As of about 48 hours ago, I am the happy owner of a 5 bedroom house in the Washington metropolitan area (on the Maryland side, I really wanted to stay in Montgomery County and close to a subway station). I'm really excited, but also really tired, as my family converged on the new property already and we are working on remodelling the basement, ( Read more... )

A few photos of Ridonculus (Odin Sphere's Cornelius to the people not used to my terrible sense of humour) are trickling in, so I'll share some of them with you, as I wait for the second photoshoot from Anime North to appear online. Oh, the suspense!


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My feet still hurt from all the walking and the uncomfortable shoes, but I am back from the whirlwind that was Anime North. I can't say whether or not I enjoy canadian cons, if only because I really didn't see the convention, but they do get my votes for a very well organised, very clean masquerade where they actually fed the contestants (which was ( Read more... )

I am taking a few minutes away from the end of semester panic to jot down a quick update. Too many of my posts start with "I'm alive", don't they? I just can't find the time or, more importantly, the mental energy to update. And, to be honest, I'm not sure stories of teaching in University, writing papers for seminars and signing offers on houses ( Read more... )

Katsucon went by in a blur, or perhaps I should instead say that Katsucon weekend went by in a blur, since I barely saw the con as I commuted from my room to the cosplay and back ( Read more... )

2007 ended with a bang, and a good one at that! I got my grades back from my first semester of graduate school, and scored, not straight As, but straight A+s. All those sleepless nights in December desperately working on my papers and ingesting inhuman amounts of cashew nuts and Krispy Kreme surely paid off. Afterwards I had to dig myself out of my ( Read more... )

First of all, if I had been told when I started Final Fantasy XI years ago that when I would finally reach my nerd goal of having a full set of Red Mage Artifact version 2 (Duelist set, which is very rare) I would forget to post about it for over 4 months, I would not have believed it!

And yet I did. Look! Look! Duelist Chapeau!


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I want to start by apologizing yet again about not keeping tabs on everyone on my friendslist, I am so busy the internet beyond work and instant messaging is a foreign concept to me. I don't imagine it slowing down really noticeably until about mid-December.

So if I missed something important, do tell me! I really want to try to keep in touch with ( Read more... )

I realised I never did post the new photos of Integra that my dear friend Lu took of me (she has a knack for making me look better than I do in real life!)... so I'm now fixing this grave oversight!


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Because "I live" as a post title is quite overrated ( Read more... )