Memoirs of the Angst-Bitch

I see another polirant approaching. This one on the mosque they want to build near by the 9/11 crash.

I am making my brother a trifle for his birthday. He has no idea what that it is. This should be fun!

I am still undecided on whether to see the Scott Pilgrim movie. Good reviews but still UGH MICHAEL CERA HOW I HATE YOUR FACE. If it was any other lead, I would be on this movie in an instant. But yeah, Cera just makes me rage with his basic existence. It's not even him as a person. I just can't stand his face. So shallow.

Flight of Eagles is shaping up to be my favorite yet. ( Mini spoilers. )

Since everyone has been so lively on the Geass comm lately, what with the anniversary of the start of Britannia's invasion of Japan and all, I have tracked down the Otakon Geass AMVs for sharing!

Lelouch Lamperouge stars in Christopher Nolan's "Inception."
Won best in trailer/parody. Oh yeah, and there's a Roy Mustang cameo.

Pizza Hut vs. KFC

And last but not least...

BRITANNIA FUCK YEAH!
Won best in comedy. As an added note, Gabi especially adores this one for the opening between Lelouch and Nunnally.
If you aren't an AMV.org member, you can get the censored version on YouTube.



Random quotes of the day:
"Glenn Beck is an oxymormon - sometimes he makes sense... "
- WaPo comment on Glenn Beck's support for gay marriage. Yeah, you read that right.

"This is so exciting! I've never been involved in a three-way before."
- my father referring to being on a three-way phone conversation with my brother and I. talk about awkward.

Now for your aforementioned picspam post. I took too many pics so I'm separating this into cosplay and then meetups and crack.

( Otakon 2009 Cosplay AKA Nayami is too damn picky about who she snaps photos of. )

Good: Listening to Crispin Freeman talk about voicing Tsume without a shirt!
Bad: Standing in line for an hour and not getting Crispin's autograph. :(
Good: Getting Lelouch and shaymin plushies from the dealer's room.
Bad: None of the manga dealers had Pandora Hearts.
Good: Awesome fun hanging with the CFUDers, partially due to some quick organization tricks.
Bad: Having to compete with the hell bitch within my personal group on Thursday night.
Good: Finding awesome tapas restaurant.
Bad: Spending an hour literally walking down memory lane of Baltimore City, looking for food.
Good: Finally buying the final Geass S1 Special Edition DVD.
Bad: Evil spoilericious Geass AMV. To be fair, both Geass AMVs were gorgeous, just the first made me waaaah. This is a bad lite.
Good: Getting a picture of a gorgeous Dietrich cosplayer.
Bad: Having two friends get conned on the Baltimore streets while this was happening.

AND THE ULTIMATE GOOD/BAD INSTANCE.

Good: Overall fun con and awesome weather. (minus the randomly "buttscratcher" screaming morons who I will hunt down and slaughter like the dogs they are.)
Bad: Car is dead and I will probably have to take another day off work to deal with the madness tomorrow. :(((


( List of Nayami's terrible impulse buys. )

( Also I think this pic best illustrates the manic nature of my con experience. I got it whilst I was standing in line for Crispin. Baw. Every other hour, I felt like one or the other of them. )

I am just writing this to let people know I am back from Otakon. It was full of awesome and win, aside from my hotel bitches who spent all of Saturday reading HP like dorks. But I got some of the best Geass doujin in the world, two of the voice figures, lots of pretties to stick on my wall, all of the released manga (not Nightmare of Nunnally), the Ashford artbooks, saw a beautiful Kallen cosplayer and a fine Lelouch cosplayer and best of all, got accosted by Bandai's industry spy while waiting for Seki to sign my Gravitation poster.

I've never been privy to the official announcement of the licensing of one of my favorite series so this was very interesting. But I did love the part where Bandai U.S. assured us that Pizza Hut will continue to support the Rebellion in the U.S. Yes, in those words. They are well aware of what American fans have been saying about the show. Also, the announcement of showing Geass on TV did not say "American" broadcast; it said "international." ANN mispoke. I was there. A few fans and I made damn sure Bandai knows we want all the DVD extras, including the DVD booklets and the picture dramas. It's going to be fun dealing with the final two episodes when it comes to subbers, but other than that, I knew Bandai was going to get Geass around this point, and I am insanely excited about buying the animation-restored/rechecked DVDs. Also, it was great fun to watch Geass at Otakon and hear a bunch of guys go "NO ___ put down the gun" when a certain character showed up in the episode preview. Hah! I love being around Geass fans so the excitement that tore through the air when the Geass announcement came up was intense. I was not expecting so many to care. Guess Geass is making an impression after all. How I love my Geass.

I also chatted it up some about Seki with Maki Murakami and fully enjoyed both the AMV contest (almost all my favorites won) and the masquerade. Harry Potter Release Night was also amusing, as was hanging with the CFUD peeps in the artist gallery and having a super-quick chat with silver_huskey.

In conclusion, I am now avoiding the Internet until I finish Harry Potter and possibly until the final two episodes of Geass are released. SPOIL ME FOR GEASS AND YOU FUCKING DIE!!!

I'm currently typing this with my laptop pushed up against my headrest because my laptop can no longer safely support its screen and my desk is buried underneath manga. I should really buy another bookshelf. Boss says he's going to try to make something to help this situation, but I might have to end sending the damn thing in to the manufacturer for repairs. I'm so pissed. I also hate typing like this. It hurts my back. Maybe I need a book or something to raise the laptop up to my level.

I have invited a new member to our epic Otakon quest and secured another day off to better manage said quest. Someone needs to remind me that next time I want to come up with my altruistic ideas, I need to do it at least a month in advance. Hotel bitch better have ordered his tickets or I'm going to cut him.

I had a conversation with coworker. It went badly to say the least and now I'm fairly sure she's trying to avoid talking to me. Score. I don't think this is going to fix the problem at all.

I probably won't be venturing out to quebelly's house for fireworks mayhem tonight since not only do I have to work tomorrow morning, but my hope that I would have someone else to make sure I don't get lost on way to the assignment decided I could handle things on my own and is cool with just meeting up. Just peachy.

I have no fandom news worth note today. I just want to say that yesterday clearly sucked in every way possible and I apologize to anyone who had to speak with me.

Of course, I go to play and my Internet dies. Ah well, maybe I can get my final Otakon posts done quickly so I can return. I just realized I have to find my wallet and I forgot to check the other card for pics of Wolfram and such. I can't believe I forgot about Wolfie.

I should have known that the first time I go to an Orioles game in years, they play so badly that calling quebelly on the cell phone seemed a more productive use of my time.

Also, Six Feet Under finale was disappointing in every sense of the word. The only redeeming factor was that David finally stopped being a basket case. But everything else was so lifeless and unengaging. After the episode before it, I expected something better with Nate and Nathaniel. I also don't think that random montage at the end was needed or worth my time. They should have just given me Keith/David sex and been done with it.