my moral standing is lying down

I had this all written out and the IE ate it. Bastard.

I took my beloved 160g external harddrive over to Angelica's house last night and stole all her anime!

Well, okay, not all. But I did get a goodly amount of anime that I was interested in. I got some of the latest episodes of Bleach and Wild Striker, so I'm very happy that I can continue watching these series now.

Last weekend, I had an urge to see the end of Whistle! again, so I did. But that kind of got me in the mood to see more of Wild Striker. I'm either on episode 33 or 34, but the rest of the episodes I had on the disc (up to 37) were corrupt! =( So now I have from 37 to whatever the latest release was, but I'm going to have to go and find 33-37. Angelica did a quick search and found a batch of 25-36, which I suppose I'll have to try and download this weekend.

I also now have ParaKiss and Genshiken, which I'm looking forward to watching (but I have to watch Wild Striker first, 'cause I'm really back into that right now).

One of the things she didn't have that I do want to see is Honey and Clover, so I'll have to look for that as well.

Oh! And I found those Naruto discs that suzume_sparrow sent me earlier this summer! And the Prince of Tennis that zerotwofan sent too! So those are on my to-be-watched list also! (I have a feeling neither are going to-be-watched very soon, though.)

Note to self: ask Will if I can lend FMA to Dave.

Off to Mudvayne concert very soon!

We woke up at 8am in order to meet the group for breakfast at 9am at our hotel's restaurant. We were in a large group of 15, and then ravynfyre joined us, so it was 16. Hanging out with them all was really cool, and I had a really nice conversation with hyanan toward the end of breakfast, which was cool. =D

Afterwards, everyone split up to go to several destinations in SF. Angelica and I went back to the hotel room 'cause we were expecting Nicky at around 11am. While waiting in the hotel room, we watched two more episodes of FMA, so now I've finished 8. I really do like the series very much! Sharon mentioned a fic that she'd read, a sort of crossover, where Duo is in the FMA universe, which I'd love to read, which I'll have to remind her about so she can find/send me the link.

Nicky showed up a little later than we expected -- some time after 12, I believe. We hung out in the lobby for a while (free internet connection for wireless laptops!) and then Nicky showed up. We took her stuff upstairs and then went out to go eat. We came back to get our badges and such (expedited by the wonderful head of registration, Ravynfyre), and then went out to SF to go get my nose pierced!

There's a place on Haight and Masonic that is highly recommended by Nicky and her piercer at Sub Q in Sacramento, called Mom's. We had a hell of a time getting parking, but finally found a 30-minute-limit meter and ran over to get me pierced, and made it back just in time for the 30-minute mark! Vaughn was the guy who pierced my nose and he was really cool in going over aftercare stuff with me (although I know most of what he tole me already). Surprisingly, it didn't hurt all that much! I think it hurt less than my conch piercing, certainly less than my industrial. My left eye did water, but that was mostly it. For the first half hour, I felt the end of the L-shaped stud up in the back of my nostril, and it felt pretty darn odd. After that, the sensation went away (or I just didn't notice it anymore), bute every time I tried to yawn, it would feel a bit sore and the feeling of soreness would interrupt my yawn, so that I couldn't complete it. Only when I get tired enough to be unable to resist completing the yawn, am I able to do it.

Now, every so often, in certain positions, I feel the end of the stud in the back of my nose, and it feels like I've got something up there that I really want to get out. And then I remember that it's the stud. So yeah.

Gotta go get on line for the bishounen auction now, but will return with more Friday reporting (and maybe some pics!) later.