Home from Akon.
Let's see if I can summarize my experience....
Woke up at the crack of noon on Friday, spent the next three hours(yes, three) going "Dude, where's my car??" What was really irritating about this is that I found it by accident on the first try, carried a bunch of shit all the way back to my room(approximately a 30 minute trip)....then could not, for the life of me, find it again. After many fun-filled and exciting rides on the ridiculously slow cargo elevators that served the hotel parking garage, I extricated myself from the jovial elevator party, slammed a Jolt, and found the car by walking up the garage ramp, starting from the bottom.
I arrived back at my room with a second load of stuff just in time to keep housekeeping from taking away my room service leftovers(3 quarters of a pizza and some assorted crackers), begged a bunch of single-serving coffee packets off them, and sent them on their way. I think they were offended that I didn't even let them make the bed.
I donned my various samurai cosplay stuff and hit the convention floor at 4pm, having lost most of the day to bad planning and laziness.
The line for acquiring pre-reg badges was approximately 2.7 miles long, and squeezed into a quarter-acre floorspace on the convention center first floor through a winding-back-and-forth space-saver technique...which just made the line look like three thousand people had for some reason decided to see how closely they could stand together in front of the convention doors. There was no perceptible movement or progression in the line; the only reason I figured out it was, in fact, a line, is because a genius on the Akon staff made a giant sign saying "END OF LINE" and required the last person in line to hold it, and pass it on when new people joined the line.
Fortunately for me, my badge was being held by the Artist Alley staff because I had applied for a table, so no waiting in line or sign-holding for this guy. I got my badge in about 5 minutes. I also got two other badges for people who were supposed to have come with me but didn't make it. I contemplated scalping, but only briefly because the badges were Artist Alley badges and I didn't want to be responsible for giving some random weirdos access to the working areas of the Alley. I was offered a table but turned it down because I didn't want to run it alone.
Saturday was mostly dealer-room shopping, wandering aimlessly, being randomly glomped by giggly things that ran away fast, and people-watching until, around 4:30pm, I ran into an old roommate from when I lived in Houston. After that the party was on. Memories are fuzzy until 9am Sunday morning, where I found myself sitting in a lawnchair by one of the hotel Jacuzzis, surrounded by wet schoolgirls and stray kitties who seemed to be having a competition in who could sport the tiniest bikini. I also remember being on a Quest for Alcohol, because my old roommate's room was raided by hotel security while him and I were at the rave, and they made off with our remaining supply of vodka.
Sunday: Missed the whole thing. Alarm failed to wake us up and we slept until about 5pm, which is when the closing ceremonies began. By the time I felt human enough to venture forth from my room, it was 6:30pm, and the con was over. We hung out with the people who stuck around for a while, had some post-con fun, then went back to the room to eat shrimp cocktails and watch horror flicks.
Checked out of the hotel monday morning, drove home, and here I am. Sucks I missed out on Sunday, there were some last-minute dealer room deals I was intending to haggle....oh well. I had a blast anyway.
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Fanclub--For the BLP Manga, not me--
Minions--People who humor me in my delusions of world domination and put up with my bouts of megalomaniacal laughter--
Pets--My lovely collection of playpretties--
My little Sisters--Like Hazel-chan, they are cute
and talented--
My bro--Co-creator of the BLP world, concepts, and characters...and a musical prodigy--
Club Admin--I'm not sure how I got this position, I'm sure it's a mistake that will be rectified any day now--
Club Membership--I'm just trying to fit in, be cool, have friends...and it's not working--
Absent much? o.O;;
Dumbfounded
Humor
High
