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Apr. 26th, 2004 11:52 amAlright, the 12-13 hour sleep has started off my con recovery day. I wouldn't have survived in school today. I had an essay first period I couldn't study for (left my book in my locker) and would have fallen asleep during (I slept okay the second night, about 5 or 6 hours of sleep, but the first night I got about 2.5). Now, the convention report!
On the way to Vermont!
At 12:30pm, we were to meet in the cafeteria. So I got to miss geometry and global, yay. Though I did find out my geometry grade for my latest test. 78. Lmfao. I don't know how the hell I managed that, I was pretty sure I was doing well. Maybe she deducted points for my stick figure, but anyway, going back to the topic. The club met in the back of the caf around then. Our bags were already loaded into the bus in the morning...but now we faced a dilemma. Including Doc, our driver, there were 18 people. Thanks to the bags in the back, there were a total of 17 seats in the bus, including the driver's seat. Somehow we managed to figure something out. Eventually we freed one of the seats in the back, but anyway. So we headed to Vermont. 6. hour. fuggin. drive. The first two or three hours were okay...but then it just sucked. I think the McDonalds we stopped at gave me minor food poisoning or something. Double that with Vermont being a state with stops every 8939713912 miles, and it just sucks. A lot. But eventually, EVENTUALLY, we finally got there and cheered.
The First Day (something or other hours remaining----*gets shot*) (Friday)
Once we checked in and everything, we managed to find our rooms after some running up and down stairs and realizing we passed it about three times. I was rooming with Sydney, Soni, and Christine. So we put our stuff down, then decided we were gonna cosplay. Since my Yuna costume was never finished, Soni let me borrow her Chii costume. I put it on, and it looked so cute on me. I adore it. So we put on some makeup and met everyone about 20 minutes later than we were supposed to since it took us so long to get ready XD Sydney was cosplaying as Yui, Soni was cosplaying as a White Mage (eventually changed to Small Lady), and Christine...Lady Death, I think? Something with Death. So we registered and got our badges. I looked around the artists' alley, and we were chatting with one of the artists for a while. He thought I was over 18. o_O I think he might have been hitting on me before he found out that I wasn't XP Then I looked around and realized one of the other artists was the one I got the Enjy/R pic from last year, and I'm like "OMGD00DYES!!!" because I loved his art. Then I was faced with a dilemma that I couldn't solve till the next day: WHAT TO COMMISSION HIM FOR?! I couldn't decide what I wanted drawn. Erik/Raoul? Leo/Max? But yeah, anyway. Tadas was in the video room watching AMVs, so I roamed for a bit. Very tiny con. Two video rooms, one main events room, one panel room, a small dealer's room, and a small video game room. But it was really nice, anyway. So after some running around, we were going to go for dinner. Doc drove us all somewhere in the more store-populated area of Burlington, and we got off and looked for a place to eat. It was freezing. I was wearing my Chii costume. But oh man. Doc was wearing a White Mage costume....about two people we passed thought he was a KKK member. XD Oh, and by then, Mark was in his Baralai costume. So we stopped at a pizza place and ate there. After that, we went back, roamed some more, changed into pajamas, and hung out. Christine and Soni went out for a while, so Sydney and I watched my Producers DVD. Then they came back, we watched a few minutes of Kill Bill, then decided we'd all pass out. But Christine is like...afraid of the dark or something...so she had to keep the main light on. I wanted to kill someone. Thanks to that, I got next to no sleep x_x Fell asleep around 3am.
The Second Day (Saturday)
Woke up around 5:30. Groaned. Tried to go back to sleep, failed. We were supposed to go to the pool at 6am, so I just got up and roamed around a bit. Eventually Soni and Christine woke up, we got ready, I waited like half an hour for Soni to get ready, then got ready myself, and then we went to the pool. Really, I think I was the only non-senior who went XD But it was somewhat fun anyway. Went back to the room afterwards, got changed into normal clothes (complete with Bialystock & Bloom t-shirt), and went with Tadas to check out the breakfast at the hotel. It sucked, so we didn't eat. We checked out the dealer's room and such, roamed around...at one point, I went to enter the karaoke contest. For a long time, I was the only contestant, until one other girl volunteered. I sang Eyes on Me, she sang Luna's Boat Song. No set winner, though I'm somewhat confident. I'm going to be e-mailed with details about prizes and stuff. By then I got back into my Chii costume, roamed around more. Cosplay contest was okay. Oshi won best costume, wow what a surprise. But anywho. I decided that I wanted to commission a Max/Leo pic, so I did so. Gave a general description. Eventually got the pic, and oh my god it was ADORABLE. Leo looks perfect...Max looks, well, a decent amount younger than he is, but still really nice anyway. And of course, the blanket. XD So. Happeh. I also went in the pool sometime that evening with Tadas and the rest of the juniors, the freshmen boys, and Carlos. Anyway. Dinner that night was Applebee's. I was nauseous so I couldn't eat much, but it was quite yummy. Tadas bought me Harvest Moon 64 at the mall we were in, and I got myself a Zombie Survival Book. Then we came back, I changed back into my pajamas, Soni and Christine went out again so Sydney and I listened to the Producers CD as I typed up a cute Max/Leo fanfic (Soniiiii, I need ya to send it to me ASAP!) on Soni's laptop. Made comments on every song and rambled to Sydney about how the whole ending is the epitome of slashiness. I think I've converted her XD Went to sleep...I dun remember.
The Final Day (Sunday)
We were supposed to go to the pool at 6am again, but I woke up at 6:45. Cursed silently, ran, got changed into bathing suit, and woke Tadas and Mark and the freshmen guys up. We went to the pool, then into the hot tub, then sauna, then back into the pool. Then went back, changed into normal clothes, and ate some breakfast (I was starved and I wasn't gonna eat anything on the bus trip back). We just spent the last bit of time roaming around, and at 11am, we left.
The Journey Home
First, we were going to go to Ben & Jerry's..the factory and all. So we spent like 20-30 minutes going the wrong way at first, turned around, and went back. We got there, I got some ice cream, we went on a tour, blah blah. Piled back into the cheese bus, left. The ride home was rather annoying. I started chapter 8 of Ulterior Motives, but yeah. Doc had this liking of blasting rock/heavy metal music at the highest friggen volume possible, so I could barely listen to my Producers CD. And rest was barely even an option. That pissed me off, because I wanted to sleep a bit on the ride home, but he had the music up so loud and refused to turn it down. Urgh. And then the FUNNIEST THING happened. There was a yellow jeep with four college girls passing by. Somehow the senior guys got their attention, so we were playing a game, passing each other buy and yelling/waving. Eventually Riccio wrote his phone number on a piece of paper, stuck it onto the window. One of the girls actually called him XD!! Continued for a while, then as we were getting off to an exit, one of the girls flashed us. It was like, wtf. Hilarious thought. Anyway. Stopped at a Burger King in CT to eat, didn't eat though. More driving. Called Mike up, chatted with him for a bit. Stopped again somewhere god knows where for the people who were still hungry and they ate Boston Market. Got gas for the bus, went "WTF" at the gas prices, what the HELL happened, was Iraq nuked while we were in VT? Then continued driving. I had never been so happy to see buildings before. New York City...how I missed thou so. Doc decided to take this time to REALLY crank the heavy metal to the highest volume, and I nearly got out of my seat and throttled him. Some of us complained, but volume stayed the same. Sigh. Favoritism, we'll never conquer it. We got back to the school at around 9:30pm or so. Tadas' parents brought me back home, I went on my PC, checked some stuff, and passed out.
Overall: Nice convention, hate the state though. I'd go next year, but only if I went via plane. I couldn't take the car/bus ride anymore.
I didn't bring my camera, but tons of people took pics of me. Some are bound to show up on the net over the course of this week, so when I see pics of me, I'll post em.
On the way to Vermont!
At 12:30pm, we were to meet in the cafeteria. So I got to miss geometry and global, yay. Though I did find out my geometry grade for my latest test. 78. Lmfao. I don't know how the hell I managed that, I was pretty sure I was doing well. Maybe she deducted points for my stick figure, but anyway, going back to the topic. The club met in the back of the caf around then. Our bags were already loaded into the bus in the morning...but now we faced a dilemma. Including Doc, our driver, there were 18 people. Thanks to the bags in the back, there were a total of 17 seats in the bus, including the driver's seat. Somehow we managed to figure something out. Eventually we freed one of the seats in the back, but anyway. So we headed to Vermont. 6. hour. fuggin. drive. The first two or three hours were okay...but then it just sucked. I think the McDonalds we stopped at gave me minor food poisoning or something. Double that with Vermont being a state with stops every 8939713912 miles, and it just sucks. A lot. But eventually, EVENTUALLY, we finally got there and cheered.
The First Day (something or other hours remaining----*gets shot*) (Friday)
Once we checked in and everything, we managed to find our rooms after some running up and down stairs and realizing we passed it about three times. I was rooming with Sydney, Soni, and Christine. So we put our stuff down, then decided we were gonna cosplay. Since my Yuna costume was never finished, Soni let me borrow her Chii costume. I put it on, and it looked so cute on me. I adore it. So we put on some makeup and met everyone about 20 minutes later than we were supposed to since it took us so long to get ready XD Sydney was cosplaying as Yui, Soni was cosplaying as a White Mage (eventually changed to Small Lady), and Christine...Lady Death, I think? Something with Death. So we registered and got our badges. I looked around the artists' alley, and we were chatting with one of the artists for a while. He thought I was over 18. o_O I think he might have been hitting on me before he found out that I wasn't XP Then I looked around and realized one of the other artists was the one I got the Enjy/R pic from last year, and I'm like "OMGD00DYES!!!" because I loved his art. Then I was faced with a dilemma that I couldn't solve till the next day: WHAT TO COMMISSION HIM FOR?! I couldn't decide what I wanted drawn. Erik/Raoul? Leo/Max? But yeah, anyway. Tadas was in the video room watching AMVs, so I roamed for a bit. Very tiny con. Two video rooms, one main events room, one panel room, a small dealer's room, and a small video game room. But it was really nice, anyway. So after some running around, we were going to go for dinner. Doc drove us all somewhere in the more store-populated area of Burlington, and we got off and looked for a place to eat. It was freezing. I was wearing my Chii costume. But oh man. Doc was wearing a White Mage costume....about two people we passed thought he was a KKK member. XD Oh, and by then, Mark was in his Baralai costume. So we stopped at a pizza place and ate there. After that, we went back, roamed some more, changed into pajamas, and hung out. Christine and Soni went out for a while, so Sydney and I watched my Producers DVD. Then they came back, we watched a few minutes of Kill Bill, then decided we'd all pass out. But Christine is like...afraid of the dark or something...so she had to keep the main light on. I wanted to kill someone. Thanks to that, I got next to no sleep x_x Fell asleep around 3am.
The Second Day (Saturday)
Woke up around 5:30. Groaned. Tried to go back to sleep, failed. We were supposed to go to the pool at 6am, so I just got up and roamed around a bit. Eventually Soni and Christine woke up, we got ready, I waited like half an hour for Soni to get ready, then got ready myself, and then we went to the pool. Really, I think I was the only non-senior who went XD But it was somewhat fun anyway. Went back to the room afterwards, got changed into normal clothes (complete with Bialystock & Bloom t-shirt), and went with Tadas to check out the breakfast at the hotel. It sucked, so we didn't eat. We checked out the dealer's room and such, roamed around...at one point, I went to enter the karaoke contest. For a long time, I was the only contestant, until one other girl volunteered. I sang Eyes on Me, she sang Luna's Boat Song. No set winner, though I'm somewhat confident. I'm going to be e-mailed with details about prizes and stuff. By then I got back into my Chii costume, roamed around more. Cosplay contest was okay. Oshi won best costume, wow what a surprise. But anywho. I decided that I wanted to commission a Max/Leo pic, so I did so. Gave a general description. Eventually got the pic, and oh my god it was ADORABLE. Leo looks perfect...Max looks, well, a decent amount younger than he is, but still really nice anyway. And of course, the blanket. XD So. Happeh. I also went in the pool sometime that evening with Tadas and the rest of the juniors, the freshmen boys, and Carlos. Anyway. Dinner that night was Applebee's. I was nauseous so I couldn't eat much, but it was quite yummy. Tadas bought me Harvest Moon 64 at the mall we were in, and I got myself a Zombie Survival Book. Then we came back, I changed back into my pajamas, Soni and Christine went out again so Sydney and I listened to the Producers CD as I typed up a cute Max/Leo fanfic (Soniiiii, I need ya to send it to me ASAP!) on Soni's laptop. Made comments on every song and rambled to Sydney about how the whole ending is the epitome of slashiness. I think I've converted her XD Went to sleep...I dun remember.
The Final Day (Sunday)
We were supposed to go to the pool at 6am again, but I woke up at 6:45. Cursed silently, ran, got changed into bathing suit, and woke Tadas and Mark and the freshmen guys up. We went to the pool, then into the hot tub, then sauna, then back into the pool. Then went back, changed into normal clothes, and ate some breakfast (I was starved and I wasn't gonna eat anything on the bus trip back). We just spent the last bit of time roaming around, and at 11am, we left.
The Journey Home
First, we were going to go to Ben & Jerry's..the factory and all. So we spent like 20-30 minutes going the wrong way at first, turned around, and went back. We got there, I got some ice cream, we went on a tour, blah blah. Piled back into the cheese bus, left. The ride home was rather annoying. I started chapter 8 of Ulterior Motives, but yeah. Doc had this liking of blasting rock/heavy metal music at the highest friggen volume possible, so I could barely listen to my Producers CD. And rest was barely even an option. That pissed me off, because I wanted to sleep a bit on the ride home, but he had the music up so loud and refused to turn it down. Urgh. And then the FUNNIEST THING happened. There was a yellow jeep with four college girls passing by. Somehow the senior guys got their attention, so we were playing a game, passing each other buy and yelling/waving. Eventually Riccio wrote his phone number on a piece of paper, stuck it onto the window. One of the girls actually called him XD!! Continued for a while, then as we were getting off to an exit, one of the girls flashed us. It was like, wtf. Hilarious thought. Anyway. Stopped at a Burger King in CT to eat, didn't eat though. More driving. Called Mike up, chatted with him for a bit. Stopped again somewhere god knows where for the people who were still hungry and they ate Boston Market. Got gas for the bus, went "WTF" at the gas prices, what the HELL happened, was Iraq nuked while we were in VT? Then continued driving. I had never been so happy to see buildings before. New York City...how I missed thou so. Doc decided to take this time to REALLY crank the heavy metal to the highest volume, and I nearly got out of my seat and throttled him. Some of us complained, but volume stayed the same. Sigh. Favoritism, we'll never conquer it. We got back to the school at around 9:30pm or so. Tadas' parents brought me back home, I went on my PC, checked some stuff, and passed out.
Overall: Nice convention, hate the state though. I'd go next year, but only if I went via plane. I couldn't take the car/bus ride anymore.
I didn't bring my camera, but tons of people took pics of me. Some are bound to show up on the net over the course of this week, so when I see pics of me, I'll post em.
