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May. 2nd, 2013 06:41 amI wanted to talk about my trip to San Francisco whenever I finally came home from it, but time got away from me and here we are. I loved it, though. I love being in California (although I could never live in San Francisco specifically because I'm a delicate tropical flower and it's just too damn cold and windy!! It was even worse because I only brought one jacket because I underestimated just how cold it would be.) I became really close friends with the other people I went with on my trip, and we had a lot of fun together. I mean, we did a lot of touristy things, but primarily we were there to help people.
( omg it's so long )
( omg it's so long )
escapist expo day two
Sep. 16th, 2012 12:00 amyeah today was nowhere as good as friday was but i'm going to make a post about it anyway.
zac and matt picked me up like fifteen minutes earlier than i thought they were going to so i wasn't ready and flailing around and i thought i lost my pass but it was … in my bag. rxactly where i left it. /genius.
i pretty much just wandered around the dealer's room until I ran into young (who I work with) and we chilled together and went to a panel about writing and getting published in science-fiction which was … very depressing. 8( the moral of the story was that amazon is evil and give up on writing ever (ok not really).
but anyway after that we went to the how to review video games panel and it was pretty awesome. i saw wendi (vg teacherchan)! and i was like … hanging out next to the stage in hopes of getting a re-do of my picture with yahtzee but it was not meant to be. :C after that, me and my technician bros tried to go down the street and get chicken and waffles for lunch but the wait was like an hour so we were like n o p e. and i went back to the convention center and got in line for the q&a panel like … 40 minutes in advance. and was like third in line aw yeah. B) which meant front row for me.
and it really was the best thing in my life i can't even. i don't think i will ever forget the entire escapist panel doing the gangnam style dance (except for yahtzee who kawaii-ly stood to the side shaking his head.) you'd think, being in the front row, i'd finally get my retake, but NOPE. they made everyone clear out of the fucking room and was like "they'll be signing things outside!" so suddenly i was … in the back of the line-to-be. i wasn't going to bother getting in the line bc it was ridiculously long, but i ran into zac (who was a loser and decided he'd rather get mcd's and more magic cards instead of go to the q&a) and decided to go and keep him company (and maybe get my retake ……) but that didn't happen either bc the volunteer girl was like NO PICTURES!!!11 but i was already near the front so i was like fuck it and got everyone to sign my badge. which was pretty awesome ngl and made me feel less guilty/like a yahtzee stalker. and i ran into jim sterling when we were wandering down the hall and … stood around and listened to him chat bc i was too shy and awkward to say anything but whatever it was still really cool.
after that, with zac's encouragement i ran back to the dealer's room to get a snorlax hat before everything closed.and the girl who rang me up asked if zac and i were an item ……… but yeah we just made it and felt v accomplished.
there was an after-hours ~saturday shindig~ sponsored by the con, so we decided to stick around for that. i went to the special ~vip~ line with my vip pass but i think the normal line was probably less crowded because everyone and their mother decided they needed a vip pass. so the line was ridiculous long and it ended up being standing room only because clearing the chairs was the only way they could fit everyone? it was really annoying and made my entire body hurt. 8( it wasn't actually that special tbh. there was a cosplay contest which was kind of cool i guess and i saw even more gangnam style dancing. i think i've filled my lifetime quota for gangnam style tbh. and then there was music and it was so loud zac and matt and i were just kind of like whatever and left.BUT I GUESS ROB STAYED AND GOT TO DRINK WITH YAHTZEE AND MOVIE BOB THAT SON OF A BITCH. whatever one day i'll … work for the escapist ….. and have reasons to approach them without looking like a stalker ……..
and that's the story of my life. now pictures.
( gangnam style )
zac and matt picked me up like fifteen minutes earlier than i thought they were going to so i wasn't ready and flailing around and i thought i lost my pass but it was … in my bag. rxactly where i left it. /genius.
i pretty much just wandered around the dealer's room until I ran into young (who I work with) and we chilled together and went to a panel about writing and getting published in science-fiction which was … very depressing. 8( the moral of the story was that amazon is evil and give up on writing ever (ok not really).
but anyway after that we went to the how to review video games panel and it was pretty awesome. i saw wendi (vg teacherchan)! and i was like … hanging out next to the stage in hopes of getting a re-do of my picture with yahtzee but it was not meant to be. :C after that, me and my technician bros tried to go down the street and get chicken and waffles for lunch but the wait was like an hour so we were like n o p e. and i went back to the convention center and got in line for the q&a panel like … 40 minutes in advance. and was like third in line aw yeah. B) which meant front row for me.
and it really was the best thing in my life i can't even. i don't think i will ever forget the entire escapist panel doing the gangnam style dance (except for yahtzee who kawaii-ly stood to the side shaking his head.) you'd think, being in the front row, i'd finally get my retake, but NOPE. they made everyone clear out of the fucking room and was like "they'll be signing things outside!" so suddenly i was … in the back of the line-to-be. i wasn't going to bother getting in the line bc it was ridiculously long, but i ran into zac (who was a loser and decided he'd rather get mcd's and more magic cards instead of go to the q&a) and decided to go and keep him company (and maybe get my retake ……) but that didn't happen either bc the volunteer girl was like NO PICTURES!!!11 but i was already near the front so i was like fuck it and got everyone to sign my badge. which was pretty awesome ngl and made me feel less guilty/like a yahtzee stalker. and i ran into jim sterling when we were wandering down the hall and … stood around and listened to him chat bc i was too shy and awkward to say anything but whatever it was still really cool.
after that, with zac's encouragement i ran back to the dealer's room to get a snorlax hat before everything closed.
there was an after-hours ~saturday shindig~ sponsored by the con, so we decided to stick around for that. i went to the special ~vip~ line with my vip pass but i think the normal line was probably less crowded because everyone and their mother decided they needed a vip pass. so the line was ridiculous long and it ended up being standing room only because clearing the chairs was the only way they could fit everyone? it was really annoying and made my entire body hurt. 8( it wasn't actually that special tbh. there was a cosplay contest which was kind of cool i guess and i saw even more gangnam style dancing. i think i've filled my lifetime quota for gangnam style tbh. and then there was music and it was so loud zac and matt and i were just kind of like whatever and left.
and that's the story of my life. now pictures.
( gangnam style )
OKAY Escapist Expo deserves a special dw/lj post just for it because I have so many thoughts and it's easier to pour them out here than all disjointedly on my plurk.
Okay, last night I went to a D&D session for video game class (WHICH WAS AWESOME) and Rob, who was originally going to give me a ride to the Expo, was like "I'm volunteering so I have to leave at 7 a.m. and you'll just be stuck in Durham with nothing to do for a few hours" and I was like N O P E. LMAO Wendi, my video game class prof, overheard us and was all like "I'd give you a ride if I weren't going with a friend in a two-seater 8(" it was so sweet. She is seriously the best person and I love her.
BUT ANYWAY. Luckily, one of my friends from the Technician was going (and we'd fangirled over it earlier in the week), so I talked to him and hitched a ride with him and his roommate instead. At a reasonable time of morning. Even though he made me meet him on centennial campus -- which is far off and separate from main campus and hence I was scared of getting lost there. 8( BUT IT WAS ALL OKAY. And then we went to Durham.
And in the line to get passes, the most amazing thing happened to me. A little backstory -- Susan Arendt, the managing editor for The Escapist, came and talked with my class about the industry in general a few weeks ago. Rob and I stayed back after class and talked with her and Wendi for awhile, and I'd expressed interest in maybe doing copyedit work there after I graduate. Well, as I was going to pick up my pass, she saw me, recognized me, and was all like OMG YOU MADE IT!! and was so happy to see me there. :'D and then she said really loud at the tables "MAKE SURE SHE GETS A VIP PASS." And that was … how I got a VIP pass instead of the normal one I actually purchased. I was like awkwardly flailing because WTF THAT IS SO NICE WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! and omg she remembered me :'(
And theeeen Zac and Matt (his roommate) and I did some shit. We went to the panel about worldbuilding, which I found really interesting as both a writer and an RPer because I felt like there was a lot of it that was RP relevant and not just like … tabletop RP relevant lmfao. But yeah that was pretty cool. Then we hit the dealer's room (or "expo floor", whatever), looked at some cool shit, bought some cool shit, then played old school arcade games. Since we were given free Magic: The Gathering starter decks, we went to a ~learn to play Magic~ table. It was okay but I have like … no attention span for that shit lmfao and being at a con where so much other cool stuff was going on didn't help.
Anyway, at the Magic table, we talked to this other guy who drove from SC to come to the con named TJ, and he ended up wanting to attend the same panel I did. Zac and Matt wanted to keep playing Magic, so we split up. TJ was okay, and it was nice to have someone to chill in line with I guess. The panel was about sequels and why everyone is so obsessed with making them instead of doing shit that's more original, and I really enjoyed it. And let's be real I really attended it for Yahtzee. (Zero Punctuation Yahtzee. Check it out. He's amazing. I'm kind of obsessed with him ngl.) After the panel, people went up toward where all the speakers were to get them to sign things. I got Yahtzee to sign my program, but all I had was a pen and it was … not cooperating with the paper and we were just like "yeah ….." (he's so quiet and slightly socially awkward irl I love him.) but then people had autograph paper things for everyone at the panel and I got Yahtzee to sign that with much better results. After that, the people who work there were trying to clear the room for the next panel (I was sad they didn't allow room-camping like SDCC does bc I was attending the next one anyway >:C ) but as they were shooing everyone away, guess who showed up? Susan Arendt! And she saw me and pointed and was like "YOU!! You can stay and get whatever you want :)" and that was how I got a picture with Yahtzee in addition to him signing my shit. I'm just sad that TJ operated my camera and … sucked at it because the picture is blurry as hell. LMAO I'm really tempted to track Susan down tomorrow and be like "so can I just stalk Yahtzee forever .o." But I won't because I AM A GOOD PERSON. Sometimes.
But yeah after that was the Escapist Q&A panel which was really awesome and made me wish I did more than occasionally read articles there and watch Zero Punctuation. So … maybe I will … I was also relieved I was at the panel before that to stalk Yahtzee bc the line to do that after this one was insane.
That was the last panel of the day, so I went to regroup with Zac and Matt and they were … watching anime in the theater next door. And it was some really ridiculous shit. Followed by an equally ridiculous CGI movie loosely based on Dragon Age, which … would have been a lot easier to take seriously if the animation didn't remind me of the weird CGI shit these days like the Tinkerbell movie. We almost went to see Movie Bob do commentary on Flash Gordon, but the place where they were viewing it wasn't automatically findable, and we were all tired and kind of headachy (or at least I was, because I didn't think to bring my glasses so my eyes were tired of having to look at all the far away things) so we decided to go home.
But not before stealing a shit ton of Red Bull. Well, technically not stealing since it was free but LET ME TELL THIS STORY. At the badge pick-up place, they were giving out free 4-packs of Red Bull. (On a side-note, I was really pissed that when I was hastily shoved into the VIP line I DID NOT GET ANY RED BULL!!! As a VIP I deserved like 5 cases ok.) Matt was the only one of the three of us who ended up getting one since Zac had a system mishap in picking up his badge and had to go to a different line, too. But yeah there were just. Free energy drinks all over the fucking place. There were free giant Red Bulls (which I also did not get) and free Nos (which I did get.) But, as we were leaving the convention center to go to the parking lot, there was just … a ton of Red Bull abandoned outside the empty registration tent. Zac and I both grabbed a 4-pack and were satisfied, but Matt decided that wasn't enough. He went back and grabbed the rest. And the rest was SIX BOXES. We essentially had 60 dollars in Red Bull and our tickets were only like 24. It was almost like we were paid in Red Bull to go to the con … but yeah they split the six boxes with me in addition to the box I'd already grabbed and now I have enough Red Bull to last me the rest of my life (jk who are we kidding it's more like a week.)
AND NOW PICTURES. I didn't take very many bc I was busy doing things like … you know, living life.
( under the cut )
AND I GET TO DO IT ALL AGAIN TOMORROW. I feel like today was such a good day how can tomorrow even compare to this ...
Okay, last night I went to a D&D session for video game class (WHICH WAS AWESOME) and Rob, who was originally going to give me a ride to the Expo, was like "I'm volunteering so I have to leave at 7 a.m. and you'll just be stuck in Durham with nothing to do for a few hours" and I was like N O P E. LMAO Wendi, my video game class prof, overheard us and was all like "I'd give you a ride if I weren't going with a friend in a two-seater 8(" it was so sweet. She is seriously the best person and I love her.
BUT ANYWAY. Luckily, one of my friends from the Technician was going (and we'd fangirled over it earlier in the week), so I talked to him and hitched a ride with him and his roommate instead. At a reasonable time of morning. Even though he made me meet him on centennial campus -- which is far off and separate from main campus and hence I was scared of getting lost there. 8( BUT IT WAS ALL OKAY. And then we went to Durham.
And in the line to get passes, the most amazing thing happened to me. A little backstory -- Susan Arendt, the managing editor for The Escapist, came and talked with my class about the industry in general a few weeks ago. Rob and I stayed back after class and talked with her and Wendi for awhile, and I'd expressed interest in maybe doing copyedit work there after I graduate. Well, as I was going to pick up my pass, she saw me, recognized me, and was all like OMG YOU MADE IT!! and was so happy to see me there. :'D and then she said really loud at the tables "MAKE SURE SHE GETS A VIP PASS." And that was … how I got a VIP pass instead of the normal one I actually purchased. I was like awkwardly flailing because WTF THAT IS SO NICE WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! and omg she remembered me :'(
And theeeen Zac and Matt (his roommate) and I did some shit. We went to the panel about worldbuilding, which I found really interesting as both a writer and an RPer because I felt like there was a lot of it that was RP relevant and not just like … tabletop RP relevant lmfao. But yeah that was pretty cool. Then we hit the dealer's room (or "expo floor", whatever), looked at some cool shit, bought some cool shit, then played old school arcade games. Since we were given free Magic: The Gathering starter decks, we went to a ~learn to play Magic~ table. It was okay but I have like … no attention span for that shit lmfao and being at a con where so much other cool stuff was going on didn't help.
Anyway, at the Magic table, we talked to this other guy who drove from SC to come to the con named TJ, and he ended up wanting to attend the same panel I did. Zac and Matt wanted to keep playing Magic, so we split up. TJ was okay, and it was nice to have someone to chill in line with I guess. The panel was about sequels and why everyone is so obsessed with making them instead of doing shit that's more original, and I really enjoyed it. And let's be real I really attended it for Yahtzee. (Zero Punctuation Yahtzee. Check it out. He's amazing. I'm kind of obsessed with him ngl.) After the panel, people went up toward where all the speakers were to get them to sign things. I got Yahtzee to sign my program, but all I had was a pen and it was … not cooperating with the paper and we were just like "yeah ….." (he's so quiet and slightly socially awkward irl I love him.) but then people had autograph paper things for everyone at the panel and I got Yahtzee to sign that with much better results. After that, the people who work there were trying to clear the room for the next panel (I was sad they didn't allow room-camping like SDCC does bc I was attending the next one anyway >:C ) but as they were shooing everyone away, guess who showed up? Susan Arendt! And she saw me and pointed and was like "YOU!! You can stay and get whatever you want :)" and that was how I got a picture with Yahtzee in addition to him signing my shit. I'm just sad that TJ operated my camera and … sucked at it because the picture is blurry as hell. LMAO I'm really tempted to track Susan down tomorrow and be like "so can I just stalk Yahtzee forever .o." But I won't because I AM A GOOD PERSON. Sometimes.
But yeah after that was the Escapist Q&A panel which was really awesome and made me wish I did more than occasionally read articles there and watch Zero Punctuation. So … maybe I will … I was also relieved I was at the panel before that to stalk Yahtzee bc the line to do that after this one was insane.
That was the last panel of the day, so I went to regroup with Zac and Matt and they were … watching anime in the theater next door. And it was some really ridiculous shit. Followed by an equally ridiculous CGI movie loosely based on Dragon Age, which … would have been a lot easier to take seriously if the animation didn't remind me of the weird CGI shit these days like the Tinkerbell movie. We almost went to see Movie Bob do commentary on Flash Gordon, but the place where they were viewing it wasn't automatically findable, and we were all tired and kind of headachy (or at least I was, because I didn't think to bring my glasses so my eyes were tired of having to look at all the far away things) so we decided to go home.
But not before stealing a shit ton of Red Bull. Well, technically not stealing since it was free but LET ME TELL THIS STORY. At the badge pick-up place, they were giving out free 4-packs of Red Bull. (On a side-note, I was really pissed that when I was hastily shoved into the VIP line I DID NOT GET ANY RED BULL!!! As a VIP I deserved like 5 cases ok.) Matt was the only one of the three of us who ended up getting one since Zac had a system mishap in picking up his badge and had to go to a different line, too. But yeah there were just. Free energy drinks all over the fucking place. There were free giant Red Bulls (which I also did not get) and free Nos (which I did get.) But, as we were leaving the convention center to go to the parking lot, there was just … a ton of Red Bull abandoned outside the empty registration tent. Zac and I both grabbed a 4-pack and were satisfied, but Matt decided that wasn't enough. He went back and grabbed the rest. And the rest was SIX BOXES. We essentially had 60 dollars in Red Bull and our tickets were only like 24. It was almost like we were paid in Red Bull to go to the con … but yeah they split the six boxes with me in addition to the box I'd already grabbed and now I have enough Red Bull to last me the rest of my life (jk who are we kidding it's more like a week.)
AND NOW PICTURES. I didn't take very many bc I was busy doing things like … you know, living life.
( under the cut )
AND I GET TO DO IT ALL AGAIN TOMORROW. I feel like today was such a good day how can tomorrow even compare to this ...
1. I wrote an 8-page term paper in one late night/morning. And read the 264-page book that I had to write about in that same night.
2. On the last day of archery class, we had a little contest in which we shot paper turkeys on the target board, scoring by where we hit it. I got first place out of the girls (by a long shot -- I got a 24 and second place had a 12 or something). So I won a 15 dollar gift card for Bojangles ...
Basically, this has been my archery experience:
First day of class:
Last day of class:
Hell yeah.
3. Then today we had the Student Media end of the year party, where the newspaper had done superlatives. I got Best Copy Editor of the year! (Well, actually I tied with the only girl in the office I HATE WITH A PASSION, so she doesn't exist to me.) And I put so much into that job and it's something I really care about, so I was ecstatic to receive recognition for it.
4. AND IT'S THE LAST WEEK OF CLASSES! I just have math class tomorrow and then nothing but exams. And I'm going to dinner with my DC trip friends on Saturday and a pre-exam party with my newspaper friends on Monday!
So I pretty much love the world.
2. On the last day of archery class, we had a little contest in which we shot paper turkeys on the target board, scoring by where we hit it. I got first place out of the girls (by a long shot -- I got a 24 and second place had a 12 or something). So I won a 15 dollar gift card for Bojangles ...
Basically, this has been my archery experience:
First day of class:
Last day of class:
Hell yeah.
3. Then today we had the Student Media end of the year party, where the newspaper had done superlatives. I got Best Copy Editor of the year! (Well, actually I tied with the only girl in the office I HATE WITH A PASSION, so she doesn't exist to me.) And I put so much into that job and it's something I really care about, so I was ecstatic to receive recognition for it.
4. AND IT'S THE LAST WEEK OF CLASSES! I just have math class tomorrow and then nothing but exams. And I'm going to dinner with my DC trip friends on Saturday and a pre-exam party with my newspaper friends on Monday!
So I pretty much love the world.
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Apr. 21st, 2012 09:17 pmOkay I haven't updated my journal in months and at this point I don't even … feel like trying to LMFAO. The only real things of note are seeing my school's production of RENT and The Hunger Games being awesome. Instead, I'm dedicating this entry to my DC adventures.
( i throw my hands up in the air sometimessss )
( i throw my hands up in the air sometimessss )
