AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Yeah. Back from Otakon with various tales of epic win and epic failure. Among the win was: meeting Emmy, Edo, Dani, and Ant ; sleeping with Emmy & Dani :"> ; FRONT ROW CENTER FOR JAM PROJECT'S AMERICAN DEBUT ; seafood shishkabobs ; various awesome cosplays ; finding more people to geek out over comics with ; pigging out on Sheep's brownies. Among the failure was: boot-trauma to the feet omigod the huuuurt ; T-Mobile's bitchass pay-for-day internet ; getting locked out of the hotel room :| ; Emmy failing at life ; and GREYHOUND.
I AM NEVER TAKING FUCKING GREYHOUND EVER FUCKING AGAIN. Nothing is worth the BULLSHIT they were handing out. To learn more Sheep and I get to the Baltimore bus depot on Sunday at two-ish in the afternoon. I buy my ticket there - line went so quickly with one clerk staffing the desks - and get in line for New York just in case an earlier bus comes. The first bit of faggotry comes in here. Someone, somehow, created a second line for the NY bus, and now both are curving around the waiting room. HOURS LATER - apparently a truck went off the Bay Bridge, and traffic was backed up in all directions - a Baltimore cop who I guess was stationed at the depot is trying to get everyone in one line. "The bus won't load unless there's one single file line". Never mind that there isn't any bus to speak of except the one coming "momentell". Yay intelligent announcers! So there's a smallish stampede to make a line, with no one moving back because no one wants to lose their place. Now the line is like, six people deep, and still no bus. Now people are yelling how they should get on first because they've been here for four hours (as has everyone else by this point). Then the cop starts saying "Okay, then all the people with 2:20 on their tickets will get on first"... It's about 6:15 pm now. And everyone's yelling, me included, "Dude. No. It's first come, first serve, you don't even WORK here, so back off." It's at this point that the cop says he'll ARREST anyone who doesn't follow what he's saying. .......Yeah, that didn't go over well at aaaaaaall. In the indignant shouting that followed a bus finally shows up. I do a bunch of things I'm not entirely proud of to get on that motherfucking bus. ...I think I elbowed a nine-year-old. I don't know. Bus gets moving around seven or so into the still gridlocked traffic. I can't even sleep on the bus because the woman I'm sitting next to is flailing all over trying to get comfy (read: she keeps hitting me), getting up and down, cursing a blue streak over the AC, etc etc. Then I have my mother calling every five minutes asking what time I'll get in when I keep telling her I don't fucking know and bitching about how I should've packed lighter. Uuuuuuuuurk.
TL;DR version? GREYHOUND FUCKING SUCKS and I got into Port Authority around midnight and my mom & uncle picked me up. And then I died.
Oh, and my mom fucking loved the Enterprise NC-1701 special edition collectible I got her. It's even specialer than I thought because it has CAPTAIN PIKE phrases, as in from the forgotten first pilot episode. /trekkie moment
Overall though... Ota >>>>>>>> Greyhound, and a fun time was had by all. Hopefully I can go to Ohiocon in January though. *starts planning x-cosplay*
I AM NEVER TAKING FUCKING GREYHOUND EVER FUCKING AGAIN. Nothing is worth the BULLSHIT they were handing out. To learn more Sheep and I get to the Baltimore bus depot on Sunday at two-ish in the afternoon. I buy my ticket there - line went so quickly with one clerk staffing the desks - and get in line for New York just in case an earlier bus comes. The first bit of faggotry comes in here. Someone, somehow, created a second line for the NY bus, and now both are curving around the waiting room. HOURS LATER - apparently a truck went off the Bay Bridge, and traffic was backed up in all directions - a Baltimore cop who I guess was stationed at the depot is trying to get everyone in one line. "The bus won't load unless there's one single file line". Never mind that there isn't any bus to speak of except the one coming "momentell". Yay intelligent announcers! So there's a smallish stampede to make a line, with no one moving back because no one wants to lose their place. Now the line is like, six people deep, and still no bus. Now people are yelling how they should get on first because they've been here for four hours (as has everyone else by this point). Then the cop starts saying "Okay, then all the people with 2:20 on their tickets will get on first"... It's about 6:15 pm now. And everyone's yelling, me included, "Dude. No. It's first come, first serve, you don't even WORK here, so back off." It's at this point that the cop says he'll ARREST anyone who doesn't follow what he's saying. .......Yeah, that didn't go over well at aaaaaaall. In the indignant shouting that followed a bus finally shows up. I do a bunch of things I'm not entirely proud of to get on that motherfucking bus. ...I think I elbowed a nine-year-old. I don't know. Bus gets moving around seven or so into the still gridlocked traffic. I can't even sleep on the bus because the woman I'm sitting next to is flailing all over trying to get comfy (read: she keeps hitting me), getting up and down, cursing a blue streak over the AC, etc etc. Then I have my mother calling every five minutes asking what time I'll get in when I keep telling her I don't fucking know and bitching about how I should've packed lighter. Uuuuuuuuurk.
TL;DR version? GREYHOUND FUCKING SUCKS and I got into Port Authority around midnight and my mom & uncle picked me up. And then I died.
Oh, and my mom fucking loved the Enterprise NC-1701 special edition collectible I got her. It's even specialer than I thought because it has CAPTAIN PIKE phrases, as in from the forgotten first pilot episode. /trekkie moment
Overall though... Ota >>>>>>>> Greyhound, and a fun time was had by all. Hopefully I can go to Ohiocon in January though. *starts planning x-cosplay*