my moral standing is lying down

Onna! was cool! I had fun, but it was a slightly weird con. They had a lot of attendees, much more than Yuricon had; I think the final headcount is around 700. And yet, I think I enjoyed Yuricon more. Probably because I was running around being on staff, and having responsibilities and fun and crises and stuff like that. I volunteered at Onna!, but it just wasn't the same.

Not to mention that I had to go back to NYC on Sunday to work. So that was kind of weird. I thought I missed a lot, but Angelica says I didn't really.

I did get to see stuff this time, though. But it was all live action! LOLOL! How funny is that?

Kimi wa Petto live action was good, but I still prefer the manga to the TV series. I'd be interested in seeing it animated. I wonder if it's because of the medium -- with live action it is harder for me to do that whole "suspension of disbelief" thing. I dunno. It's not that way for like, the Sailor Moon Live Action; maybe because they're all dressed up in outfits, and it's kind of like cosplay. Who knows.

Liz and Angelica saw Sailor Moon live action, Aim for the Ace live action. Angelica and I saw a little of the end of the Takarazuka (Japan's all-female) troupe's Rose of Versailles musical. It was pretty funny and, of course, dramatic.

When I made the room reservations I only made reservations for Friday and Saturday nights, thinking I'd have to work on Monday. And then I totally forgot about it. Of course, the hotel wouldn't let me resreve another night at the con rate, so we all had to schelp home on Sunday night. It wasn't really all that bad. Juliet and Liz both stayed home on Monday 'cause they both had schoolwork to do. Jerry stayed home as well. Will was going to go back with us, but overslept on Monday morning, so he ended up staying home. Angelica and I left Queens at around 8am to get there early. We took another turn around the Dealer's Room (at which I spent a total of $22 the whole weekend!), watched that Takarazuka musical, then we just sat and watched Legend of Duo on Angelica's laptop in the lobby.

It was interesting. I liked it, and the art was cool. I was unable to watch it without comparing it to both GW (it should be obvious why), and Night Walker. Sharon, I know you really enjoyed this anime, and I'd like to hear what caught you. I enjoyed it, but I'm still slightly confused maybe frustrated is a better word, by its open-ended and unenlightening ending. It's also possible that since I was very tired on Monday, it was just too much for me to take in. ^_~;; In ADDITION, Angelica didn't realize her playlist was on SHUFFLE, so we saw the first and last episodes (go figure!) back-to-back!!! x_x;

Oh, but the con was cool and of course, I just love working for Erica. I'm not going to go into some of the irritating staff at the Registration desk where I was, but Leann (whom I'd worked with at the Reg desk for Yuricon, too) was cool. She's so sweet. And it was fun running into devilkitty0 and so many other people I know from the East Coast area -- of course, Chris, Carrie, Tom, Sean Kelly & Megan, Sailor Moon Bitch, Jim! I saw Jim! The guy from Yuricon whose pocket knife I still have and who got locked in the bathroom at like 2am! That was cool, I should have taken a picture of him! Poo. But we exchanged emails and phone numbers, so if/when he's in the city, I told him to give me a call and I'd get him back his pocket knife. Which I should really go find!

That's what I sound like. Slightly over a week ago I went to sleep in the path of the air conditioner with too little clothing on. ^_~ And woke up the next morning with chest congestion and coughing. It sucks.

Let's see... I registered for Onna! over the weekend, and sent an email to Erica yesterday saying that I'd registered and can I volunteer? So now I'm working "Special Ops," which is some security, some miscellaneous stuff. Dunno how long I'll be volunteering for because I do want to hang out with friends, but I think I'll have fun volunteering too.

I noticed another small bug with the layout and dutifully reported it on s2flexisquares. So far afuna, my knight in shining code-armor, has not come up with a fix (that worked), but I ended up manipulating some code for someone else's layout! That was fun. =D

Although Angelica gave me Samurai Champloo and Flame of Recca (which I've seen already, but am in the mood to see over) last night, I didn't watch anything. She also told me to give her her DVDs back. And now I feel weird, like, I should buy a DVD burner right now so I can make copies of the anime series so that if I want to watch them I don't have to ask her. Especially 'cause what if she's at her grandmother's house for the weekend or something? Maybe I can buy a pack of DVD-Rs and she can make me copies of stuff for now until I buy a DVD burner. What do you think, Angelica? And after you mentioned Anita wanting an external hard drive, I got to thinking -- maybe I should get one for my laptop too. And then I thought, should I get an external hard drive instead of the DVD burner? Or just get it first, then a DVD burner later? And now I'm going crazy trying to figure out what to do, and it's making me feel really weird and pressured 'cause you want your DVDs back and now I can't watch anime.

T_T;

I think you should help me decide what I should do.

Angelica's totally into the Onna! thing now, which is good, I guess. I'm not as excited about it, which is odd because shoujo is (generally) more my thing that hers, especially in comparison to Yaoicon. But whatever; maybe it's just 'cause it's in October. I just can't get all worked up about it right now. Otakon is only 79 days away (with only 11, 684 spots left, haha), and as is typical of me, I haven't started any costume work yet. My sewing machine belt still needs to be replaced, and I haven't even contemplated how I'm doing those costumes we decided on (the mushroom heartless from Kingdom Hearts).

I got a letter from Yoshi today! メール　ありがとう！　Now I have a penpal to write to and use some of my stationery! LOL, I wish I'd brought some with me to work, but I'll just have to wait until I get back home.

I watched up to episode 5 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle on Sunday -- it was sooo good! I'm really enjoying the series! There was a really funny part in one of the episodes where the tall warrior guy has to run after someone (probably Shaoran) and he says "mendoukusai!" which totally made me think of Yoshi and being in Japan, and that whole thing of not saying "mendoukusee." It really startled me to hear it and I blinked -- it was just really cute and funny; my reaction.