Dodrio

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So I needed to update because I haven't updated.

I'm all moved in here at Georgia Tech. Not much to say, really. My roommates are nice. I'm in a triple. The housing website doesn't actually list triples as existing, because there are so few, I guess. I was put in randomly with a 3rd person who me and my original roommate never requested. But it's all good. Because triples aren't on the map, the sizes aren't standard: aka, our room is HUUUGE. It's amazing.

My dorm is at the end of frat row, so it was pretty loud last night (Friday night) until about 3am. The cops kept driving by and whooping.
I've made some friends. Not a lot, but a few.
My schedule is all in the morning, so I have afternoons free on most days. All of my AP credits brought me out of my freshman year. I'm a sophomore. Yeah!
Don't worry. I'll probably still be here for 5 years.

Speaking of which, everyone is required to take Calc 2 (which is Calc 3 in most schools) to graduate. And it's harddddddd. I got a 5 on the Calc BC exam so I'm here and dying. But we've been told multiple times don't retake Calc 1, because Calc 2 is gonna be new material either way. (So if anyone is good at calculus [we're not doing diff eqs or linear algebra yet,] lemme know. I'd love you forever.)

I sleep a lot here. It's probably gonna rain later.
BUT SPEAKING OF RAIN:

WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT IS A HURRICANE?!
I people forget that I come from Colorado. I have no clue how intense weather is. We just get snow dumps and tornadoes. Not really rain. Someone save me. I'm afraid of drowning. I can't swim. ;__;

So here, I'll post some photos I took.

This is the view from behind my dorm. ATLANTA!


Here is our super huge room before we cleaned and rearranged.

And yes, before you ask, I brought my fish. I didn't want to be lonely... true story.


Also guys go follow me on Tumblr. (See link at top.) I'm much more active there. Not necessarily productive, but active. And I post my cosplay photos never before seen~

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I'm currently working on packing up all my clothes for college. Classes don't start until the 20th and I move in on the 10th, but I'm leaving this Saturday, August 4th. I'll arrive on the 7th and then chill at a hotel or something.

My boyfriend of almost 2 years (but has actually felt like forever) and I decided to call it quits due to my moving. I don't want to try and uphold a long distance relationship. I think it will probably be the best for both of us. Despite ending on good terms, I feel like total crap. I'm sick to my stomach and I've had an ongoing headache since then. Heartache isn't so much as it is physically tolling on me.

I'm leaving all of my costumes behind and I'm going to be starting out new in Atlanta. Clean slate. Which I've also whipped up a big new list of costumes I want to do (to go along with the rest of my list.)
I will now list them in sprite form! Complements of Google image searching.

Etna and Flonne from Disgaea, Elesa from Pokemon Black and White, and Fate Testarossa from Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha or something like that.

I would also like to say that I am selling Mr. Mushrooms, my Zangoose fursuit. $475 will get you the whole set. Note me if interested. Paypal or cash only.

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I never would have thought my small little town would have made the national news.

The theater the Batman Massacre occurred in was a theater I had been to many times before. It was the theater I saw my first movie in. A Bugs Life so many years ago.

It's right across the street from the mall.
The mall I took the foreign exchange students to telling them I loved the store there.
The mall I bought my prom dress at back in May.

The mall the Pokemon Black and White tour was in a few years ago.


It's a block north of the arcade I used to visit so often and occasionally would help out. The arcade that so many of my friends work at.


It's just up the road and around the corner from the school I took the ACT at. The school so many of my friends graduated from. The school that people were taken to after the shooting.

(The photo is from MSNBC but has my friends in it.)

The shooter was a student at the University that I used to work part time at during the summers. They shut down some of the main buildings today. Also weird to think of.

Most of all, it took place in the town I've called home for the majority of my life. I was not born here, but I've been here for 17 years and I'm proud to call Aurora my home.


I'm really torn up about this. It's incredibly surreal. I'm incredibly grateful that I was not there that night. I'm incredibly grateful that all my friends decided to go to a different theater or not go at all. But I'm incredibly disheartened to think that anyone would do such a thing. It's weird to think that it happened so close to home. To a place that's in my earliest memories. During A Bug's Life premier, I remember being excited. Why would my parents take me anywhere at night? (You have to remember that I was 5-ish.) I remember the bright lights that towered high over the Century 16 Theater. The same lights seen in the helicopter footage on the news and in news story photos.

I'm really just having a hard time wrapping my head around this.

My entire heart goes out to all of the shooting victims and their friends and families. 12 dead and 71 injured, I can't even believe it. I hope that you can all pray or keep these people in your thoughts.
The #BaleOutAurora thing is cute, but if you'd really like to help, make care packages or write cards. Last I heard, the blood supply is stable so we don't need too many donors, but if you're A- or O, we'd be very appreciative if you donated.
I'd like to thank the rest of the world for all of their support for our community at this time. I can't believe such a horrible thing has happened and I plan on helping out in any way I can.

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Before I post anything, I'd like to say that I'm working on my cosplay based Tumblr and Facebook account, so you guys should go follow and like me. See above. Thanks. <3

I will now attempt to present an update about Anime Expo. Pictures will be linked at the bottom.

Wednesday - Meet everyone at the airport in Denver. Lecture one of our group members about the importance of putting things that look like gel into ziplocked bags. Fly to LA. Flight was very nice. I took a window seat to take photos of the fire but didn't really see much at all. Check into hotel. X Game folk everywhere. I gave them too much credit. I thought they'd be alright and tolerable. But many of them were very, very rude, and I was disappointed to say the least. We met 2 of our other roommates who flew in from Maryland. Spoiler: I didn't hang out with them really at all since they were in the other room, but they seemed nice and if I can find one of their deviantARTs I will post it because they sold very successfully in the artist alley.

Thursday, Day 0 - Wake up at 630, get in line at 7. Line is already wrapped around the front of the convention center. We're probably number 250ish or so in line? After about an hour, we decide we want chairs so we (me, Danny, and Mark) venture off into the great city of LA to find chairs. We find Home Depot way on the other side of the freeway and buy 3 chairs and 2 boxes of soda. It was about a 5 hour walk in total. It's all good. We had hoped to sell the chairs afterward but no one wanted them (surprising!) I gave mine to a homeless dude who was just chilling around not bothering anyone. We chilled in line all day and ordered pizza. After staying in line for 8 hours we got our badges. Then we all went swimming and met our new room mate who flew in that day, Almond. He stayed in my room. He was very nice and liked to shower a lot. He came from Illinois. We all went out to some ridiculously expensive Katsuya Japanese restaurant. The poor cook got our order wrong and forgot to bring my boyfriend and me our soups and salads, so he gave us those after our main meal but to compensate, gave us super extra dessert. Yum yum yum mochi ice cream.

Friday, Day 1 - Woke up at 730 with Danny to go try and sell my chair. After that didn't work, I gave it to a homeless dude and went out to Denny's with friends at about 930. Yummm hash browns and pancakes. At about 1130 we came back to meet Danny in the dealer's room line where we left him. It was planned to opened at noon. The man didn't want to let us through even though we had been sitting there at 8 with Danny earlier. "Please, sir... I have food I have to give to my friend. He's been here all morning. ;___; " And so I was let in and Mark was denied. Poor Mark. But anyways. We were about 20th in the line of about a billion. Danny pulled me with him so I could go buy some doujin stuff. My favorite artist Blade, yayy! I got some Touhou stuff from Hendanei because it had a pretty covers but they ended up being futa. Uhhh. Oops oh well. At least the covers are pretty. Then went to see Yaya Han's Sociology of Cosplay panel with Mark. I love Yaya Han! She is my favorite cosplayer ever!! I bought her calendar and had her sign it and I was so super giddy. Also got my photo with her. My life is complete. Went back to the hotel and hung out. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen so we could watch Chris K and Danny try to down a ton of spicy sauce on their pizza. I then dressed up as Audino and wandered around the convention and everyone thought I was so super cute. Ohohoho~ We then went to the JAST panel. My first 18+ panel, hurray! Some jerks were pointlessly clapping in our row. Everyone wanted to punch them and I was about to tell them off but then the panel ended so yup okay.

Saturday, Day 2 - Wake up at 11ish? Fiddle around trying to get into Lilith. Go outside and get half way to convention center the long way before realizing I left my gloves at the hotel. I had already made my boyfriend miss his NicoNico meet up. D: "Boyfriend please please please go back to the hotel and get my gloves for me!" He's so kind. He came back in about 10 minutes. I wish people wouldn't have asked to take my photo when I didn't have my gloves, but I posed anyways. Religious protesters were everywhere and I was waiting for one to try and eat my alive. Nope. They wanted nothingggggg to do with me. I was terribly amused. So we wandered around the convention. Got lots of pictures taken. Went to the food trucks and got a super disappointing load of "chilli cheese fries," or rather, fries under a pile of ground beef with a bit of cheese melted on top. UNIMPRESSED. Don't ever order fries from the fry truck specifically at AX. It's too expensive and not qualified. (But "The Greasy Wiener," yes, I know, has the BEST fries. Their Bomb Fries are so good. Order those. Chili, cheese, bacon, and fries. Omg I died they were so good.)
Changed out of Lilith and we ate something for dinner. Probably Chinese food. Changed into my rave gear and had my friends drop me off in the rave line before they left to go to the eromanga panel. I made a bunch of friends at the rave/dance. I was really disappointed because the room was super small tiny. Why didn't they do it in the main events room? The line for the rave was HUUUGE yet they put it in such a small room? Also, they had no bathrooms in the room, so if you wanted to go to the bathroom, the chance of you getting back in was 0 because you had to get back in line. So I danced around for about 3 hours before I decided my need to pee outweighed my desire to dance and left around 1. Was mistaken as a go-go dancer a lot (yay~!) and sat around in the lobby and chatted for about a half our before I found someone headed back to the JW Marriott for me to walk with. I didn't want to walk by myself in LA at 130 in the morning in my outfit.

Sunday, Day 3 - Wore Audino around in the afternoon. It was very hot. Was handed a flier by the religious people and then was rudely told to go away. Hey religious protesters, more than half of the reason I don't want to join your church is because you guys all seem to be real dicks. I'll gladly respect your opinion about your faith as long as you're not jerks about it. Had the Bomb Fries I discussed earlier. Yum yum yum yum. Wandered around the dealer's room and got some stuff. Watched the X Game races and hot wheels loop-De-loop. Got a Yaya Han shirt. Some Pokemon stuff. I don't even go looking for Pokemon stuff to buy but I buy it anyways. I guess it's one of those addictions engrained into me. Went to the masquerade and was thoroughly disappointed in the costume quality and variety. I was impressed by the stage presence and the MCs kept things funny, but I'm disappointed I paid money to go see these costumes. ): But I had great seats. We also got to see the finalists of the AMV contest, which was really nice because AMVs was near impossible to get into, it sounded like. We also got a live performance from... the Japanese voice actor of Vegeta or something. We then were shown some super neat live-action made AMVs of cosplay stuff. I'll see if I can find some videos off YouTube to link. They were AMAZING! Packed up that night.

Monday, Day 4 - Finished packing up. Ran the dealer's room and merch booth for discount things. Got Volume 2 of DearS for $3. That was all they had left for DearS. I wanted to get the DearS and Parasite series but nope. We all ran back to the hotel, got our stuff together, boarded the Super Shuttle and went to the airport 3 hours early. We spent a lot of time in the airport playing "We didn't playtest this," which is a hilarious card game. We took out all the not airplane-friendly cards so we wouldn't be shouting "BOMB!!" in the airport. The flight was nice until we got to Denver and a giant thunderstorm popped up which turned out 2 hour flight into 3 hours as we circled around DIA before a bumpy and dizzying landing.

Overall I'm glad to be home. It was a ton of fun. I think the trip total cost me about $900? About $400 for the hotel, $200 for the airplane tickets, and then whatever money was spent on food and the dealer's room. But I think it was worth it. If I had time and money I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Please view some photos below. Click to expand (you might want to open them in a different tab).

I graduated on May 25, 2012.


Finishing an Audino costume in the style of a Kigurumi pajama thing.


I was commissioned for a set of Morrigan wings but my buyer backed out. The wings will be similar but even better! than my Lilith wings because it will be my second go round. If you would like to purchase the wings from me, I'm selling them for $100, not including shipping.


I AM SO EXCITED FOR AX!

I AM SO EXCITED TO MEET YAYA HAN!

I've got some spare cash from graduation, so I may make a few silly costumes because I'm just awesome like that.