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Anime Central con report! Sans pictures...which will hopefully be posted later tonight. ^^;;

THE GOOD
- Getting smashed at the suite 2040 party
- Having the costume and the sword to tote around
- Meeting the cutest Bridget-guy I'd ever seen in my entire life (and the rest of his group)
- Sleeping three nights in bed with my lovely
- Meeting Dennis-cosplaying-Kenji and Mike (yet another one!)
- Lins in her/Ed's Dizzy costume (and having the guy check her out XD)
- Paying almost nothing for food (because Roni paid for my Mitsuwa lunch :3)
- Sloe Gin and that yummy apple drink thing
- Getting up on stage and singing my two favorite Naruto songs (Go!!! and Haruka Kanata)
- Anime Central actually gave us food (I think I'm in love!)
- Finally meeting Lins, Mar, Jojo, and a whole bunch of other people
- Seeing my clone again!
- Stripper Vash
- the GG vs. Trigun photoshoot
- Water balloon fun with Mar, Lins, Rah, Dan, and Alisa.
- Mar bought the Sailor Moon Infinity artbook. (Holy shiznit!)
- Meeting Eli and his friend John, and seeing Mike and Cassie again (I know too many Mikes)

THE BAD
- The flight *grrrrr*
- No alone-time with Roni ;_;
- Meeting the biggest "JSB" poser-asshole-DDR-player on the planet
- Sucking it up at Guilty Gear
- Not getting the chance to swim in the pool
- Getting ass whooped at Smashies (Scott is pretty good)
- Dirt ass poor

THE UGLY
- The non-Skuld karaoke (it was seriously shitty)
- drunken strip poker (okay, not ugly, but I figured it'd be funny in this category anyway)
- man-Chii (nuff said)
- your mother

Okay, here's a more detailed account of what actually went on:

THURSDAY
So after my last 9.70 class I immediately head my ass over to the airport. I make it in record time (25 mins. holy fucking shit), only to be foiled by the weather. Apparently Chicago had a nasty storm that night, so they couldn't let any planes leave, and they had to let planes land. This meant that ground traffic was pretty backed up. Even though my plane was slated to leave at 5:30pm after being bumped up to an earlier flight, Chicago wouldn't let any arrivals take off from their home runways until they gave the all-clear signal, which resulted in me sitting in a plane for about a full 6 hours total. I took off the runway around 9pm, after having sat on it since 5pm. =_=;; Blar. At the very least, I got A LOT of studying for final exams done, so I think in that sense the gods were being benevolent.

I made it to Chicago unharmed, found the Fuuenken (they had to put it through cargo since I couldn't carry it on), hopped into Roni's station wagon, where she had a sloppy joe, some onion rings, and a diet Dr. Pepper for me and went home. We didn't do anything because we were both fucking exhausted, so we crashed in bed.

FRIDAY

Went to the con center/hotel, only to find out that our hotel was being held off until 3pm due to the nasty shit at the airport last night. Grrrr. So we didn't climb into our costumes until about 4 or 5pm. Anyways, the pre-reg line was longer than the regular reg line (t3h suckage), but I think I only waited for about 45 mins to an hour before I got everything and we were all good to go. Unfortunately, Jennie got there before us, but managed to get out half an hour later, because the queue gods were being unfair.

Roni and I hit the dealer's room immediately, where I lost nearly all my money to Brian the happy yaoi doujinshi guy/physicist (god, I wish I was physics again). He gave me his e-mail address and his card, and promised we could hang out for Comiket. ROCKIN'. I came out with Tsubasa 5, and two Shayoukan doujinshi (I just can't resist Shayoukan. -_-;;).

Then we managed to finally meet up with everyone after we got our rooms, and spent a bunch of time in the game room and just generally hanging out.

As soon as the con suite's karaoke time arrived, my group and I headed over there, where I made everyone listen to me and my wonderful, better-than-everybody-else's (I kid you not) 4th Naruto Opening. :3 I was so pumped up. XD (We are fighting dreamers...<3)

Lins and I wanted to go swimming, but by the time we got around to it the pool was closed, and Rah, Alisa, Dan, and I headed over to the suite 2040 party instead. They were handing out booze (to those of legal age, of course ^_~) in mostly shots and cocktails, and I had enough to get myself shitfaced. That's where I met Eli and his friend, John (who was absolutely adorable), and we headed over to Eli's room along with Mikhail and played some strip poker. (Because we were just that fucking drunk.) I only stripped down to "swimsuitness" (bra and panties) and left first, staggering back to the room after collecting my losses/clothes, and crashed into bed with Roni.

SATURDAY

Woke up, showered, and headed over to Mitsuwa, the japanese marketplace for lunch. Roni bought me lunch, which was very, very sweet of her. Lunch consisted of miso ramen and some sushi, which we didn't finish because there was just so fucking much of it. I bought some Hi-Chews to tide me over the weekend and some milk tea/crack, and we went back to the hotel for the Guilty Gear photoshoot.

We went downstairs, found a few Guilty Gear cosplayers, and before we knew it we had amassed a huge-ass fucking group. @_@ Holy shit. ACen security complained that we were blocking traffic (that's how big we were...and how many people were taking our pictures) so we moved outside to the side of where the Trigun group was shooting. Then someone had the bright idea to do a Trigun vs. Guilty Gear shoot with the two of us, and that was a riot. ^_^;; We must've been out there for half an hour hanging out with the Trigun people before we finally dispersed.

Can't really remember what happened after that, aside from hitting the game room again, hitting the consuite again to be fed (ACen actually fed us free of charge: chips and salsa and cheese mostly...in addition to lots and lots of soda...holy shit, I'm so going back next year), and wanting to swim really badly. At some point in time we all headed up to Scott's room to play Smashies, where some drunk guy mistook him for a girl (well, he was in a Bridget costume after all) and we had some good laughs. XD Lins and I hit up suite 2040 again but I didn't drink, and I spent the rest of the night in the room trying to study and just generally hanging out with peeps...with a short break inbetween when Me, Mar, Dan, Rah, and Alisa ran outside to play with water balloons. Life was good.

SUNDAY

Woke up, packed our shit, and just hung out. Just plain hung out. Then we headed off to the airport where Ed fed me McFood, and I was happy hanging out with him and Ed. And of course, being clones and all, our planes, even though they were an hour apart from each other took off from the same gate.

Clonage, go. XD

I came home, studied a bit, watched some Farscape and then crashed.
And that was my weekend of rockness.

ACen rocks. If it was bigger, it would be as cool as Otakon. Which also, incidentally, ROCKS.a