I got home from Tampere yesterday, but was too tired to write about Sunday at Finncon then. I'd been feeling pretty tired and like I was coming down with a cold for some days (and had been having this annoying cough for about a week already), so I decided to sleep late.

I didn't get to Tampere-talo until 1 p.m. in order to get Rose signed by ( Read more... )

I'm writing this on my hotel's TV screen/extremely clunky keyboard combination, but since I paid for it already, I might as well use it :P. The hotel itself is very nice and right in the centre of Tampere, only a few minutes walk away from Tampere-talo (where the con is held) or Telakka which has the evening party ( Read more... )

Hee! After I got back from my holiday, I could finally confirm that I will be able to attend Finncon-Animecon 2008 in Tampere later this month. Now I just have to try to find a room at some hotel for the weekend, since I couldn't make a reservation before I knew how long I would be able to stay :P ( Read more... )

Found through several people on my f-list.

Even though I don't live in the US, I thought this a worthy cause and thought I'd spread the word among the very diverse group of people on my f-list :) (or whoever might stumble upon my LJ):


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Ok, I'm totally pissed at the moment, but ( Read more... )

You know, whenever I go back to university to finally finish my degree (I do intend to finish it at some point, since there is so little left to do...), I'm highly tempted to try to find some classes on popular culture and fandom studies. But I don't think the University of Helsinki has any of those ( Read more... )

I visited the local SF mafia after a really long while (1,5 years, I think). I guess the funniest thing was that exactly the same faces were there and even the bartentenders still remembered what I used to drink!

I had a very good time chatting with various people I know. If only that would be all. At some point tabby_stardust and I started talking about fanfic ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've last done a reading report, so I thought I'd post this now:

I think I'm going to give up on Ai Yazawa manga Nana. I read books 7-8 (18.-19.) and it only seems that Hachi is determined to completely mess up her life. She can't choose between her boyfriends and ( spoiler if anybody cares )

Coffee Prince has me totally hooked. I'm about halfway through it already, since I just finished episode 7, and it's total love!!! It's amazing how the extremely girly princess of Goong can turn into the very believable tomboy pretending to be a male in this series ( Read more... )

WOW! George R. R. Martin and Alastair Reynold as GOHs for Finncon 2009!!! (or should it be 2008?) Still, very excited about the news!!!

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