"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."
I've always heard the last line, but never really read the poem until now, and I kinda like it.
Hey all.
So, Youmacon is tomorrow, as is very well known among most of the readers here. Departure time for Kat and I is about noon, so we ought to get to Dearborn sometime around 5:00-6:00; earlier if I drive fast. I really like traveling, and I had better, cause I do it a lot. I went grocery shopping yesterday and picked up some Mountain Dew, Poptarts, candy, and batteries, although I need to pick up another kind of batteries as well. And once we get there, I'll get bacon. Cause everything is better with bacon.
I have sucessfully finished the costume to my satisfaction and added the final touches yesterday. There was also a costume party at anime club yesterday, so I used that as a test run. The other members thought it was cool, so so far, so good. There was a slight detail that was impeding my guitar playing, but I fixed that. The only variable for the outfit is, as always, the hair. I'll figure that equation out the morning of Friday. I'm really excited; I put a lot of time and work into this thing, and really hope it works well. My aunt helped out a tremendous amount as well, so I don't want it to be a waste of her time either.
There's a few really cool things at Youmacon in particular that I'm interested in:
-Any good gaming tournaments they have going
-Little Kuriboh. Gotta meet him at some point.
-Masquerade, Dance, and Mario Party After Dark. I didn't go to the first two at Acen, so I'm just curious, and Mario Party After Dark seems like fun in a weird, perverted, possibly STD way. o_0
-Find a Cloud and start playing One Winged Angel. For the lulz.
I'm really looking forward to seeing both new and old faces there. This is gonna be great.
I also got four people from anime club to give me registration stuff so I can pay and sign them up for Acen at Youmacon. Hurray for being a good Treasurer!
Speaking of Anime Club, that costume how-to that the VP put on was just as lame as I thought it would be, but luckily, nobody really paid attention. I did my lameass ninja and John Lennon costume modeling as animated as I could, to the amusment of others. I jumped and snuck around like a ninja, and did somersaults and rolls, and mock-snapped the projectionist's neck. I rolled away, and didn't notice that I rolled under a table, but I found out pretty quickly after I jumped up very fast. Luckily, I duplicated similar head-bashing stunts throughout my childhood, so my head is hard, at the sacrifice of being a few brain cells behind. I didn't notice Waffuru in the 'audience', so she came up to me after it was all over. She was having a good time texting my antics to Kat.
I told my aunt about the crapiness of the VP's idea of a costume, and she just couldn't get over it. She told me so. She came back to help with the costume two days later, and simply said, "I can't get over that vice-president's ninja costume idea..."
"Yeah, she's not really good at any costume she makes."
"....it's a GIRL?!? o_O"
I made a card a while back, but for some unexplained reason, it didn't get published.
I suppose an Adam-fanatic would find it offensive.
It's 10:38, I don't wanna go to sleep, and I don't want to wake up until 10:00. Time for some DotA.
YOUMACON!!!
-Ryu
