Update on life: Sakura-Con and HDD Failure
Wow, it has been a while, loves.
Katie here, exhausted and overstretched! So many things to update you all on, so little time. I'll be breif and just touch the two biggest things, and if you comment with questions I'll write back to answer anything else. Kay? Kay!
Right!
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SAKURA-CON
I went to my first anime convention! OMG! Years and years (and years...like, a decade) after I first stared at news coverage of Anime Expo while I lived in Cali and said to Bryan, "I want to go to an anime convention, too!!!" I finally got my chance. It took a while, but damnit, I went!
Sakura-Con was amazing. I cannot explain the awesome, though anyone who has experienced their first con can probably recall the feeling. Being surrounded by people in cosplay, no one looking twice when you squee or shout randomness (unless it is to respond with more randomness), games of Marco, Polo in hallways, a circle of modified Spin the Bottle in which you run and hug the hell out of whomever the bottle points to (Glomp Circle owns my soul... hugged at least 500 people, likely more)... just wow. Be you a geek, nerd, or dork, this is heaven.
I spent a lot of time outside just people watching, and it was so fascinating. I met a number of amazingly interesting people, exchanged contact info with three who really caught my attention and I was genuinely sad to know I probably wouldn't see them again until the next year, if ever again. I met a boy (you're shocked, right?) that was fucking amazing... can't explain the amazing, people, just can't. I'm well known for having no real interest in people. Dating? NO THANK YOU. Been there, done that, don't want the drama. I just don't talk to a person IRL and walk away with my heart beating faster going "OMGOMGOMGOMG" in my head. 4 hours (yarly) into conversation with him I remember the thought of, "This guy is phenomenal! Holy shit is he out of my league!" going through my mind. And I couldn't stop trying to find excuses to touch him. Poor guy. XD
Now, if only I was a bit more attractive and had a bit less baggage, hmm? Five years single, likely to be twice that before I actually decide that I am willing to get back into the dating game, but I have a flash of, "I would try for this" and it is a miserable bust for me. Boo. -__- He's moving, you see. So even if he wanted me... well.
Away from that, though. Let's not discuss Katie's awful luck. ;) Let's go back to the awesome of Con! I spent way too much money on gifts (hundreds), but Jayna, Andrew, Deven, and Andrew's friend were ecstatic with the things I brought them. I got fanart and doujin, keychains and patches and plushies. I hugged cosplayers of some of my favorite characters (so I could say I had hugged them) and just had an enormously amazing time.
I'm so depressed that it is over. I suppose the year makes it all the more awesome, but it doesn't make me less sad to not be able to go back.
Here is a video montage I made of my experience, lots of random fun. :)
And... that was con.
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HDD FAILURE and UPDATE STATUS
Well... here's a long story short. Hard drive from my laptop = dead. However, I used an Ubuntu disk to extract my files (thank god, since I had 7k of Para's epilogue written!) and got a new drive, so it is just a matter of reintalling an Operating System and getting everything moved back on, then it shouldn't be more than a week or two until Para is updated (and I'll probably post the last chapter within a day or eachother, since both are mostly done) and over with. So those of you waiting for that, thank you so much for your support and for sticking by me. I love you eternally for not losing faith.
I hope all is well, and will anyone who reads this leave a comment so I can tackle you happily for still existing? I've been absent for ages. :(
Katie here, exhausted and overstretched! So many things to update you all on, so little time. I'll be breif and just touch the two biggest things, and if you comment with questions I'll write back to answer anything else. Kay? Kay!
Right!
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SAKURA-CON
I went to my first anime convention! OMG! Years and years (and years...like, a decade) after I first stared at news coverage of Anime Expo while I lived in Cali and said to Bryan, "I want to go to an anime convention, too!!!" I finally got my chance. It took a while, but damnit, I went!
Sakura-Con was amazing. I cannot explain the awesome, though anyone who has experienced their first con can probably recall the feeling. Being surrounded by people in cosplay, no one looking twice when you squee or shout randomness (unless it is to respond with more randomness), games of Marco, Polo in hallways, a circle of modified Spin the Bottle in which you run and hug the hell out of whomever the bottle points to (Glomp Circle owns my soul... hugged at least 500 people, likely more)... just wow. Be you a geek, nerd, or dork, this is heaven.
I spent a lot of time outside just people watching, and it was so fascinating. I met a number of amazingly interesting people, exchanged contact info with three who really caught my attention and I was genuinely sad to know I probably wouldn't see them again until the next year, if ever again. I met a boy (you're shocked, right?) that was fucking amazing... can't explain the amazing, people, just can't. I'm well known for having no real interest in people. Dating? NO THANK YOU. Been there, done that, don't want the drama. I just don't talk to a person IRL and walk away with my heart beating faster going "OMGOMGOMGOMG" in my head. 4 hours (yarly) into conversation with him I remember the thought of, "This guy is phenomenal! Holy shit is he out of my league!" going through my mind. And I couldn't stop trying to find excuses to touch him. Poor guy. XD
Now, if only I was a bit more attractive and had a bit less baggage, hmm? Five years single, likely to be twice that before I actually decide that I am willing to get back into the dating game, but I have a flash of, "I would try for this" and it is a miserable bust for me. Boo. -__- He's moving, you see. So even if he wanted me... well.
Away from that, though. Let's not discuss Katie's awful luck. ;) Let's go back to the awesome of Con! I spent way too much money on gifts (hundreds), but Jayna, Andrew, Deven, and Andrew's friend were ecstatic with the things I brought them. I got fanart and doujin, keychains and patches and plushies. I hugged cosplayers of some of my favorite characters (so I could say I had hugged them) and just had an enormously amazing time.
I'm so depressed that it is over. I suppose the year makes it all the more awesome, but it doesn't make me less sad to not be able to go back.
Here is a video montage I made of my experience, lots of random fun. :)
Click to viewAnd... that was con.
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HDD FAILURE and UPDATE STATUS
Well... here's a long story short. Hard drive from my laptop = dead. However, I used an Ubuntu disk to extract my files (thank god, since I had 7k of Para's epilogue written!) and got a new drive, so it is just a matter of reintalling an Operating System and getting everything moved back on, then it shouldn't be more than a week or two until Para is updated (and I'll probably post the last chapter within a day or eachother, since both are mostly done) and over with. So those of you waiting for that, thank you so much for your support and for sticking by me. I love you eternally for not losing faith.
I hope all is well, and will anyone who reads this leave a comment so I can tackle you happily for still existing? I've been absent for ages. :(