Chilly times and Lolita

The weather has been super crisp lately.  I think it is quite perfect; 50's in the morning, 70's in the afternoon.

I recently have become obssessed with Lolita Fashion.  I guess part of me has always liked it, mostly because of my love of cute things.  But now I have a name to the style.  I have been reading forums and trolling LJ communities dedicated to the fashion so that I don't horribly screw it up when I try to put together my own outfits.

Its that time of year to start thinking about Megacon.  I wish I could take part in Paranoia this year, but I am barred!  Me thinks some people need to act like grownups and grow the eff up.  In any case, I may actually finish the Yuna and Sakura costumes I've been "working on" forever now. I need something to break the monotony of Law School.  I also want to start working on a Lolita outfit to wear one of the days.  There is this huge emphasis on "Brand name" clothing in Lolita, but I want to prove that you can make a kick ass thrift store Lolita costume.  Also, I'm lazy and don't want to have to do so much sewing and cutting and hunting for the proper patterns.  I want to do something along the lines of casual or country lolita, probably a brown JSK with some strawberry accents.

I have been procrastinating my outline/study process for finals coming up.  I've never had to study in my life, so this is a bit surreal.  I'm fairly sure its impossible to fail law school, but a B would be nice.  

WotLK comes out this week.  I'm going to start playing again, even if I only have time to be a casual player.  I just feel like I don't do anything except go to class and watch TV.  I'm also going to start working out a bit.  I have to meet with a personal trainer this week, so that I have some sort of semi effective routine.  There is also a roller derby team that I want to be a part of, but certain people may be standing in the way of that as well.

I suppose that is all for now.  I'm going to make a good faith effort to keep this updated, but no promises.

Costumes and LARPs and Nerds, OH MY! Sunday at Megacon

Sunday: The last day of Megacon. As much fun as I had been having, I was getting exhausted, and was eager to return to Gainesville. I arrived in the dealer room. I was on a mission today. It was the last day of con and I had yet to acquire my batarangs. Anxiously I marched towards the booth selling them. Many of their wares were gone, half the glass cases were empty. I couldn't spot them. Oh noes! What if they were sold out?? My heart sank momentarily. Then, there they were, buried among some brass knuckles. One set of two. $10. SOLD. I handed my MasterCard, they handed me the shiny, black, bat-shaped blades. I squealed with excitement. I put them in my Darth back pack and moved onwards.

I meandered through the rest of the dealer's room. Looking for anything, anything at all which caught my eye. I was starting to think that I wasn't going to find anything. That I was actually going to leave with some money left in my pocket. Then I spotted a group of younglings looking at some WoW TCG cards. I don't actually play the WoW TCG, or any TCG for that matter, but there was one card I had been wanting for some time. The baby hippogryph. I had done some eBay searches and only ever found it for like $100. I didn't want it that much. But this man had piqued my curiosity. I inquired briefly if they had it. Expecting to hear a no from the dealer, I heard him say yes! SQUEEE! I asked the price; it was probably going to be out of my budget. "$29". Wow! Not a bad deal at all. In fact, a great deal. I managed to get him down to $25, paid the man, and walked away a happy girl. Now, you may be thinking that paying $25 for an in game pet that is completely useless is quite a wasteful endeavor. However, it was just too cute to pass up.

As we continued our leisurely stroll, we noticed that Sean Astin, the cutest of the hobbits, was there. I wanted desperately to meet him, however, not desperately enough to pay $20. Its a ridiculous expectation to have to pay money to meet a person. Whatever.

The rest of the afternoon was fairly uneventful. There was some anime to be seen to be seen. GunBuster and DieBuster to be exact. I found GunBuster to be rather nonsensical yet highly amusing. But then again, who doesn't find overly bouncy teenage boobs amusing? DieBuster was sort of the bastardized sequel to the series, taking place 15 years later. DieBuster's plot made a tad more sense, and contained many more boobies and upskirts. My kind of show! Then Michael and I watched about an hour's worth of upcoming movie trailers. I love trailers, so I really enjoyed that.

After media was consumed by all and our pocketbooks were empty, we headed on our way out. But first we stopped for a minute to roll down a ramp. Now, you may be wondering why we engaged in such bizzare behavior. To understand this you must realize that we live in Florida, which is very flat. Therefore, anything resembling a hill must be rolled down. Even if its carpeted, and indoors, and in a convention center, and I'm wearing a skirt.

Costumes and LARPs and Nerds, OH MY! Friday at Megacon

This past weekend was the glorious Megacon. Three days of anime, gaming and comics fun.

Friday: I dressed up as Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh. The costume was a grand success. Many came up to me for hugs and giggles. It could've been from recognition of the character; however, it could've also been the lack of pants-age.

One of the first things I did was go down to the Artists section. I got to meet Tim Buckley, creator of Ctrl-Alt-Del, one of my favorite internet comics. He was a really nice guy. Again, it might've just been the lack of pants.

The dealer room was just as I had expected: most of the vendors were selling comics. There were, however, there were booths of other wares. I was astonished at the amount of pointless yet amazingly cute objects. Apparently a 2 inch tall PVC figurine of a cat in a jar is worth $6.00 and will sell out by Sunday. To my surprise there were no hentai manga booths this year. Usually there are at least a couple booths, swarming with 16 year old girls buying Yaoi. I did find one porno/video hentai booth. No one was near it save for one 10 year old looking at the DVD covers. I wonder where his parents were...

During my initial walk through the dealer room, nothing caught my eye right away. However, my dear friend Juan ran up to me to inform me of a booth selling batarangs. I had mentioned earlier that I wasn't going home that weekend without a set of them. I walked briskly over to that side of the floor and found them there: shiny, sharp and heavy. Just what i wanted. I inquired on the price. (I had promised myself I wouldn't spend more than $30 on them.) They were only $5 each. SCORE! I continued to browse, assuring myself that if I waited till Sunday I could haggle for cheaper.

Efren Ramirez was there, as was Lou Ferrigno. It was $20 to get to meet Efren though. I think celebrities shouldn't charge their fans. If it wasn't for the fans, they wouldn't be where they are. What a selfish thing to do.

The day ended with me not buying much of anything at all, and spending a considerable amount of time wandering around doing nothing or working the gaming booth for Paranoia sign-ups.