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tj_dragonbladeY-con trip log transcript...uhm...4? 4.
10/22/06 Sunday 04:00 (but still Saturday to me, as I'm...still up)
After hanging out with Joe and Lauren and Emma all evening, we ended up back in the room (yey, beer got drank!). Inyx-sama took off to hang out with some friends from Gaia, and I got to chat awhile longer with Joe (and Folken!) and Emma (and Laika!) and Lauren (and!...wait. Lauren didn't have a pet. ^_^;). It was such a lovely time. I got to see Joe sketchbooks! ^_^ I'm a happy TJ. She sketched me the most solemnly-adorable baby Goujun consternated by a ball almost bigger than he is. ^_^ She showed me the chubby-stubby roly-poliest most cuddle-able baby Jiipu EVAR, too. I'm quite sure it's the only baby Jiipu evar, actually, at least afik, but he's no less adorable for it. He's just so stubby and squishable! Hopefully he'll see public light in a post of hers sometime soon. *cough*hint*HINT*cough* ^_^
Joe's just amazing, though. She was sketching the whole time - baby!Goujun out in the courtyard, then after we moved to the room one of Emma and Laika, then a lovely Kou-Doku bit of fellatio, and then a bit of Ken-Ten pre-porn that I also got to keep. ^_^
Aaanyway. Lauren and Emma petered off to bed as the evening went; Joe and I finally wound down a little before two. We parted company and I went looking for Inyx-sama, who was heading to the dance. I wall-flowered briefly and absorbed a little techno, then came back. Fully intending to go to bed. Instead, I ended up picking up the room a bit and then con-reporting. Eh heh.
I got a call from Jeff and AJ, too, earlier on. AJ misses me. T_T And had to tell me that he was sad he couldn't go out with his daddy and aunt and uncle for uncle's birthday because he wasn't an adult yet.
This is the first time I've been away from him, though, so I guess it's natural he'd be missing his mommy. I'll be glad to see haim again Monday night.
10/22/06 Sunday 10:37
I'm awake again. 'Tis more the usual time for a weekend waking for me, but I'm awake again. After going to bed at 5am. Yey!
Must shower and go find Inyx-sama at Westin-ish and dealers'-room-y locations.
Also, the one thing I kept forgetting to mention yesterday. I was supposed to pick up Tav's copy of the Y-con anthology for him, as he's got a piece published in it, but the folks at the anthy table don't know anything about it. It's not annotated on their sheet. So I'm SOL on that count. And rather put out, because I know Tav emailed the info to them when he made the arrangement with me.
Must have been lost somewhere along the way. *sigh*
Kinda ranks up there with the blueberry-less waffl-E. But that's another story. For another time. For I must away.
Away!
10/22/06 Sunday 20:09
Went to Alcatraz today. Took up most of the day, combined with the fact that we got up late.
Anyway. Snapped a few more cosplayer pics this morning. Finally thought to reboot my PDA, and lo and behold I got connected! But then the keyboard didn't work - I think perhaps the battery ran dead. Or...eh. I don't know. Mebbe. Eh.
Took off for Alcatraz. Which was alright. To tell you the truth, though, I found myself far more enamored of the ocean view (seagull! The seagulls!) and the ferry ride across the bay. Ohhh, my, so lovely. I can't really recall the last time I'd've been on a boat; it was simply and utterly...soul-calming, is the best word, to be out on the water. The gentle roll of the waves - ohhh, so tranquil. So lulling. So perfect and perfectly right. I was tempted to step out on the front deck, let the waves breaking over the bow break over me as well, but touring a chilly rocky island in wet clothes would not have been any fun.
The city looks lovely by night from the bay, I must say.
Having finally returned, we found con-goers much depleted. Sadness ensued, yet...such fun was had. I fnally decided I may as well try one of the fruity beer-things Inyx-sama's been trying to get rid of. Strawberry. Doesn't taste like beer, of course, which is a plus, so...eh.
We'll take the rest over to Pond's crew. Someone can drive it home. Or drink it in the time they've left.
10/23/06 Monday 12:50
...I've decided I'm just not meant to have internet this trip. The power went out, in both hotels. Their generators kicked in, sure, but the wireless network is not on that backup apparently. *sigh*
Regardless. This city still smells like brownies half the time when one steps outside.
*sigh*
Yeah. Okay. I've got post-con depression trying to set in. It is so much fun, and it is such a good time, and it is such a feeling of rightness and belonging. I haven't thought about the mundane RL and work stuff all week; it's only been a few days but god if feels like forever, even having gone so very fast. Like a whole other world, which...it kind of is. And now I've got to return to the 'real' one, put my otaku-geek inner self - which is so wonderfully comfortable to wear - back in the closet.
And I flip back through my camera, and the 105 pics on it, and...I just see so many pictures that I didn't get. I'm going to have to be prowling about on the comms and LJ accts of people I know were present to fill some of those gaps.
I did have such fun, though. I loved wandering about in cosplay, enough that I might be bold enough to do it and go solo for Aurora-con 2007. Which is still only going to be a one-day Friday thing. Even if I can't hold character. ^_^ That would take more practice, more time to warm up. I'm afraid I was more in happy-squee-while-shy-and-easily-embarrassed mode most of the time.
Inyx-sama, though...she went into that Saiyuki panel with me and she postured up as Kenren to the hilt. And absent-minded brain-over-stimulated me didn't even bother to start snapping pics. *sigh*
Still bummed about the wardrobe malfunctions, too. We didn't have the chance to do any really good pics.
I got my half-day of paired cosplay, though. I will treasure it a very long time.
And I got to meet folks. I didn't get the chance to hang out with Unni, but I did at least get to meet her. I got to meet Zalia, and hang out with her, and go in to Japantown with her. I got to meet Joe and April, and I got to hang out with Joe for an evening. And see sketchies. And see the artist at work. *snuggles Baby!Goujun* Best. Thing. EVAR.
And it was a doubly-good evening, because it gave Inyx-sama the chance to lose her shadow, which I'd totally made myself. I'm sure it annoyed the piss out of her half the weekend to have me trotting about after her everywhere like a faithful puppy, whining about my internet-less-ness and where-are-all-the-Saiyuki-fen? And lagging behind because my sandals slow me down and/or my shoes gave me blisters.
I would love to make this a yearly thing. Oh, my god, I would love it. Even if it ws a different con, a more-to-see-and-do con. Or still Yaoi-con, since so many people seem to make the trip for it from all over regardless. It is just such a good time. And it's the connecting, the...the fangirling, for simplicity's sake, that makes it so wonderful more than any of the con events, I find.
I wish I'd thought to get more names, though, look at name badges a little more. Kenren and Tenpou got glomped outside the Saiyuki panel, but I didn't think to see if she had a name I'd recognize. I didn't think to chat up anyone inside the panel, not that I'm much of a chatter anyway. I feel so bad about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
new_kate, too. She said hi to me as I was leaving the GW meet-and-greet (which was post-Saiyuki panel), as she was settling in for the panel that followed. I stuttered some kind of greeting-response with my typical deer-in-headlights eloquence; I caught the name tag but in the time it took for my brain to reboot from the Agh! Social! mental seizures and catch up and process, I'd got up and left and oh, it's not like I can go back and offer better politeness than a look that says 'Uhm-hi-who-are-youandwhyareyoutalkingtome and whatthehellshould I say?? *panic*panic*' when she's in a panel that's starting and I've already made a socially graceless fool of myself to begin with.
new_kate, if you're out there, I'm sorry! T_T
The power is still out, and I've been sitting here writing an hour almost.
There was a girl checking out, in a group of four, and she had on a Saiyuki t-shirt. I had the urge to go glomp her. Or something more restrained, but...no. And I can't help hearing Emma's voice in the back of my head now: "It's so haaard to be TJ at Yaoi-con; you're so shy and introverted, and you have no internets, and..." Well, y'know what, I'm not going to bother to come up with a fuller list of oh-poor-me-ness than that right now, so...eh. ^_^
I am going to be saying 'Yey! [random noun]' for awhile now, though (Inyx-sama's fault). Or...maybe not, as the fangirl must go back in the closet once I get home.
And it's not like I've got anywhere to pour my soul out about it other than here. I told folk at work that I was meeting up with a friend in San Fran. Not a word about con, or anime. And certainly not a word about yaoi. The 'How was your vacation?' questions will all be answered vaguely.
And sure I can tell the husband about it, and sure he'll listen, and he'll be interested for the sake of being 'part of my world'. But it's far from his passion, and...it's somehow not the same.
Eh.
I think the power's back on; I should check my connection while Inyx-sama checks out.
She walked to Subway for food, even though my blisters mean I was in no shape to go with. she's been so good to me this trip. *snuggles Inyx-sama*
10/23/06 Monday 14:15
Heh. This is kind of the way I used to journal as a kid. Except I noted all starting and stopping times. And I never posted it anywhere later.
...That's right. I'm going to have to find time to type all this up between giving time to both my boys who've missed me.
So. Power's back on, but no network yet. But...hotel muzak just came on. I wonder... *checks internet again* Yey! Back up. ^_^
10/23/06 Monday 15:25
Composed a post. Lost the post. *grumble*mutter* Posted a short-post anyway. Listening now while Inyx and Zalia and Gnome and LN discuss RP plans for cross-fandom-ness with which I'm unfamiliar. The preceding discussion of just how the G-boyz would hi-jack a plane using only a palm frond - that was highly amusing, though. ^_^
I'm still a little surprised at how little I bought. There just...wasn't much I wanted. Not much Saiyuki merchandise. Which means I don't spend much, so...mixed blessing, I guess. I didn't even really think to look for manga I need to catch up on, in case they were cheaper. But...ehh.
Like I said. I'd love to make this a yearly journey. Saving becomes an issue, though, when there are so many other family things that need to be saved for. I've been on vacation twice, now, since getting married six years ago. Jeff's never gone anywhere. We've never had a family vacation. Much less a honeymoon. I can't condone the selfishness of "I'm going to this con every year" when he gets nothing of equal-ness and the family gets nothing of equal-ness. I'm not a single person and I can't allow myself to think like I am, to lament the fact that I'm not. Feh.
Time to say the last goodbyes and head to the airport. *salutes bravely*
10/22/06 Sunday 04:00 (but still Saturday to me, as I'm...still up)
After hanging out with Joe and Lauren and Emma all evening, we ended up back in the room (yey, beer got drank!). Inyx-sama took off to hang out with some friends from Gaia, and I got to chat awhile longer with Joe (and Folken!) and Emma (and Laika!) and Lauren (and!...wait. Lauren didn't have a pet. ^_^;). It was such a lovely time. I got to see Joe sketchbooks! ^_^ I'm a happy TJ. She sketched me the most solemnly-adorable baby Goujun consternated by a ball almost bigger than he is. ^_^ She showed me the chubby-stubby roly-poliest most cuddle-able baby Jiipu EVAR, too. I'm quite sure it's the only baby Jiipu evar, actually, at least afik, but he's no less adorable for it. He's just so stubby and squishable! Hopefully he'll see public light in a post of hers sometime soon. *cough*hint*HINT*cough* ^_^
Joe's just amazing, though. She was sketching the whole time - baby!Goujun out in the courtyard, then after we moved to the room one of Emma and Laika, then a lovely Kou-Doku bit of fellatio, and then a bit of Ken-Ten pre-porn that I also got to keep. ^_^
Aaanyway. Lauren and Emma petered off to bed as the evening went; Joe and I finally wound down a little before two. We parted company and I went looking for Inyx-sama, who was heading to the dance. I wall-flowered briefly and absorbed a little techno, then came back. Fully intending to go to bed. Instead, I ended up picking up the room a bit and then con-reporting. Eh heh.
I got a call from Jeff and AJ, too, earlier on. AJ misses me. T_T And had to tell me that he was sad he couldn't go out with his daddy and aunt and uncle for uncle's birthday because he wasn't an adult yet.
This is the first time I've been away from him, though, so I guess it's natural he'd be missing his mommy. I'll be glad to see haim again Monday night.
10/22/06 Sunday 10:37
I'm awake again. 'Tis more the usual time for a weekend waking for me, but I'm awake again. After going to bed at 5am. Yey!
Must shower and go find Inyx-sama at Westin-ish and dealers'-room-y locations.
Also, the one thing I kept forgetting to mention yesterday. I was supposed to pick up Tav's copy of the Y-con anthology for him, as he's got a piece published in it, but the folks at the anthy table don't know anything about it. It's not annotated on their sheet. So I'm SOL on that count. And rather put out, because I know Tav emailed the info to them when he made the arrangement with me.
Must have been lost somewhere along the way. *sigh*
Kinda ranks up there with the blueberry-less waffl-E. But that's another story. For another time. For I must away.
Away!
10/22/06 Sunday 20:09
Went to Alcatraz today. Took up most of the day, combined with the fact that we got up late.
Anyway. Snapped a few more cosplayer pics this morning. Finally thought to reboot my PDA, and lo and behold I got connected! But then the keyboard didn't work - I think perhaps the battery ran dead. Or...eh. I don't know. Mebbe. Eh.
Took off for Alcatraz. Which was alright. To tell you the truth, though, I found myself far more enamored of the ocean view (seagull! The seagulls!) and the ferry ride across the bay. Ohhh, my, so lovely. I can't really recall the last time I'd've been on a boat; it was simply and utterly...soul-calming, is the best word, to be out on the water. The gentle roll of the waves - ohhh, so tranquil. So lulling. So perfect and perfectly right. I was tempted to step out on the front deck, let the waves breaking over the bow break over me as well, but touring a chilly rocky island in wet clothes would not have been any fun.
The city looks lovely by night from the bay, I must say.
Having finally returned, we found con-goers much depleted. Sadness ensued, yet...such fun was had. I fnally decided I may as well try one of the fruity beer-things Inyx-sama's been trying to get rid of. Strawberry. Doesn't taste like beer, of course, which is a plus, so...eh.
We'll take the rest over to Pond's crew. Someone can drive it home. Or drink it in the time they've left.
10/23/06 Monday 12:50
...I've decided I'm just not meant to have internet this trip. The power went out, in both hotels. Their generators kicked in, sure, but the wireless network is not on that backup apparently. *sigh*
Regardless. This city still smells like brownies half the time when one steps outside.
*sigh*
Yeah. Okay. I've got post-con depression trying to set in. It is so much fun, and it is such a good time, and it is such a feeling of rightness and belonging. I haven't thought about the mundane RL and work stuff all week; it's only been a few days but god if feels like forever, even having gone so very fast. Like a whole other world, which...it kind of is. And now I've got to return to the 'real' one, put my otaku-geek inner self - which is so wonderfully comfortable to wear - back in the closet.
And I flip back through my camera, and the 105 pics on it, and...I just see so many pictures that I didn't get. I'm going to have to be prowling about on the comms and LJ accts of people I know were present to fill some of those gaps.
I did have such fun, though. I loved wandering about in cosplay, enough that I might be bold enough to do it and go solo for Aurora-con 2007. Which is still only going to be a one-day Friday thing. Even if I can't hold character. ^_^ That would take more practice, more time to warm up. I'm afraid I was more in happy-squee-while-shy-and-easily-embarrassed mode most of the time.
Inyx-sama, though...she went into that Saiyuki panel with me and she postured up as Kenren to the hilt. And absent-minded brain-over-stimulated me didn't even bother to start snapping pics. *sigh*
Still bummed about the wardrobe malfunctions, too. We didn't have the chance to do any really good pics.
I got my half-day of paired cosplay, though. I will treasure it a very long time.
And I got to meet folks. I didn't get the chance to hang out with Unni, but I did at least get to meet her. I got to meet Zalia, and hang out with her, and go in to Japantown with her. I got to meet Joe and April, and I got to hang out with Joe for an evening. And see sketchies. And see the artist at work. *snuggles Baby!Goujun* Best. Thing. EVAR.
And it was a doubly-good evening, because it gave Inyx-sama the chance to lose her shadow, which I'd totally made myself. I'm sure it annoyed the piss out of her half the weekend to have me trotting about after her everywhere like a faithful puppy, whining about my internet-less-ness and where-are-all-the-Saiyuki-fen? And lagging behind because my sandals slow me down and/or my shoes gave me blisters.
I would love to make this a yearly thing. Oh, my god, I would love it. Even if it ws a different con, a more-to-see-and-do con. Or still Yaoi-con, since so many people seem to make the trip for it from all over regardless. It is just such a good time. And it's the connecting, the...the fangirling, for simplicity's sake, that makes it so wonderful more than any of the con events, I find.
I wish I'd thought to get more names, though, look at name badges a little more. Kenren and Tenpou got glomped outside the Saiyuki panel, but I didn't think to see if she had a name I'd recognize. I didn't think to chat up anyone inside the panel, not that I'm much of a chatter anyway. I feel so bad about
new_kate, too. She said hi to me as I was leaving the GW meet-and-greet (which was post-Saiyuki panel), as she was settling in for the panel that followed. I stuttered some kind of greeting-response with my typical deer-in-headlights eloquence; I caught the name tag but in the time it took for my brain to reboot from the Agh! Social! mental seizures and catch up and process, I'd got up and left and oh, it's not like I can go back and offer better politeness than a look that says 'Uhm-hi-who-are-youandwhyareyoutalkingtome and whatthehellshould I say?? *panic*panic*' when she's in a panel that's starting and I've already made a socially graceless fool of myself to begin with.new_kate, if you're out there, I'm sorry! T_TThe power is still out, and I've been sitting here writing an hour almost.
There was a girl checking out, in a group of four, and she had on a Saiyuki t-shirt. I had the urge to go glomp her. Or something more restrained, but...no. And I can't help hearing Emma's voice in the back of my head now: "It's so haaard to be TJ at Yaoi-con; you're so shy and introverted, and you have no internets, and..." Well, y'know what, I'm not going to bother to come up with a fuller list of oh-poor-me-ness than that right now, so...eh. ^_^
I am going to be saying 'Yey! [random noun]' for awhile now, though (Inyx-sama's fault). Or...maybe not, as the fangirl must go back in the closet once I get home.
And it's not like I've got anywhere to pour my soul out about it other than here. I told folk at work that I was meeting up with a friend in San Fran. Not a word about con, or anime. And certainly not a word about yaoi. The 'How was your vacation?' questions will all be answered vaguely.
And sure I can tell the husband about it, and sure he'll listen, and he'll be interested for the sake of being 'part of my world'. But it's far from his passion, and...it's somehow not the same.
Eh.
I think the power's back on; I should check my connection while Inyx-sama checks out.
She walked to Subway for food, even though my blisters mean I was in no shape to go with. she's been so good to me this trip. *snuggles Inyx-sama*
10/23/06 Monday 14:15
Heh. This is kind of the way I used to journal as a kid. Except I noted all starting and stopping times. And I never posted it anywhere later.
...That's right. I'm going to have to find time to type all this up between giving time to both my boys who've missed me.
So. Power's back on, but no network yet. But...hotel muzak just came on. I wonder... *checks internet again* Yey! Back up. ^_^
10/23/06 Monday 15:25
Composed a post. Lost the post. *grumble*mutter* Posted a short-post anyway. Listening now while Inyx and Zalia and Gnome and LN discuss RP plans for cross-fandom-ness with which I'm unfamiliar. The preceding discussion of just how the G-boyz would hi-jack a plane using only a palm frond - that was highly amusing, though. ^_^
I'm still a little surprised at how little I bought. There just...wasn't much I wanted. Not much Saiyuki merchandise. Which means I don't spend much, so...mixed blessing, I guess. I didn't even really think to look for manga I need to catch up on, in case they were cheaper. But...ehh.
Like I said. I'd love to make this a yearly journey. Saving becomes an issue, though, when there are so many other family things that need to be saved for. I've been on vacation twice, now, since getting married six years ago. Jeff's never gone anywhere. We've never had a family vacation. Much less a honeymoon. I can't condone the selfishness of "I'm going to this con every year" when he gets nothing of equal-ness and the family gets nothing of equal-ness. I'm not a single person and I can't allow myself to think like I am, to lament the fact that I'm not. Feh.
Time to say the last goodbyes and head to the airport. *salutes bravely*
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Date: 2006-10-30 12:21 am (UTC)It was so good to finally get to meet you after all these years (back when we were GW fandom ppls!!). I had a lovely time, and I'm glad you did too ^__^