otakon rambles and stuff

Yay, my (awesome computer) case left Indiana yesterday at 3:44pm! It should arrive soon~ the estimated arrival date is tomorrow, maybe it'll even come today :) But with my luck it will come after I leave for work :( and tomorrow I won't even be home (if Kate and I go through with our plans to do something after I get out of work). But it's all good. I hope my case doesn't arrive broken, coming all the way from CA!!!

I was going to go to the bank today but laziness took over instead. Well, I can still go. But I might see if we can stop by there on the way to the mall tomorrow with Kate (the one by Stop & Shop) or see if dad can pick up the application and bring it home for me. And, if the bus goes to the Wal*Mart / Barnes & Noble / Michael's / Staples place, I can go there friday for my day off and do some reading for my comp sci class at Barnes & Noble and maybe get some stuff for school at Staples, then come home. Chris I think is coming over after work on friday and staying until I go to work on saturday. Then the plan would be for him and Alex to come Wednesday night next week so there's no rush at all in the morning, so we can all just play games or something thursday morning and then pile into the van and go to Otakon!

The closer Otakon gets, the more excited I am getting :) The dealers room is going to be great as usual. My biggest problem is all the popular anime this year (naruto, full metal alchemist, full metal panic, whatever) is all going to be there, and I've seen none of it :D; so I may miss out on some cool stuff. Maybe I'll watch a few episodes of them before I go, maybe we can all watch some wednesday night or thursday with Chris and Alex :) Also might be able to see some stuff there!

Haha and Erin, there's a manga library! I know where you'll be the entire con :) And there's Mario Kart Double Dash, Smash Bros. Melee, and Soul Calibur 2 tournaments :) that will be super fun, Alex and Chris should try out the Double Dash one definitely :)

Haha a question in the FAQ:

Food and drink are too expensive, and I don't want to miss a thing! What can I do?

Make sure you get at least one good meal in every day -- a real meal with real nutrition. (Ramen won't cut it, not by itself.) And make sure you drink plenty of water, not just fruit juice or sodas or coffee. If you pass out on us, we'll be annoyed.

and sooo true. haha you KNOW there are people there doing ramen every day, and those are probably some of the people that do end up passing out. (a kind of surprising number of people pass out, actually..)

and this amuses me too:

Are there ATMs around?

There are, but the ones in the immediate vicinity of the BCC usually run out of cash. Most hotels have a cash machine these days, but it's a good idea to come prepared.

Also it says most dealers will take credit cards :D so maybe I'll bring a lot less money than I expected... I will of course bring some money for the dealers that WON'T take credit cards, but I can count on most of them doing so :)

I keep hearing that fanboys are smelly. What can I do about that?

Don't contribute to the problem. Anytime you have a lot of people in one place, and it's hot out, you're going to get the occasional whiff of B.O. Please shower (with soap!) at least once every day and change your clothes. No matter how cool your outfit is, the acrid smell of pleather and human sweat will ruin the effect by the second day, we guarantee it. Make sure your sleeping arrangements allow for proper hygiene.

Hehe :) Well anyway I'm going to probably go take a shower soon, and I want to attempt organizing my room.

Unfortunately the schedule isn't up yet but soon it should be :D

stupid subway kids!!!!!

i am furious. i had a stressful day. well work was okay. but then i went to get my dinner and pick up a giant mountain dew for jim and i went downhill :/

[I'm angry so I swear in this entry, sorry in advance]

i went up to the counter at Subway and first of all they had like TWO kinds of bread. I chose to get the oregano whatever kind (and for reference I found out later that I hate it) and the kid starts getting all stupid and cocky and cheesy. he's like:

"So, what's your name? I've been dying to know." Wtf. So I told him (thinking to myself "jesus... whatever.") and asked what his was.

So he goes "Well," (big long, drawn out, fucking COCKY) "you could call 'the sandwich guy'... or you could call me Bill." ugh. what the fuck ever kid, you are NOT amusing. "ok, bill." I replied.

I'm already dreading the end of the conversation, as it is.

He rings up my food and as I'm sorting all my stuff out (because I still had to go to Villa Pizza to get a soda for Jim) he asks if I like plays. So I asked what kind of plays. (I was PRAYING he wasn't asking for any particular reason but I knew that was too much to hope.) He asked if I wanted to go to a Shakespeare and Company play with him sometime. And I was like, god, fuck. "Umm.. if you're asking me out, I have a boyfriend."

And he goes, all cocky STILL, "Well, it's JUST a play." god, if that's my reply to your question I think it means that the fact that I have a boyfriend means I do NOT want to go with you. "Yeah... I'll think about it, whatever." (Of course by "I'll think about it" I mean, no chance in hell I'm going alone with you on a fucking date when I have a boyfriend, you cocky bastard.) I felt so embarrassed. There were other people coming to the Subway to get sandwiches. I start grabbing my stuff to leave and he apologized, and I went to get Jim's drink and made sure to NOT look at Subway when I was walking back.

So I get there and I'm like really pissed and embarrassed and uncomfortable. I hate situations like that. I felt bad, saying that in front of those people, and I felt like I was a bitch saying it the way I said it so I started thinking I would apologize next time I saw him. (I also felt REALLY weird considering it's the first time ever I was "asked out" in my entire life that I can think of) But god I was so uncomfortable. I just wanted to hide when he asked for me to go to a play with him sometime. This is also the same subway kid that Melissa hates because he is so rude to her (and no one is mean to Melissa because she is awesome!! >:o). this kid is a cocky bastard with an ego the size of the americas (both of them). so the more I think about it the more angry I get. he acted like such a dick! maybe some girls get all giggly when he acts like that, but I don't want to be treated like that. him acting all fucking cocky and stupid. I was so annoyed.

it would have been different if he wasn't such a dick about it. I think I would have been a lot nicer to him and told him more nicely that I have a boyfriend and then I wouldn't feel like I was a huge bitch. but now I feel horrible and I'm angry that I feel horrible because I don't feel like I SHOULD feel bad since he was being such a jerk! Or at least I felt he was being a jerk. Maybe it's normal for guys to act stupid in situations like that but I was not amused. Even if I didn't have Chris I still wouldn't have wanted to because of his attitude. But the way he was like "well it's JUST a play" was annoying. I don't care if it's JUST a play, the way you said it definitely sounded like a "you and I" event, not something with other people or something "as friends" (for the reasons of how he was acting earlier in the conversation, and we're not even friends, I don't even know who he is. And he's probably freaking like 16 years old in high school and thinks I'm his age, he doesn't look like a college kid.)

Anyway I'm furious and I can't really explain why, I'm just so mad about the whole thing. and I'm hopping back and forth between wanting to apologize for being bitchy and wanting the conversation to end RIGHT where it did, and never go to subway to eat again. (which is horribly inconvenient since its the only place that takes credit cards so I'd have to start carrying cash with me all the time, or making my own food which is hard since there isn't much food) but what the hell is it with subway guys and me???? Adam liked me last year but at least he wasn't a total jerk about it, he found out from Jared that I had a boyfriend and didn't bother me, just was normal-friendly saying hi to me and stuff, but he was NOT a cocky bastard. (though his reply (to Jared, that Jared told me later) was annoying, "well relationships end!" but jared assured him it didn't look like it was going to.)

anyway I'm in a really bad mood right now >:o I don't want to go to work tomorrow!!!!!