Saturday, February 10, 2007

Sry for not posting all year....what can I say it's been interesting in all it's mundane glory. Let's see where to start well I guess I'll start on New Year's. Went to a party at my friends house and found out that I'm getting the rights to put the program for RealmsCon together back....yay. That night there was a lot of Guitar Hero playing and other people drinking, I had a sip of a buttery nipple but left it at only one sip since I was DD and usually don't drink at all. The next day my father wrecks his truck by driving into a mail box, three fences, and a jungle gym...apparently his breaks weren't working. He's perfectly fine it's just the truck was going to cost more than it was worth to repair it so they opted to scrap it instead. So for a while he had a rental car and then after about two weeks my family was down one car. Oh but it gets better, about three weeks ago he blows two gaskets (sp?) on MY car (I shared both my car and my mom's van to go to school and anime club) and that we finally got fixed and got it back monday *convienient to get it AFTER Ikkicon* and then Thursday night he messes up the ignition T_T I'm never letting my dad drive my car again. School.....well it's going, I'm trying to be more serious and focused.....ended up dropping one class already I hope I don't have to drop anymore. I've already missed a lot of days there in each of my classes for different reasons (health, lack of car, missing bus when said car doesn't come home in time, catching bus only to arrive late when car is still out, and then the horrible sleeping in late). So yeah last weekend I went up to Austin all alone for Ikkicon. For the longest time I had thought that it was a 2nd or 3rd year con before I went up there only to find out it was the 1st although they had been advertising it for like 2 years already. Two of my biggest complaints were dealing with the similar issue of one thing SPACE/PLANNING. The hotel it was at was tiny I mean it was 5 floors and still under construction not to mention that where they had most of the con (viewing rooms, game room, dealer's room and most of artist alley) was bottle necked just with those things in those positions but then you add people and it's nearly impossible to move freely...sometimes at all. Oh and there was the part of being promised crash space only to find out that 11pm Friday night after my shift had been over for like 5 hours after I had to spend all night convincing my mother to let me take the greyhound bus for 6 hours to get to Austin that the crash rooms they had promised us volunteers was still NOT available. That night my mom ended up contacting one of my distant cousins and I stayed at her place...which was nice not having to share a room with anyone....and that she fed me, yay for more money for the dealers room. The next night I ran into problems with the whole crash space issue again b/c by the time my shift was over no one was really heading over to the crash space which was at another hotel that I never found out where that was.....also no one would be coming back by 6 AM when my next shift was so I just ended up staying in the video room until about an hour or two before the last autograph session of the con. I got every VA that was there at Ikkicon to sign something for me...although Greg Ayres wasn't at that session but I had luckily gotten him to sign my Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok vol. 5 DVD cover the night before at the Nerima Daikon Brothers panel. Everyone else save Greg Ayres and Chris Patton (who I also got to sign my Loki DVD cover) I got them to sign my Death Note...lol. As far as stuff I bought I didn't really get a lot of stuff but I think I got some really cool stuff. I got two custom badges one with Tamaki and the other with Kyouya (Ouran Koukou Host Club) they had the other hosts as well but I didn't want to spend all that much just on badges. I got a Death Note clock (it's analog but really I...like most people bought it for the beautiful artwork...I got one of the last ones with Light and L XD), a moogle hat, a menchi hat, season 2 of Super GALS!, some marbles with anime characters in them *it was a dollar I didn't see the harm in it* and for working the con I got Loveless vol. 1 for free WOOT. I'm still debating over weather it was really worth it to go, although I think if I had even one friend go with me like they had promised I wouldn't have complained once. Oh yeah there I also saw a few new series/recent licenses nothing really OMG you have to see this, just ones that I had heard about that was semi interested in and didn't really care overly for....also they kind of ran the video room oddly for an anime convention in the sense that if the title was on DVD and was dubbed they showed the dub rather than doing dub only on NEW releases :/ I thought that was really weird but the head of that section was said it was because "This is an American con, we should promote the American industries" Anime club has been going fairly well last night we started semi late or rather we cut into more than half of our preshow (amv) time because my dad still had the car until like 4:30 and usually I'm there by that time in order to get everything uploaded in time....I got there at 5 T_T Oh yeah since I haven't been here all year T_T I still need to say what we are watching this semester. Well we are still doing HunterXHunter, and then we are also watching: Princess Tutu Good Witch of the West Tactics Black Cat Muteki Kanban Musume (or Noodle Fighter Miki) and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (since I took out the weekly sampler) Yeah I decided against doing a weekly sampler this semester since it was annoying to a lot of people to start up these great shows only to end it where we started with episode 1. Also it was somewhat time consuming on my part having to plan and find good GOOD anime that I think we would all be interested in and for the most part they had to be comedy since most of the crowd isn't into dark/angst.....or UBER shoujo either. Well that's pretty much been my year so far, sorry for not posting anything sooner....I've been terrible about doing much of anything on the internet these days but I promise I try my best to do weekly posting again....if not at least put up some fun videos and stuff for you to watch. Alright so let's go ahead and close this in the usual way.... Last Anime Seen: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (at club last night....yeah haven't watched anything since then...so bad) That's all for now.....See you on the otherside.

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