Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Hey Everyone!!! Wow a lot has happend since the last posting...mainly RealmsCon stuff speaking of which that finally happend this weekend and I'm still trying to recover. RealmsCon REPORT I am sorry in advance for this super long posting: THURSDAY: Thursday night we had our volunteers meeting an got our badges...which Daniel forgot to make mine T_T so I was bitter and pretended like I was going to take away my computers and be emo for the duration of the con...as a guest...but they took care of it and made me a rocking staff badge that I got Friday morning which I should have gotten sooner but I think it is better I got it then since he was starting to look for my name in the gopher badges and that would have seriously restricted my movement later during the con. FRIDAY: In the morning we did some last minute programming to all the comps and at 8AM we opened up the rooms...well the anime rooms anyways and started things up, our horror/anime room didn't go up until like 8PM because we were missing a special cable /sigh oh well at least it was our American Horror day so we really didn't care all that much. I did some errands in the morning for Rebeca and then went to finally get my hair dyed so I could cosplay Renji but Irma *the lady I go to for my hair* did it darker than I had really wanted but it still came out nice looking so I opted not to cosplay Renji but still wore my Shinigami outfit....I didn't take any pics of that sadly. Ran around making sure everything was running well with the viewing rooms....and for a while I was scared that I was going to be late to work my shift only to find out that we were NOT going to be vending in our two anime rooms since Daniel only got 3 boxes of Ramune, at least that freed up a lot of our anime club members to work other parts of the con. A bit later we were all scrambling to get things ready and done and my captain Rebeca was set upstairs to rest because by this point in time she was SERIOUSLY sick, so I took control of the viewing rooms and panels. At around 3....maybe 4 we were told that Vic Mignonga and Jeff Easly were needing to be picked up from the airport and the only ones that were available to pick him up were Kali and myself, Nick was nowhere to be found at that point so I offered since Kali is a bit too fangirl.....anyways shortly before I had to leave I found Nick and took him with me. When I had gotten off the van to find Vic and Jeff I heard someone calling my name...I wasn't expecting that at all and I thought the voice sounded very familiar, and then I heard it again and saw Vic putting away a cell phone. ^_^ then sent Vic and Jeff off with Nick and searched for James O'Barr at the airport since his plane had landed over an hour ago and no one had heard from him...only to find out that he was not coming at all T_T. Got back to the hotel and made sure that everything was running well with panels and the viewing rooms. Later I had to drive back to the airport and rush Stephanie Cheateau to the hotel so we could get everything set in place for the treasure hunt....she's really cool, and way into pirates ^_^. Later that night we had a shoujo slumber party and as a special treat Kevin *the president of anime club, theatre guy, and the guy in charge of events* got two of his friends from theatre to do a kind of Host Club kind of thing so we had there at the Shoujo Slumber Party Tamaki and Hani...as well as Renge since I cosplayed her once again and took charge most of the SSP. Our Hani was great and I had even made him a Bun-bun/Usa-chan which all the girls absolutly loved him especially when he was starting to fade and was trying to sleep with it against the wall. I sent him home early because he was actually starting to get sick and I wanted him to be healthly. Our Tamaki was great he even had me get mad at him a few times, he also had to leave before the SSP ended T_T but that was because of somewhat different reasons and he came back the next day wanting to be Tamaki again. Early early moring I got draged out of the room and up to mine by my mom and was forced to sleep....I'm glad she did that otherwise I wouldn't have made it for the rest of the con. Saturday was total chaos and fun. I barely even remember what happend, but I know I spent most of the day running back and forth between the first and third floor making sure that panel and the viewing rooms were running well. Had my AMV panel which I wanted to cry for all the technical difficulties I had but we got through it and I taught everyone...hopefully....some of the dos and dont's of AMVs as well as showed them some good amvs/creators to look to for inspiration. Hit the dealers room once to get two prizes for the raffle we had during the movie marathon. Which we had a HUGE crowd show up for....at least in the beginning for the FMA movie which we did show in English since Vic was there and that is his movie....also in case he was wanting to show up there as well...pocky whore. Which that was a nightmare to set up for since the DVD player that we had was already showing us that it did not like FUNimation DVDs with all their extra angels and such but we got Kevin's laptop and after about 10 minutes of trying to get it to work with us/the projector we premiered the FMA movie. and started to raffle off 5 DVDs and 2 plushies: Angelic Layer signed, Panyo Panyo Digi Charat signed, DNAngel signed by Vic, two other DVDs I can't think of at the moment, as well as a Yuki costume and a Shigure costume plushies. I actually ended up winning Panyo Panyo Digi Charat signed by Tiffany Grant and George Manely. SUNDAY: Ran around the hotel making sure everything was going alright had Chi take over panels completely for me this time and focused on the viewing rooms and making sure anything/everything else I could help with went well. At around noon went home really super quickly to get two of the AMV entries that I forgot at home and then started to set up things in the room....by the time the contest started the room was packed I think we may have had more people in there than we did for the FMA movie O.O Two of the other members of anime club/projectionist/friends of mine/former amv creators were judges as I asked since they were unbiased and hadn't seen them all at least twice....and couldn't be swayed by the crowd. We had a bunch of Final Fantasy videos this year....oh and we only picked 1st, 2nd and fan favorite which I listened to see what the fans liked the best which it was a 3 way tie and I asked everyone again after judging was decided to choose between the 3 again and I ended up winning fan favorite...I think since I had the ONLY FMA AMV.....kinda sad as well since I only entered it because we didn't really have that many submissions and I wanted to make it last and seem more like a contest so I entered that video....my heart was racing the entire time it was playing. Since I won fan favorite I got the COMPLETE Kiddy Grade BOX SET signed by Mike McFarland....the day before we were also trying to get Vic to sign more stuff for us to give away but he never got to it T_T I wanted Dextra's sig on my pretty box...oh well. We also ended up closing a bit earlier than expected.....around 6 we were planning for 8 but it was good that we closed since most everyone was already gone and our volunteers were starting to die on us. Later we all got into one of our former viewing rooms and discussed things about the con and gave away some swag to our great volunteers, I got a little figure of Kadaj, as well as a Cat-eared hat for winning last year's amv contest...heh. We also had free ramune for all our worker and a bit later our pro photographer ordered us all pizza and brought cake since it was his birthday. All that was left was to pack up the cars and leave. All in all it was a good fun con there were things that could have been improved upon but that is stuff we know now to prepare and fix for next year.....and next year we will have Greg Ayres YAY! ---END RealmsCon REPORT--- Yeah that was pretty much my weekend. Today I completly slept in, I literally woke up around 1 and decided that it wasn't worth it to even try to attend my last class and skipped. I'm sure my teachers will understand. Went over to Rebeca's and sorted through stuff still missing a few things but everything was put into several cars so hopefully by Friday I'll have everything. Well I think that is about it. I will try to put up a pick or two of Bun-Bun and our Hani....actually in a moment I'll have Bun-Bun and a pick of me as Renge with Hani uploaded, and will put up a pic of Hani with Bun-Bun in my next posting maybe. I'll also try and get the pics that a friend of mine took of the three of us. I officially love you....you are still reading after all the con report and my post just keeps getting longer and longer.....here have some cake....New layout within the week.....umm.....the last DVD for Loki comes out today, I'm sooo buying it. I guess all that is left is...L.A.S. Last anime seen: Ouran High School Host Club....I can't wait for this week's ep more MotherXFather goodness XD That's all for now.....See you on the otherside.

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