Holy crap;;

I'd really like to say a big THANK YOU to EVERYONE who bought/stole/traded/otherwise took my bookmarks. I was really surprise I managed more than breaking even this year, especially after last year's embarrassing flop.

And also apologies to and for ditching you guys at the table for more than half the convention. T___T;;




Day 1 //

There wasn't much to do on day one. I was tired, cranky, and lacking sleep for about 48 hours. When I got home, I literally just laid down on the stairs and slept until my aunt woke me up and made me go upstairs to bed.

Later, I found out that the AA was really slow for everyone else as well on the first day. But at the time, coupled with starvation and general everything else, I was really depressed that nothing sold. So to try and make myself feel better, I ended up staying with my other friend's vendor table and just generally sulking. I had a mental breakdown later that day and I really badly wanted to go home LOL;

But pulled me through that, for which I'm really grateful. p__p

And the night before, when I couldn't sleep, and kept giving me pep talks. AHAHAHA. I'M SO SORRY I CAUSE SO MUCH TROUBLE. I love you guys. p 3p

On the other hand, while we were setting up AA, I managed to attack and 's tables for their prints/keychains first thing. It was fabulous.
As usual I was too shy to really try and make friends with them. T__T; But Na-insoo was really nice.




Day 2 //
Things started picking up on this day, I also got enough sleep (The night before I came home at around 6 and slept until 8:30 the next day.) so it seemed like the law of attraction was working again. Prints sold, I went broke buying things, actually hung around my table and so on and so forth.

The Hetalia shoot was also on this day. There wasn't really anything special about it, and it definitely wasn't as fun as the one at Sakura Con, but our Americas were pretty god damn epic. (Which, by the way, made a super sexy America who I couldn't keep my hands off of.)

There was also a drunk guy on a bike who kept harassing us for some time. Mainly, the America who decided to take up leadership responsibility to organizing the shoot (Which, also, THANKS!)
The Hetalia shoot humored him for a while before he started getting pretty damn creepy. Then everyone just ignored him and went somewhere else until he left.

was also there as super sexy Japan/Shinatty-chan/Ameri-blob. IT WAS WONDERFUL. Although I admit I really liked the Phoenix Wright/samurai kid cosplay a lot too. I guess I just have a thing for little boys. 8|

was also there as Korea, with another Hong Kong (CUTE HONG KONG I KEPT HARASSING I'M SORRY ): ) and China. I didn't get to know them as well as I'd like, but I think I was creeping them out anyway. Orz;;

I also met up with after some time, who as there was 'Ghetto' Taiwan.~ We had a fight. On poles. 8|;;

Oh~ We also met the people from [link] who happened to be right behind our table. They fed me soy milk and crackers. I think that makes us instant friends, y/n?

Couldn't sleep on this day till 2:30 AIM. So again, I was cranky....~




Day 3 //
Last day is usually slow, so I somewhat prepared for it. .. Actually, I really didn't do anything on this day except buy last-minute purchases and sleep.

Brent/Hino/Nurie/Piku brought mats on the second day, and Brent also had his big Yoko pillow. So that was where I spent forty five minutes of my day sleeping after I invaded *BflatMINOR 's space.

Originally, *BflatMINOR and ~fluffnight were sleeping together. After that, Fluffynight decided it would be nice to sleep on me. 8|

When we woke up, somehow Fluffnight's fly and my bra hook came undone.

HERM. NOT SUSPICIOUS AT ALL?

Nothing interesting on this day. We danced around like maniacs and tried to sell off everything before the AA/Dealer's closed and people were kicked out of the room. =X then... we went to eat and I managed to harass *kisukaite 's brother into driving me home.



Closing Remarks

Because I'm a bitch and I like to bitch about things that didn't fit in with the main journal body, I'll put this here.

I'm sorry to everyone I forgot to mention. I also did meet:



and quite a few others. It was nice seeing everyone again.--

Or, maybe not.

I met a few of the people from my school not on DA, as well as my own cousin.

What most likely added to my depression on the first day was that these people completely ignored me despite my greetings.

I know they saw me. We made eye contact and I called their names. They turned around to look, and then they immediately walked off. My cousin, in particular.

I think I'm a very secure person in general. I like to think that I can understand situations if I'm given enough knowledge, and I won't hold any grudges if someone disliked me for something I reasonably did to piss them off.

Yet I'm not even sure why. Everything seemed fine when we were at school. So why the sudden attitude change?

Am I embarrassing to know? Is it just them? Is it me? How I act? What I'm interested in?

I really liked being friends with those guys. Even though I fell out with them after I quit going to band class due to some heavy drama with the teacher. I still wanted to be in contact and joke around with them again.

Guess that's not going to happen. 8|

Oh well~

Guess to end the report this year. My opinion still hasn't changed of AE. I'm still unsure about it. There are lots of good things and lots of bad things about it that would heavily effect whether I'll go next year. I spent a third of the convention feeling guilty, a third of the convention being satisfied, and a third of the convention being depressed.

But I'm really happy I did meet so many great artists during my time. I think, if anything, that might make up for the bad parts. =X

On another note, I'm leaving on July 6th for China~ I'm going to see how long I can stay there. My aim is for a year. It'll be just like training, no? 8D /kills self