A Lot of Things

I took a long trip on a big metal train. I met a lot of wonderful people - like an engineer and his wife, and a female trucker, the publisher of an arts magazine, and a very lovely French woman who we talked with about comic books with for a while. I went to a list of places. Many of these places were very, very good. Like King Street Station in Seattle.

King Street Station is a beautiful place.

It is a big building, refinished to look very amazing inside, much like you would had you actually taken the time to do that 'me' work you always talk about.

We were there for a while, eating chips and drinking water and waiting for a new train to show up. This new train had a dining car and you could even sleep on it~! How fun <3

There's also the hotel which was a beautiful place both inside and out - like the ex-girlfriend that you walked all over years ago in your self-centered haze. For shame, Reader. For shame.

Anyway...

I met the people from 'Welcome to Night Vale'.

They were, all three of them, very sweet and even signed a Khoshekh pencil case I acquired in the Artist's Alley. Jeffery Cranor filled in my 'Interests' for me.

Neat!

After this, there was a period of not much happening, aside from a ruined prom that turned out to be not so ruined after all.

The next day was taken up by talking, buying things, and then by a concert by the lovely Time Crash (who I suggest you listen to, on repeat and very loudly).

This is the guiTARDIS. It is a wonderful, whimsical invention.

During said concert, I met an actor.

His name is Doug Jones. He is a total sweetheart. He showed up and danced and let people take pictures with him, which was a little amazing considering he had his own panel/meet and greet earlier in the day, which I believe was a ticketed event.

This was all followed by room service.

It was very expensive and very good.

And I have spent the days since we got back starting at my collection of buttons and books (all of them signed) and catching up on 'Welcome to Night Vale', which is getting very amazing, too.

I also met my best friend/partner in crime of the past two years, which was just so... *HAPPY SCREAMS*, you know?

I'm going to make a proper post about the things that happened (and probably take a bunch of pictures of all the stuff I got) once I've gotten my life back into some degree of order. For now, be content with the knowledge that it was an amazing time in spite of the unadulterated fustercluckery that always accompanies a first convention.

//collapses

The Day After Tomorrow

Otherwise known as 'The Day I Leave for DashCon on the Train'

*SCREAMS LOUDLY*

[This has been an 'I am not dead, I am just stressed' update. Thank you for your time. We now return you to your regularly scheduled insanity.]

I REALLY need to quit with the cosplay stuff

But I also REALLY want to do something for which I only require a decent lab coat (which, let's face it, I would probably also just wear anyway because lab coats are awesome - they're like toned-down straitjackets) and a small bottle of rigid collodion (because scar makeup). I can find a bottle for like five bucks total on Amazon and the coat is usually anywhere between 15 and 20 bucks so this is like, the cheapest one on the list. Like, 'I can pay for it on my own' cheap - also known as 'the really good kind of cheap'.

Also, 'Adventures in Insomnia'.

Ya know, there's an upside to insomnia - I tend to get a lot of work done. Like quizzes and required journals and crap like that.

All in all, astronomy is by far the most 'involved' class I'm in this quarter. They ask a lot of questions. Not sure if I like it. Not very charismatic. Makes the whole thing kind of an intrusive, underfoot figure. Oh, well.

So, yeah...

Upside: I'm getting a lot done.
Downside: No sleep is happening. None. I have been up all night about every other night now.

BUT. That at least means I can work ahead. Besides I'm just young enough to handle it still.

So... I'm actually going to try to sleep because it's after four in the morning right now and I've been trying to get a slightly more normal sleep schedule out of all this and... that's just not been happening.

I need to get back on writing too, since I only have two more chapters to get done before it all goes back to the client. It's getting to the point where I really want to work on it just because I really want to see it done, you know?

So that's probably gonna be tomorrow. Accounting and writing. Yeah. Sure.

Good night, everyone~ Wish me luck with sleeping when normal humans do.

So, DashCon

These two right here, Dee Laytner and Diana Spacey

are on my cosplay list for DashCon. Dee's going to be fun and his outfit is decently easy. It's just the hair I'm probably going to have to fight with a little.

Diana is a little more complicated:

She's so fab, though~ <3

Cecil from Welcome to Night Vale is also on my list but no one knows what the man looks like so I kind of have free reign there. I also need an outfit for a formal dance (DashProm) and for a rave. I also have a friendship basket to do, the list for which is back in this blog somewhere (I know I posted it).




And now for something completely different.



Section Two: Writing

As in, I can get back to writing because this quarter is essentially over. Also, this happened:

Friend One: I think we all agree you're like.. one of our favorite writers ever. YOU WERE LIKE. MY WRITING SENPAI WHEN I FIRST MET YOU... I was so intimidated to talk to you xD cause you were so good

Me: ASDFGHJKL; What, really? People tell me this... but then I'm a geek and they stop being so intimidated (which is very good because I'm about as intimidating as a pink butterfly stuck to a marshmallow).

Friend One: yeah LOLL I felt so .. inferior compared to your writing. xD But I was so hoping to rp with you like oh god

Friend Two: same

So, yeah. that was kind of a pick-me-up.

And that's about all that's been happening right now.

Oh, wait, there was something else:

Section Four: NaNoWriMo

As in, 'I'm working as a free agent now, Scott. Can't abide by the larger wolf's laws so it only makes sense to leave the pack.'
...
I'm not doing NaNo officially anymore, is what that means. The OLL has just gotten... I don't really know if I can explain it - I just feel like they've gotten too far from the roots of the project and I don't really want to be a part of it anymore. I'll be over at WriYe, keeping track of things that way.

But ignoring all that, it's been pretty quiet. I think I'll spend some time before the first of the year going through the manga and picking an outfit for Dee and Diana and then I can jump into searching for things after the first.

I'm rambling. Stuff if going on. I have books to write and a company to build and a friend to meet in 2014 and wow, life. This was an awful post but I got my basic points across and I'm not going to go back and try to fix it now because my laptop battery is almost dead SO... yeah. I'll be back with a little more cohesion pretty soon to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and all that but for now, enjoy my rambling.

*waves* *crawls under a fuzzy blanket*

Things.

And things.

Okay.

Section One: AugNoWriMo

AugNoWriMo. Is a thing. Which I am doing. This thing. It's a fun thing. It's a thing that you should do, too. Next year. Or this year. Soon. And then forever. Never stop writing.

Section Two: DashCon/Cosplay

Okay, I don't know what happened with Section One but it's typed out now and I'm not changing it.

So...

I'm thinking about my cosplay list for DashCon. I mean, I'm getting Ryo into different fandoms so I wonder if we'll wind up messing with the line up a little. Right now I'm going as Dee Laytner (the first day), fem!Dee (the second day), and Drake (the last day). I want to keep Dee in my line up, whatever else I might do but I kind of want to throw Touko Fukawa from 'Dangan Ronpa' and/or Cecil from 'Welcome to Night Vale' in there somewhere. 'Course, I'll be at Dash Prom in Cecil cosplay anyway... I don't know, I'm just rambling.

Section Three: There is no Section Three. There never was a Section Three. Move along.

That's about the extent of it. Oh, and I watched 'Don't Hug Me I'm Scared' a while ago. Weird video. Really interesting if you think about the deeper meaning but still really weird.

So, yeah. I'm alive, I'm just trying to get back into writing and I kind of suck at updating things.

I am not dead.

I am, however, very tired. I'm pretty sure that my legs and back will not like me by morning. BUT. That's kind of okay because all of the stuff is out of the rental and in the new house and I am so done (like 5000% done) with moving for a good long while now.

Also, I've had an idea for a friendship basket.

Basically, the deal is that a friend of mine and I will make up these small-to-medium sized baskets full of things that we love but are okay parting with (like copies of things we really like and/or things that we've made just for the basket) and then switch them at DashCon. That way, we have a reminder of the trip and we get to know each other a little better through what we filled the baskets with.

I love the idea, really, and I've been working on a list.

• A small book/binder of ramblings/letters/photos/drawings/etc.
• A mixtape/mixCD (are those even cute anymore?)
• 2 scarves (one green and black, one pink and white – need softer yarn for these)
• One Tiger/Bunny plush (they can’t be that hard to make)
• One plush moose (with tag reading 'I moose you')
• One ‘Welcome to Night Vale’ painting on small-to-medium canvas (Welcome to Night Vale)
• One ‘Heart’ painting on small-to-medium canvas (anatomically correct/paint or ink and coloured pencils) - (Depraved Heart Murder at Sanatorium Square)
• Maybe a couple/three duct tape flowers/pens
• Writing! You’re a writer – there should be writing of some kind.

The small book/binder is going to be an on-going thing for the next (almost) year, the mixtape will take a little bit to figure out (since I want to splice in some Night Vale stuff), the scarves are pretty simple to make and the Tiger/Bunny (and the moose) plush shouldn't be too much of a hassle. The paintings, I'm looking forward to even though they'll probably cause me a little trouble before I get them to a point where I'm happy with them. I am prepared for this. Duct tape is a speciality of mine so the flowers aren't a big deal. And the writing... well, I have one story almost done already so... yeah.

That's just a first-draft list but I can't see things changing too much. I like it as is ^^

But yeah, that's about where I am. Awake, writing, planning, wanting to organise things but the paint isn't done yet so I kind of can't - at least not completely. But things are getting done and my room is really cosy so yay~

I appear to have straight A's again and that's nice. Oh, and my grandparents were up to visit for a few days (before turning around and driving two-or-three days back to rest and pack up a moving truck) and it was just so nice to see them again.

And, yeah, this has gotten pretty rambly but I wanted you all to know that I'm all right - it's just that a lot has been going on lately. So... bye for now, everyone, and I will try not to let this blog just sit for so long in the future.

Creativity = insanity + talent.

I've been working on the website... all the - *bricked in the head* Why? Why? I hate that song!

No, yeah, I'm actually doing a... a thing with my writing... and some other people's writing. And it's gonna be awesome. But first I have to get through school.

I have about three and a half weeks left and then a six week break (at least, I think it's six weeks) which is really good because I've have bitten my nails down to the point where they bleed and that's just not good at all. Speaking of, I have things to read for that.

I drank a bunch of coffee and now I want to dance and I'm kind of nervous about the world.

And DashCon. I'm nervous about DashCon, too but in that excited way. (If you don't know about DashCon, look it up because it is amazing.) I want to be a total geek and learn the Hare Hare Yukai dance to do with a friend of mine because GEEKS~!

For right now, though, I have things to read and questions to answer, which sort of brings us full circle. So. Bye for now. Expect progress meters to be put up pretty soon - likely without titles because I like keeping the mystery going - and... yeah. 

Have an awesome day~

[INTERNALLY SCREAMING]

DashCon, people!

ASDFGHJKL;