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Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Otakon!
Much fun was had! Rick's friends were OK and not as weird as Rick!
Noah had a great time and has new hope for the future of fandom!
However, if I see another Yuna (Final Fantasy X) or Vash the Stampede (Trigun) costume, I'll puke!
Love and Peace!
Sun Jul 28 20:41:28 2002
Otakon had a good mix of boys and girls, maybe 52% boys, 48% girls. Noah was shocked, as typical anime conventions he's been to have been largely male-dominated.
N was also shocked at the age group. Apparently at the last con he went to the average age was around 30. At a different con there were a lot of 7-year-olds with parents. Otakon was largely college kids, and maybe 30% high schoolers.
Another shocker: The high number of anime fans who can dance. The DDR contest was very popular, which is to be expected, but a shockinly high number of the "Masquerade" skits ended with dance numbers. N approves of dancing fandom and DDR.
Mon Jul 29 15:49:44 2002
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So yesterday morning before I go to work, my roommate mumbles something about losing his keys and informs me that he has changed the locks. He gives me a new key. Fine.
I came home from work yesterday to find that the key he gave me didn't fit the lock AT ALL. My roommate arrives less than 30 seconds after I discover this, while I am still trying to get the key to work.
"Oh yeah," he says, "I bought the wrong kind of lock, so the key I gave you won't work. Have you been here long?"
So we go inside and he leaves and comes back to inform me that the place he went to get a key made is now closed. Do I plan on going anywhere tonight? In fact, I had to go grocery shopping and give Maggie a paper to sign. My roommate waits as I do this.
Since I'm leaving straight from work today to go to Otakon, my roommate still has not given me a new key.
This is no coincidence! He did not "lose" his keys, I bet. He just wanted to change the locks, since I'm moving out. It is all very suspect.
Thu Jul 25 16:44:11 2002
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The weather today is unseasonably cold, periodically overcast, and therefore, just the kind of weather I enjoy. There's no being blinded by the sun in this weather! Also, since the air isn't thick and hazy with oven-like heat, I can see much further from my window.
Traffic is flowing into the Holland tunnel quite smoothly at the moment. Planes are taking off from Newark like clockwork; one every ten minutes.
Tomorrow I will not attend sci-fi club, as I will leave straight from work for deeper New Jersey, in order to get a good early start for Maryland on Friday morning.
Maggie and I showed our apartment to N. and Ryan last night, and we talked to our friendly next door neighbor. Eerily, N. swears he knows our neighbor from somewhere. More likely than not, that means our neighbor is dork who has been to a few cons, or maybe he went to Columbia.
Wed Jul 24 16:42:27 2002
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Sunday, July 21, 2002
Today's weather: Hot enough to kill you.
Visibility: Not very good, because of the haze.
Traffic: A little slow going into the Holland Tunnel.
I wish to link pictures from other people's sites about Otakon here, but no one I have found so far has posted their pictures yet.
In brief, I had a great time. It was nice to be around a lot of people who watch more anime than me on a regular basis. I didn't feel like a freak anymore! It was a euphoric dorktopian feeling, especially on the first day.
Many people had wonderful costumes - anime fans call this cosplaying (costume+playing) - and it was only a tiny minority of cosplayers who were wearing anything hideously revealing without having the body to pull it off. I was sadly disappointed that there were no fat middle-aged men dressed as Sailor Moon. (N says there was one, but I didn't see him.)
I purchased a "Ping Pong Club" DVD, despite not having a DVD player. I also picked up a stuffed robot and a Mokona doll (from Magic Knight Rayearth):
Take the "Which Anime pet are you?" test!
The best series I saw bits of at Otakon was definitely the Gainax series Abenobashi Magical Shopping District. It's about a boy and a girl who live in a run-down shopping district and stumble on a magical gateway thing. Each episode after the first one is an insanely funny parody of a different genre. The second episode parodies fantasy RPGs, the third episode parodies everything about space from 2001 to Voltron, and the fourth episode parodies everything to do with martial arts tournaments in cartoons and live-action. I will have to buy this series when it becomes available and screen it at my apartment. Hal will especially like the third episode.
Mon Jul 29 16:44:50 2002
So it's Tuesday.
I have actually had some time to read blogs today, for once.
Maggie and I are going to sign the paperwork for our new apartment tonight. It is all very exciting, of course, but I worry about the money.
Moving in Manhattan is complicated not only by the high rent, which one finds one can afford on a month-by-month basis, but also by the high cost of moving in. I can afford X number of dollars per month, but I do not have 3X or 4X dollars in my savings account (savings? What savings?) at any given time for purposes of first month's rent and one month's security, plus 9 days in July or whatever.
I also worry about the rent going up. Sure, this year I can afford X, but next year, can I afford $120 + X if necessary? They made it clear when I got this job that I wouldn't be getting a raise anytime soon.
Sure, I could get an apartment further away, and pay only half X, (expressed by X/2 maybe?) but I really, really hate commuting. By "hate" I mean, "commuting causes me to fall into a deep state of depression." I was thinking of drawing a map of concentric circles around my workplace, expressing various rent zones vs. commuting time. Overall happiness could be expressed by some kind of equation based on commuting time vs. amount of money paid for rent. I think this kind of equation and map could be useful for many New Yorkers, but I lack the mathematical skills necessary to pull it off.
Tue Jul 23 17:06:32 2002
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Much of note has happened, mostly on Saturday:
1. My experience with the power outage - my power didn't go out, but subway service stopped completely and I had to walk a million blocks and then take a cab to see Shakespeare in the Park which...
2. ...was really good and starred Julia Styles and Christopher Lloyd and Jimmy Schmitz and some guy from Scrubs.
3. On Friday I saw me and Maggie's future apartment. It is very nice, as it has been recently renovated. I think I posted about this before. With every passing day, Maggie has forgotten more and more about what the apartment actually looked like, so don't rely on her from information about it.
4. On Sunday I weaseled out of going to the funeral with N.
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