my moral standing is lying down

So... there's really no excuse for my lack of updates.

Unexpectedly, and suuuper last-minute, I will be attending Acen in Chicago! We'll have a much-reduced booth, where I and a photographer will be shooting Hall cosplay contestants and Masquerade participants. So if you're going to be at Acen this year, please come by and say hi!

I'm really looking forward to this because it'll give me a chance to see people I haven't seen in too long! I'm only sad that my usual booth crew (Judy, Liz, Juliet) won't be there. But at least I'll be seeing a couple of them in July when they come to the West Coast for San Diego Comic Con! I'm tentatively expecting to attend the con, but we'll see how that actually works out.

Even more than people at Acen, though, I'm reeeeeeeallly excited to visit honeymull!!! The con ends Sunday but I'm not leaving Chicago til Tuesday, which means HAVING ALL THE (DRUNKEN) FUN WITH RACHEL! \o/ I'm really hoping there's a Rangers game that Monday night, so we can go to a bar and yell excitedly or belligerently at the screen together! It's hard being lone NYR fans away from NYC. Thank fuck for twitter. <3

My Chicago itinerary:

Thursday 04/26/12:
US 007 LAX 12:40pm → PHX 2:07pm
US 007 PHX 3:10pm → ORD 8:27pm

Tuesday 05/01/12:
UA 411 ORD 8:44pm → LAX 11:22pm

Just purchased tickets to see Iron Man 2 tomorrow evening with Kpharrina, so if anyone is interested in joining us, you're welcome to come along. Link to tix: http://deke.me/y5. It's during Maryann's party, but I had made plans to hang with Kerina before Maryann's party was announced. =( Still, I'm sure Maryann knows how much I love her and how much I wish her a SUPER HAPPY SPEEESHUL BIRTHDAY! <3

In other news, since I'm NOT going to work conference in France this year, I am free for Acen! \o/ I was able to get Monday off, so it will be a nice bonus to have Monday free to hang with Juliet! (Maybe I'll actually make it into Chicago proper this time!) Monies for this flight will be reimbursed (since I'm working at Acen, not having fun or anything lame like that) and then go straight into Trip to Berlin Funds!

Saturday 05/15/10:
AA 309 LGA 8:35am → ORD 10:15am

Monday 05/17/10:
AA 346 ORD 7:55pm → LGA 11:05pm

The only thing that could make trip to Chicago better is if the Hawks make it into the Quarterfinals and Game 1 is that Sunday night (5/16).


ETA: Eljay is hoarding comments again, so if I don't respond in a timely matter it's not my fault!

Thursday 05/07/09:
AA 363 LGA 7:35pm → ORD 9:10pm

Monday 05/11/09:
AA 346 ORD 7:55pm → LGA 11:05pm

I have a feeling that Acen will be EXHAUSTING. If you're going to be there, give me a call, or just drop by the booth. I expect to be there pretty much from open to close. I'm so happy I'm taking an extra day, though. I'm excited to be going to Acen, but I'm somewhat more excited to be able to hang out and relax once Sunday afternoon finally rolls around. Unfortunately, Judy, Anna, Sean and Rymel will be flying back to NYC on Sunday, but Jim and Bartko will be around til Monday. And Juliet lives in Chicago for school. And possibly there will be other tech staff I've met who will be hanging around til Monday. Oh, and Alex will be there with his band, The Spoony Bards, until Monday also! I haven't seen him since chienverde's birthday party/lunch in Chinatown last year!

WOO! Can't wait!