| AMANDA CAMERA PICS |
[Aug. 8th, 2009|07:57 pm] |
Operation: Get Elemental a Shiny New Camera was a complete success. ^.^ Apparently, she hadn't suspected a thing, and remained in a state of shock for the entirety of the evening. Even today, now and again, she still turns to me and says "I have a camera! Glee!"
For those of you who couldn't make it, pictures follow in the cut.
Thanks so much to Andy for sending these to me, and even being awesome enough to in put the HTML. ^.^
( Click here for photos of Amanda breaking. )
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Thanks again to everyone!
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| Viewpoints real name is Halstead Fitzjohn |
[Mar. 18th, 2009|08:02 am] |
Stalked again, a rant by Saeru. |
If you want to be very amused, put your name in, then pick someone really wonderful to stalk you.
I'm not very up on memes, so if this has been passed around already, I'm sorry. x-x But it cracked me up at *checks time* 8am after a night of no sleep. Beware of language.
(Stole from Kytha. Thank you Kytha!) |
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| Just to let you know... |
[Mar. 2nd, 2009|03:18 pm] |
...I'm pretty OK with the world. ^.^ I generally like everyone, no one pisses me off, and I'm in a good mood. Sales are going really well. I'm decently happy with my costumes. I've got lots of options for places to live, and will probably be going back to school within the next year.
If anyone would like to take advantage of me in a good mood, I'll be around Toronto until tomorrow (Tuesday) at which point I'm heading back to Chicago and will be there for a while. Sometime in the middle of March I'll go to St. Louis and bring a black zipper to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) harl for rex_dart (See, now I won't forget.) While on my way back I'll stop in Springfield to see my old college friend youmairu. I'll be back up in Toronto at the end of March for Ad Astra.
If anyone would like to take advantage of me in a good mood to let anything off their chest about me, I'm up for that too and will do my best to not repeat offenses. ^.^ Just try not to be too harsh: I like being happy. |
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| Canada, leave me be! |
[Jan. 3rd, 2009|02:11 pm] |
So I'm still here.
Still.
I can't seem to leave.
Tried to.
Twice.
First time I got on the highway and it started sleeting.
Second time I got all the way to London and ran into white-outs.
Both of these AFTER we checked the weather! x-x
So then I go today to get my brakes fixed so I can drive when its bad if I have to, and they're like: 1,000$ plz.
x-x Can it be 2010 yet?
Edit:
Alright. So the bill ended up being less than $500, and I took a bus by myself in Canada for the first time ever. But I still need to get the front pads replaced shortly.
Evil. |
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| On Canada |
[Dec. 27th, 2008|04:31 pm] |
Chinese Food
(Not supposed to be slanderous, so read with humorous intent:)
I've not eaten at a chinese buffet in a good two and a half years, since I moved out of my parents house. I've definitely not eaten any in Canada (mostly because there aren't any restaurants around here, and we tend to not think of Chinese when we have access to sushi) but now that I have there are a few strange things I note:
1. Canada doesn't seem to have gotten the memo about Crab Rangoons or wontons...or, perhaps, they were confiscated at the border. Instead, there is a strange substitute that occupies the exact same place on the buffet in which my beloved deep-fried-crab-filled-pastry delight normally occupies: The chicken ball. Uhh...essentially, they're glorified chicken nuggets, just with a much less appetizing name. On the other hand, they're about 100 times better than a chicken nugget, so I can forgive them.
2. There is a lack of anything beef-related that doesn't contain ribs or bone marrow, but there is a lot more seafood. I wish that I liked fish in a cooked state, but since I don't I instead just got a fill of chicken. Oh, and duck! I like duck.
3. Very few recognizable vegetables. I did locate the mushrooms fried in oyster sauce (everyone has to have that strange dish they like) but the only other thing vegetable-like on my plate was the chinese broccoli (which I love, by the way, but they only had two stalks of it left and it never got replenished.)
4. Considerably more Chinese than most American Chinese restaurants. This is probably due to the fact that there were actual Asian people eating there, and working there, and cooking there, and...wait, actually, we were the only anglo-ish people in sight. Sort of reminds me of the time that I walked into a Chinese buffet in Arizona and everyone was speaking Spanish, except...well, I -expect- to see Chinese people in a Chinese restaurant. (Or at least hope to.)
After it all, though, I found myself missing a good curry with a side of peanut sauce, or a cucumber salad, or dishes with amusing cross-lingual discrepancies such as 'Larp' and 'Pad.' What the world really could use right now, built about a block from wherever my future castle will be, is a good THAI buffet.
Oh, geeze.
I wonder if that even exists. *googles it*
Healthcare
Its been a while since I've been in a hospital, too. My grandmother died...almost two years ago...and when she was alive we went to them fairly frequently. Over the course of her illness I visited about six St. Louis area medical facilities, and I'm actually pretty surprised about the way things work differently in Canada.
The con: The hospital was dingy. Everything seemed old and wearing out, and not very well organized or regularly updated.
The pro: Canada's healthcare is free. Apart from the initial benefit of not having to deal with health insurance or the fact that a life-saving surgery will require you to take out another mortgage, this means that Doctors are paid by the government. I thought on this for a while, and after the friendliness of most of the staff that we encountered, I decided that I really wish things were this way in the US. It made Doctors seem a lot less scary, and a lot more like teachers: they're doing it because its what they want to do.
Just a hypothesis, but...
sort of makes me wish I was Canadian.
Family
My family is special. Really special.
All of the weather that Toronto has been having (most especially the snow and freezing rain) kept me from making it home for Christmas. I told my parents this several days before the holiday when looking at the forecast, and especially because I wanted to stay up here so I could take Elemental to the hospital to see her mom.
So, of course, when I call them to wish a Merry Christmas on the 25th, I get yelled at for an hour because I wasn't there and I ruined the holidays and I apparently don't love them enough.
This was partially because my dad had been drinking, and the entire time it was going on I could hear him in the background, sitting on the new vibrating chair he'd gotten as a present. Our rat terrier has decided that it is not, in fact, a vibrating chair, but some sort of very flat threatening dog, and so while it was going he growled and barked and snarled and my father kept egging him on and screaming: "Come on, boy! I want to see some blood!" While my mother half-cried at me. Oh, well. At least this year I didn't get told I was a terrible daughter. They just imply it very heavily these days.
So, uh...Merry Christmas, everyone! And lets have a better year in 2009, shall we?
Current Status:
So. Pain.
Its a very interesting thing.
I am currently afflicted with some sort of dull ache in my lung/diaphragm area. This occurred after I jerked the wrong way last night, and every time I breathe too deeply or twist a certain way I get lovely lances of agony that shoot around my chest. I'm hoping this goes away shortly, as I wanted to continue working with Amanda on our skit Choreography (excitement) before I had to leave tomorrow.
I've been mostly off the internet, also, so I pretty much missed everything that's been happening on LJ. This leaves me with a lot of regrets (mostly looking at you, Ryuu, since LJ was our major mode of communication, so here is to say I'm still thinking about you, hen'laire, and so on.) because I harbor great guilt about my inability to keep in touch with people.
I've...mostly run out of things to say, though, and I want to google some plausible theory for whats causing my pain, so I think I'll run along. But look! I at least updated! That is something, right? |
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| With the relatives... |
[Nov. 24th, 2008|06:12 pm] |
So I've been back home for *counts on fingers* three days now. It alternates between 'not-as bad as I was fearing' and 'much worse.'
I'll give highlights:
Saturday: Entirely wedding day. On one hand very cool--since my family consists mostly of musicians, a lot of them got together to do all the actual walking-down-the-isle music. It felt somewhere between orchestral and barn dance, with 'Ashokan farewell' as the bridal procession song (there was a fiddle.) Also awesome because the father of the bride is wheelchair bound--so instead of having a first dance he sang a song for her while she twirled and everybody else tried not to cry.
Not as cool parts of the wedding included the bible readings and the socializing. I'm actually pretty OK with scriptures being read at ceremonies because I realize how big a part religion plays in people's lives and sometimes what is read actually impacts me. However, reading passages about how women should submit to their husbands at a wedding really turns me off.
Highlights of the day: Running into Macy's to grab a wedding present 15 minutes before the reception. I was a good girl and got mine a few days earlier, but my parents weren't. So...we end up with a set of pillows. No, not the pretty couch kind--the actual bed 'I sleep on this every night' kind. And here I had been hoping to get my cousin something cool so that she'd think about me when she was using it...
I'll have to rectify this plan.
Sunday: Work day! Learned how to change a tire and then did it seven more times. Successfully have taken tires from my old van and put them on the new...
Also learned how to remove car stereos. This involved me looking like a hoodlum in my Chrysler wearing a hoodie and dorking around with screwdrivers and socket wrenches. However, I now have a working CD player where there was only a tape deck before. *grin*
Also saw my sister's soccer game, and then went pecan-picking with my parents. >.> On someone else's property. Followed by the 'why you need a boyfriend' and 'why you need health care' talks. Ugh.
Monday: Cleaning day! Have I mentioned how messy my parents are? There is so much junk in their house that it spilled into my room, so I spent today helping out by removing it. Three bags of goodwill-bound clothing, four trashbags, and a crate full of recycling later and I can see my floor. Also got to take four boxes of books to the high-school, and picked up my sister.
I just felt oddly like a housewife the whole time.
Really, though, the spirit of Tolkien is trying to tell me something. All day I kept running across elven scripts and tiny swords that had fallen off of long-lost elf toys. When I finally uncovered a bag full of chainmail shirt and one-billion extra links...I figured maybe I ought to finish something Middle Earth-y. I've got a hankering to make a Ringwraith--and I've got a black horse grazing around outside that isn't doing anything. Anyone else want in on this venture? |
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| On Mice Chefs and Nazi Fish |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|04:50 am] |
I was asked to send links of these, but since I'm actually trying to use my LJ these days I'm posting them here for all to share and love. (Thanks to hibbary for showing them to me.)
First off, the wonderful world of Ratatoing.
No, that is not a typo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkvAcZoZBEY
'There is this Brazilian film company called Vídeo Brinquedo that makes these aweful animated childrens movies. None of them are original, they are all stolen from films by Disney, Dreamworks, and other studios.' -Ahcoooo
Look out. He's a chef in the marvelous city. And he's the bestest chef ever anywhere in the world, who lives in the city. For reals. For like...a whole ten minutes of dialogue.
Be sure to also check out some of their other rip-offs...you know, completely original films about fighting Pandas and racing Cars.
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If, like me, you'd prefer to watch something foreign and animated that isn't crap, however, I invite you to check out: 'Help, I'm a fish!'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6aB2hSO6M - (Help I'm a fish trailer)
While originally a (Dutch? Danish? Finnish?) full-length feature film from the year 2000, it has all those qualities that Disney movies used to have--good animation, family values, and Nazi-themed musical numbers. (The Lion King, anyone?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eIX-RoNRQ -Check this out. No, really.
Its also got Alan Rickman. I'm already 'hooked.' Heh.
Heh.
OK, I give up. |
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| The continued SaGa of past-year LJ catchup posts |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|12:23 am] |
Seeing as that we're no longer living in St. Louis, I'll also need to take this week to pack up the new Van (Epyon--remember that its purpley maroon, and that I name all vehicles in my life as Gundams if they have no further distinguishing features besides color) with as much crap that we've left behind as possible.
Ah, the St. Louis house.
So a year ago, my mother tells me she'd like me to move back to St. Louis, and that my grandmother's house is in need of someone to live in it. Since I'd been looking for a place, I agree. We ask harl to come with us, and then arrive at the house to realize that my parents have not removed my grandmother's old things, that there are problems with the plumbing, and that that house hasn't had a major cleaning since 1984 (because we kept finding dated baby medicines...for me.)
So Harl and Ryn are troopers, and we manage to tough out the situation through summer, at which point we pretty much all give up since my mom still had not removed anything. The neighbors were generally unpleasant, the neighborhood was old and (though safe) very near unsafe places, it was hard to get supplies, and, well, the house was sucky.
I should have taken a lot more responsibility when we were there, and just...called it off from the beginning. There were a number of mistakes that I made I wish I could take back, but...now I know.
Firstly, I should have known not to trust my family. They will always be there for me in a pinch, but they're absent-minded. The fact alone that I can't count how many cars are hidden in grass-patches on their property, or find the desk in the office...the fact that no cars will fit in a six car garage because of all the stuff that is sitting out there...the fact that I have to climb over rubble to get into my old room...
Yeah. I should have known.
So now everything is uncertain, once again.
Oh, heavens, and I have to go down there today. ;-; I don't want to go. |
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| Whats the WEATHER? |
[Nov. 20th, 2008|05:27 am] |
Oh, Geeze. I love my g-mail.
Overlooking the fabulous new NINJA option for the layout, in which rather cute-styled ninja are in mid-flip over my inbox and I can select things with ninja-stars, the backgrounds are now sensitive to time of day and current weather conditions for the city I've typed in.
Dude.
I can't wait to sit at my computer if there is a tornado alert. |
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| On Holidays, Families, and the vehicularly deceased |
[Nov. 16th, 2008|08:52 am] |
I get to spend Thanksgiving with my parents. Each year, my Aunt and Uncle come from Kansas City to hang out for a few days, which I've generally missed because of Black Friday and the fact that I was working retail a year ago. This year there is no getting out of it--I'll be home for the holidays. Generally this involves the house being the cleanest its ever been (there will be more on this later,) fortunately excellent food (I don't know where my dad learned to cook, but he revels in it,) and relatives asking me what I've been doing for the last year (while my parents play the whole 'here is how our daughter is failing at life but...we still love her' card. Again.) Thankfully I've got friends in the area, so I'll have a few breaks from the insanity.
At some point in this week that I'm down with my parents for a wedding and a Holiday (this is starting to sound like a bad National Lampoon movie) I have to figure out what to do with my van, which miraculously decided to break down right after U-E and I got back from New York in September. Thankfully, we'd made just enough at the convention to buy a vehicle, and I'm completely happy with the new Van (purple Dodge Caravan. Being a costumer and major-haul-roadtripper, I'm not going to be in anything smaller than a minivan for another few years.)
Its very funny driving a soccer mom vehicle, especially with the estranged fashion sense I have been granted. Watching people's expressions when I step out into the parking lot in the upscale lifestyle center that Ryn lives behind is turning into an amazing spectator sport--though it did get me free sushi today. ^.^
Maybe I'll stick some anime/game related decal on my van.
...Then at least the pedestrians have advanced warning.
Ah, well, strange journal entry. I'm still working through stuff I typed up a while ago. Maybe these make more sense when read all at once? o.O |
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| Holy Matrimony, Batman. |
[Nov. 14th, 2008|03:19 am] |
My pro-republican politician cousin is getting married, and seeing as that I've known her since I was born and we chased each other around reunions for 20+ years I feel the need to attend. We've actually always been good friends, and apart from the fact that I still regret not actually getting to see her when I was living in St. Louis, I like her a lot.
Unfortunately I know whats going to happen, here.
She's the same age as me. (Give or take a year)
She's got a promising career. (I'm currently eating off zippers and organization coats)
She's got a very sweet, decent boy who she's marrying. (The two closest people to me are female.)
She's the daughter of my mother's cousin, who is an electrical engineer. (Help.)
I didn't used to hate comparisons, but, then again, I used to be the one coming out on top.
Despite the fact that I'm actually fairly contented with my starving-artist brand of life, my parents aren't, and thats always...fun. What does one do when one's ideas of being a success and one's parent's ideas of being a success conflict?
...I guess you eat, and then sleep. It seems the above is just a given. x-x
Oh, hell. What should I do for a wedding present?
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Oh. To infini_iv and darthmarysue:
Please to be telling vague character interactions throughout the CG series? I need some inspiration for the choreography. Been looking through music and have a lot of ideas, but I'll need to know who hates who and who likes who and if BoyA steals BoyB's girl or GirlB backstabs GirlA...and possibly in a general order with reference to the actual chronology?
Or something? x-x Maybe I should just go read the wiki article? x-x
I'm excited, though. ^.^ |
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| Calling all Canadians... |
[Nov. 11th, 2008|06:41 pm] |
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I'm going to be in Canada this December returning kusanivy's dressform and working with viewpoints on some costumes for Ohayocon. I emplore any fellow friendly Canadians to join the 'Adopt an American' campaign while I'm up, since during that time viewpoints is going to have a special houseguest for a week. If there a few someones who can give me crash space for a day or two each between the 6th and 15th, I can promise to cook, clean, choeffer, comiserate, construct costumes, and various other 'c' words for/with you. If necessary, I will wear appropriate maid/butler attire. Any help will be appreciated. ^.^ |
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| I can't even remember what my last post was about... |
[Nov. 11th, 2008|03:25 am] |
...Or when I wrote it.
I'm back on LJ--Sort of. At least for a week or so, before I head down to meet the 'rents for a wedding and Thanksgiving.
I've actually got a really long post typed up, but its wordy and lengthy and I don't want to LJ-cut so I'll spread them out over the next few days to keep myself and my friendslist from drowning.
Oh. I should add Youmacon onto that list of things I'm typing up. Yes. Will do that.
So, since I don't have anything good for an intro...
For those of you who have forgotten me or just now are watching me...
I'm Saeru.
Hi.
Long time no see, or nice to meet you. ^.^
I plan on hitting at least Ohayocon, Acen, Anime North, something or more in the summer, Archon, and Youmacon next year.
I plan on cosplaying from or being forced to cosplay from Castlevania, Kingdom Hearts, Code Geese(...), Tales of Destiny, and Soul Calibur.
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actually, only one of those was even my idea. ;-;
I plan on masterminding a method of eternal life, either through Genetics (what I did my senior report on), Electronics (what I majored in,) Neuroscience (what I'm studying currently), or psychoresonance (what I made a word for two seconds ago.)
I plan on meeting cool people from around the world and having awesome, inspiring conversations with them while surrounded by thousands of screaming fangirls and smelly otaku, which should never be the birthplace for ideas of merit (and yet has always remained oddly compelling--damn you, conventions!)
I plan on traveling.
Everywhere.
In a purple van.
And taking people with me.
I plan to write.
Stuff.
Good.
And Draw.
More stuff.
More good.
Maybe sing, though that one is still on a limb somewhere. Eh, I'll at least make music.
And I plan on seeing all of you at some point in the future, so stick around! |
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| I am still alive |
[Jun. 6th, 2008|05:59 pm] |
Alright, so I know I never update.
This isn't really an update, either. But two things that amused the hell out of me have come to my recent attention, so if you're looking for a laugh and don't mind the laugh being at my expense, feel free to click the following links.
Look ma, I'm a photomanip! - Warning. This is extremely...extreme. Apparently this girl found this picture of me on the internets and used it for her own. Kudos to her, though, because she was nice and gave us credit. ^.^
For not being at Anime North... - I hadn't intended to go this year, but at the last minute I braved the 10 hour drive up to Toronto by myself, after a night of no sleep, starting at 4am in the morning. Apparently, so did the other me, as well as my evil half and my twin. All four of us did, in fact, have a splendid time.
Thats all on the amusing front.
Elemental also got a featured photo of me on cosplay.com, which leaves me also feeling all warm on the inside since I'm the subject matter and its an excellent photo. To top it off, the shoot itself also got featured, so my face is currently on cosplay.com's homepage twice. Glee. ^.^
Here it is!
I'm really glad I went up to North. I had a -great- time, got to be in some lovely shoots, met more Canadians, and am hoping to get to know them more when I come up for Fan Expo this August. Thanks muchly to Lisa and Kia for letting me stay in the room last minute. It was a lot of fun. ^.^
Perhaps a more updatey update shall happen soon. |
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| Musings (somewhat Angst) |
[Jan. 29th, 2008|08:52 pm] |
So I look in the mirror tonight, observing where the air-conditioner slammed into my mouth on its way out the window, and suddenly wonder upon the meaning of life.
Maybe I shouldn't have gone outside to get the air conditioner out of the window, but it seemed like a good idea at the time...except for those voices in the back of my head saying: 'if you don't go at this with a plan, you're going to get hurt.'
Those are generally good voices, and I have learned my lesson.
( Lately things seem good. )
To conclude, ah...
Here are the cons I am considering hitting for 2008, and possible costumes for each. If you've got a good con to recommend, PLEASE do, as I'm looking for new ones to try out, and its especially good if there will be friends there. Most of this list is not concrete.
( Big 2008 CON LIST for Saeru and Yui. )
And I think that just about wraps things up. |
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| We're IN |
[Jan. 7th, 2008|04:12 pm] |
Just a quick journal entry to say we've gotten to our new house, survived Ohayocon, and now have INTERNET. I'll be posting up a full review shortly (My WORD such crazy things happened o.o!) and getting caught up on what we've missed over the past few weeks, but for now we're alive! Internet is fast, so we're good on that front, but I can tell we're going to be busy for a while getting this place set up and unpacking and unpacking again from the con we just returned from.
And making Heartless Hats. o.O Lots of them. |
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| GeneralPost! |
[Dec. 12th, 2007|03:23 am] |
Lookit how often I post.
I guess not too many things come around in life that are really interesting or exciting? Or, at least, when they do, I simply love them for existing, and I don't have much else to say about it. Usually, if I really have to get something off my chest, I close the laptop monitor and walk into the next room and chat with Ryn for a few hours.
But, here, I'm inspired to give a sort of update.
We've visited the new house, and it is livable. There is a ton of my Grandmother's old junk in it still, which is going to take time to clean out (I swear there are things that haven't been touched since the 1950s in there, and some of it is worth something, it looks like, which is good.) The move is still planned to be pretty much around the turn of the year, and we'll probably have a housewarming party in February or something. Bring trees. We need them. The backyard is HUGE.
Sushisamba called and said that Ryn and I get to split the prize for best costume. We think they were taking time to debate between the two of us. This amuses me endlessly, but many thanks to them, nonetheless!
I'm looking forward to Ohayocon, and just got inspired on a new costume.
Actually, I find I've just been strangely inspired on about ten different fronts, and I must say I'm still reeling.
But back to Ohayocon, we're planning on having an artist's table, and I'll see if I cannot sell some plushies or some hats or some badges. Little things, but maybe enough to help for when we move.
Life is turning, again, and in a new direction, and I'm still not sure whats going to happen, but I'm excited for the change. Making new friends, deciding on new goals, thinking about where I want to be and where I do not want to be...
its good. Its very good to be excited, again.
Optimism, ho! |
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| Youmacon Report |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|05:37 pm] |
This is probably going to take me forever to write up, considering that EVERYTHING happened this weekend. x-x I'm suddenly sore in places I didn't think it was possible to be sore in, like my eyeballs. How can one's EYES be sore? It's weird.
So anyhow! I shall begin:
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( Getting there...! )
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( The Madness Begins! (AKA Friday) )
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( And then, the day of Chaos... (Saturday) )
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( Before a day of busy rest. (Sunday) )
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So! Not so very long ago we dropped Harl off at the airport, and snagged ourselves some delicious curry (to make up for all those subway sandwiches, yo.) They even had BUBBLE TEA, which really made us pleased.
All in all, to sum it up...Youmacon ROCKED. We went, we saw, we did what we needed to do and we KEPT MOVING FORWARD, and had a great time. So here's a list of morals/accomplishments for the day:
Checklist of DOOM
-Received one pair of MAN LEGS that we have officially dubbed 'Hercules.' We are much in fear of THE PACKAGE.
-Harlco got two TROPHIES OF DELICIOUS RECOGNITION and I got a lovely little award, too. ^.^ This makes THREE trophies. *countlaugh* Ah, ah, ah, ahhhh.... */countlaugh*
-Obtained one sexy DESTINY ISLANDS Riku shirt and one DESTINY ISLANDS Sora shirt...of DESTINY. Also bought prints and supported artists in general.
-Only had to pay for dinner ONCE! Con, you ROCK.
-Successfully implemented MISSION VEN.
-Met COOL PEOPLE x 1,000. Between our awesome roomies, our exceptional film crew, the insane fun of Harlco, and the talented Masquerade entrants, Youmacon is THE CON for forming friendships. ^.^
So, for now, I'll let it stand at that.
The next adventure will be moving, and then there is Ohayocon.
After that.........
The future....
WILL APPEAR!
Woo!!
*heads off to crash and catch up on the sleep* |
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| Metropolitan Cosplay |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|07:07 pm] |
Yui and I somehow managed to make it to Sushi-Samba for their cosplay contest.
Well, to give a summary...
We didn't die, we didn't crash, we didn't get lost, we didn't get mugged, and we didn't die.
Oh, wait, did I say that one already?
Saturday was the infamous 'Saturday before Halloween,' during which most larger events take place in the later hours of the day. This restaurant in Chicago called 'SushiSamba Rio' had decided to take after their South Beach counterpart and hold a cosplay contest. Why are they holding a cosplay contest, we wondered?
The answer became apparent pretty quickly...SushiSamba is a trendy restaurant of Japanese/Latino cuisine. They're vaguely aware of the cultural fashion from Japan as evidenced in J-rock and Harajuku. They're also aware of the gravitation among 'hip' American yuppies towards Asian influences. What they didn't seem to be aware of was the fact that cosplay is also fairly alive and well, right here in Chicago. This led to a very interesting evening.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
( Prelude to madness. )
And then Saturday happened.
Warnings! Drama-rant to follow!
( And things get a little bit sticky... )
I could speak for Yui, but I won't, so I will simply say that -I- was not pleased at all at this event.
But the day was not over yet...
( Metropolitan cosplay is go, go, GO! )
After a deliciously large dessert and saying goodbye to the awesome restaurant and patrons, we and the film crew slipped out into the city to do a bit more filming:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ensui/1795429901/ <-An unlikely pair.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ensui/1795436493/ <-Absolutely stunning.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ensui/1795427599/ <-Hilarious.
And that was the end!
SO!
Lessons learned?
-Join the Anti Society, yo.
-Trips into Chicago CAN be enjoyable.
-Plan ahead. And then make backup plans. And then plan on those backup plans needing backup plans.
-Kaoru does not equal Riku. But maybe does = Anti-Riku?
-People can be surprisingly appreciative of creativity, even if they don't understand the source.
-PERUVEAN CORN IS AWESOME. |
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| One of those 'Well, Damn.' Moments |
[Oct. 19th, 2007|11:24 pm] |
I know I haven't written in a while...I'm sorry. I don't even think about writing when times aren't going well, because I usually just suck it up and deal with whatever the hell it is. But right now...I just don't know what to do. I've got a track record of choosing the WRONG direction at these sorts of points, so I'm going to use my final option and 'phone a friend.' This means you.
( A little bit of background information, first. )
And then Chaos strikes.
( Here's what went wrong. )
I guess its not all that big a deal if we don't make it to the contest...
I just really had been hoping for some opportunity to put our skills out there and maybe get some reward off of it.
My train has simply...de-railed. I felt sort of like we had been given this beacon of light...Go get Van, go to Florida, go enter contest, go rock Youmacon...that suddenly turned off before we even started down the path.
I don't want this to sour our Florida or our Youmacon. ;-; So much has already gone wrong over the past year and a half....I really WANT things to be looking up, the way they seemed to be.
What should I do? |
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