Well that explains one of my biggest questions of the season. >.>
( Spoilers. )

I'm not late this week! Also, alcohol can cure all your woes.
( Blah hazing blah uncool blah. )

( Week late. Sorry. D: )

Carnivals are kinda scary...

( I still miss Matt... )

A day late, but I had a lot of work yesterday. There's no Mo? Is he too busy guest starring on Psych or something?

( No Matt/Sylar this time around? )

Three episode marathon, and I am aaaall caught up.

( Featuring references to the Wolverine movie, Spiderman, Batman, children's songs, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Gunnerkrigg Court. )

1.) Catching up after being gone for a weekend is hard stuff.

2.) Happy customers ROCK.

3.) Another one for the YouTube chronicles. They're only 13. ::sigh:: That explains a lot, but I don't recall being like that when I was 13...

4.) I need to learn how to play poker for work. It's not as glamorous as it sounds.

5.) I got cat calls from some boys on a school bus the other day. : /

6.) Searching for "visual novel with whales" is not a good way to find that VN I stumbled upon years ago that I am searching for again.

7.) I recall it is called Kujira ALIVE, but I still don't know anything about it other than the fact that it has whales.

8.) I'm already three episodes behind on Heroes. This is bad.

9.) I look weird with bangs and makeup. I think I prefer the boring me.

10.) As of 1993, the two largest private organizations in the world were the Catholic Church and AARP.

Since I'm sure you aaaaall are just waiting on the edge of your seats for a con report. (Ha.)

So NYAF. First, the why: At NYAF, FUNimation was hosting a very large Soul Eater event including a premiere of the dub. The main cast were all guests there, so I decided to go along due to certain close ties with many of the cast members (one in particular, but that's neither here nor there).

So I was set to fly out on Thursday morning, which means late Wednesday night consisted of frantic packing until around 11:00pm when waynekaa gave me a friendly phone call. The translator for FUNimation's guest from Japan, Kato-san (the Japanese producer of Soul Eater) would not be available until Friday evening. That left a good portion of morning and afternoon where our guest would be...translator-less. And oh hey, topleka knows Japanese and she's gonna be at NYAF and she's not doing anything important on Friday, right? Heh...

So frantic packing suddenly turned into frantic refreshing of memory, as it's been over a year since I had to use Japanese in any conversational quality and I haven't really been keeping up my studies. I don't think I've ever panicked so much since the day I thought I woke up late for my calc final (I didn't).

So I left for NY around 5:00am on Thursday (after going to sleep at 2:00am, totally a great way to start a con weekend), and the flights there were just fine. Got there and met up with my group. We all went to the con pre-party at Dave & Busters which was a lot of fun. For the most part, we just chilled out and chatted with each other. Del Rey commissioned a big cake made by Charm City Cakes (Duff Goldman, Ace of Cakes) and it was super cool. It was a big pile of manga with little Moyashimon microbes crawling all over it. @o@ I wanted to eat one of the oryzae, but I got a piece of the Negima! manga instead. Talk about disappointing. XD

Friday, went with our brand manager to pick up Kato-san from the airport. My Japanese was still crazy terrible, but somehow I muddled through. He oversaw the official cosplayers we hired to help promote Soul Eater. Media Factory actually commissioned official costumes for all the cosplayers, and that was totally cool. Then we walked around the con for a bit and talked about his work. Before working for Media Factory, he did work for Bandai including some gashapon. We went to all the tables in the dealer's room and he pointed out the gashapon figures that he worked on. It was cool. XD Soul Eater autograph session went by without a hitch, and I saw a lot of people I knew online. Totally fun. Handed off Kato-san to a real interpreter in the evening and ran around for a bit cosplaying Takagi from Bakuman (waynekaa got the most unflattering picture of me in the world) and chilling with kitsunesqueak.

Saturday, cosplayed Mio and went around to actually have a look at things. Artist's alley was totally cool. I saw centimetre. I recognized her from the Mio print that flarey bought at NDK last week two weeks ago. XD Then I met slimu which totally made my weekend, because I've been a fan of his for aaaages. D: Got a copy of Directions of Destiny and he even signed it for me. ^o^ Then it was time for the Soul Eater dub premiere and the panel. Things went off smoothly, although I wound up sitting next to a guy who uh...well, there's a stereotype of awkward, socially maladjusted anime fans for a reason. : / After that, I snuck away during the signing to go hang with some cool VAA people, most of whom I did not recognize. I'm so old. D:

Sunday I had free, so I went to the karaoke competition. I failed spectacularly, but the male judge really seemed to enjoy the show anyway. I wonder why. Bought a couple more prints from Artist's Alley, then hopped on a plane and finally made it home. Now I seek food. Pictures later.

Leaving for NYAF tomorrow. See me at the FUNimation booth or any of the Soul Eater events (or at the VAA meetup if I can make it @_@).

Look for Ai Enma (Hell Girl), Mio (K-ON), Nagihiko (Shugo Chara), or Takagi (Bakuman...see current icon for reference).

I am SO manly. Look at this display of intense, testosteriffic manliness! See you at NYAF.

Another pic here.