Anime Boston 2009....... eventually
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kageisukeAnime Boston 2009… Eventually.
Things I learned
○ All the people I stayed with are crazy. Thus I fit in entirely too well.
○ There is CP time and Kris time. Kris time is FAR worse. :|
○ GPS =/= never getting lost
○ Jon’s twitch reflex really is like a squirrel’s.
○ Everyone I stayed with was crazy. Really.
Anime Boston. This journey begins Wednesday morning. I was supposed to leave at 10, but didn’t roll out until about 10:45 am. Didn’t really matter, as we weren’t leaving until Thursday morning anyway. I just wanted to get there early to meet peoples and get sleep before another obnoxiously long drive. And speaking of obnoxious, I have never had to pay so many tolls IN MY LIFE. There was a two dollar toll, a ninety cent toll, a four dollar toll, a five dollar toll, a SIX dollar and ninety cent toll and I'm sure I've forgotten some. WTF man. WTF. And that’s just to NJ. On the way to Boston, there were like, three more. Goddamn man, that is fucking riDONKulous. This trip was twice as expensive as it should have been because of that. =| Fuck you North East tolls.
Anyway. I got to NJ and I swear, I didn't get lost until I was SEARCHING for Kris' house. God damn, woman. Make them fix that fucking street sign. I was like WTF is that roooaaaad. *shakes GPS brutally*
I got to Kris' house, and had to pee like a Russian race horse. T^T *insert TMI* ANYWAY, I met Melanie, who was at Kris' house. There was fun and random chatter to be had. \o/ Melanie's phone is JACKED UP. She has to use a PEN to answer her cell phone. I'm not kidding. GET A NEW PHONE, MELANIE. RIGHT NOW. Then Melissa and Jon rolled up, where Jon LIED TO ME about being Marcel. I think it was Marcel. :| Bad Jon. And there was Jen. Poor little Jen. =o= The only white person. \o\ That's actually not so important, but it amused me much all weekend. Don't ask.
Melissa, Kris, and I rolled out to Goodwill so Kris could find some camo pants in order to finish her Nygus cosplay from SE, and it took her forever. :| After a while, I waited in the car. =o=
We got back, I stole all of Kris' music via my delicious external harddrive, and then games were played \o/. Drakengaris it? LALALALALA. Pregnant women with 400 BABIES. Alternating music bands of DOOM. The music for that part I liked. Not the stunning death. Oh man I don't even remember the rest, but that part was WAT. Creepy little girl do not want. Never play that game, people. Ever. Then we slept. Sleeping is good \o. Actually, we argued about leaving at 10am or leaving later and using GPS to get there, since Melissa-tachi would probably get lost. We decided to leave later.
It was much later than we anticipated.
So much later.
Anyway. Thursday morning, I roll out of bed at like, 9:30 or something and wander about the house in a state of unreadiness until 9:55. Jon calls Melissa to tell her we aren't leaving at 10 and will leave later. I'm sure her face looked like this 'D<' but nothing we could do, since Kris hadn't finished her cosplay last night OR EVEN PACKED. ಠ_ಠ I take a shower and finished getting ready by 10:30. Maybe even 11, who knows. Jen and I sit in the play room [Living room? Dunno what they call it] and watch Jon play games that suck. XD Megaman. Oh Megaman. Blind jumps onto spikes do not a happy gamer make. I hope you have learned. \o There was also Shounen Jump Ultimate Stars sometime. Where Jon beat my ass. >:| *shakes a fist* But I fixed him. :D Oh I fixed him >8D
Twelve o'clock rolls around. We're still waiting on Kris. (((O_O))) And Melissa calls a few times to see our progress, which is nothing until, one? Maybe two. I have never left so late on a Thursday ever. *rolls in dismay*
When we finally left, we had written directions, but they were made of fail. We got Kris' mom to change our directions, but I saw the I95 exit not knowing the other was after that. We hit traffic. ~_~ But that was okay, since we had a BOOK ON TAPE. Along Came A Spider by James Patterson. I had been listening to it on the way up, but popped it back in since I figured they wouldn't be listening to it anyway, thus I didn't need to put in the other one. They did end up listening, where Jen made retching noises at Jezebel'ssse's Mary Sue-ness. I didn't think she was a Mary Sue, but it doesn't matter, because she got hers in the end \o Aha~ But that's for the way back.
GPS was fail and was not as useful as you'd think to a directionally challenged person. It helped to an extent, BUT NOT TO AVOID THOSE GODDAMN TOLLS. ASDFAKSFJALSJA@#$@KL@ I hate tolls. Anyway, more tolls, stopped for gas in which we rolled around confused looking for fucking gas. Don't get me started on how that one station didn't like my car and I had to go to another one because it refused to pump more than 25 cents at a time into my tank. And I gave the man 30 dollars. Hell no. Then we got near Boston. Lesson learned: Don't follow written directions AND GPS directions when they took different routes. It doesn't work.
Jen got sick in the car and, fortunately, I always have bags in my car, so she had a paper bag IN a plastic one. Bile and upholstery do not a happy Kyorabi make. Shortly after that, we FOUND IT. The HOTEL. An oasis in a sea of FAIL. Good Lord it was amazing. T^T And I thought getting lost going to Baltimore was bad? Oh no. 8| That's not bad. My total drive time from VA to NJ to MA was 11 hours so far, roughly. ~_~
Parking was, 35 a night? Even for me, that's kind of expensive, but I didn't want to go ANYWHERE else, so we left the car in there for the night and I would go move it the next day. We settled in to the hotel for a little, before going to get Pre-reg. The line was pretty short, and moved fast. Yay \o/. The badges sucked. No pictures of the latest licensed anime on them. Just our Nickname/Handle AND our Real Name. WTF puts their whole real name on a con badge? I don't, so mine stayed flipped over for the entire convention unless they needed to see the front. =D
We got back to the hotel after getting some not-so-delicious mall food. They didn't have a Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King, TacoBell, or any of that shit in there. WTF kind of ritzy mall was it DX They had Panda Express, but I didn't want Chinese all weekend. The Sushi place? I don't trust mall sushi, and I was on a budget anyway. =_=; The Dunkin' Donuts had a line a mile long. Fffff. Oh! We also saw Sean! Damn that man is tall. *has to look up* I wonder how often he hits his head on doorways...
Anyway, back to the hotel where we mad more D8< faces at there being no schedule in our bags. We invaded Melissa and Sean's room for some unknown reason... I think they were watching Soul Eater, so I followed Kris over. Anyway, we looted their schedules from their bags, because they were obviously more special than us to receive one.
After mulling over WTF to do tomorrow, we went to bed. Or tried.
The three skinny bints, Kris, Jon, and Jen, occupied one bed while I slept with Melanie in the other.
*sobs* Melanie's snoring kept me awake most of the night. As soon as I got used to it and was drifting off, it changed pitch. Or volume. Or SOMETHING. And I was left like (((O_O))) wondering why karma works in such mysteriously EVIL ways. I heard Jon laughing miserably from between Kris and Jen a few times. I could only cry. ;__;
Anyway, I got up around 10? Something like that, and went off with Jen and Jon to the Character Concept and Design Panel. We stayed about ten minutes before Jon is making a :| face and we leave because he and Jen are bored. I can have amazing concentration or retarded ADHD sometimes. I had concentration at the time, but left anyway. It wasn't like I didn't know that stuff already. We left to... do something of which I don't exactly remember. Checked out the game room I think, which sucked. Both of them. That made me sad. Jon wanted to go to the Foe Mag Shullbit [Moe Fag Bullshit, they misspelled it on purpose >_>], and gave me D: faces for dragging him to Character Design, but it turned out that those people never showed up for their panel. \o/ Aa well.
We also found out that Anime Boston updates its schedule every day with new times and switching rooms around, thus making their schedule from the previous day null and void \o/. That annoyed the SHIT out of me, carrying around my old schedule and going to the wrong places on Saturday. >:|
Anyway, we went to the Dealer's Room then, and at first thought it was dinky. It was pretty small... until a mysterious hallway on the side led to an even BIGGER room. We split up, and by split up I mean I saw something shiny and wandered away. Then, after finishing, I walked back over and ninja'd up behind Jen and Jon, who both gave me alarmed faces. Because I'm cool like that. Or because I'm a ninja. Or both. The only thing I bought from the Dealer's room was Monster 18. THE FINAL VOLUME. The booth... what booth was it? Legends of Arcadia? Fire Emblem? I don't even remember, but it was EPIC. It has nice chairs and 3 walls that looked like ancient walls of a castle and such. Very nicely done. =D After that, we went back and spied the artist alley, which we didn't go to because we were starving and needed food. We ate, then went back to the hotel room. I knocked the fuck out. I was tired, and even when 5 rolled around and the 'Anime You Should See' panel came up, I stayed in bed and drooled in my sleep =o=
I got up eventually, I think it was because Kris-tachi came in the room. I think. I dunno, but I got up and rolled out with Jon. He wouldn't go to the Got Yaoi 18+ video with me. :< Pansy. But I got there early and caught the end of the Swap Meet. I wish I had remembered to bring some of the shit I was trying to SELL. I might have gotten something good for it in exchange that I would have actually wanted to see. =_= ANYWAY, it ended for some reason, I can't remember what was supposed to happen after that. Either way, Yaoi panel. Those are always funner to watch with friends/hecklers because dude. The commentary is hilarious! Anyway, it was standard yaoi fair. Underdog from the Choushu falls in love with someone from the Shogunate [excuse my historical failure, I can't remember] and the passion slowly builds. There is much random posing that no person does while sleeping, and audience cat calls. Yeeaaah. XD
Jon txts or calls [don't remember which] and I roll out of the video room so we can go grocery shopping. And by grocery shopping I mean getting breathing strips for Melanie and ear plugs for us. Jen had gone earlier BUT FORGOT TO GET THEM. *shakes her* Either way. Those worked AMAZINGLY WELL. *sobs with gratitude* And then we were in for the night, and prepared to sleep...
BUT we had three other people coming to our room and they didn't arrive until 3 am. *rolls around in dismay* I don't know why they waited so late to come, but we couldn't go to sleep until they got there because there was no point. ~_~ They all snored, too. :| Though not as bad as Melanie, I admit. Either way, I put in the earplugs and went to sleep anyway 8DDD ahaha, even though I heard them talking VAGUELY through the earplugs. Not enough that it to bother me |D~
/lazy
/busy
I'll do the rest eventually. Before I forget, anyway. Sunday night when we watched Taken has to be documented \o
Things I learned
○ All the people I stayed with are crazy. Thus I fit in entirely too well.
○ There is CP time and Kris time. Kris time is FAR worse. :|
○ GPS =/= never getting lost
○ Jon’s twitch reflex really is like a squirrel’s.
○ Everyone I stayed with was crazy. Really.
Anime Boston. This journey begins Wednesday morning. I was supposed to leave at 10, but didn’t roll out until about 10:45 am. Didn’t really matter, as we weren’t leaving until Thursday morning anyway. I just wanted to get there early to meet peoples and get sleep before another obnoxiously long drive. And speaking of obnoxious, I have never had to pay so many tolls IN MY LIFE. There was a two dollar toll, a ninety cent toll, a four dollar toll, a five dollar toll, a SIX dollar and ninety cent toll and I'm sure I've forgotten some. WTF man. WTF. And that’s just to NJ. On the way to Boston, there were like, three more. Goddamn man, that is fucking riDONKulous. This trip was twice as expensive as it should have been because of that. =| Fuck you North East tolls.
Anyway. I got to NJ and I swear, I didn't get lost until I was SEARCHING for Kris' house. God damn, woman. Make them fix that fucking street sign. I was like WTF is that roooaaaad. *shakes GPS brutally*
I got to Kris' house, and had to pee like a Russian race horse. T^T *insert TMI* ANYWAY, I met Melanie, who was at Kris' house. There was fun and random chatter to be had. \o/ Melanie's phone is JACKED UP. She has to use a PEN to answer her cell phone. I'm not kidding. GET A NEW PHONE, MELANIE. RIGHT NOW. Then Melissa and Jon rolled up, where Jon LIED TO ME about being Marcel. I think it was Marcel. :| Bad Jon. And there was Jen. Poor little Jen. =o= The only white person. \o\ That's actually not so important, but it amused me much all weekend. Don't ask.
Melissa, Kris, and I rolled out to Goodwill so Kris could find some camo pants in order to finish her Nygus cosplay from SE, and it took her forever. :| After a while, I waited in the car. =o=
We got back, I stole all of Kris' music via my delicious external harddrive, and then games were played \o/. Drakengaris it? LALALALALA. Pregnant women with 400 BABIES. Alternating music bands of DOOM. The music for that part I liked. Not the stunning death. Oh man I don't even remember the rest, but that part was WAT. Creepy little girl do not want. Never play that game, people. Ever. Then we slept. Sleeping is good \o. Actually, we argued about leaving at 10am or leaving later and using GPS to get there, since Melissa-tachi would probably get lost. We decided to leave later.
It was much later than we anticipated.
So much later.
Anyway. Thursday morning, I roll out of bed at like, 9:30 or something and wander about the house in a state of unreadiness until 9:55. Jon calls Melissa to tell her we aren't leaving at 10 and will leave later. I'm sure her face looked like this 'D<' but nothing we could do, since Kris hadn't finished her cosplay last night OR EVEN PACKED. ಠ_ಠ I take a shower and finished getting ready by 10:30. Maybe even 11, who knows. Jen and I sit in the play room [Living room? Dunno what they call it] and watch Jon play games that suck. XD Megaman. Oh Megaman. Blind jumps onto spikes do not a happy gamer make. I hope you have learned. \o There was also Shounen Jump Ultimate Stars sometime. Where Jon beat my ass. >:| *shakes a fist* But I fixed him. :D Oh I fixed him >8D
Twelve o'clock rolls around. We're still waiting on Kris. (((O_O))) And Melissa calls a few times to see our progress, which is nothing until, one? Maybe two. I have never left so late on a Thursday ever. *rolls in dismay*
When we finally left, we had written directions, but they were made of fail. We got Kris' mom to change our directions, but I saw the I95 exit not knowing the other was after that. We hit traffic. ~_~ But that was okay, since we had a BOOK ON TAPE. Along Came A Spider by James Patterson. I had been listening to it on the way up, but popped it back in since I figured they wouldn't be listening to it anyway, thus I didn't need to put in the other one. They did end up listening, where Jen made retching noises at Je
GPS was fail and was not as useful as you'd think to a directionally challenged person. It helped to an extent, BUT NOT TO AVOID THOSE GODDAMN TOLLS. ASDFAKSFJALSJA@#$@KL@ I hate tolls. Anyway, more tolls, stopped for gas in which we rolled around confused looking for fucking gas. Don't get me started on how that one station didn't like my car and I had to go to another one because it refused to pump more than 25 cents at a time into my tank. And I gave the man 30 dollars. Hell no. Then we got near Boston. Lesson learned: Don't follow written directions AND GPS directions when they took different routes. It doesn't work.
Jen got sick in the car and, fortunately, I always have bags in my car, so she had a paper bag IN a plastic one. Bile and upholstery do not a happy Kyorabi make. Shortly after that, we FOUND IT. The HOTEL. An oasis in a sea of FAIL. Good Lord it was amazing. T^T And I thought getting lost going to Baltimore was bad? Oh no. 8| That's not bad. My total drive time from VA to NJ to MA was 11 hours so far, roughly. ~_~
Parking was, 35 a night? Even for me, that's kind of expensive, but I didn't want to go ANYWHERE else, so we left the car in there for the night and I would go move it the next day. We settled in to the hotel for a little, before going to get Pre-reg. The line was pretty short, and moved fast. Yay \o/. The badges sucked. No pictures of the latest licensed anime on them. Just our Nickname/Handle AND our Real Name. WTF puts their whole real name on a con badge? I don't, so mine stayed flipped over for the entire convention unless they needed to see the front. =D
We got back to the hotel after getting some not-so-delicious mall food. They didn't have a Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King, TacoBell, or any of that shit in there. WTF kind of ritzy mall was it DX They had Panda Express, but I didn't want Chinese all weekend. The Sushi place? I don't trust mall sushi, and I was on a budget anyway. =_=; The Dunkin' Donuts had a line a mile long. Fffff. Oh! We also saw Sean! Damn that man is tall. *has to look up* I wonder how often he hits his head on doorways...
Anyway, back to the hotel where we mad more D8< faces at there being no schedule in our bags. We invaded Melissa and Sean's room for some unknown reason... I think they were watching Soul Eater, so I followed Kris over. Anyway, we looted their schedules from their bags, because they were obviously more special than us to receive one.
After mulling over WTF to do tomorrow, we went to bed. Or tried.
The three skinny bints, Kris, Jon, and Jen, occupied one bed while I slept with Melanie in the other.
*sobs* Melanie's snoring kept me awake most of the night. As soon as I got used to it and was drifting off, it changed pitch. Or volume. Or SOMETHING. And I was left like (((O_O))) wondering why karma works in such mysteriously EVIL ways. I heard Jon laughing miserably from between Kris and Jen a few times. I could only cry. ;__;
Anyway, I got up around 10? Something like that, and went off with Jen and Jon to the Character Concept and Design Panel. We stayed about ten minutes before Jon is making a :| face and we leave because he and Jen are bored. I can have amazing concentration or retarded ADHD sometimes. I had concentration at the time, but left anyway. It wasn't like I didn't know that stuff already. We left to... do something of which I don't exactly remember. Checked out the game room I think, which sucked. Both of them. That made me sad. Jon wanted to go to the Foe Mag Shullbit [Moe Fag Bullshit, they misspelled it on purpose >_>], and gave me D: faces for dragging him to Character Design, but it turned out that those people never showed up for their panel. \o/ Aa well.
We also found out that Anime Boston updates its schedule every day with new times and switching rooms around, thus making their schedule from the previous day null and void \o/. That annoyed the SHIT out of me, carrying around my old schedule and going to the wrong places on Saturday. >:|
Anyway, we went to the Dealer's Room then, and at first thought it was dinky. It was pretty small... until a mysterious hallway on the side led to an even BIGGER room. We split up, and by split up I mean I saw something shiny and wandered away. Then, after finishing, I walked back over and ninja'd up behind Jen and Jon, who both gave me alarmed faces. Because I'm cool like that. Or because I'm a ninja. Or both. The only thing I bought from the Dealer's room was Monster 18. THE FINAL VOLUME. The booth... what booth was it? Legends of Arcadia? Fire Emblem? I don't even remember, but it was EPIC. It has nice chairs and 3 walls that looked like ancient walls of a castle and such. Very nicely done. =D After that, we went back and spied the artist alley, which we didn't go to because we were starving and needed food. We ate, then went back to the hotel room. I knocked the fuck out. I was tired, and even when 5 rolled around and the 'Anime You Should See' panel came up, I stayed in bed and drooled in my sleep =o=
I got up eventually, I think it was because Kris-tachi came in the room. I think. I dunno, but I got up and rolled out with Jon. He wouldn't go to the Got Yaoi 18+ video with me. :< Pansy. But I got there early and caught the end of the Swap Meet. I wish I had remembered to bring some of the shit I was trying to SELL. I might have gotten something good for it in exchange that I would have actually wanted to see. =_= ANYWAY, it ended for some reason, I can't remember what was supposed to happen after that. Either way, Yaoi panel. Those are always funner to watch with friends/hecklers because dude. The commentary is hilarious! Anyway, it was standard yaoi fair. Underdog from the Choushu falls in love with someone from the Shogunate [excuse my historical failure, I can't remember] and the passion slowly builds. There is much random posing that no person does while sleeping, and audience cat calls. Yeeaaah. XD
Jon txts or calls [don't remember which] and I roll out of the video room so we can go grocery shopping. And by grocery shopping I mean getting breathing strips for Melanie and ear plugs for us. Jen had gone earlier BUT FORGOT TO GET THEM. *shakes her* Either way. Those worked AMAZINGLY WELL. *sobs with gratitude* And then we were in for the night, and prepared to sleep...
BUT we had three other people coming to our room and they didn't arrive until 3 am. *rolls around in dismay* I don't know why they waited so late to come, but we couldn't go to sleep until they got there because there was no point. ~_~ They all snored, too. :| Though not as bad as Melanie, I admit. Either way, I put in the earplugs and went to sleep anyway 8DDD ahaha, even though I heard them talking VAGUELY through the earplugs. Not enough that it to bother me |D~
/lazy
/busy
I'll do the rest eventually. Before I forget, anyway. Sunday night when we watched Taken has to be documented \o
