Fanime 2007

Oh man, my overall experience was awesome. Met a few AWESOME people, got to see things I would never have seen in my life if I haven't gone, and done some pretty crazy things. I'll sum up the days here. ^^

Friday:
I got there at around 3:20 PM after school, and tried picking up my badge at Con Ops, but I didn't have any CA govt. approved I.D. and they couldn't find my badge so I sat around, waiting for Antonio to vouch for me. He told me that I forgot that I was supposed to go and pick up my badge from him. Indeed, I did forget. D: I stayed there for like, 45 minutes, too. What a waste of time. I went down with Antonio and Caylin? and I grabbed my room number as well as hotel card key from Kelly, my room head, and went to drop off my baggage with my dad. I changed into my Yuna cosplay and went downstairs, had Caylin "initiate" me as a runner for pre-reg badges. I sat around for about an hour, doing... badges [well, mostly sitting there] and then I went to fill bags with ads and schedules. That was for a few hours, then Caylin came to get me and I learned how to do pre-reg check in. ^^ That was awesome. I did that for maybe an hour or two... or was it three? Eh, well... it was pretty cool, but frustrating because some of the people didn't have an account because they registered at the last days, and they didn't get into the system because Paypal screwed us over. So, yeah. It was over at about 8:10 PM, I ran upstairs to Stage Zero for the Cosspace gathering, but no one was there [I later found out that like, three people showed and they left right after] and then walked around and took pictures of cosplays. I had almost 20 people ask me for pictures [which I graciously accepted. xD] and then walked around, taking pictures of people. I grabbed a bite to eat [pastrami sandwich from the Mariott cafe] and like, three people took pictures of me... just... eating. It was really awkward. Oh! And I saw these guys cosplay as police, and one of them asked to take a picture of me. I was like "wtf, aren't you police?!" but I realized they were cosplaying. xD I walked around after eating, and then this guy dressed in some kinda army... outfit? asked to take my picture, and I took his. Then, I went and walked around, met Melody downstairs, dropped off her baggage, and went to watch a movie, "I'm a cyborg but it's okay" at like, 1 in the morning after many other pictures of me. @.@ Then we went upstairs and went to sleep.

Saturday:
We awoke at 7:00 to go and grab a bite to eat before going to Reg to work. We went to Starbucks, I bought a muffin and tea and we set off to go work. I got set to work at Pre-Reg while Melody was cutting badge paper. We did that for a few hours, Mel got initiated into the working force, I got switched to At Con registration, and then she went out to buy me lunch while I worked. I took a break to eat, then went back to working. We went off and walked around con to go to the Gaia Panel [which sucked, by the way] for about three to two hours. Melody won a Pandy hat from the Panel by finding one of the 4 tickets underneath a seat for it. ^^ Lucky butt. Anyways, we went to our rooms, dropped off a few things, went back and Mel turned in her ticket for the hat. I saw someone who looked strangely familliar, and asked if she was Morbid Gnome.. and it turned out I mixed her up with The Iconoclast and that made me feel really bad... and then I went to this other lady who looked familliar and asked if she was Moonblossom. Indeed, she was! And she recognized me, too! Hehe, she introduced me to Twistex [who had no idea who I was even though I journal stalk him and comment on his profile on Gaia] and we talked a bit, then me and Mel left to work again. After work, I walked around with her again, and went to the Ball. ^^ Mel totally rejected 3 people, and I danced with one person. Eventually, I forced her to dance with this one.. guy. She rejected this girl cossplaying as Vash [she danced with me, the guy I was dancing with, and Mel] with a glowstick.. she was so funny and awesome! But what really got me was that Melody flat out rejected Tuxedo Mask. TUXEDO MASK!! I got soooo~ mad! And then the guy I was dancing with was the soldier dude that took a picture of me on Friday. I'll call him ST. Well, he tried finding me and my friend when we left, danced with us, and.. it was kinda odd. Then we went to Kareoke, he followed, like, 10 minutes later, and it was kinda weird. Well, then we went to our hotel because it was freaking late after playing DDR and dancing a bit more, then we went back to our hotel, only to be stalled by ST. Uh, so I said we were tired and going to our room. He asked if we were going to be there tomorrow, and I said yes. We went back and slept.

Sunday:
Well, this is going to be uber long. We woke up again, at 7:00 and I bought a muffin and tea, then went to Reg. We worked till pretty late, and I don't remember much, but we worked a while... and it was interesting. We made a few new friends, Jon E. and a few others, I forget who else. Well, then we went around and I went to the Dealers room, bought a Rikku Wall scroll, and a Sailor moon scroll. We went to the Gaia gathering which sucked, and I found AnimeEmperor and said hi, in which he responded with a few words and just... walked off. Uh, well, we went back to work, went off work. We went to the masquerade and watched skits and stuff... We went to the dance, danced with Kandice, walked around afterwards, and then met Jon. We talked for a bit, went to a Piano for him to play, but it was taken. We said we were hungry, so we went to Jack in the Box, at like, 3 in the morning and saw police at a place in the road. Apparently there had been a shooting or something. We arrived at Jack anyway [which was freaking packed] and this guy kept making weird faces at me and we got our food, then walked back to Con. While we did, I guess a homeless guy came up to our group asking for food, and Jon gave him a handful of fries, which I thought was extremely nice. We ate at the Con, and decided to pull an all nighter.

Monday:
So, continuing with the all nighter. We went into the Game room and Jon played Guitar Hero in which I'd never played before. I played next turn, and basically FAILED. It sucked. Then Mel played on hard, and did okay. We decided to play DDR, and I was in a skirt, so it sucked. But then we met some other guy, Jon's friend who was pretty good, despite his earlier modesty. He played the guy Jon was playing on Guitar Hero and... well, we played for like, an hour. We also met Paul, another one of Jon's friends [he knows like, everyone]. We went to our hotel room, decided to meet at around 6:45 AM at the same place. Me and mel packed our bags to have Kelly check out, then we went and put our bags at the concierge place. ^^ We got there at around 6:50, but didn't see anyone, so I grabbed a bite to eat while Melody basically slept. We went back at 7:20, helped Antonio set up and then sat there for a bit. xD We had Kirby, Jon's doll in which I am the Godfather for, and Antonio was like...
"Haha, that looks like my little brother's doll."
"Yeah, it is."
"What? What were you doing with my brother?"
"Nothing, just talked."
His reaction was actually kinda funny. Well, we opened up, but it wasn't really that busy, so we sat around and I took pictures, made friends with Nathan, a guy who did line control. A few days back, I was so bored I'd wave my sign around like crazy even if there wasn't anyone in line. He came over and was like "if you put it up one more time, I'm going to confiscate it". He came over quite often at my booth and just stood around, listening to our conversation. I was trying to take a picture of him but apparently he hates pictures. I got 5 good ones, even if he kept saying he was ugly in which I responded that he wasn't. I snuck the pictures. ^^ And blinded him a few times. It was fun. I ran to the dealers room and bought a Domo hat and wore it. ^^ We ended at around 12:30 PM and cleaned up, took more pictures, and then ate at Pizza My Heart. I almost passed out because I was so tired, then I got people's contacts and stuff and left after saying bye to everyone. I don't remember much, I was too hazy to. @.@ Hopefully I'll be able to go next year, it was so much fun. ^^

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