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12:48pm 28/10/2009
 

I may have a plan.

So right now I live less than two hours away from New York City. It's almost Halloween. So why not go to New York for Halloween? There's the Greenwich Village Parade, dozens of parties, and generally the coolest city in the world on its wildest night.

Now there are are a few minor questions I'm still thinking about. I'd like to go to the parade as Coraline, but the party I'm most interested in is the Gorey-themed one, which suggests pseudo Victorian oddity costuming. Possibly I could find someplace to change midway through the night.

The real question is whether or not I should do anything about company. What if I messaged some interesting guys on a few dating sites and asked them if they would be interested in a last minute Halloween adventure? Are random guys on dating sites
more dangerous than random strangers? Would the guys think the idea was crazy, even if I couched it more subtly?

I may message guys whether or not I mention Halloween, but asking someone to go exploring seems more fun and useful than dull coffee sessions.

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01:36pm 04/10/2009
  And now I'm on Martha's Vineyard, waiting to begin my writers workshop. On the way here my car overheated again, and I'm afraid it may be the end for her, which would be very very sad.

I'll let you guys know more about what's going on here... so far I've been here two and a half hours and I've mostly chatted and fed my internet addiction. I'll try to update more this weekend, but we'll see how that goes.		  
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Another loser anthem   
07:42am 12/09/2009
 
mood: whiny
music: Elite Beat Agents Soundtrack
Elite Beat Agents has taken ahold of me unlike anything for a long time. The only times I'm not playing it are when I'm waiting for my DS to charge. Ok, Ok, I occasionally pause due to crippling hand cramps or to hold brief, annoyed conversations with loved ones, or during an especially difficult song when I can tell that I'm actively getting worse due to strain and rhythm erosion. I'm writing this to escape from Jumpin Jack Flash on Sweatin' mode. If that means anything to any of you, you know what I'm going through. If I have to hear that you were raised by a toothless, bearded hag one more time... that's a great thing to call the person who raised you, and apparently things turned out all right, so why are you whining over and over about your crappy childhood? Get over yourself, Jumpin' Jack Flash.

So my month of travels is concluded. For anyone who missed out on the itinerary... I moved around August 1st, went to Kansas around the 10th, went to the Gathering of the Gargoyles the 20th, immediately went down to Florida to finish out the month and begin September, and returned for a single day before leaving again for PAX. I was almost, ALMOST convinced by Joanne to go to the Austin Game Developers Conference, but the lead time was too little and the conference fees too high; also I was afraid that I would die.

PAX was fun but I did more partying and less networking than I thought I would. Ah well. I'd like to talk about all my adventures in more depth, but I'm never sure what's interesting about them, so I'm just going to use PAX as a jumping-off point for updates on my existential crisis.

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Firstly, I want to thank everyone for their kind words on my last entry. I'm bad at responding to compliments and thanking people for them, but there we go. You guys rock.

That said, I have to make a clarification here: I haven't ever believed that nobody likes or is attracted to me, or at least not since the end of High School (a period of time where that was, at least to all outward appearances, true). My problem centers more around the kind of guys I like and the idea of... a sort of relationship equality? I dunno how exactly to describe it, but it's the theory that you shouldn't expect more from your significant other than you expect from yourself. And well, as one of my friends put it a little while ago, I like "waifs." Not universally, no... some of the guys I've liked and dated in the past have been on the pudgy side of normal weight. But the last guy I was with was the first guy who I would actually find myself staring at, and he was pretty goddam thin. Right now I'm between forty-five and sixty-five pounds overweight, depending on who you ask. So if I'm expecting my partner to be thin, then there's an inequality there.

So it's not that I don't think anyone would like me, it's that I have a lot of trouble attracting the guys I do like. At PAX two guys tried to pick me up... one was a little cute but not "I'm going to stay the night with a drunk guy I just met, even if we aren't going to do anything" cute. The second guy was a super creepy game design student my age. He was nice at first, and they both bought me expensive drinks, but neither was my type. At the same time, at the party where the second guy tried to pick me up, there was a smoking hot guy sitting alone. Thin, nice face, good hair, accent, shy... I'm sighing just thinking about it. I managed to talk to him, hit on him a tiny bit and give him my card, but the creepy guy kinda distracted me and I don't really think the cute guy was that interested in me.

And that's where I think being cuter would help... when I've got an hour and a few shouted conversations at a party to get a guy's initial interest. I'm still a bit doubtful that I'll be able to manage. Of course theoretically this can all be fixed, but I saw a doctor about my recurring shoulder pain, and she said I may have a small tear in one of my tendons. She said to try physical therapy again but if it doesn't work I may have to have surgery. Even then it may never be entirely the same. This sucks big time, because just about any physical activity... even walking or biking... makes the shoulder hurt. My mom has a good local Physical therapist, though, so I'm hopeful.

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04:18am 31/08/2009
  I'm having myself a couple of existential crises.

I hate that I only write and use my livejournal to complain. That's not one of my crises, but it does bother me. I'm always thinking "I should write something" but then there's some new news article to be read or site to be refreshed, and the only time I ever get down to typing things is when something is "eating away at my liver."

The Gathering of the Gargoyles was great. I'll post about it later in detail. This is a promise, to myself and to a lot of other people. But right now, the whining.

The first crisis is about my weight and appearance. Now I don't think I look hideous. When I'm posing myself in front of a mirror I can look downright decent. But for girls... that's not good enough. Everywhere I go I see dozens and dozens of cute girls, much cuter than me. Until recently I could tell myself that they weren't geeks, but lately I've been seeing these girls at cons or on geek dating sites. And then I catch a glimpse of myself in a candid photo, and I almost always look like I have a double chin. I want so badly to lose weight, but I've been trying for a long time - eating better, lots of small meals, getting some exercise, etc. I can never seem to do well enough to make a difference, and I hate being hungry all the time. I'm getting these things sorted out, and I have a doctor's appointment in mid-September which will hopefully get me to the point where I can exercise heavily and see a physical therapist if the shoulder or ankle complain, or at least figure out what I have to do for the shoulder and ankle to get them to stop complaining permanently.

But the point is there are a ton of cute girls, and until I can manage to lose 40-60lbs, what chance do I have? It doesn't help that I don't often find anyone attractive. So while there IS the occasional guy who finds me cute despite all the crap, the odds against me finding them attractive in return are staggering. And yes, there is the guy in Kansas... but that's not a serious thing. Why is complicated, so just trust me.

Not that I'm not insanely glad that Kansas guy happened. I am, and I attribute my remaining shards of sanity to him and my college boyfriend. They provide me with proof that lightning can strike and there's a chance that I can find a guy who I am genuinely attracted to who will like and respect me. But I used to go to every con, every meetup with the idea that maybe I'd meet someone. Now that seems so spectacularly unlikely that I'm a little depressed about PAX.

And that relates to the other thing: I genuinely don't know what I'm doing career-wise. When I first started it seemed like there were so many great possibilities. Now when I look I don't see nearly as much interesting stuff around, and a lot of the stuff I thought would be perfect is stuff I've already applied for so clearly... it wasn't perfect. I haven't properly started with a recruiter yet, sure, and I haven't given up hope but... I just don't know. This has all been exacerbated by my relatives giving thoroughly unhelpful advice and suggestions all weekend, displaying that they have no real knowledge of any of the fields I'm involved or educated in. Which makes sense... they're all newish, weirdish, rapidly changing fields. I could start explaining and enumerating their misconceptions, but that would probably be a bad idea. Let's just say they think I should take my career in directions I'm not really interested in at all.

So now PAX is on the horizon, and I convinced myself to splurge on it partially because it would be an opportunity to network. This presents a wealth of other problems. Firstly I have no idea how to network effectively in that kind of an environment. Secondly, I'm not as hardcore as most PAX people seem to be: I've only played a hundred or so games in my life, I'm not familiar with all the great creators and studios. Thirdly, I'm starting to worry that I'll come off as a poser, or a crazy person... my skill-set and position were so weirdly defined, I can make so few real claims.

So if I'm not going to PAX for boys, or for being hardcore, or for networking (ok, I'm still going to TRY all three of those but... see above) then why am I going? I was looking forward to this, now I'm almost slightly dreading it. I'm sure I'll be fine when I get there and the con wave sweeps over me... even if I spend the entire weekend sitting alone in panels and video game rooms.

But every moment when I'm not distracting myself I'm thinking about my looks, my romantic situation, and jobs. And having one of your classic existential crises. Or maybe that's giving the whole situation too much dignity. Maybe I'm just depressed and whiny.		  
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life   
12:25am 14/08/2009
  So. A lot of things have been happening.

As almost everyone knows, I moved back up to Connecticut with my family. As a few of you know, a day or so after I got here I immediately left for Kansas City to hang out with my old WoW raid at their second annual meetup.

My kind of undefinable thing with my old raid leader continued. Once again it was fun and a tiny bit frustrating... we aren't the most inherently compatible people and there are frequent moments of awkwardness. It's weird though, it feels like some of the silences there are just on that bare threshold between awkward and comfortable and, given time, we'd eventually relax. We don't have time, though, and never will... so as I said, frustrating.

Going there also awakened another realization... I'll never be as good as they are at WoW. Well, I'll be as good as some of the worst of them, but most of the people who actually showed up were the best of the best in the old days and... I just can't reach that. I don't have the reflexes, the instincts, the single-mindedness, the lack of ADD. But they're all talking about starting up again, throwing some toons Horde Side and starting the old gang going on Mal'Ganis. I'd like to play with them there, but can I? Is it worth trying to live lives on two servers at the same time? I'm not even playing at ALL right now. I need to get my computer set up, get me some Epic Gems, relearn to play. How much better than I've ever been can I get?

Anyway, I'm back home now, and I'm slowly sifting through stuff I have to get done: fixing stuff I've let lag with COBRA and Unemployment, cleaning house, going through all my old pre-college junk trying to decide what to toss... I've got so much to get done, it feels like I never get anything started. Plus there's the extra bonus of my family starting long conversations with me all the time. There have been so many times I was trying to take a two minute break to get a snack that turns into half an hour of listening to someone tell me some story.

And now on August 20th I'm heading out to LA for the final Gathering of the Gargoyles convention. This show influenced me hugely, possibly more than anything else in my life. I'd been putting off going to the convention, but it was pointed out to me that this is the last one ever so I said, what the hell? When in my life am I ever going to have TIME again?

That brings me to the last thing on my mind at the moment... PAX. You all know me... I'm up for adventure, very fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants. I haven't made concrete plans for PAX yet, but it's still POSSIBLE to do so... grab tix, grab a room from the room share thread, easy breezy. The special thing about PAX that isn't true about Otakon or the Gathering is that it could be a networking opportunity. My problem is that I have no real idea how to network at a show like PAX. If I was confident I could figure out what to do at least enough to give things a trial run, it would be easy to decide to go. As things stand, I'm not sure... should I just bide my time for PAX east? (note, i'll be going to PAX east whether or not I make it to PAX west).

Side note: the canadian comedy troupe I'm kind of obsessed with will be at PAX west, but probably not PAX east... and they're having a panel and a meetup. /sigh

So things are full of chaos. I'm not even going to bother copyediting this entry because if I do I"ll get caught up in it and never publish it... just like every other LJ post I've attempted to make in the last few months.		  
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Like your blood knows the way from your heart to your brain   
04:04am 01/08/2009
  Well it's official. I'm all moved out of my apartment, and feeling sad.

I want to write a big dramatic entry about this, but I don't have it in me right this second. Panic was sustaining me 'til now, and with it dissipated all I can do is implore people to distract me. Heh. Hopefully I'll be able to see a little of everyone tomorrow, and get over things.

Maybe in my new town I'll meet some David Tennant look-alike. The thought sustains me, a bit.		  
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Otakon   
03:30pm 03/07/2009
  Hey guys, I'd like to get a finalized list for Otakon. Adam didn't prereg, so he's canceling... Larry also said he might not come, and there was some uncertainty about other people? I'd like to know for sure what is happening and who all is coming ASAP.

So far the list that i have is
Me
Tom
Brandi
Andrew
Amanda?

Is there anyone on this list who shouldn't be? Anyone I'm forgetting?
 


  
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Everything that's right is wrong again   
11:01am 02/06/2009
  So, when I went to sleep at 9am yesterday everything was right with the world. When I woke up at 8pm it'd all gone to hell. Not major hell, we're not talking about serious drama here... we're talking about the petty annoyance of collectors and fans. When I fell asleep I was winning a bid on an auction for a Kino statue I wanted and I had a hardcover copy of Girl Genius vol. 7: Agatha and the Voice of the Castle on its way to me. I wake up and I'm outbid on Kino and the book has arrived with a decidedly soft cover. Ugh.

It's funny that I really have to learn the opposite lesson from most people... when I see something I want, I should buy it right away, without thinking. I'm certain enough about my own tastes that this is usually the right thing to do, and most of the time I don't do it I regret it.

Ah well. I am finding some of the other Girl Genius hardcovers around here and there for reasonable prices... so maybe in six months or whatever someone will list the damn thing for less than a king's ransom. I just have to stay vigilant. Still, I'm bummed.		  
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There's only yes, there's only this   
05:56am 29/05/2009
 
mood: contemplative
So I made the mistake of starting to read Tramps Like Us tonight. Needless to say I didn't get anything else done, I'm done with the two volumes Brandi started me out with, and I'm craving more.

So a few weeks ago I was having a conversation with an old flame, and he brought up Garden State and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as movies that really get to him every time he watches them. He's one of those people who is a hopeless romantic at the same time that he's a cynical bastard who really doesn't understand women. Anyway, after that I was trying to think of romantic stories that got to me and I realized they're pretty much all drawn. There's Whispers of the Heart, and Blankets, and Kodocha... and now there's Tramps Like Us. A part of me wants to show him all these things, see what  he thinks, what he gets from them. There's a problem, though.

This is the one who hates comics and cartoons (yeah, I know. I can pick 'em, right?). And he's usually pretty good at predicting what he'll like, as much as I hate to admit that. I still have this weird urge to try to get him to try these things, though. It's just a pity that all of them are drawn.

I mean, romantic comedies often have their desired effect on me... I think they're cute, I swoon over our star du jour (or at least the 'best friend' character), I develop unreasonably exaggerated and unhealthy ideas of what a relationship should be like... you know, the industry standard. They make me lonely. But very rarely do I look at something like that and think "Oh. That relationship. I understand that."

Maybe it's the way the physicality is represented in most hollywood movies? It's always flirt-flirt-flirt POUNCEUNF. You don't often see someone standing behind someone else and putting their arms around them, or whatever. You see distance and then you see passion, but you miss... closeness. That was actually something that struck me about Rent... how much more intimate some of the scenes are with the actors there on stage holding each other. During Another Day and I'll Cover You I was practically transfixed.

Ha. I just realized the one thing all those shows and movies and comics I mentioned had in common. It may sound stupid, but... all those couples communicate their affection primarily through hugging. I'm sure that's not all of it, but it made me laugh to think about it.
 
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The Laws of Con Reg   
01:51pm 28/05/2009
  I'm a little bummed. Comicon full memberships sold out in March, which was way before I embraced my whole "Treat this as a vacation" thing. I might have tried to squeak in under a professional membership if I'd thought of that before May, but I'm a foolish fool. They sold out two weeks before opening last year, so I should have assumed it'd be four months before opening this year. Apparently I never learn.

Also, this year scalping is illegal. Which is understandable, but also annoying. I would have been willing to pay a little extra at this point.

So that's off the schedule, unless I luck out and they decide to resell canceled memberships or I win a radio contest in the San Diego area. Well their contact has promised to send me info about those contests, so who knows!

Bah. I guess it would have been silly to spend all that cash primarily for a Lost panel, but I'm still a little sad. Ah well.		  
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08:57am 30/04/2009
  The West Wing makes me feel good. It's all someone I like making up stories he'd like to hear about people he likes. Everyone in it is great.

"If I see one victory balloon before he's elected... yeah you better run."

My shoulder started acting up again last night. Twinged up something SERIOUS, and I had a weird pins and needles in my wrist and near my pinky. I put heat on it and the pinky died down, but it's still twingy this morning. Everything seems to be against me getting in shape. I've gotten into a good workout pattern how many times? Four? Working up slowly from half an hour twice a week, get to the point where I'm doing two hours four times a week and then WHAM... unrelated injury. Or related injury. Or whatever.

I'm bad at doing this thing with diet alone.

Sigh.		  
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06:21am 30/03/2009
  Boo, the listing for the localization editor for Nintendo of America has been taken down. I had submitted a resume, but it wasn't as good as it could have been, and I wasn't as active as I might have been about following up.

I'm having a lot of trouble with this job search for a few reasons, but the number one problem is that I want to leave... and yet I don't want to leave.

I've never been that good at making friends and contacts, and I've always been worse than that at meeting guys. This area... this span of Virginia/Washington/Maryland... hasn't made that any easier. I feel like most of the people around here are boring government types, and my hopes for meeting someone are pretty low. At the same time, though, I have an excellent group of friends here now. I'm within a not-too-difficult day's travel of my family, and I've got a good roomate. Everything in life was pretty good with the exception of my love life, until I lost my job.

But not everyone around here is necessarily going to stay around here, so I'm even more confused.

I don't know why, but I feel like a change of scenery might help me find what I'm missing, especially considering that many of my close friends may be leaving here soon anyway. But is that hope... the "there are more geeks on the West Coast" idea, just the generic hope I get whenever I go to a new place or do a new thing?

I try not to talk about it, but I have to say that being mostly single for the past, oh, seven years has been weighing heavily on me a lot. During that period I've had two fairly brief relationships where the amount of real-life facetime ultimately numbered a few days. My efforts in finding like-minded organizations and single people in DC have all fallen flat, and I've cleaned out the dating sites in a 50 mile radius. I've all but lost hope of finding anyone around here. But would a change of scenery really help? This may seem insane, but the potential dating pool is one of the biggest factors I'm considering when thinking about where I might be living.

I can take some solace in not getting the Nintendo job because for every Fire Emblem there are likely dozens of Nintendogs I'd have to be looking at, but at the same time it was a job I might have liked, and because I was lazy I didn't do as much as I could have to get it. I've got to come to terms with two things:

1. Good positions don't grow on trees. If I want something, I have to go for it all out. The universe isn't going to do me any favors, and I don't want to be stuck with regrets.

2. If I am looking for jobs at any company other than the scarce few local ones around here, I have to be prepared... mentally and emotionally... to just pick everything up and GO. There's a chance I may have to move away from here on very short notice in the coming weeks if I want to seriously consider 90% of available jobs. I can't dilly dally about an opportunity just because I don't know if I want to move. I can't have my cake and eat it too.		  
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More Information Than You Require   
02:09am 25/03/2009
  So last night I was heading to the store with Adam. It was dark and stepping off the curb into the parking lot of our apartment, I slipped. I think it's posible I might have slipped on one of these weird little cylindrical pinecone things, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I ended up on the pavement.

The pain in my ankle was intense, and I decided it was dumb to try to go to the store. Adam helped me upstairs, so I sat there, iced my ankle, and elevated it. I thought I had an ace bandage somewhere, but I couldn't find it so I didn't get a chance to wrap the foot. It went from feeling a bit wobbly to hurting like a BITCH, depending on how I stood on it. So when it got to be morning, I called the doctor. I saw her in the afternoon. She poked at my ankle in a doctorly way, and that hurt like HELL. She then told me to go get x-rayed, and that it might be a break or it could just be a really bad sprain. She gave me a splint-like thing called an "aircast" and said that it would help hold my ankle steady while I walked around. They didn't have crutches that fit me, so I had to go to the CVS to buy them. How have I never noticed that they sell crutches at the CVS?

Also, crutches are less fun and easy than I remember. They hurt your arms like nobody's buisness.

Eventually I made it to the x-ray place and got x-rayed. I should know what's up with my foot by tomorrow. The Aircast has made it a bit easier for me to walk without stepping the wrong way and whimpering, but it still hurts.

This is a bummer for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I know that once you hurt an ankle it becomes much much easier to hurt it again in the future.

Secondly, there was this really cool thing I wanted to do on Sunday. This one meetup group (the Adventure Meetup) was having a vampire tag game. This sounded like the first one in a long time that I'd really have fun with, (and as close to league hide and seek as I was likely to find). There's no WAY my foot will be run-in-the-dark-worthy by Sunday. I'm so disappointed. The disappointment is worse than the hurting.

I keep TRYING to do these things that are important to me... get in shape, meet new people, etc, and stuff keeps happening that totally messes me up. After all that's been up these last few months, this last thing is really bringing me down.		  
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03:50pm 24/03/2009
  Ok... WTF. I'm not feeling well, and my ankle may be broken. I have to limp back downstairs and drive to the xray place. they'll let me know what's up sometime tomorrow, hopefully.

EVERYTHING SUCKS.		  
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08:23am 11/03/2009
  AAAAAAAAAAAAArg.

After today's workout, my shoulder started acting up again. Like, a lot. I'm going to have to take a few days off. It's just really annoying. Every time I start to make some progress, something like this happens.

I'm heating it, I'm gonna get some muscle relaxants. I'm gonna take a few days off, but dammit. I'm going to kill everything. And I also know I'm going to have to not do housework or cook as much, which sucks. From what the PT people said last time, I need to totally rest it.

I wasn't even EXERCISING my arm. I was using the bike and then the stair-ish thing. My arm didn't even hurt until I got off because my hip was acting up. My hip, which is RATIONAL.

/sigh We'll see where this goes. Still, every time I try to get in shape some health problem comes up and tapdances in front of me.		  
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06:04am 13/02/2009
  Ugh, so there's a valentines night dance? Formal wear required? Great.

I might try to dig up my one dress.

I'm feeling crazy and overwhelmed right now. I shoulda worked on things more efficiently, and a few things I estimated would be relatively minor to fix up now seem stupidly impossible. Ah well, back to work.

I'm also not terribly interested in anything at Katsu this year, beyond walking around in costume. So I might as well man up here.		  
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Stuff I still have to do:   
01:18pm 12/02/2009
  I've got a bunch of stuff left to do for Katsu, but it's doable if I treat tonight as my deadline rather than this morning. (see previous post) Heh. If I hadn't had to repin that piping three times, I'd be a lot more done... I've not used my time terribly well.

After the pajamas are finally done, I will still need to paint them. I'm actually thinking of doing THAT in the room (depending on when I'm done with the rest). Paints and stencils are easily portable, and there's probably MORE open space in the room than there is in my apartment. I hope to have all non-handsewing done by the time I leave. Anything that isn't done by then just won't get made.

List! It's funny, I'm better at writing lists when I write on paper than on computer, but this is what I have for today (or to be put off)

Sew jodhpurs
Sew vest
paint polka dots
finish sewing piping, and finish top
make or buy buttons for the bustier
go to the grocery store for con groceries
shower, do/cut my hair?
buy ribbon for my neck
find a barrette
(possibly) look for hat, bag?

It looks like a lot, and it is, but I might as well try, eh? Any comments or suggestions are welcome.		  
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To the Katsu crowd   
08:49am 12/02/2009
  Hey guys,

I've decided I'm going to take my time getting to crystal city tomorrow, but that doesn't meant you have to wait on my account. If you want to leave at the normal time of noonish or twoish, just let me know. I'll put Tom's name on the room and meet you guys later.

I figured there's really no reason to go early (other than getting a low floor room), and it's easier to drive to crystal city than it is to get to the old katsu location. I'm close to finishing costumes, but I'll be able to do more stuff more efficiently if I'm not under some artificial deadline. Also, I forgot to prereg... I actually had the pre-reg window open and was halfway through it when the meeting was called at work, and then forgot about it. I'll probably head out sometime in the evening.

So let me know what your plans are.		  
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05:53pm 02/02/2009
  Ok. So... less than two weeks before a con isn't a lot of time, but it's some. More than I often give myself, and more than it took to make either of my most complete and successful costumes. Heh.

The first (or possibly second) costume I want to do This Coraline outfit. This is inspired by two things: Firstly that I know I look passably cute in pajamas as compared to just about anything else and secondly that I'm more excited for this movie than any anime other than School rumble, and well... I'm not really into any of the School Rumble characters in the way I'm required to be to cosplay them.

The downside is that I want to see the movie before I devote too much time to it, but the movie doesn't come out until next friday. This means I'll probably work on the other costume first. Which is... Agatha Heterodyne.

Here's the thing - she has three major costumes that I think I'd be capable of executing on some level. I'd like feedback from anyone here on what I'd likely be best at executing/look best in.

This is the one I was leaning toward. (side) (full) Pros: It's her current costume and has been for over a year, I've never seen anyone do it. Cons: Pants, Jodpurs, Elaborate bustier! Also, I just plain don't look as good in pants, in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong! Maybe the bustier and apron would help! If I made it I would almost definitely alter pants and a shirt I already have, so factor that in.

This is my least favorite costume, honestly.. though I think it might lok the best on me. Who knows. (closeup). Upside: All One Piece, simple-ish princess dressform, accessories less crazy. Downside: symmetry and polish would be really important, as would the edging on that center cream section. Not much room for mistakes when the lines are that clean.

This is the Classic. (full). It's nice and probably pretty easy. I've made all the component parts before: Vest, Skirt. The problem is it's been doe to death and has fewer distinctive features. The blouse is also fiddly and odd, and I'd almost certainly be unable to be completely faithful to it. Plus it seems that the vast majority of cosplayers do this one... it WAS her original after all.

So anyway... thoughts? Any are appreciated. For now I'm just doing materials lists and probably making some heterodyne symbols. They'll be useful pretty much no matter what I do.		  
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I'm so glad I never saw her again   
11:39am 21/01/2009
  I don't know if I've ever linked this before, but if you haven't watched this... do. It's John Hodgman's Ted Talk, and I don't know what to call the sort of thing it is. Speech-making? Modern storytelling? Vocal essaying?

Whatever it is, it is marvelous.		  
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