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I suppose it's about time I updated.
This Saturday I went to Connecticon with Jacob. It was awesome. Jacob arrived on Friday night and on Saturday we woke up at 6 (!). Mostly cuz Jacob had a lot of stuff to get ready for his costume. I had to straighten his hair, spray color it, attempt to help him gel it (didnt work). This took 2 hours. Then it took another hour to paint everything on his face, neck and arm. But it looked really good. Then it was off to the convention center.
We met up with Kate and Dave there and headed off to watch some of the webcomic auction which featured people taking off their shirts, silly dancing and lots of shedding of dignity. After a while I got bored so we went to the dealer's room where, once again, I didnt know where to start. Made several tours of the room, talked to the guy who draws Questionable Content and got a couple sketches, then wandered out to take pictures of people. I wanted to play DDR so we went there for a while where I discovered that Converse shoes arent good DDR-ing shoes and that I'm really out of practice. Met up with Justin, Robin and their friend. Then it was back to the dealer's room to buy things. By the end of the day I had bought: a Mai HiME wall scroll, a black mokona plush, a sandalhat plush (bleach), a tribute to Nana cd, and a keychain with yachiru and kenpachi (i gave kenpachi to jacob.. the otaku version of "best friends" bracelets?). Hung out more, talked to people, got more sketches. I ran into John and Shannon and chatted briefly.
One of the coolest parts is that I finally met Gates! We've both been OPs on the OAN for a while now, discovered that we live on opposite sides of Hartford. So I called him and we met and talked briefly. He's really cool and had the *cutest* Mokona plush with him. I sat my little black one next to his and they were cute for a while. *nod*
We then proceeded to wait 2 hours for the cosplay masquerade. It was.. interesting. Ian joined us as did Dave again. Very restless time. We played lots of cards. The masquerade was awesome and I'm determined to maybe be in it next year. I still wanna make that Meilin costume.
Anyway, it was freakin awesome and we didnt leave till after midnight. Was dead tired, but so worth it. A few things I need to remember: buy manga next time... it's cheap and thus a good time to try out new things, GO FOR ALL 3 DAYS (note to self: register as soon as they get the new stuff on the site), start my costume in January, plan to go to screenings of things and panels. One of my main issues was that we didnt have a chance to properly look at the schedule since we were dragged off to the webcomic auction, so there were things I looked at later and was like, 'damn why didnt i go to that'.
But yes.. awesomeness. *nod*
In other news.. project is finally starting... slowly... but it's starting
This Saturday I went to Connecticon with Jacob. It was awesome. Jacob arrived on Friday night and on Saturday we woke up at 6 (!). Mostly cuz Jacob had a lot of stuff to get ready for his costume. I had to straighten his hair, spray color it, attempt to help him gel it (didnt work). This took 2 hours. Then it took another hour to paint everything on his face, neck and arm. But it looked really good. Then it was off to the convention center.
We met up with Kate and Dave there and headed off to watch some of the webcomic auction which featured people taking off their shirts, silly dancing and lots of shedding of dignity. After a while I got bored so we went to the dealer's room where, once again, I didnt know where to start. Made several tours of the room, talked to the guy who draws Questionable Content and got a couple sketches, then wandered out to take pictures of people. I wanted to play DDR so we went there for a while where I discovered that Converse shoes arent good DDR-ing shoes and that I'm really out of practice. Met up with Justin, Robin and their friend. Then it was back to the dealer's room to buy things. By the end of the day I had bought: a Mai HiME wall scroll, a black mokona plush, a sandalhat plush (bleach), a tribute to Nana cd, and a keychain with yachiru and kenpachi (i gave kenpachi to jacob.. the otaku version of "best friends" bracelets?). Hung out more, talked to people, got more sketches. I ran into John and Shannon and chatted briefly.
One of the coolest parts is that I finally met Gates! We've both been OPs on the OAN for a while now, discovered that we live on opposite sides of Hartford. So I called him and we met and talked briefly. He's really cool and had the *cutest* Mokona plush with him. I sat my little black one next to his and they were cute for a while. *nod*
We then proceeded to wait 2 hours for the cosplay masquerade. It was.. interesting. Ian joined us as did Dave again. Very restless time. We played lots of cards. The masquerade was awesome and I'm determined to maybe be in it next year. I still wanna make that Meilin costume.
Anyway, it was freakin awesome and we didnt leave till after midnight. Was dead tired, but so worth it. A few things I need to remember: buy manga next time... it's cheap and thus a good time to try out new things, GO FOR ALL 3 DAYS (note to self: register as soon as they get the new stuff on the site), start my costume in January, plan to go to screenings of things and panels. One of my main issues was that we didnt have a chance to properly look at the schedule since we were dragged off to the webcomic auction, so there were things I looked at later and was like, 'damn why didnt i go to that'.
But yes.. awesomeness. *nod*
In other news.. project is finally starting... slowly... but it's starting