Currents of Time

First off, here's the pictures on Facebook! Woo!

For those of you in there, if you want me to take anything with you in it down, just send me a note and I'll remove it, no questions. :3

( YEAH WELL WE ALL SAW WHAT YOU DID )

That got kind of abrupt but it's getting really late and I have work in the morning okay? Hopefully I didn't forget anything too important! Please let me know if I did!

Also I should've written this like a week and a half ago but, you know, life.

Oookay. Let's see how long I make it this time! I've gone through the worst of the weirdness (we're now in the overcompensation mode where I am aggressively cheerful but also exceptionally exhausted because faking having energy is dead tiring) so hopefully soon I'll start seeing some real, positive results. Also, I've started taking vitamin D, which is supposed to help? Cautious optimism.


(FFXIV alpha trials are underway here in North America! I am not invited, alas. Maybe next phase!)


Next week! At this time! I will be in CHICAGO. So excited. The "25th Anniverary of Final Fantasy" Distant Worlds concert is on Friday, and I am absolutely going to be there. X3 My trips to and from are a bit convoluted, but they are cheap, so that is okay. I know someone who lives relatively close to the airport there in NYC and she is letting me crash on her couch on Wednesday and Saturday night. yay! I should bring or obtain a gift to express my gratitude. Saving money is awesome. Holidays are coming up, after all, gotta be able to buy... anything.


Actually, I am hoping to make a little extra by selling off more of my Transformers collection (as well as a few Final Fantasy figures). A fair bit of movie and BotCon stuff, as well as other random offerings. More-reasonable-than-eBay prices! Watch this space, if you've any interest.


Also hey speaking of holidays, who wants a card? Please leave a comment here (screened) or PM it to me or something? :3 I do not have energy or inclination to do much in the way of making them myself this year, but I still like to send them out. I have a bunch of pretty designs and nifty stamps.

I messed with Texas. NOW IT HAS VERMONT COOTIES. Also now I have Texas cooties. I suppose some things simply can't be avoided.

Now, though, it is finally time for me to post my write-up! It took me a week because I got back home to both peak allergies and insane work scheduling, so I have been very busy trying to not pass out everywhere. And also watching The Avengers repeatedly because oh shit how awesome is that movie? PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY.

ANYWAY. If you just want the photo dump, it can be found here on Facebook. Elsewise, read on for entirely too much blathering on my part.

( BotCon write-up + too many pictures )

WORDS. WORDS EVERYWHERE. I will have an update on my life later, because shit done gone down or... something (it is nothing so dramatic as that implies).

Hello! I survived my trip! I have many things to say about it, not all of them particularly nice.

But I am also really, really tired, because air travel is somehow exhausting.


So instead I leave you with this burning question:


Has Lightning always had her bellybutton pierced, or is this one of those weird, one-off, promotion art-only kinda deals?

... no, really, I'm serious.

I guess Chicago and the following week+ of superstress burnt me out more than I'd thought? Actually, Chicago was amazing. I meant to write up a post about it earlier. Oops. (I've meant to do a lot of things lately. None of it's been happening. It's troublesome.)

( Not actually image heavy, but still long. )

In short, if you ever get a chance to attend a Final Fantasy concert - ie, if they're ever anywhere near you (and assuming you care about the games/music) - DO IT DO IT DO IT RIGHT NOW WHY HAVE YOU NOT BOUGHT YOUR TICKET ALREADY.


And now I need to go to bed. Hopefully tomorrow I get about catching up on things, eh? (And maybe I'll have the energy to tell you all about my exciting - that is, stressful - that is, SE dropped the ball again - weekend! And maybe Dark of the Moon, which I keep typing as dork...)

Okay, here's the actual photo-spam post from BotCon. (Please note that due to pictures of Real People and me not knowing how they feel about it, the first half - posted second - is under friends lock.)

( Do I really need to warn for excess images? )

OH MY GOD SO MUCH IMG SRC.

I am a tremendous idiot sometimes. Today is the third time, now, that I have neglected to grab the travel suitcase from the attic at my parents' house! So I've just selected and set aside the stuff I need to pack, and tomorrow Mom will bring one by on her way to work. And then I will throw everything in it! And then go to work, myself. And then go to a concert after work! And then go to sleeeeep and wake up at 5 am and go to the airport why do I do this to myself whyyyy. AND THEN WEEKEND OF ROBOTS and then a red eye and oh, right, does anyone need/want anything from BotCon? ...And possibly then work again Monday afternoon! I hope not, I do not want to be a zombie.


I found more cutscenes in FFXIV (screenshots'll go up a bit later, in the usual place, for those interested. I'm gonna try for tomorrow, but no promises. It might have to wait until next week)! God, I wish this game could be less terrible, because I am so, so intrigued by the plot. And also it's pretty and I am shallow sometimes. AND NOW IT IS SUCH A HUGE AND BORING AND UUUUGH WHY level grind to 20, but, you know what? Woodsin's gone, first major plot arc's resolved, maybe I'll just call it a day/adventuring life. mmm, delicious retirement.


NOTHING ELSE EXCITING HAVE SOME VIDEOLINKS.

holy shit this guy has built really awesome scale models I am in awe these are just jaw-droppingly incredible South Sandy Victory Square and Windurst Walls! Supposedly he plans on doing a part of Bastok at some point, too...?

ALSO. THIS ONE IS SO PRETTY I LOVE MY FICTIONAL VIDEO GAME WORLD it is pretty spectacular.

... uh. AND SOME RANDOM OTHER ONES not that I'm procrastinating or anything:

Chains of Promathia: The Epic HELLS YES AWESOME

Everyone else has one so we should, too! (this is so stupid ...but, man, the thing is, considering the ToAU cast, this isn't even out of character. Hell, it's probably a requirement.) (hahaha, I love the doubletake the guy in the back does around 2:40.)

HEY LOOK THIS ONE IS Crisis Core. Uh. The song's kinda cliché, but IT IS SO AWESOME. And, uh, some spoilers, I guess, but it's not like most of it really has any context. Maybe I just like the full-circle thing that the game has and that is shown pretty well here, too.


Man, I should go to bed. But I need to unearth my Zen and charge it for the plane. And edit the playlists a little. raglrarafg preparing for trip

I really need to finish unpacking (I AM MOSTLY DONE OKAY), but instead I have spent today jumping through hoops and navigating menus over the phone! It has been kind of a pain! But I have finally secured flights to and from Pasadena for this summer, yaaay!

So then it was on to Chicago! Which was still stressing me out because everything I know about Chicago is that THEY HAVE AN AIRPORT AND I HAVE HAD PLANE TRANSFERS THERE AND ALSO THEY USED TO SELL RETIRED BEANIE BABIES AT ALL THE SHOPS (hey, that was important information for a thirteen year-old who wanted all the cats). Whoo? And trying to figure out things about public transportation and ... uh, well, everything, basically, for a city I am completely unfamiliar with is hard (I am totally useless at decoding rail maps, and most of the public transport I'll be using is RAIL!, so it tells me the blue line, aka the one that runs to the airport, stops at [station x] and so then I have to go find out where that is, and then compare it to all the hotels I've been looking at and then I also have to check all the hotels for transportation to the middle of downtown and basically I get confused and then frustrated) and I am whiny. And then, haha, I was complaining about it over AIM (as you do) and it turns out one of the people I know from FFXI, who currently lives in New York, is originally from Chicago, so now I have a pretty good idea of what is what, and thus what I am doing! And so I am going to make hotel arrangements and buy my transportation tickets (probably more plane, ugh) later tonight! Right now I am still looking at price information. Man, I should'a gone off over AIM weeks ago. (I AM SO EXCITED FOR JUNE YOU GUYSSSS. IT'S WHEN ALL THE AWESOME STUFF HAPPENS. ...OH MAN, two months from today I will already be back home from BotCon. Wow, haha, it's weird to think of things that way.)


MEANWHILE, IN UNPACKING NEWS, I have unpacked ... most everything I will be able to for now! My desk did not fit as nicely as I'd have liked, so it was sent home to live in the attic for now, and I am going to have to track down a new desk! (Though I already have two potential ones which I could have, so it is more a matter of making a choice.) But my desk held a lot of my stuff, like my art supplies and important papers and all my writing utensils and also my PS2 and Dreamcast and TV and computer! So most all of that stuff is still sitting around in boxes!

But my books and video games (okay, okay, this is exciting, I have a shelf solely dedicated to video game stuff now and it is SO AWESOME) and DVDs and CDs and miscellaneous computer supplies and clothing are all unpacked and put nicely away! And so are ALL THE ROBOTS. And so is most of my food! Kitchen supplies are still boxed 'cause we're going to all go through them and pull out what we need and rebox what we've already got and then send it to the basement. We just have not had time for it yet.


MAN, WHAT A BORING ENTRY. I started playing Dissidia 012 the other night, I will probably start posting about that soon. LESS BORING?


Edit:
ALL BOOKED WOOHOO!

Also, I am so proud. My brother is ranting at me about his classmates' comma usage (or lack thereof). WE DO BELIEVE IN THE OXFORD COMMA. WE DO, WE DO, WE DO.

FINALLY.

( BotCon and Sunday evening )

HOORAY WE ALL SURVIVED. NOW I CAN FINALLY GO TO BED. Because I was stupid and said NO FINISH THE ENTRY.

Though, I swear I keep hearing something moving around outside and it's really freaking me out, so maybe I won't be sleeping as much as I'd like. Boo.

I'm not sure here at the beginning if this is going to be one post or two. Either way, I'm going to go on about travel, the hotel, and Disney before I talk about BotCon, because, uh. BECAUSE. SO THERE. Mostly this means I just swap Friday afternoon and Friday night. Also, I can't be bothered to try and upload all of these things to Photobucket, so I'm going to try directly linking from Facebook. We'll see how it goes! Whee.

( PART 1: Tuesday (travel) and Wednesday (Animal Kingdom) )

Okay, that is so ridiculously long. The good news is, Animal Kingdom had, by far, the most pictures. A solid half, at least. So I might be able to fit the rest into one entry tomorrow, or maybe it'll be another two more, but either way, it will not be as ridiculously long as this one. Waugh. @_@

And if you don't care or just want to see all the pictures NOW, Disney / non-BotCon pics are all in this album and BotCon pics are all in THIS album!



oh god i hope i did all those links correctly OR RATHER THAT LJ DOESN'T EAT THEM, WHICH IT DID, AND IT TOOK ME HALF AN HOUR TO FIX THEM ALL. (And I don't even know that I caught them all, but at least it's not full of ERROR messages now.) Man, I hope someone actually reads these. Otherwise this was an epic waste of time an energy. XD