AWA Part 2
We started off Saturday almost exactly as we had Friday. We wandered up and down the tables in Artist Alley (actually buying some stuff this time). Amanda got a few pictures for Richard and I bought a cute little Gaara keychain. Then it was back to the dealers room in force. Amanda, Lauren, and Albert didn't get much (being the poor college students they are)...but Brett and I bought a lot of stuff.
Personally I picked up two wall scrolls (a Samurai Champloo one and one of Integra from Hellsing), a Pakkun plushie(nin-dog from Naruto), a cool looking hat (with a Champloo tag on it), a couple t-shirts (once again a Champloo design and of course the con shirt), and a book that contains the entire first series of the Street Fighter comic by Udon (thing is massive). I blame Jordan for my Champloo kick. I've been rewatching it with him. That...and the styles that Champloo mixes together (modern fused with feudal Japan) just kind of appeals to me.
I also spent quite a bit on other people. >_>; I made up for Brett's failed Christmas present by finally getting a Saber statue for him. Cost quite a bit more than the other one though so it may be his b-day present this year too. *cough* I supplied the cash for the feature presentation of "DHN". Although she did give me a check I fronted the cash for some of Amanda's purchases too. Just remember people...even if some booths take cards now...always take cash to a con. =P
Although Becca did buy some discount anime...no one really purchased any DVDs. The age of internet downloading strikes again. There were a few older series I missed that I might be looking into getting on eBay... The prices at the con just seemed fairly steep. No one was doing any good 20% off deals or the like.
It was noonish by the time we opted to get lunch. Brett and Albert went off to the ATM to get cash while I bought Chinese food (for Lauren, Amanda, and myself) from the temporary eatery set up in the dealers room. We took the food and purchases back up to the room...to find out they hadn't given us utensils. -_- I called Brett and found out he was driving away from the hotel. Turned out that the ATM had already run out of cash. So we hung out with Becca and Jess (who had finally arrived). It was at that point that the two of them joined our band of merry con-goers. We had two rooms so it wasn't like we were hard up for space. *lol*
I feel like there's something missing between lunch and when we head down for the AMVs around 2. Maybe not...anyway. Becca and Jess headed out to prepare for her panel. The five of us went to get good seats for the music videos.
The AMVs were...alright. Nothing too spectacular this year. I was excited because they brought back the Masters competition...but those videos were almost the most disappointing of all. There were a few good ones I might attempt to DL but nothing I'm going to sit and rant about here. About all I have to say is: Bumblebee Tuna!
The videos went on for a long ass time. They started at about 2:30 and ended somewhere around 5:30. Poor Amanda and Lauren ran out of the room around 2:15 to make a dash for the dealers room. When they got back all the doors were shut and they weren't letting anyone in. Some quick thinking from Lauren ("I left my purse in there...I need my purse.") got them back in just as the first one was starting. Niceu!
We had to make another brief trip to the dealers room (since the girls had to run back earlier). By about 6ish we opted for dinner and brought the Subway/Chinese back to the room. Becca and Jess were back and we all hung out.
WAIT! I did think of something I forgot to mention.
Amanda had been acting fairly spaced out all day. When we had been in the dealers room we lost her after about 15min. Eventually I got a call from her and she said she was going back up to the room to lay down. I really felt bad. I thought she was sick or suffering from the "womanly problems". When we were waiting on Brett to get back at lunch Lauren went to check on her. She described her as mumbling incoherently in a half-asleep state. It went something like this:
"Amanda are you ok?" "uggh" "Do you want to eat?" "Uuhhhnaahh" "Well we'll save you some ok?" "Uuhhhaaa"
Well 45min later when Brett had shown up and we were eating...she came in and acted like nothing had ever happened. She didn't recall ever having a "conversation" with Lauren and thought we had eaten without her. *lol*
Well it was about then that I remembered she brought a Zanex(sp?) with her to the con. She had basically been in a drug-induced haze all morning. =P The whole thing became hilarious when she realized that she had eaten her entire package of chocolate filled Panda cookies without remembering it. She was so saddened by it but it was really funny. *l* Sorry Manda.
Anyway...Jess and Becca disappeared again (to the Panel of Doom I think) and the rest of us got in line for the costume contest. We barely made it in... >_< Sooo many people. Despite our bad seats the contest was fairly entertaining. That was essentially the "end of the con". The remainder of our activities took place in the hotel rooms.
We were greeted back at the room by not just Becca and Jess...but also some guy named Andrew. O_o; The more the merrier right? The drinking started up fairly quickly. Amanda was deadset on getting me smashed so she made me play pyramid. After that there was a round of Ring of Fire. This year's RoF was much more entertaining than last year's...which is hard to believe.
Lauren was drunk before we even started playing. O_o The girls all started to go down early. I was following close behind. The game had some pretty good highlights (most of which you kinda had to "be there" for). Hearing Becca and Amanda making sex noises was greatly entertaining though. *lol*
Toward the end of the game I started doing shots of G-Schlager by myself. >_< Ooo boy. I think I quickly jumped to the head of the drunken line. Thankfully we quit drinking and began "DHN"!
What is this "DHN"? It stands for "Drunken Hentai Night" (which just completed it's third installment at AWA).
Basically we make the females who attend with us pick out a hentai to watch when we get smashed on Saturday night. It's impossible to describe how or why such a thing is so amusing. =P It just is.
This year was a "medical themed" movie involving some slutty nurses and doctors. It was called...Internal Operations?...or Internal Medicine? I don't remember honestly. O_o; Not that it really matters.
Afterwards Becca treated us to lots of funny videos on her laptop (which we had to use due to lack of hook-ups on the hotel tv). If you want an "adult-themed" laugh...I highly suggest finding AMV Hell 0. Maybe it wouldn't be as funny if you're not drunk or with a group...but man. I laughed pretty damn hard.
That was about the time I started feeling queasy so Lauren and I retreated. Amanda had left earlier to go pass out. That was the start of a very long night for me.
1:30: Amanda was asleep in the bed. Lauren and I crawled in and tried to follow suit.
1:45: I remained wide awake staring at the ceiling. I came to the conclusion I was way too drunk to sleep. Closing my eyes set the world spinning like a hurricane. I felt like I might need to puke so I got out of bed (I had been in the middle...meaning trouble if I had to get there in a hurry later).
2ish: I knelt in front of the toilet waiting for what I assumed would be the eventual throwing up of my stomach's contents. IT NEVER CAME. I don't know what was worse...feeling the need to puke...or not being able to.
More time passed and I even resorted to drinking water and sticking my finger down the back of my throat. Even my gag reflex failed to make an appearance. >_< The whole thing was utterly frustrating.
Eventually I used a tactic I developed the first time I got drunk. I put a towel on the toilet seat and put my forehead down on it. As long as my head didn't turn to the left or the right my equilibrium wasn't thrown out of wack.
After a little while I couldn't hold myself up anymore. I put the towel down on the floor and lay flat on my stomach...with my forehead pressed into the towel (I'm huge so you can get an idea of how large our bathroom was). It was probably a funny sight.
4ish: I passed out. That was pretty obvious. >_>; I felt something pull me out of unconsciousness though. When I managed to come around I could hear something... or rather someONE making a strange noise. I opened my eyes and all there was lighting the bathroom was that creepy red light next to the switch. I picked my head up and looked behind me. Amanda was face down over the toilet in the aftermath of a puking spree. She didn't even notice I had woken up. *l* I just laid my head back down and drifted off for a little longer.
4:30: I woke up again. Amanda was gone. I felt well enough to get up and go back to bed (i.e. the world had stopped spinning). I was completely impressed that I didn't fall over onto one of them trying to get back in the middle. I checked the clock and it said 4:35. Bleh.
???: I woke up again. I have no idea what time it was. I felt like I was in an oven. >_< The bed was so hot I couldn't take it. Lauren had been gone but was getting back into bed. She talked to me a bit and sounded like she had strep throat (although she was magically better when we woke up). I made her take the middle so I could lie on the outside without covers on.
The last thing I remember was trying to get BACK under the covers because I had become unbelievably cold. It was a long night.
Eventually all three of us were woken up by the jazz band playing in the lobby Sunday morning. We showered, dressed, packed, said bye to Becca and Jess, and fled the hotel by 11:30. Brett took us to the Varsity across from Georgia Tech for some fast food. When all was said and done I think we made it back to our place around 1:30.
Albert left immediately to do some homework. I stole Manda's pictures, gave her and Lauren some anime, and sent them off to Statesboro. Jordan, Brett, and I went out to eat last night at Cheddars. We gave him most of the trip's gory details. He went to sleep and I played Dynasty Warriors Gundam with Brett until bedtime.
Whew...
That's pretty much it. Thurs-Sun...AWA 07'
Like I said earlier I'm gona try to get all the pictures up on Facebook. There's definitely some good ones. I really hope things go as well next year.
Personally I picked up two wall scrolls (a Samurai Champloo one and one of Integra from Hellsing), a Pakkun plushie(nin-dog from Naruto), a cool looking hat (with a Champloo tag on it), a couple t-shirts (once again a Champloo design and of course the con shirt), and a book that contains the entire first series of the Street Fighter comic by Udon (thing is massive). I blame Jordan for my Champloo kick. I've been rewatching it with him. That...and the styles that Champloo mixes together (modern fused with feudal Japan) just kind of appeals to me.
I also spent quite a bit on other people. >_>; I made up for Brett's failed Christmas present by finally getting a Saber statue for him. Cost quite a bit more than the other one though so it may be his b-day present this year too. *cough* I supplied the cash for the feature presentation of "DHN". Although she did give me a check I fronted the cash for some of Amanda's purchases too. Just remember people...even if some booths take cards now...always take cash to a con. =P
Although Becca did buy some discount anime...no one really purchased any DVDs. The age of internet downloading strikes again. There were a few older series I missed that I might be looking into getting on eBay... The prices at the con just seemed fairly steep. No one was doing any good 20% off deals or the like.
It was noonish by the time we opted to get lunch. Brett and Albert went off to the ATM to get cash while I bought Chinese food (for Lauren, Amanda, and myself) from the temporary eatery set up in the dealers room. We took the food and purchases back up to the room...to find out they hadn't given us utensils. -_- I called Brett and found out he was driving away from the hotel. Turned out that the ATM had already run out of cash. So we hung out with Becca and Jess (who had finally arrived). It was at that point that the two of them joined our band of merry con-goers. We had two rooms so it wasn't like we were hard up for space. *lol*
I feel like there's something missing between lunch and when we head down for the AMVs around 2. Maybe not...anyway. Becca and Jess headed out to prepare for her panel. The five of us went to get good seats for the music videos.
The AMVs were...alright. Nothing too spectacular this year. I was excited because they brought back the Masters competition...but those videos were almost the most disappointing of all. There were a few good ones I might attempt to DL but nothing I'm going to sit and rant about here. About all I have to say is: Bumblebee Tuna!
The videos went on for a long ass time. They started at about 2:30 and ended somewhere around 5:30. Poor Amanda and Lauren ran out of the room around 2:15 to make a dash for the dealers room. When they got back all the doors were shut and they weren't letting anyone in. Some quick thinking from Lauren ("I left my purse in there...I need my purse.") got them back in just as the first one was starting. Niceu!
We had to make another brief trip to the dealers room (since the girls had to run back earlier). By about 6ish we opted for dinner and brought the Subway/Chinese back to the room. Becca and Jess were back and we all hung out.
WAIT! I did think of something I forgot to mention.
Amanda had been acting fairly spaced out all day. When we had been in the dealers room we lost her after about 15min. Eventually I got a call from her and she said she was going back up to the room to lay down. I really felt bad. I thought she was sick or suffering from the "womanly problems". When we were waiting on Brett to get back at lunch Lauren went to check on her. She described her as mumbling incoherently in a half-asleep state. It went something like this:
"Amanda are you ok?" "uggh" "Do you want to eat?" "Uuhhhnaahh" "Well we'll save you some ok?" "Uuhhhaaa"
Well 45min later when Brett had shown up and we were eating...she came in and acted like nothing had ever happened. She didn't recall ever having a "conversation" with Lauren and thought we had eaten without her. *lol*
Well it was about then that I remembered she brought a Zanex(sp?) with her to the con. She had basically been in a drug-induced haze all morning. =P The whole thing became hilarious when she realized that she had eaten her entire package of chocolate filled Panda cookies without remembering it. She was so saddened by it but it was really funny. *l* Sorry Manda.
Anyway...Jess and Becca disappeared again (to the Panel of Doom I think) and the rest of us got in line for the costume contest. We barely made it in... >_< Sooo many people. Despite our bad seats the contest was fairly entertaining. That was essentially the "end of the con". The remainder of our activities took place in the hotel rooms.
We were greeted back at the room by not just Becca and Jess...but also some guy named Andrew. O_o; The more the merrier right? The drinking started up fairly quickly. Amanda was deadset on getting me smashed so she made me play pyramid. After that there was a round of Ring of Fire. This year's RoF was much more entertaining than last year's...which is hard to believe.
Lauren was drunk before we even started playing. O_o The girls all started to go down early. I was following close behind. The game had some pretty good highlights (most of which you kinda had to "be there" for). Hearing Becca and Amanda making sex noises was greatly entertaining though. *lol*
Toward the end of the game I started doing shots of G-Schlager by myself. >_< Ooo boy. I think I quickly jumped to the head of the drunken line. Thankfully we quit drinking and began "DHN"!
What is this "DHN"? It stands for "Drunken Hentai Night" (which just completed it's third installment at AWA).
Basically we make the females who attend with us pick out a hentai to watch when we get smashed on Saturday night. It's impossible to describe how or why such a thing is so amusing. =P It just is.
This year was a "medical themed" movie involving some slutty nurses and doctors. It was called...Internal Operations?...or Internal Medicine? I don't remember honestly. O_o; Not that it really matters.
Afterwards Becca treated us to lots of funny videos on her laptop (which we had to use due to lack of hook-ups on the hotel tv). If you want an "adult-themed" laugh...I highly suggest finding AMV Hell 0. Maybe it wouldn't be as funny if you're not drunk or with a group...but man. I laughed pretty damn hard.
That was about the time I started feeling queasy so Lauren and I retreated. Amanda had left earlier to go pass out. That was the start of a very long night for me.
1:30: Amanda was asleep in the bed. Lauren and I crawled in and tried to follow suit.
1:45: I remained wide awake staring at the ceiling. I came to the conclusion I was way too drunk to sleep. Closing my eyes set the world spinning like a hurricane. I felt like I might need to puke so I got out of bed (I had been in the middle...meaning trouble if I had to get there in a hurry later).
2ish: I knelt in front of the toilet waiting for what I assumed would be the eventual throwing up of my stomach's contents. IT NEVER CAME. I don't know what was worse...feeling the need to puke...or not being able to.
More time passed and I even resorted to drinking water and sticking my finger down the back of my throat. Even my gag reflex failed to make an appearance. >_< The whole thing was utterly frustrating.
Eventually I used a tactic I developed the first time I got drunk. I put a towel on the toilet seat and put my forehead down on it. As long as my head didn't turn to the left or the right my equilibrium wasn't thrown out of wack.
After a little while I couldn't hold myself up anymore. I put the towel down on the floor and lay flat on my stomach...with my forehead pressed into the towel (I'm huge so you can get an idea of how large our bathroom was). It was probably a funny sight.
4ish: I passed out. That was pretty obvious. >_>; I felt something pull me out of unconsciousness though. When I managed to come around I could hear something... or rather someONE making a strange noise. I opened my eyes and all there was lighting the bathroom was that creepy red light next to the switch. I picked my head up and looked behind me. Amanda was face down over the toilet in the aftermath of a puking spree. She didn't even notice I had woken up. *l* I just laid my head back down and drifted off for a little longer.
4:30: I woke up again. Amanda was gone. I felt well enough to get up and go back to bed (i.e. the world had stopped spinning). I was completely impressed that I didn't fall over onto one of them trying to get back in the middle. I checked the clock and it said 4:35. Bleh.
???: I woke up again. I have no idea what time it was. I felt like I was in an oven. >_< The bed was so hot I couldn't take it. Lauren had been gone but was getting back into bed. She talked to me a bit and sounded like she had strep throat (although she was magically better when we woke up). I made her take the middle so I could lie on the outside without covers on.
The last thing I remember was trying to get BACK under the covers because I had become unbelievably cold. It was a long night.
Eventually all three of us were woken up by the jazz band playing in the lobby Sunday morning. We showered, dressed, packed, said bye to Becca and Jess, and fled the hotel by 11:30. Brett took us to the Varsity across from Georgia Tech for some fast food. When all was said and done I think we made it back to our place around 1:30.
Albert left immediately to do some homework. I stole Manda's pictures, gave her and Lauren some anime, and sent them off to Statesboro. Jordan, Brett, and I went out to eat last night at Cheddars. We gave him most of the trip's gory details. He went to sleep and I played Dynasty Warriors Gundam with Brett until bedtime.
Whew...
That's pretty much it. Thurs-Sun...AWA 07'
Like I said earlier I'm gona try to get all the pictures up on Facebook. There's definitely some good ones. I really hope things go as well next year.