Refreshing for a journal update

Final gatherings schedule!

Saturday 10am : Full Metal Alchemist. I FINALLY GET TO BE THERE AS RUSSELL IT'S ABOUT TIME. Time to dust off my blond wig and suspenders for another year!
1st Floor Convention Center (Riser Stage)

Saturday 11am : Avatar. No ky313 to be there as Suki this year due to her being on a cruise BUT I WILL STILL TAKE PICTURES!
Front Hilton Side of the Convention Center Lobby (tree area up in the corner)

Saturday 1pm : Firefly/Serenity/Whedon THIS IS NEW. Will be awesome for you jedisurvivor! Captain Hammer FTW.
Concourse level Patio Marriott Side (just out the glass doors on the end)

Three gatherings! SO HAPPY that I finally get to go on a Saturday again, that's when all the cool stuff happens! Like the Masquerade at 6:30!

~SQUEE

Will post pictures!

Time for another no-post-for-FOREVER-finally-posting post. Yeah.


+ The Music Man is going great! Just finished our second weekend of shows with two more to go! I'd recommend going here, here, and here for pictures (!!!) and a review :D

+ Got my laptop back FINALLY, I missed it so much! It's a bit slower now but hopefully I get to do something to fix that. I'm also beta testing Windows 7, the new one coming out soon after Vista. Generally I like it, it's pretty and all but so far my sims games are not working the way I want them to which is ;_;

- Which led to me having to re-install them today and trying everything I can to get previously backed-up files to show up which worked the last time I had to do it and NOW IT DOESN'T. Hopefully taking a break from it will help...

+ Working at Six Flags is, in general, good. It has been hot here lately and they don't have much shade for us, which I really wished they would do something about and have mentioned before, but we'll see. It keeps me sane knowing that I don't plan to be there forever, or at least not as long as I was in retail. Also, working animal exhibits at a theme park is MUCH better than in foods or something. However...

- To: Visitors of the park, Just because an animal is not moving does NOT mean it is dead or fake. I know common sense is severely lacking in a lot of you people, but we would not have a dead animal on display and do you REALLY think that we would spend all that that effort on new expensive exhibits just to put fake animals in them? Also, WE treat our animals fine, thanks for asking, YOU do not. WE do not spit at alligators to make them move, YOU do, WE do not pull on the tails of stingrays, YOU do, and WE do not bang on the glass windows of the marine animals, YOU do. Also, not every shark you see is a great white, not every stingray is a manta ray and not every penguin comes from Antarctica. But I just explained all of it and you would know this too if you had been listening. No love, me.

+ To end this on a non-ranty ending...

I HAVE SEEN THE TRAILER FOR AVATAR AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT, AANG LOOKS BADASS

ALSO HARRY POTTER MOVIE IS GETTING CLOSER TIME TO START LOOKING FOR EARLY RESERVE TICKETS AT IMAX FTW

SO IS THE RELEASE OF THE NEW NIGHTRUNNER BOOK (!!!!)

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I put all the video clips I took at SacAnime into one file. Includes Vic and Travis playing football and the Q&A panel!

Also, see pics from SacAnime at my facebook :D
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=2067049&id=33204787&ref=mf

So it looks like I WILL be able to got to SacAnime next weekend! By some stroke of 2009 new year's luck, I have both Friday and Saturday off work!

Oh, I HAVE to mention who is going to be there!

The FMA voice actors of Ed, Roy, and Lust!

EEEEEE! I can't find any programming schedules but all the cool stuff happens on Saturday anyway...

brinabean and ky313? Are you able to go? :D?

Just spent WAY more money on books than I had planned...oops?

But the good thing is I went in going 'hmm, I wonder if I'll find more Forrester novels' and I did! So score, that worked out perfectly!

Seriously, the second I hit the scifi section I was grabbing things left and right...so yes, much better selection this time! 'Course it is the big sale at the fair grounds instead of the small library one so I'm not surprised :D No to mention the Anthropology section, which tends to have a majority of books published 1990 and earlier...but I actually found some more recent ones!

Some other highlights:

~The Long, Dark, Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
~And SIX Orson Scott Card books, including Speaker for the Dead so now I can return the library copy that I'm reading!
~Paperback of The Other Boleyn Girl because the hardback is big!
~The previously mentioned Lieutenant Hornblower by C. S. Forrester

The problem with owning so many books is that I tend to forget what I have and get double copies very often...at least I can sell them!

See, I'm very proud of myself for not overdoing the exclamation points this time!

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...wait what? TWO WEEKS before the second part?!?!?

OMG NEW AVATAR THE SOUTHERN RAIDERS OMG OMG

more later lol

Edit: Also, Ember Island Players has got to be the funniest episode EVER.

After watching it I had AN AWESOME IDEA.

...The group that's going to fanime next year should cosplay as The Ember Island actors cause that ROCK. SO. VERY. MUCH.

Seriously. I'm considering it!

Okay, I swear this will be my last post for the night!

And here I thought the cliffhanger for "Kindred Pt. 1" was insane...

The season finale cliffhanger makes me want to pull all my hair out in an "omg that is SO UNFAIR don't DO this to me" sort of way!

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Scroll down and look at all the pretty that is going to be at this convention.

I squeed so much when I found out that the IM was frightening to read.

Michael Shanks will be there Saturday, I must find a way to see him.

Johnny Depp. Singing. ALAN RICKMAN. aldflsdhflsadh.

Just watch it.