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Otakon 2008 | Con Report
Oh Otakon. How you slay me.
Okay, this is going to be the first part of my Otakon run down.
I guess it all started on Wednesday when I got off of work at 12, quickly scuttled to Boyle's to get my car aligned, rotated, and oil changed. Imouto picked me up, we went to eat, then I went home and did some more packing.
Rose was supposed to leave ATL around noon... but they were still in FL. o___o No idea what happened there, but they didn't leave until 6pm or later. >_> I stayed the night at Pan's in case they popped up, but they didn't get in until Thursday morning around 9ish? If I had known, I would have worked the full day. *sighs*
By 9am, I was at home from Pan's to shower and get the GPS. Rose-tachi called from outside my house XD. I had given them Pan's address, but they didn't have those directions, so I let them in while I took a shower and put the rest of my stuff in my suitcase. I was ready and waiting for Andrew, but then Cheza had to get a digital camera because hers got stolen while she was waiting for Rose. =_= So Andrew took her to Best Buy [or was it Circuit City? Doesn't matter; right next to each other] to get one.
After all of THAT, we managed to leave at around... 10:50 and met up at Sheets to fill our cars. We got food. I collected the rest of the money from the people driving up, and then we were on our way by 12. Such a late start ;___;
Of course, I pulled out and Kevin managed to as well, but Mike [Rose's camera man and the driver] couldn't because the light had changed green, and they were totally the people I didn't want to leave behind. They had the basic directions but meh... =_=
Anyway, I had to direct them back to I-95N from Broad Street because I totally wasn't turning around >_>. I was driving the speed limit [sometimes 5 over, sometimes 5 under, eheh] waiting for them to catch up. It took them around 20 minutes. Mike. You drive TOO SLOW. Going five over the speed limit wouldn't have killed you, seriously.
But anyway, we hit traffic and managed to take a not!exit because GPS lady was fucking weird, and ended up making a huge time delaying U-Turn because the traffic on the bridge was WTF fail. After that, it was pretty smooth until we made it into Baltimore and lost Kevin while looking for the hotel.
I don't really know why they needed directions when they had GPS but it got annoying since I can't give directions worth shit when I know where I am, must less when I have NO IDEA where I am. Eventually, they got there. We all piled out, I got the hotel room settled while tempers flared outside and then gave them the key cards and kicked them up to the room.
I swear I wasted a bajillion gallons of gas looking for that stupid ass parking deck of fail. I have no idea why it was so hard to find or why the directions I'm given always suck. I was ready to shank someone. =_=
ANYWAY. We got all our cars down there and I manage to lose my car and couldn't find it in the deck so I could get my car ticket to get back in the closest door to the car, so I therefore gave up and went to the surface cus it was HOT as hell. We decided to wait until after the line opened to get our registration [only took an hour], then met up at the Holiday Inn with LJ!friends so we could go eat!
So we were a large group of Me, Pan, Kevin, Imouto, Andrew, Cheza, Jay, Rose, Mike, Silver, Manda, Jen, Amy, Hi-chan, Nick, Yinza, and... damn forgot someone. We lost Jillian to a bar on the way, Pfft. After we ate, Kris FINALLY rolled into town and I nabbed her from in front of the convention center.
I dragged her back to the restaurant where I was so happy I didn't have to split the check \o/ [Andrew did it] and then we all went back to our hotels. I was debating on rolling around the hotel, but Jillian txts me and I roll into the Harbor with Rose and Kris in tow. I wanted to make sure Jillian didn't randomly get jacked somewhere =_=. Rose wanted to take a walk. Kris was starving, so we went on a journal to find a place to eat.
It was a long journey.
I stopped and asked a pack of cops and they suggested Houlihans, which was like the only fucking place open at 11:30. WTF is up with that shit anyway? It's a city and stuff isn't open at 11:30? Even in VA I know of three places within walking distance I can get food at at 11:30 at night that aren't 7-11 or McDonalds.
So we end up passing another cop while Kris was complaining about Baltimore sucking and me saying every place isn't like New York. Then we crossed a bridge and found the place. Lord. It was nice, but I wasn't hungry since I just ate. Kris took for-fucking ever to order ::glares at her:: and Jillian was like '8D Beer!' and I went 'D< No!' but she got it anyway. =_=;
Jillian took command and ordered quesadillas for Kris, who luckily enjoyed them or else I would have strangled her 8D. Then we talked for a while, Rose and her craziness XD, then rolllled our way slowly back to the hotel. We saw a duck with two ducklings in tow, and Rose scared the shit out of it by hitting it with the tulip she threw XD.
For some reason, we followed the semi-drunk lady's directions [Jillian's] and went the OPPOSITE way of our hotel for a few blocks then dragged Jillian behind us and managed to make it halfway before we saw this small little bird just sitting there.
Staring at a wall like o___o
We went.... >_>? And because I enjoy stalking small animals, I stalked it but it didn't even fly away. Takes the point out of stalking, yeah. It got a piece of bread thrown at its head and it flew up against the wall.... not away, against the wall. We all went =_=; Jillian poked it and it flew off a bit but landed. Might have run into a wall and stunned itself, who knows, but there wasn't anything we could do for it so we left.
Upon getting back to the hotel we found a MAID shoot in the hallway outside our room. Yes. A maid shoot. Got kinda kinky, yeah. There was handcuffs [and chains] involved. Of course, Jillian went all ~~~/o/ and changed into her cosplay and I went downstairs with Jay while he went to smoke. Damn smokers. I listened to comic talk that went over my head and then we went up to find Jillian on the floor handcuffed. *facepalms* I stared, then just siiiiighed and told her the door was going to be open for her to come in.
Not to mention the guy earlier who randomly came into our room and dropped off his girlfriend and left her and she laughed and scuttled out. Half tempted to be like 'Oi! You're ours now, betch! He left you!' Actually... I think Jay did say that, more or less. Pfft.
Aaaand of course, when we came back in, we were loud and woke up the room. \o/ Hurray! >_> It was around then that I want to sleep. Finally.
Friday morning, I rolled up and blinked a bit. I went to the con center. Wandered around a bit, then eventually came back. I can't tell you what I did because, in all seriousness I forgot. I know I went to the game room for a little while instead of waiting in the dealer's room line. When I did go to the dealer's room....... I bought a lot of stuff. =_= Manga that I was behind on, new manga I wanted [Oh yes. we have LADIES COMICS redi komi in the US now. I lawl so hard]. I have this huge bag from that josei/redi komi place that kept all my shit in it and it was HEAVY. I bought most of what I have on Friday.
I dragged all that shit back to the hotel and then we went somewhere to eat. While waiting for Jen-tachi to appear, we saw the pedobear who somehow turned into a cactar with one of his poses, lulz. He also stalked behind some girls and I just died. We need more pedobears in life.
We went to Sbarros in the mall, I believe. It was funny that we segregated ourselves into my RL friends [and Kris] and my Lj friends on the opposite end. Did that at the Thursday dinner, too. I wanted to mix them all up D< so we could all talk. Kris got into a random argument with the pizza guy about him running out of things as if there weren't 10,000 people in fluxing into the city for a convention at the moment or something.
Of course, during all of this, many a ninja picture was taken. I should have broken your cameras, you bastards. >/
After Sbarros, we waaandered around some more. I can't tell you what I did because I didn't DO anything. A lot of walking and talking and very little of the convention's events. Around 11ish we all got in line for the Yaoi panel.
It was hilarious. Randomly, Jay popped back up because the Rave was packed [or full of fail, don't remember] and we all made horrid comments. There was the scale that Kris tried to place Mytho/Fakir on and I lawled at where Itachi/Fakir fit on it [cus it doesn't except in our sick minds]. After that, we amused ourselves and went to 7-11 again, cus we were hungry as hell. I got a cheeseburger that was shaped like a hotdog. Haha, it wasn't so bad.... but not worth 2 bucks, shit.
We went back to the hotel, talked for a long while. Conversations of Head Cheese and random as hell topics that had nothing to do with anything erupted. I blame the yaoi panel and our dirty minds. EVENTUALLY, we all managed to get to sleep. I have no idea how, but we just died somewhere along the line.
Coming up:
• More walking
• Missing panels
• Autographs
• Cosplay
• Epic amounts of walking
• Staying up way too late
• Missing more panels
• Did I mention WALKING?
• An epic fail of more than epic proportions
Okay, this is going to be the first part of my Otakon run down.
I guess it all started on Wednesday when I got off of work at 12, quickly scuttled to Boyle's to get my car aligned, rotated, and oil changed. Imouto picked me up, we went to eat, then I went home and did some more packing.
Rose was supposed to leave ATL around noon... but they were still in FL. o___o No idea what happened there, but they didn't leave until 6pm or later. >_> I stayed the night at Pan's in case they popped up, but they didn't get in until Thursday morning around 9ish? If I had known, I would have worked the full day. *sighs*
By 9am, I was at home from Pan's to shower and get the GPS. Rose-tachi called from outside my house XD. I had given them Pan's address, but they didn't have those directions, so I let them in while I took a shower and put the rest of my stuff in my suitcase. I was ready and waiting for Andrew, but then Cheza had to get a digital camera because hers got stolen while she was waiting for Rose. =_= So Andrew took her to Best Buy [or was it Circuit City? Doesn't matter; right next to each other] to get one.
After all of THAT, we managed to leave at around... 10:50 and met up at Sheets to fill our cars. We got food. I collected the rest of the money from the people driving up, and then we were on our way by 12. Such a late start ;___;
Of course, I pulled out and Kevin managed to as well, but Mike [Rose's camera man and the driver] couldn't because the light had changed green, and they were totally the people I didn't want to leave behind. They had the basic directions but meh... =_=
Anyway, I had to direct them back to I-95N from Broad Street because I totally wasn't turning around >_>. I was driving the speed limit [sometimes 5 over, sometimes 5 under, eheh] waiting for them to catch up. It took them around 20 minutes. Mike. You drive TOO SLOW. Going five over the speed limit wouldn't have killed you, seriously.
But anyway, we hit traffic and managed to take a not!exit because GPS lady was fucking weird, and ended up making a huge time delaying U-Turn because the traffic on the bridge was WTF fail. After that, it was pretty smooth until we made it into Baltimore and lost Kevin while looking for the hotel.
I don't really know why they needed directions when they had GPS but it got annoying since I can't give directions worth shit when I know where I am, must less when I have NO IDEA where I am. Eventually, they got there. We all piled out, I got the hotel room settled while tempers flared outside and then gave them the key cards and kicked them up to the room.
I swear I wasted a bajillion gallons of gas looking for that stupid ass parking deck of fail. I have no idea why it was so hard to find or why the directions I'm given always suck. I was ready to shank someone. =_=
ANYWAY. We got all our cars down there and I manage to lose my car and couldn't find it in the deck so I could get my car ticket to get back in the closest door to the car, so I therefore gave up and went to the surface cus it was HOT as hell. We decided to wait until after the line opened to get our registration [only took an hour], then met up at the Holiday Inn with LJ!friends so we could go eat!
So we were a large group of Me, Pan, Kevin, Imouto, Andrew, Cheza, Jay, Rose, Mike, Silver, Manda, Jen, Amy, Hi-chan, Nick, Yinza, and... damn forgot someone. We lost Jillian to a bar on the way, Pfft. After we ate, Kris FINALLY rolled into town and I nabbed her from in front of the convention center.
I dragged her back to the restaurant where I was so happy I didn't have to split the check \o/ [Andrew did it] and then we all went back to our hotels. I was debating on rolling around the hotel, but Jillian txts me and I roll into the Harbor with Rose and Kris in tow. I wanted to make sure Jillian didn't randomly get jacked somewhere =_=. Rose wanted to take a walk. Kris was starving, so we went on a journal to find a place to eat.
It was a long journey.
I stopped and asked a pack of cops and they suggested Houlihans, which was like the only fucking place open at 11:30. WTF is up with that shit anyway? It's a city and stuff isn't open at 11:30? Even in VA I know of three places within walking distance I can get food at at 11:30 at night that aren't 7-11 or McDonalds.
So we end up passing another cop while Kris was complaining about Baltimore sucking and me saying every place isn't like New York. Then we crossed a bridge and found the place. Lord. It was nice, but I wasn't hungry since I just ate. Kris took for-fucking ever to order ::glares at her:: and Jillian was like '8D Beer!' and I went 'D< No!' but she got it anyway. =_=;
Jillian took command and ordered quesadillas for Kris, who luckily enjoyed them or else I would have strangled her 8D. Then we talked for a while, Rose and her craziness XD, then rolllled our way slowly back to the hotel. We saw a duck with two ducklings in tow, and Rose scared the shit out of it by hitting it with the tulip she threw XD.
For some reason, we followed the semi-drunk lady's directions [Jillian's] and went the OPPOSITE way of our hotel for a few blocks then dragged Jillian behind us and managed to make it halfway before we saw this small little bird just sitting there.
Staring at a wall like o___o
We went.... >_>? And because I enjoy stalking small animals, I stalked it but it didn't even fly away. Takes the point out of stalking, yeah. It got a piece of bread thrown at its head and it flew up against the wall.... not away, against the wall. We all went =_=; Jillian poked it and it flew off a bit but landed. Might have run into a wall and stunned itself, who knows, but there wasn't anything we could do for it so we left.
Upon getting back to the hotel we found a MAID shoot in the hallway outside our room. Yes. A maid shoot. Got kinda kinky, yeah. There was handcuffs [and chains] involved. Of course, Jillian went all ~~~/o/ and changed into her cosplay and I went downstairs with Jay while he went to smoke. Damn smokers. I listened to comic talk that went over my head and then we went up to find Jillian on the floor handcuffed. *facepalms* I stared, then just siiiiighed and told her the door was going to be open for her to come in.
Not to mention the guy earlier who randomly came into our room and dropped off his girlfriend and left her and she laughed and scuttled out. Half tempted to be like 'Oi! You're ours now, betch! He left you!' Actually... I think Jay did say that, more or less. Pfft.
Aaaand of course, when we came back in, we were loud and woke up the room. \o/ Hurray! >_> It was around then that I want to sleep. Finally.
Friday morning, I rolled up and blinked a bit. I went to the con center. Wandered around a bit, then eventually came back. I can't tell you what I did because, in all seriousness I forgot. I know I went to the game room for a little while instead of waiting in the dealer's room line. When I did go to the dealer's room....... I bought a lot of stuff. =_= Manga that I was behind on, new manga I wanted [Oh yes. we have LADIES COMICS redi komi in the US now. I lawl so hard]. I have this huge bag from that josei/redi komi place that kept all my shit in it and it was HEAVY. I bought most of what I have on Friday.
I dragged all that shit back to the hotel and then we went somewhere to eat. While waiting for Jen-tachi to appear, we saw the pedobear who somehow turned into a cactar with one of his poses, lulz. He also stalked behind some girls and I just died. We need more pedobears in life.
We went to Sbarros in the mall, I believe. It was funny that we segregated ourselves into my RL friends [and Kris] and my Lj friends on the opposite end. Did that at the Thursday dinner, too. I wanted to mix them all up D< so we could all talk. Kris got into a random argument with the pizza guy about him running out of things as if there weren't 10,000 people in fluxing into the city for a convention at the moment or something.
Of course, during all of this, many a ninja picture was taken. I should have broken your cameras, you bastards. >/
After Sbarros, we waaandered around some more. I can't tell you what I did because I didn't DO anything. A lot of walking and talking and very little of the convention's events. Around 11ish we all got in line for the Yaoi panel.
It was hilarious. Randomly, Jay popped back up because the Rave was packed [or full of fail, don't remember] and we all made horrid comments. There was the scale that Kris tried to place Mytho/Fakir on and I lawled at where Itachi/Fakir fit on it [cus it doesn't except in our sick minds]. After that, we amused ourselves and went to 7-11 again, cus we were hungry as hell. I got a cheeseburger that was shaped like a hotdog. Haha, it wasn't so bad.... but not worth 2 bucks, shit.
We went back to the hotel, talked for a long while. Conversations of Head Cheese and random as hell topics that had nothing to do with anything erupted. I blame the yaoi panel and our dirty minds. EVENTUALLY, we all managed to get to sleep. I have no idea how, but we just died somewhere along the line.
Coming up:
• More walking
• Missing panels
• Autographs
• Cosplay
• Epic amounts of walking
• Staying up way too late
• Missing more panels
• Did I mention WALKING?
• An epic fail of more than epic proportions