ignore me as much over the course of the weekend..... Sigh... So she probably hates me now. But oh well. Catch the last half of the Pose Off. (Danzig, I still have my killer idea for a 2-person pose if you ever want to use it) Then sit around with Newbeh and Suger while Kaylyn films people for her movie. Then we go to Make the Grade, then hang out for FullMetal Fantasy. Then we head out. Stop a couple times on the way back. (Bucky's! It's a beaver!!) We have to go to Kaylyn's house first. Over the weekend, her insurance company called saying her car that was in the shop being rear-ended back in like June or July was a total loss, and yeah... So her parents got a new car, and we had to pick it up. So we head out to Canyon, do that, then head back to San Antonio. At this point, I'm pretty tired, so it's sleep time.

Monday: Woke up, played Naruto UH2 with Andrew, Josh came over, and we started heading up to Austin. I won't go in to the events that happened next because....well........I STILL have no clue what the fuck happened.... And I was there for it.... All I know it was a lot of childish immaturity, and totally dragged my day into the shitter. But then hanging out with the Ushi boardies at Main Event cheered me up. ^_^ (Kris-Kon... XD) Even the ever elusive Tala showed up. *gasp* j/k XD So yeah. The youngins got kicked out at 10, so everyone pretty much left. Talked with Newbeh, Alora, and Eric outside aboot FFXI til like 11:30, then started heading back to SA. Got back to the apartment, and then we watched FF7:AC, since I bought the DVD at the con. (granted, bootleg.... but still) Didn't go to sleep til like 4am. ^^;;

Tuesday: Woke up around noon, started watching Full Metal Panic, which is quite good actually, then left around 2pm. Had to stop in Austin again to talk to Grandma, and yeah. Avoided all traffic for the most part, which is always a good thing. b^_^ Started listening to the Sox/Astros game on the radio in Dallas.... As long as that damn thing went, I was in Missouri by the time it was over. XDXD Went to sleep around 2am at the evil rest stop in Joplin that I swore I would never stop at again... x.x;;;;

Wednesday: Woke up around 8, got back to driving. Talked to random people on AIM, and kept checking the Ushi boards. Yes, I was bored out of my mind in my car... Plus my knee REALLY started killing me... But oh well. Talked to Tala about some random stuff, and promised her I'd do my best to help. b^_^ I hope I did a good job, and finally gave her the slap in the face she's been needing for a while now. Then after she talks about her stuff, I mention the cute girl at the rave. To which she knew who she was.. ^^;;; But anyhow... Got home about 6:30, and started checking stuff online. Forums, emails, etc. I had 400 emails on my AOL name to sift thru, 100 emails at work, and yeah... But I got thru it all. Then out of nowhere, Bunny-Chan IM's me. ^^;;;;; We talk for a bit. She's 15.... >_<;;; Further proof to my logic that states any cute girl you see at an anime con is either already with someone, or 16. ;;_;; Stayed up to watch the Sox sweep the Astros, and yeah... Went to bed around midnight, which was stupid of me...

Today: Worked at 5am. I hate my fucking job.... Not being here a week, then coming back to sheer hell.... Yeah.... -_-;;;;;;


So yeah. There's my vacation report. Some cool stuff happened, some not cool stuff happened. Nothing special happened. Now we wait 3 months, and see what happens when I go back down for Ushicon/Yoko Ishida. Will Ushicon finally be where Kris finds someone?

Probably not. But who knows.
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