...I think this just may have been one of the greatest days of my life.
Around 9:30am we leave for I-Con. I was cosplaying as Ed, Sydney as Winry, and Emma as Riza. We got there about an hour and a half later, parked, headed to the registration place. Took like fifteen minutes for us to get our badges, but oh well. We stood around there, looking at the map, wondering what to do/where to go first. And I'm looking around the room, and guess who walks in? Vic Mignogna. I was like O____O OSHIT and such. He noticed us too, walked up to us, hugs were exchanged, etc. So we chatted with him for a tiny bit before we headed off to the dealer's room. Picked up a SNES (what, it was $20) and FMA volume 8. Played a round of Guitar Hero before we headed off to the Vic panel.
We were waaaaay to the back of the line, but via 1337 skills managed to snag front row seats. The panel itself was wonderful. Vic did the whole "Colonel Mustang is dead sexy....in a miniskirt!" thing again, which had me dying of love and laughter. Lots of crack, lots of fun, the only bad thing was this really rude girl sitting behind me who got vocally pissed every time someone said something that implied yaoi and actually yelled out "BOO" when Vic mentioned the Risembool Rangers. Uh, hello, MANNERS, WOMAN? That's his FAN CLUB. Oh well.
Photoshoot was next! An Envy cosplayer, another Ed, and myself started this amusing mock-fight. Envy vs. Eds! XDD Then Vic came by and we all took a group photo. I swear, there were at least thirty Eds. ...but I still think my wig was the best >_> XDD He signed autographs after that, so he signed my volume 1 DVD, and then I told him about the whole birthday card thing from last December (where he signed a card for me). He remembered it, so I thanked him again, and got and gave a hug and kiss from him. Dana=happy fan, indeed.
...what did we do after that? Um..we ate at a deli, then headed back to the dealer's room. Randomly bumped into Sandhu, where much pointing and "O_O YOU!!!" occured. Neither of us knew the other was gonna be there XDD So I hung with him, we met up with Ally, and all was well. We jammed with them for a while, then went back to the Dealer's Room. I had a shitload of cash on me so I was like ...okay, must buy stuff. Got some FMA picture card things, a talking Al figurine (still need to open that one up), a yaoi DVD (Sensitive Pornograph, I think it's called. Yeah. It stays in the doujin box XDDD), and um...I think that was it.
We left around 6pm or so. I noticed my cell phone had voicemail, so I checked it. It was a message from my dad.
I got into Fordham University!!!!
I nearly had a spazfit in the car. SO HAPPY. I was anxious about it but I got in and now I'm just SO happy. w00t.
And now. I am exhausted. ::passes out::