Anime Convention @ MindSay 
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Drinking: Water
Listening to: iTunes on shuffle
Talking to: Well, I WAS talking to Taylor...
Excited for: YOUMACON!! <3 and NaNoWriMo
Depressed about: Failing my calculus test this morning
Doing: Packing for Youmacon~
This morning suuuuuuucked. I failed my calculus exam. ;3; I just couldn't do most of it. I really think I need some help in it. ^^; I'd go to the student advisor for the class, but he's only around in the morning before class, and there's just no way I can get there that early. I just don't want to. So I'll have to go to the ASC and find a tutor, I guess...
So.... recap! Sunday, my friend Andi and I went to a haunted house--the Realm of Darkness out in Pontiac. It was a lot of fun~ I didn't really get scared that often, but that was probably mostly because Andi was clinging to my arm and she went first through everything. XD I only got scared twice or so, once when they blew air at us after we walked into a completely pitch black room, and another time when Andi screamed. XD And maybe once when someone jumped out at us, I dunno.
We failed at all the riddles and trivia, though, so we didn't get to meet the Wizard and collect prizes. :( We'll have to do a better job next year~
Apparently one of our forumers at ALoP has the Swine Flu. D8 Chiharu claims she has had it for the past three days... I'm sure she'll be fine, but that would be the first person I know who has contracted it. Since I'm going to be around fifty-bazillion people in a closed space during the con this weekend, my aunt insisted she buy me a bottle of hand sanitizer, and I try out those medicines that are supposed to prevent you from getting sick. I forgot to buy them, though. XD;; I still hope I don't get sick with anything, that would suck. Last year I lucked out, but this year I'm staying at the hotel so I have a higher chance of having prolonged contact with potentially sick people... ewww con funk. D:
Yesterday I had my midterm in Short-Stories and Novels. I dunno how I did... I don't think I did extremely well, because I had a hard time with the essay questions, but I hope I did at least decently. It won't do to fail two classes this semester (the other one likely being Calculus). :(
YOUMACON STARTS TOMORROW!!! <333 Today I have a bunch of stuff I need to do (one important thing I still have not done yet...) and then I'll finish up those things and go pick up Andi.
Today I had to:
Clean out my car
Start packing my suitcase--still have to do that
Buy drinks and snacks
Start packing the cooler
Begin packing the car
and charge my DS/rearrange my game case for games I might actually PLAY.
Tomorrow I have to:
Make sandwiches
Finish packing cooler
Finish packing suitcase
Finish packing the car
Organize online things
And then a little before 2 I have to pick up Andi from her class at school. We'll then be coming back to my house, watching Silent Hill (yay Pyramidhead~), and then we'll head off for EPIC FUN TIEMS in Dearborn!
I'm so fucking excited. 8DDDDDDD <33333
I have a big huge list of individual things I have to remember--like my medicine and the batteries for my camera, which I am 60% likely to forget on my own--so hopefully I won't forget anything. XD
NaNoWriMo also starts Sunday~ I'm not so sure I'm going to be doing Precious Wingbeats anymore. It kinda lost the NEW SHINY STORY spark, and I've realized there's a shitload of plotholes and things that don't quite make sense. So I dunno what I'm going to do... I might do Lifeless, but that already has the first chapter written and finished... I could just continue and not count the first chapter in my count, though. I really really should get that story done, I have the whole thing plotted out with lots of scenes to do, so I know I could easily get 50K out of it, and it has been sitting around since March-ish. Might as well use NaNo for a crash-course in getting the story out, yes? :3
I don't know. We'll see. I'll have to decide soon, though, I'm already going to get a bad start because of Youmacon.
I've got to start packing and then go to class, so this is all I can say for now. Goodnight, digital abyss~
Eating: Skeleton gingerbread man with green icing - pretty epic. :P
Drinking: Coca Cola
Playing: Nothing atm, but I really should play Avalon Code, Rune Factory, and finish up Rune Factory 2... oh, and Kingdom Hearts, the game I've had for about 2 years now (borrowing from a friend) and am only just after HalloweenTown. iFail. XD
Excited about: YOUMACON IN 22 DAYS!!!!! And NaNoWriMo is kicking up~
Should be writing: Duplicity rewrite
Should be outlining: NaNoWriMo plot
Happy about: Being free from school until Monday~
Kitsune no Tora is feeling: SUPER ESTATICALLY EXCITED, sleepy (constantly)
Uhh... hi?
Didn't I say a long time ago that I wasn't going to leave this for such a long time again?
...I guess I lied. XD Oops.
ANYWAYS...
Since the last time I posted, school has started. I have class Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Mondays I have Calculus I 11-1, Tuesdays I have Short-Stories and Novels 1-4, then Career Planning 6-9, and Wednesdays I have Calculus I again 11-1, and then a (annoyingly easy) Word Processing class 6-9. Not toooooo busy of a schedule, but Calculus is kicking my ass. D8 I suck at trigonometry, so I fail terribly at all the problems involving that stuff. ^^; We just got done with limits, I think I did pretty decent on the exam this morning, but I'm not positive. It was hard. D8
Today I hit an animal driving through campus on my way to get some lunch. I was driving down the road and this squirrel just jumped right in front of my car. I braked a little, and I didn't feel anything or see anything in the road in my rearview mirror, so I'm hoping that I didn't actually hit him. But it made me sad anyway. :(
I want something (preferably living) to cuddle. But I'm not going to ask any of my family (eesh no), and my kitty Squirt is the most uncuddly cat ever. He doesn't like to be held for very long and he will NEVER sit on your lap. The most you can get is him sitting next to you. I had to trick him this morning to sit on my lap - I was in the living room on the couch and had a blanket over my legs because I was cold. I stuck my hand under and moved it around, and he jumped into my lap trying to get my hand under the blanket. He stayed there. :) But it was only because he didn't realize he was on my lap...Too bad I had to trick him, though. :/ I really hope he grows out of it.
YOUMACON IS IN 22 DAYS!! I'm so super duuper excited. 8DDD Too bad my cosplay fell through. :( I took a last ditch attempt to get the right fabric so that my aunt could make it for me (she's a talented seamstress, and I know if she made it it wouldn't fall apart or anything and be of good quality), and now it's too late to order one. :( They say it takes 25-30 days just to ship it out to me, and probably somewhere around a week after that before it gets on my doorstep, since it would be coming from Hong Kong. :/ *sadface* Andrea said that I should still find something simple enough and cosplay, but I have absolutely no idea who to do. She said she'd look some up for me, though, so we'll see how that goes.
...Maybe I can find some overalls/coveralls, a blonde wig, a peach bandana and make a cardboard wrench and go as Winry Rockbell, haha. XD That could work... I dunno. I'll have to think about it. I want to do something that is easy, but not stupidly simple, like L from Death Note or something. Those are just lazy. :P
I'll definitely do Riza next year, though. And maybe someone from Hetalia, I dunno. 8D I'm partial to Italy~ He's so cute. <3 Plus it would be an excuse for me to act like a dork (moreso that I would normally at an anime convention. :P).
I WONDER IF WE'LL FIND JESUS AGAIN. XDDD And I hope they have Death Note Mafia again, that was a lot of fun, despite the douchebag who decided to act like a pompous smart-ass and ruin everyone's fun halfway through the night last year. I just hope it doesn't coincide with Mario Party After Dark again, I really wanted to go to that, but couldn't tear myself away from the game. XD We played it from like, 11 to 4 in the morning last time, it was a blast.
We should also totally do Otaku Family Feud again, we killed everyone at it last year. Pocky Brigade FTW! We'll need to find Jessica again, though, I didn't get any contact information from her. Maybe Andi did...
Aaaaaand NaNoWriMo is gearing up again! I'm both super excited but ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED at the same time. ^^; I've been having a lot of problems writing recently. I can see and imagine the scene in my head, and it's great. The words flow through my head perfectly. But when I go to put it on paper/document, it just... dies. No words come. It's insanely annoying. Hopefully I can break that before November. I'm already going to get a bad start because of Youmacon (the last day is November 1st, and after that I'm going to be completely wiped and have no will to write anything), so I really really hope that gets broken soon.
I decided to go ahead and do the sequel to Duplicity as my NaNo novel. Except it's slowly becoming too AU to be the true sequel. XDD; PLUS, Duplicity isn't actually DONE, I even went so far as to restart it because it sucked. ^^; So I'm technically writing the sequel to a story that hasn't been written yet. SO SMART Y/Y? Especially since I'm an extremely linear writer, I just can't jump around in my story. It just ends up weird and doesn't feel right. That's PROBABLY why Precious Wingbeats (working title of the sequel) is becoming so intensely AU. ^^;;;; Oh well. I've been using an outlining technique called the Snowflake Method, and so far it has been doing me some good. I've actually got things down; I guess restricting myself to your normal outline format was what was blocking me from creating previous outlines. I'm on stage 3 with Precious Wingbeats, and plan on trying it all the way through. I'm just too lazy right now to plot out all the characters, since I know them all pretty well at this point...
CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THIS MONTH OMG. <333
I've been so intensely sleepy a lot recently. It's weird. I get enough sleep: anywhere between 7 1/2 and 10 hours. That's what I've been getting for most of my life now. But it just feels like I need a nap all the time, except during some points of the day. I have the hardest time EVER getting up. I feel like I need naps during the day (which I have never done in my life except on occasion). I don't know why... my lifestyle hasn't changed at all. Maybe it's a mental thing? But what would make me want to sleep all the time? Idk. :/ Oh well.
...I must be sitting weird, because my wrists are starting to hurt from the typing. D8 I guess I'm done for tonight.
Goodnight, digital abyss.
Ahh...feels good to be home again!
Last Wed. I began my treck North-ward, specfically to Anime North in Toronto, Canada. I live closer to PA than Canada, so it took me a few clever arrangements to get up to Niagra Falls, and then Toronto. Where to start off? Perhaps with my company?
Lizzie- Our host for the weekend, 3 year veteran of Anime North. Is also now friends with Svetlana Chmakova on deviantart.
Becky- Lizzie's older sister, very sweet but mostly insane. Also an awesome baker.
Jaime- Cosplayed as Professor Oak. A very strange creature that I didn't appreciate hitting on me.
Gorbi- One of my very best friends from school. Another strange creature and rumored dendrophiliac.
Ginger- Has analyzed all of the 150 pokemon, and then some. Has a large ginger beard.
And then there were the friends that we made along the way:
Cody- Lizzie and Becky met him 2 years ago at Anime North and have kept in touch to see him again every year. On Saturday he was wearing a school girl outfit...not that he stood out or anything. Still, I think it's really cool that they made and kept a friend after only knowing him for about three days.
Link- Becky, Lizzie and I all dressed up as Navi and ran around harrassing all the Link cosplayers we could find. "Hey! Listen! Hey! Listen! Hey! Lava is hot! Press A to open the door! That wall looks rough, you can climb on it! Hold Z to target your enemies!" And, my favorite for the Dealer's Room: "Press A to select an item!" We kept running into the same Link and ended up chatting for a little bit.
Kiyu- A friend of Cody's, at his first con of the day. We met at dinner on Saturday night and he tried to convince me that Chinese wasn't as difficult as it sounded while I blathered on about Japanese particles.
Ryan- Stood in line behind us for the J-pop dance, (It took us almost 2 hours to get in, and then we danced for 2 hours, never realizing that our roommies were waiting for us) who appears to be living my life before I can. Psych major who went to Japan after graduating...this guy stole my plan! He also cosplayed Dark on Sunday, awesome costume complete with expandable wings!
Kristen- A very promising young artist that Lizzie and I both encouraged to keep up with her drawing hobby. She was doing really great stuff for someone her age, and I just hope that her talent keeps blooming as the years go by.
Dixie- A dog who, upon finding out we possessed donuts, ignored her master for most of the afternoon.
Sventlana Chmakova- I MET HER! I FREAKING MET HER AND GOT HER TO SIGN HER PRINT AND I FREAKING MET HER!!!!!!!!!! She is kind of my manga-ka hero, especially for North American manga. The only other manga-ka I would love to meet as much as her is Mineko Ohkami, because I still am a ridiculous Dragon Knights fan, but mostly because I really want to know what happens to Nohiro. Also,
I MET SVETLANA CHMAKOVA!
Taking pictures was fun, spending all my money in the dealer's room and artist's alley was fun, the panels were great ("Pokemon Biology" and "Sailor Moon Never Dies" were very fun, as was the Ouran one). Getting free hugs, free kisses (well, only one. And it was on the hand! It doesn't count as cheating.) Getting sunburnt, watching all the "normies" stare at us (which were actually hard to find until Sat. night), Zelda photoshoot, and dancing for two hours straight were all a lot of fun. But what I love most about cons is that you're surrounded by thousands of people who love the same thing that you do. You can go up to almost anyone and start a conversation. I believe I talked to someone about Sailor Moon for about 20 minutes straight, especially about how annoying Chibiusa is. It's one of those places where you can really geek out and not be afraid to show how much you love something. It's a place where waiting in lines is fun because you never know who your neighbors will be. It's a place where everyone gets your jokes, and for three days, a crazy different world full of short skirts, unnaturally colored hair and thousands of people around you, all coming together for the same reason: celebrating something that you love with everyone else who loves it too.
And I met Svetlana Chmakova.
By the by, my hypothesis did prove correct. Canadians really do give the best hugs.
Kind of had a pretty rough past two days. Couldn't find my keys for one of the entire day. It sucked a lot trying to figure out where I put them and what not didn't find them till like almost midnight tonight. Ugh still trying to write an appeal to m college so need some help on how to start something like that. Mom's gotten on my case over silly stuff staying out late or not coming home. Uhh I am 23 and you didn't check up on me when I went missing for 3 days when I went to this anime convention. So I don't know why you're trying to play good mom that needs to stop like now. That's kind of wrong trying to get me like that. Anyways I'm tired so I'm just post up some of the last photos I have of the convention from my camera until everyone else gives me their cameras so I can put up the rest of them. So here you go. (Don't know why I spelled Carnage Wrong though @_@)
I'm curious. How many of you will I see there?
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