dum du-dum dummmm!
If not for the fact that I was home sick from work with some weird kinda food poisoning today, this weekend was possibly the most continuous fun I've had in a -long- time.
no exaggeration. :)
ACEN weekend was exactly what I needed, and I'm so happy I went. It was awkward at first, especially since the three of us really didn't know what we were getting into and kinda went in half-cocked, but everything happily came out better than ok. We had two joined rooms reserved in the hotel with a total of about eleven people within (give or take) which, surprisingly, wasn't really as cramped as I feared it would be. Everyone got along. I'm not sure how that was possible, considering some of us hadn't even met until thursday/friday, but it did :) and it was fabulously fun.
This was also the first con in a very long time that i had gone too without expecting to be at an artist table. therefore, there was no real place i HAD to be through the whole weekend. honestly, the only negative thing I have to say about it all in general is that the con itself was extremely disorganized and hardly prepared for the numbers it was meant to entertain.
Registration was a joke. Molly and I sat in a miserable excuse for a line on friday morning/afternoon for five, boring hours and that was literally only halfway through before we got fed up with it all. Ended up not getting passes, but managed regardless. we had more fun with the people around us than with the con anyway. ACEN itself blew monkey chunks, in all honesty. lame setup, lame draw, lame area. just plain lame.
HOWEVER, the people i met there were more than worth meeting :3 and i think i laughed far more than i spoke all weekend. we all hit it off marvelously, even to the point that poking fun and joking around was totally ok and never really offended anyone. everything was all in good fun and geeking out was the 24-7 agenda, certainly in costume and ESPECIALLY on camera XD
which, speaking of, i was able to pull off the Lexaeus costume marvelously with some help from those around me and some well appreciated encouragement. I was getting compliments everywhere I went and I loved every bit of it XD Not even walking around in those monstrous shoes was getting me down (tho it made me srsly taller, hosnap) heres where you can find a collection of the pics that were taken: http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa274/malikhaphotodump/ACen%202008/
(if they don't mind me posting this link :3)
i'm scattered throughout the pics/vids along with molly, occasionally dizzy and all the other crazy people we met XD some of the group stuff came out pretty awesome too, i'm happily impressed.
the coats were incredibly stuffy, but not as bad as they could have been, i'll admit. the org13 photoshoot was hilarious. there was a running gag that started somewhere around friday afternoon as soon as everyone discovered that I not only had a pink hello kitty phone, but (as most of my friends already knew) that it played the indiana jones theme song when called (something i've actually had for years, honestly). which was hilarious to everyone since i was cosplaying a very manly big and manly character. therefore, my introduction, no matter how insignificant, came with a full rendition by everyone around me of that such theme XD i'm never going to live it down, i swear.
i barely bought anything (only two posters, and they were indy posters XD) aside from food and lodging. the only time the tv was on was when Molly and I watched the season finale of Supernatural (of which we promptly stared aghast at the ending, damnit.) I wasn't really bored at any time, but all around relaxed and had fun with the most interesting group of people i've met recently. i don't know if we will ever really be lucky enough to have a gathering like that again, but it's not something i'll forget anytime soon.
this was better than therapy. and cheaper.
i've got a full plate coming at me in june. a lot going on with work, family, some friends getting married and all around busy times...but i think(hope) i'm going to be ok. i don't feel as tense as i was last week, and even though being sick today sucked ass, i don't mind going back to work again. things needed to change and i needed to vent in a way that wasn't just outright complaining. i'm not foolish enough to think it's all perfect, and i'm still sticking with a lot of the decisions i made last week in order to alleviate some of that stress, but things are looking better.
ACEN was good fun, with good new friends, and a generally good time of being a dork. honestly, i'd say the only thing that could possibly bring me down right now is the fact that i miss them all already.
it's time for a change, and i'm making it.
now if you'll excuse me, i've got some indiana jones to hang up on my wall X3
no exaggeration. :)
ACEN weekend was exactly what I needed, and I'm so happy I went. It was awkward at first, especially since the three of us really didn't know what we were getting into and kinda went in half-cocked, but everything happily came out better than ok. We had two joined rooms reserved in the hotel with a total of about eleven people within (give or take) which, surprisingly, wasn't really as cramped as I feared it would be. Everyone got along. I'm not sure how that was possible, considering some of us hadn't even met until thursday/friday, but it did :) and it was fabulously fun.
This was also the first con in a very long time that i had gone too without expecting to be at an artist table. therefore, there was no real place i HAD to be through the whole weekend. honestly, the only negative thing I have to say about it all in general is that the con itself was extremely disorganized and hardly prepared for the numbers it was meant to entertain.
Registration was a joke. Molly and I sat in a miserable excuse for a line on friday morning/afternoon for five, boring hours and that was literally only halfway through before we got fed up with it all. Ended up not getting passes, but managed regardless. we had more fun with the people around us than with the con anyway. ACEN itself blew monkey chunks, in all honesty. lame setup, lame draw, lame area. just plain lame.
HOWEVER, the people i met there were more than worth meeting :3 and i think i laughed far more than i spoke all weekend. we all hit it off marvelously, even to the point that poking fun and joking around was totally ok and never really offended anyone. everything was all in good fun and geeking out was the 24-7 agenda, certainly in costume and ESPECIALLY on camera XD
which, speaking of, i was able to pull off the Lexaeus costume marvelously with some help from those around me and some well appreciated encouragement. I was getting compliments everywhere I went and I loved every bit of it XD Not even walking around in those monstrous shoes was getting me down (tho it made me srsly taller, hosnap) heres where you can find a collection of the pics that were taken: http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa274/malikhaphotodump/ACen%202008/
(if they don't mind me posting this link :3)
i'm scattered throughout the pics/vids along with molly, occasionally dizzy and all the other crazy people we met XD some of the group stuff came out pretty awesome too, i'm happily impressed.
the coats were incredibly stuffy, but not as bad as they could have been, i'll admit. the org13 photoshoot was hilarious. there was a running gag that started somewhere around friday afternoon as soon as everyone discovered that I not only had a pink hello kitty phone, but (as most of my friends already knew) that it played the indiana jones theme song when called (something i've actually had for years, honestly). which was hilarious to everyone since i was cosplaying a very manly big and manly character. therefore, my introduction, no matter how insignificant, came with a full rendition by everyone around me of that such theme XD i'm never going to live it down, i swear.
i barely bought anything (only two posters, and they were indy posters XD) aside from food and lodging. the only time the tv was on was when Molly and I watched the season finale of Supernatural (of which we promptly stared aghast at the ending, damnit.) I wasn't really bored at any time, but all around relaxed and had fun with the most interesting group of people i've met recently. i don't know if we will ever really be lucky enough to have a gathering like that again, but it's not something i'll forget anytime soon.
this was better than therapy. and cheaper.
i've got a full plate coming at me in june. a lot going on with work, family, some friends getting married and all around busy times...but i think(hope) i'm going to be ok. i don't feel as tense as i was last week, and even though being sick today sucked ass, i don't mind going back to work again. things needed to change and i needed to vent in a way that wasn't just outright complaining. i'm not foolish enough to think it's all perfect, and i'm still sticking with a lot of the decisions i made last week in order to alleviate some of that stress, but things are looking better.
ACEN was good fun, with good new friends, and a generally good time of being a dork. honestly, i'd say the only thing that could possibly bring me down right now is the fact that i miss them all already.
it's time for a change, and i'm making it.
now if you'll excuse me, i've got some indiana jones to hang up on my wall X3