Holy shit that was a fun con.
I was helping out Brian Wilson (not the musician), who draws Geist Panik! which is an awesome webcomic. I cosplayed as Riley Hood, the main character of the comic--I was blonde on Friday and Saturday and it was funny. Speaking of which, a lot of funny stuff happened during the weekend.
( Day-By-Day )
- Otakon 2009
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sephary- July 19th, 21:47
bouncy
- Most Surreal Moment To Date
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- sephary
- October 24th, 2008
aggravated
I'm walking towards McKeldin Library to watch Erasable, Inc do their weekly improv show on the steps outside. I'm wearing my Sith cloak, as usual, and carrying my lunch in my hands--a turkey wrap, pickle, and 20 oz Pepsi. I turn down the stairs in between Teliaferro and another building and follow the sidewalk down to the left. I head towards the dirt path that's been carved into the grass next to another set of stairs by bikes and heavy foot traffic. Just as I reach the path, a taller guy approaches me and asks if I want one million Euros and shows me a bill with a one followed by six zeros on it. I laugh and shake my head; the kid can't be serious, right? It's gotta be a fake. He turns and walks calmly away. At the bottom of the path I pass by a female cop, who turns her head into her walkie-talkie and calls in backup. In the form of a campus police SUV. The SUV drives up the path and straight for the stairs that I was walking down only a minute earlier. The kid begins running, and three or four others follow. The SUV honks at them, and the female cop begins to run. I turn my head away, arrive in front of McKeldin, and proceed to watch the Erasable, Inc. show.
I kinda wish I'd managed to keep the one kid talking for a while longer. Maybe it would have helped. Although, of course, what I really want to know is what happened after I lost sight of the chase. I'm sure if it's big we'll hear about it or see it in the Diamondback or something.
Oh, and, this actually happened. I am most definitely not joking around or posing a fiction story as reality. ...Makes me wish I'd taken a picture on my cellphone or something to back it up.
- Too Much Has Happened
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- sephary
- October 18th, 2008
blank
..since last we spoke.
Now that the dramatic shit's out of my system, we can get on to the normal stuff. If you can call anything involving me 'normal'.
My sophomore year at Maryland has started, and I'm actually trying to keep up with my schoolwork this time, which means the usual run-around of stress, avoiding stress, avoiding doing work, and socialising. Whoops, forgot to put schoolwork in there. XD I've somehow contrived to take 16 credits with only (essentially) four classes. Hebrew is fun, if a bit easy; but, hey, that's why I'm taking it. Meteorology is silly, because the professor posted all of his powerpoints to the web along with notes on each chapter in the book, so no one ever really shows up for lecture. It was weird to come in for the midterm and see the room half-full. Scholars is, as always, a bit of joke. Albeit a joke with some seriously heavy work. My English class is even more of joke than Scholars. We spent the last class creating pictures to accompany poems. :/
I dropped in on AnimeUSA last weekend and ended up meeting some really cool people and having a blast at the rave. One of these days I'll get a set of glow-sabers of my own, to use permanently, instead of restocking with the cheap ones they sell at the rave. I've had people tell me that I look seriously cool when 'sabering' at a rave, but I wouldn't know, 'cause they don't have mirrors in those rooms. It is always a bit weird to realise that you're making friends with people that you might not see again for as much as a year. Although, a bunch of the new con-friends are going to Katsu in February, so at least I'll get to meet up with them. ^^
I'm rambling a bit here, aren't I. Ah, well. Not like I've given away any state secrets. XP I just wish I wasn't so bored. I hate being bored like this, but at the same time not wanting to do anything. It is by far my least favourite state of being. If I had more cash I'd run out on a shopping trip, but I'm trying to save up and commission a costume for Katsucon. ^_^
- Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festvial 2008
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- sephary
- August 21st, 2008
crazy
Oh man. Where to begin, where...to...begin. XD
I ended up going to Mayhem Fest with my dad, which was really strange, since he's not exactly what you'd call a metalhead. The drive down to the Nissan Pavilion was pretty long, almost an hour, so I created a mix cd (I don't have one of those plug-the-ipod-into-the-cassette-player things) of whatever DragonForce and Disturbed songs I had. We actually got there earlier than expected, arriving at about 6 pm, which meant that Mastadon was still on the main stage. The band was okay, but obviously nothing like DragonForce or Disturbed. My dad was a little overwhelmed, I think, by the crowd. Not so much the numbers, but by the outfits and fashion that shows up in a large crowd of metalheads. There was also a lot of vendors at the concert, which makes sense, since this was more of a music festival than a flat-out concert.
When DragonForce came on stage, it was amazing. Truly amazing. Probably one of the biggest downsides, though, was that the sun was still fairly high, so it made it difficult to see the stage and the band. :(
DragonForce played Operation Ground and Pound, Through the Fire and Flames (duh), and Heroes of Our Time (from their new album, Ultra Beatdown). It was pretty funny when they announced Heroes, though, because they said the album wasn't coming out until Aug 26....but I already own a copy (not legit) and have had it for a few months. :/
It was almost an hour before Disturbed was slated to show, so my dad and I spent a while looking for his secretary and another coworker who were also at Mayhem. It took almost 20 minutes to meet up, because my dad is useless with directions and landmarks. ^_^ I also bought a Mayhem Fest t-shirt, as a memento, and when dad ran off with Fred (a coworker) to watch Machine Head, I went back to our seats and watched them set up. Dad came back after a while, and we decided that we needed food, so he went and got a pizza. The pizza, of course was all but forgotten when Disturbed made their entrance.
As one of the Tallest (from InvaderZIM) said to the other: "I told you the lasers were a good idea!" The light show that accompanied Disturbed's music was amazing. Breathtaking, almost. It was rather amusing to watch my dad try to get into the crowd mentality by using devil horns...hahaha...kinda sad, in a way, because he doesn't really get the whole subculture of punk/metal. If I remember correctly, Disturbed played the following: Indestructible, Inside the Fire, Down With the Sickness, Voices, Stupify, and Ten Thousand Fists. I think they might've played one or two more, but I can't really remember, because I was too busy shouting along with the songs I knew. ^_^
We left pretty soon after that, because the VA stop on the tour was on a Sunday night, which meant that we both had work in the morning. So, all in all, the festival was amazing, and I'd love to go to it next year.
- Confessions of a Chocolate Whore
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- sephary
- August 12th, 2008
*Note: the following is a work of fiction, one of those random ideas that tend to float around. Please do not take anything after this message seriously.*
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I was always paid for what I do, even when I first started, even before I decided to make a career of it. It helped, back then, that I was hopelessly addicted to chocolate. Preferably dark chocolate, although I usually take whatever someone's willing to offer. My parents were naturally horrified when they found out about those early years, those early boyfriends, and my now-shattered hopes that a lasting, loving relationship could be built on chocolate.
I came into womanhood at the tender age of thirteen. My hair was bleached-blonde and stylish, my ice blue eyes cutting through long lashes to glare at passerby. I was never what you'd call beautiful, per se, but I was likable enough, and the boys never complained. As a kid, I'm sure you can remember being given chocolate, or candy, or really any kind of sugary food when an adult wanted to be your friend. After a while, the adults tend to stop giving you things and expect you to converse with them to achieve the same effect. I never lost that saucer-eyed, naive trust that is given to someone who gives you candy.
My first boyfriend gave me a whole box of Hershey's milk chocolate as a Valentine's Day gift. I had sex for the first time, with him, almost exactly one month later, following another gift of chocolate. My second boyfriend also gave me chocolate, usually white. This was right about the time I started realising that I was addicted to chocolate, to the way truffles just collapse in your mouth, to the silky smoothness of 70% dark chocolate, to the bitter hardness of 85% and to the heady aftertaste of white chocolate.
Word began to spread that I'd do anything for a piece of chocolate. The rumours were mostly true; I'd do anything for a box of chocolate, one piece was never enough. Boys began to give me chocolate at parties, and in return I gave them my body. I became, quite literally, a chocolate whore. It was great for nearly five years, right up until I started asking for money so that I could buy myself the chocolate I so desperately needed to live. I'd started to lose the innocence, the naivete that had so charactrerised my early career as a whore when I began to charge money for my services.
These days, I'm a moderately attractive, dark-haired whore. I dress in thigh-high black boots, a cute little white pleather miniskirt, and a jewel-tone 'beater. I no longer accept chocolate as a valid form of payment, mostly because these days I get paid enough to buy an entire chocolate store (if I wanted to). But I will never ever refuse someone's gift of chocolate. Especially not the dark kind. Mmm....just thinking of the dark chocolate waiting in my freezer makes me drool a little. I can't continue to write this in good faith, so I must depart in search of amazing chocolate.
- Otakon 2008, in a nutshell
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- sephary
- August 11th, 2008
amused
~ Gofering. insanely fun, somehow more-so than attending...o.O
~ ran around as Lucy from Elfen Lied on Friday and freaking out people who knew me (Andrei.)
~ my bf came up behind me while I was on a Gofer shift and glomp me.
~ stayed in a room with a majority of Cosfu members = interesting conversations
~ said roommates giving my bf flak for being 17, and me flak for dating him -_-
~ found an awesome renaissance overcoat in the dealer's room in purple leather that was well worth the price.
~ almost Gofered for 10 hours on Sat, but realised that it was rude to be unavailable, because my bf came up all the way from VA Beach to see me
~ dropped those hours, which resulted in a very happy bf
~ the Cosfu gathering on Friday night; meeting most of the major posters was fun XD
~ found a pair of Tribbles in Artist's Alley and I'm wishing I bought a couple more.
~ ran into Kyliara on Saturday evening. Well, she actually ran into me, I didn't recognise her at first because she was cosplaying the Joker. And was the best I'd seen all con.
~ Ryan makes an awesome Ulqiorra
~ someone took my picture and told me I was the best Lucy they'd seen ^_^
~ spent all of Sunday morning packing, being yelled at by roommates (who had "important" things to do >.>), and met my bf's parents.
~ got a Gofer t-shirt for Gofering more than 10 hour. ^.^
- If Dreams Were Real
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- sephary
- July 23rd, 2008
scared
strange title, I know, but stay with me whilst things get stranger (and more pathetic...:/ )^_^;;
I had a nightmare last night, an honest-to-gods nightmare that wakes you up with your heart pounding and tears streaming down your face. This sort of thing hasn't happened to me since I was like five, and had just watched the Jurassic Park for the first time. The dream scared me badly, and to top it all off, woke me up more than half an hour before my alarm, which is too little to warrant attempting to sleep again. Which I couldn't have done anyways, because every time I closed my eyes to try, the final piece of the dream kept replaying itself in my head.
Enough preamble, on with the story!
I sit in my room, on my laptop as always when one of my brothers enters the room.
"Ary, there's a house on fire. We're gonna go help" he says, and outside we go. I do not follow him to the house, because I'd rather watch from a distance, ie-my front yard. I can see an angry orange glow in the sky above the house, and realise that it must be a large fire. But where are the firemen? I wonder.
I stand outside watching until I realise that there are three small fires in the shrubbery in my front yard. I don't panic, which most people would, I think, and instead just stand there calmly watching the bushes burn. One of my brothers comes running up to me, sees the fires and hands me a fire extinguisher. I sort of know how to use it, just from reading the label, and start attempting to extinguish the fires. I manage to get two of them put out when a fireman shows up and puts out the third one. My dad walks up from behind me and says that he's going inside to take a shower. I nod, and remain outside to watch the other house burn.
"Is that smoke?" asks the fireman. I look at the window to my parents' bedroom and see little wisps coming out of it. After studying it for a moment, I reply with a "naw. it's probably just the steam from the shower" and the fireman nods understanding and goes back to just standing there with me.
Suddenly, that same angry orangey-red glow appears in the window. Oh shit, I think to myself. The glow brightens and intensifies, until a roiling orange-red-soot-coloured "cloud" appears in the window. My dad's in there, I think, yet remain completely calm. Moments later, the glass shatters and blows outward as the fireball expands. I watch in horror as the glow appears in my room's window briefly, just before the fireball enters my room. My windows' glass explodes outwards as the firestorm overtakes my bedroom. My books!! My room! ohmygods ohmygods ohmygods my BOOOOOOKS!!! My house begins to buckle as the firestorm destroys the interior, and finally collapses. Suddenly I find that I've collapsed to my knees, sitting splay-legged on the damp grass of my front yard, with tears streaming down my face.
"...my books..." I cry softly to myself. My precious books, I can't believe I've just lost all my books...
And thus the dream ends, and I awake with tears on my face and my heart pounding in my chest. I lay in my bed for a couple minutes before getting up and reassuring myself that my books are still there, and that the house hasn't collapsed in a giant fireball.
I know, pathetic, right?
Although, in some ways, it proves what I have long suspected: that my books are my life, my soul, and my security blanket. Without my 400+ books, I don't know what I'd do. Hell, thinking about it, if my dream had been real, I find it highly likely that I would've run into the house, and probably died trying to save my books. :/
go figure.
- Miniatures!!
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- sephary
- June 29th, 2008
bored
So, I finally got around to taking pictures of my miniatures:a dark elven corsair
another dark elven corsair
a dark elven warlordWarlord
Lin the Mad
Tamsciel
- Summer 08
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- sephary
- June 3rd, 2008
- amused
Lot of time to cover in one post.
The spring semester's been over for a while now, and it was so far my favourite semester at UMD. HIST225 was an amazing course, as well as THET110. I passed MATH140, which is an accomplishment. I joined the Satanic Mechanics (whom I love), and made some new friends in Miami Beach during Spring Break. Overall, a great semester.
I'm doing a lot over the summer, and not all of it is fun stuff.
The fun and sort-of-fun:
- I have a new phone. It is made of WIN and AWESOME. I also have new glasses. ^_^
- I have a job at my dad's office as a paid intern, which is rather nice.
- I'm taking two ARTT classes - 110 and 100, 110 during Summer I, and 100 during the first half of Summer II. So far, 110 is quite fun.
- I'm hosting Nerf games infrequently at my house. The ones over Winter Break were awesome (if cold) and hopefully these will be more of the same.
- I'm also (hopefully) going to be DMing a D&D campaign of my own design, with lots of nasty little surprises in store for the players. >D
- OTAKON. what more need be said?
- oh, and my birthday. :P
The not fun:
- I have to take the metro every morning from Grosvenor to CP, which is long. And then, once 110 is over, I have to metro to Bethesda so that I can work.
- I'm living at home. For those who have known me for more than a week, the reasons should be evident in that statement alone.
So far I've completed two days of this crazy home-metro-ARTT110-metro-work@Bethesda-metro(sometimes)-home schedule that I've got going, now all that remains to see if I can survive it for 9 weeks.
- Sandman
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- sephary
- April 26th, 2008
melancholy
A good friend of mine sent me a digital copy of Sandman some while ago. I didn't actually start reading it until four days ago. I read more than half of it by Wednesday evening, at which point an idea came into my head. I needed to write something; something about Dream. The idea wasn't actually put to paper until Thursday, when I realised that if I didn't write it down, I'd forget, and lose whatever it was that I felt whilst reading the series. So I wrote it down. It took until today for me to remember to type it up. Enough preamble, though, here is my poem, Morpheus: A memorial written before there was need for a memorial.
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I dreamed last night,
Sir Dream,
do you know what I dreamed?
I dreamed of lands
long forgotten.
I dreamed of cities
long buried.
I dreamed of people
long dead.
I dreamed last night,
Sir Dream,
did you see what I saw?
I saw mythic creatures
long denied.
I saw ancient gods
long rejected.
I saw old civilisations
long disputed.
I dreamed last night,
Sir Dream,
did you hear what I heard?
I heard songs of old
long sung.
I heard tales of old
long told.
I heard hymns of old
long praised.
I dreamed last night,
Sir Dream,
did you feel what I felt?
I felt the weight of ages
long lost.
I felt the hope of ages
long upheld.
I felt the sands of time
long flowing.
I dreamed last night,
Sir Dream,
did you feel what I felt?
I felt loneliness.
did you hear what I heard?
I heard silence.
did you see what I saw?
I saw darkest night.
do you know what I dreamed?
I dreamed of the Endless.
What’s that Dreamlord?
Why, I dreamed of you,
Morpheus.
- Change
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- sephary
- March 4th, 2008
cheerful
As some may have noticed, I don't usually write too many non-event/activity-related journal posts; this is one of the few times that I'm writing because I feel the need to write about something that's happened.
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It's really interesting to look back on a younger me, and notice and realise just how much I've changed over the years. It's even more interesting to watch myself change over a period of roughly a month; and somewhat scary at the same time.
Two months ago, the thought of being a Satanic Mechanic would never have crossed my mind, and yet here I find myself Sprouting with them. One month ago, when I first joined the troupe, the one (of a few...) thing that I was very firm about was "touch me and die". I said that I absolutely would not tolerate being touchy-feely with members of the cast. Now, I'm doing the Time Warp for Rocky Horror (on Saturday the 8th), and I've auditioned for a bunch of parts in the upcoming Princess Bride shadowcasting (which include Westley, Inigo, and Humperdinck :P). As I get more and more used to the way that the cast of SM functions, I find myself changing rather drastically.
I've gone to two 'parties' for the SM crowd; the first was Japan Night two weeks ago, the second was last weekend's Sprout Night. Both times, I realised just how much I've changed since joining the cast (sort of). For Japan Night, it was the knowledge that I'd gone to a party where alchohol was present (and being drunk by friends) for the first time. Apparently, Japan Night is on the lower, more tame end of the party scale for SM, which makes me wonder just what the cast party's going to be like after RHPS on Saturday. ^.^
To make things even more interesting, though, fellow SMers have noticed as well. PapaSprout has even asked if I'm okay, because I've been changing so rapidly. By the end of the semester, who knows what kind of a person I'll be...All I know is, I've changed a lot since the end of senior year of high school, and I like it. ^_^
- Katsucon 14, Day 3: February 17
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- sephary
- February 25th, 2008
blah
First things first: going to be at five in the morning, and waking up at ~10:30/11 is not conducive to one's thinking ability.
We had to be out of the room by 12, so that meant there was roughly an hour for everyone (there was 7 of us) to pack up our stuff and get into cosplay (for those of us who were wearing costumes...). I went for the simple and easy-to-travel-in outfit: all black, with my cat ears and tail. I would normally have worn my contacts, too, but the lack of sleep and wearing my contacts for more than 15 hours straight twice in a row meant that my eyes were sorely in need of a break from irritants. I finally figured out (on the last day...-_-) that I could just drop my bags off with the game room and grab 'em when the video game room closed, which was pretty close to the end of the con, and not have to pay for the storage. ^^;
I managed to run into a bunch of other con-friends; Chris, DustBunny, anigirl, and all them while looking for a place to eat lunch (Chipotle) and sat down with them in the middle of the lobby. There was a mutual realisation that we've all known each other for a whole year now, which was really strange. Where does all this time go?? I also ran into Josh early on in the afternoon, but lost him in the dealer's room.
The dealer's room was the source of many great finds this time around--I managed to get the entire InvaderZIM series for $20, because the stuff's always on sale on the last day of the con. I also found this really awesome Victorian-style miniskirt in a deep burgundy red, along with a red chainmail 'purse' that I'm using for all my D&D dice. ^_^
By far the most entertaining piece of the day occurred while I was walking down the stairs near Video2. As I got to the bottom of the stairs, I suddenly hear a 'get her' from behind me, and before I know it, there's three girls who've managed to "trap" me between them. One of them was wearing a pair of those pants with all the straps, and the three of them had linked together using the straps, and then closed around me like a venus fly trap. It was really funny, actually. Naturally, there was a fourth person to take a picture of the three of them glomping me. XD
The aftermath isn't terribly exciting: I dropped by my parent's house to grab some stuff I'd forgotten, and then we all got Chinese food for dinner before they dropped me off back on campus.
- Katsucon 14, Day 2: February 16
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- sephary
- February 24th, 2008
cold
As a direct result of not getting back to my hotel room until 3AM, I slept until 10. For some reason, at cons, it would appear that the maximum amount of sleep available is roughly 6 hours...O.o...By the time I changed into my cosplay (Yakushi Kabuto) it was closer to 11:30. I made for the Omni around 12.
The afternoon was spent wandering around the con, for the most part, although I was kinda hoping that I'd run into my friends from the previous day (no luck, really.) I did run into almost all of my con-friends from previous cons and it was awesome to talk with them.I also ran into TAS again, which, since I was in cosplay (again), was somewhat entertaining.
After nearly 3 hours at the con, and eating a small dinner at McDonalds, I got bored of being Kabuto and changed into my neko-fighter-chick outfit and carried around my lightsabers from the previous night. One or two people actually recognised me, which was kinda nice--and one person even took my picture! (which I really badly want...-_-).
I finally met up with Kurt, Josh, Suzy, and co, and we watched the masquerade in the overflow room. The masquerade was okay, and really fun--it's definitely something I plan on attending at future cons, if not being in it. We also all got hungry (sort of) and decided to order pizza in to one of their hotel rooms. The six of us (sans Kurt, but +one other) sat in the hallway to wait for the pizza, which ended up being delivered to the front desk. So, we all went back out to the lobby to grab the pizza, and ate in the sitting area near the game room, which was fun. I also ran into another con-friend, who was cosplaying the new Joker from Batman (really well, I might add).
The rave that night was waaaaay more crowded but equally as fun. I ended up having to replace my lightsabers, because they were kinda cheap and couldn't hold up to the abuse I was putting them through while dancing. Once again, Josh figured out my timing, and we ended up 'fighting' each other. I rather wish I'd been on the outside too, just so I could see what it actually looked like, but I guess that's what pictures are for (if I can find any!) ^^; . I stayed for the entirety of the rave, because by the time I was thinking of leaving, it would have been safer to just wait until it was over and walk back with one of my roommates (who was volunteering), which I did. We got back at 4:30 or so, and I didn't get to sleep until around 5AM.
- Katsucon 14, Day 1: February 15
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- sephary
- February 22nd, 2008
- cheerful
Well, this one's rather late, compared to previous con reports, so some things have probably been left out...ah, well. ^^
Left campus at ~3:30 with Andrei for the College Park metro already in costume. I went as a Jounin Orochimaru (from the flashback that Sarutobi has right before he dies during the Chuunin Exams)...apparently the difference between my normal self, and my Jounin Orochimaru was enough that people had trouble recognising me. O_o I got a couple weird looks on my way to the metro and on the metro itself, which caused me no end of amusement.
We got to the con at ~4, checked my bags (they were too heavy to tout around), and I got in line to register for a badge. A number of people glomped me throughout the evening, but eventually I stopped moving around and sat down to watch AMV Hell in the hallway with a bunch of other people. I ended up hanging out with three really neat guys for the rest of the evening (for lack of familiar faces to tag along with). At some point, I got really bored wearing my Orochimaru cosplay, and changed into my rave outfit, which was basically this, except with bows on the ears:
and wore that for the remainder of the evening. We ended up back in the hallway later on, and sat down to watch more crazy AMVs (like AMV Heck), and another showing of AMV Hell 4. Kurt (one of said "neat guys") gave me a really weird face at one point as I was talking along with the AMV, which sent me into a giggling fit. :P
The rave started at 12:30, which we all went to, and there was much rejoicing. I bought myself two LED light sabers and had an absolute blast dancing with them. Another of the "neat guys", Josh, managed to figure out the timing in my dance (which was modeled after the final fight from Serenity, where River goes psycho-bitch on the Reavers), and the end result was that even though we were dancing, it appeared as though we were having a mock-fight. It must've looked really cool; I can't seem to find any pictures, though...-_-
I got back to my hotel (it was near the Chinese Embassy) at around 3AM, and promptly fell asleep.
- The Adventures of the Dark Musketeers
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- sephary
- January 10th, 2008
- amused
So, this past Saturday, I invited Andrew over to my place to show him some photoshop tricks that I'd learned, and Kyliara dropped in later on. We all watched the Redskins game with my dad, who was more than happy to have another diehard fan in the house to watch with (Kyliara). We also watched "Window of Opportunity" from Stargate Sg-1 season 4.
Kyliara had a party to go to, so she left, and Andrew was planning on staying behind for a little so I could show him more photoshop stuff. However, Andrew's phone started ringing about 20 minutes later--it was Kyliara. She'd gone the wrong way on 495, almost ended up in Virginia, then turned around to head back towards my house. Kyliara missed the exit, though, and tried to turn around again to catch it, when her pickup hit something and fishtailed. She pulled over onto Clara Barton Parkway to get out of traffic, and parked on the grass--there's no shoulder. That's when she called Andrew.
So, being the good friends we are, Andrew and I jumped in his car and drove out to help Kyliara. We found her about halfway to DC, and jumped out. Her front right tire had blown, leaving a strip of rubber tire in between the hubcap and the grassy mud. After almost an hour of trying to move the car off the grass and back onto the road, the only thing we'd managed to do was get it stuck in the mud about a yard away from it's original position. Kyliara and I started calling people to see if anyone was willing to come out and maybe tow her truck about 10ft to the road--she really didn't want to call a towtruck. There was no luck in finding anyone. Finally, Kyliara called 911 and managed to get a couple of cops to come out and see what they could do.
Surprisingly, they were actually really useful. As the lightest person out there, I was asked to drive the truck out of the mud, so that Kyliara and Andrew could weigh down the trunk of the pickup while the two cops pushed forward. The notion worked, and the car made it out of the mud with no further damage. The spare tire was switched for the dead one, with the police's help, and the three of us drove back to my house to drop me off with no further trouble. ^_^
NOT. We actually ended up going the wrong way on MacArthur, and into DC. So we turned around, and headed back the other way, and finally made it back to my house.
The title for this entry, though, comes from a random comment made to Andrew while we were searching for Kyliara. All three of us wear these long, black coats (theirs are way cooler than mine, though), and since there were three of us, and all three use melee swords for HvZ/CTF, I dubbed us three "the Dark Musketeers". ^^
- Work, Cosplay, Cons, and UMDNAS
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- sephary
- December 30th, 2007
- bored
So, it's Winter Break, and I'm busybusybusy. I've got a temp job at my dad's law firm office, helping out with filing, copying, typing, and the occasional IT stuff -- basically bitch-work. But, for what I'm getting paid to do this stuff, I'm not complaining. ^_^ What I make goes towards cons (Katsu and AMA for now), and buying me a new set of rollerblades to use during spring semester on campus.
I've become a moderator for the UMD Nerf Apocalypse Society, helping ref games and plan for Capture The Flag during next semester. Hopefully, we'll figure out if the new NERF Recon CS-6 is any good, because it looks awesome, and I need something with more range than a maverick if I'm going to avoid getting massacred during CTF. ^_^; I'm also working on a super secret project with Kyliara and Andrew for CTF; once it's completed, it's going to be totally awesome.
My planned cosplays for Katsucon aren't coming along so well: my Naruto OC, which is all but completed, needing only for me to finish the ass-bow and buy a can of white hair spray. I've got all the pieces and parts I need for Lina Inverse, for the most part, but just can't seem to dredge up the motivation to work on it. Julia Chang, from Tekken, is another cosplay I'm working on, because it involves a minimum amount of effort.
Speaking of which, I attended AnimeUSA last month (November) and had an absolute blast! I stayed with the most awesome people, and put together a really awesome random outfit with stuff I found in the dealer's room. The pictures from the con can be found on my facebook, for those who know me there...I'm too lazy to post some of them here for now. :P
- Humans vs Zombies: Day 10
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- sephary
- November 4th, 2007
- amused
12:00AM- watched Satanic Mechanics' Army of Darkness. great fun.
2:15- exited Stamp. everyone wide awake, so planned party in dorm lounge.
2:30- got GameCube and Pepsi out of room for party. brought down to C-town lounge. Kyliara brought N64 and games as well.
3:00 to 5:00- I kicked ass at Super Smash Bros Melee on my 'cube, and in Pokemon Stadium on the N64. Lost miserably in Pokemon Stadium 2. losers had to do dares. if you weren't there, you don't need to know.
5:05- left party with 'cube. tired.
5:30- went to sleep.
1:30PM- woke up. no longer tired. Shick planned pre-scenario ambush of humans outside McKeldin at 3.
3:00- met outside McKeldin for ambush. didn't quite work out.
3:30- holed up humans inside the library. haha.
3:40- left for animal science building for Zed meet-up.
3:50- zed meeting. divided into squads based on function. my squad, the Army of Darkness, used as camping/ambush squad around/on humans' objective. humans had to get a gun, which would then allow them to kill Rotbeard, the zed hivemind, thus ending and destroying the zombie plague.
4:00- scenario starts. squad in place. literally 'sat' on top of the gun. not very comfortable.
5:00- humans fail to get the superweapon gun. zeds win HvZ. massive hunting in Hornbake plaza, for zeds to turn remaining humans. much fun.
6:00- 'party' breaks up. official end of HvZ. rather sad that it's over.
- Humans vs Zombies: Day 9
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- sephary
- November 4th, 2007
- bouncy
(can't really remember everything...^_^;)
6:50PM- met outside Kim building for briefing on Scenario 7. split into Zombies and Shock Troopers. mission: guard the box.
7:00- scenario begins. Shick in control, for the most part. self, kyliara, and Tea B as mobile unit to prevent breakthrough to the core surrounding the box.
7 something- Kyliara and self positioned to circle around behind Humans to prevent box from reaching Human spawn point.
7 something- humans acquire box. run for wrong spawn point. Shick, Kyliara, and self are "wtf?!". mods discuss what happened. Humans failed this part.
8:00- humans must now reach evac point. TFZs sent to ambush near Hornbake plaza.
8 something- evac point moved due to alarms outside/near the library. ambush squad attempted to reset outside the Pi statues. Humans came up too fast, not enough time to maneuver to front of statues to get them. Success for Humans (I think...).
8:45- scenario officially over. debriefing. humans get another vaccine dart.
9ish- hungry. left to get food with Shick, Ryan, and two other zeds. went to Chipotle, after much deliberation.
10:30- returned to campus. went to Stamp for Satanic Mechanics' Army of Darkness.
11:00- got in line for AoD.
- Humans vs Zombies: Day 8
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- sephary
- November 3rd, 2007
- bored
9:30AM- woke up. not as tired as I have been--perhaps Zombiedom is catching up to me.
11:00- skipped boring Math lecture. prof can't teach, I have already taken Calc.
11:40- left room for Psychology discussion. no humans sighted, nor fellow zeds.
12:00PM- psyc discussion. took quiz.
12:30- left early. no humans or zeds sighted.
12:45- ate lunch at NC Diner. still no humans or zeds.
1:00- returned to dorm room. lurked on 'net for a while.
1:40- left for CompSci lecture.
2:00- compSci lecture. 4 zeds in class, 2 in my squad.
2:50- left CSIC. no humans.
3:00- back in room. lurked on 'net for scenario updates.
3:55- left for Stamp for scenario 6.
4:10- arrived at Stamp. early. no humans or zeds, yet.
4:20- other zeds arrive. attempted to ambush small group as they exited Stamp. no luck. gathered to plan for scenario.
4:45- scenario begins. zeds have 30 min to get plague boxes to each diner.
4:58- South Campus diner is plagued. squad rushes to help NC group.
5:03- NC group completes mission. NC Diner is plagued.
5:05- return to pi statues for briefing. zeds win, humans can't use ranged weapons within 30ft of a diner.
5:30- starving. ate at SC diner with other zeds.
7:00- returned to dorm after failed ambush attempt at SC diner. very cold.
8:00- began watching anime on laptop while lurking on both NASForums and Facebook.
11:40- stopped watching anime. very tired. went to sleep.
- Humans vs Zombies: Day 7
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- sephary
- November 2nd, 2007
calm
9:15AM- awoke. skipped physics102 (sooooo booooooring).
10:20- attempted the math140 webassign. stopped less than halfway through because of lack of motivation.
11:00- lurked on the 'net.
12:15PM- took a nice, long nap. scenarios are incredibly tiring. skipping math discussion--too tired.
1:00- woke up. watched StormChasers.
1:25- left to grab a quick lunch before meeting Prince and Rotbeard to get walky-talkies for the Shambling Horde.
1:50- left Diner to meet up with Zombie friends.
2:15- went off campus for the walkys.
3:15- returned to campus. skipped psychology--boring.
4:20- went off campus with bf for bowling league.
5:40- returned to campus because of logistical/emotional issues amongst team members.
6:35- found self back on campus. prepared to meet up with Rotbeard and Horde for the scenario.
6:45- met up with the Horde behind Anne Arundel for scenario.
7:00- team in position to guard the box, which was in a tree.
7:10- first group of shock troopers blow through. chaos ensued.
7:30- first attempt by humans to take the box. couldn't find it. shocks came through again.
7:45- ambush squad joined up with mine. set up decoy guards around the location most likely to hold the box. box still in tree.
7:50- humans failed last half of scenario. boxes not found by them. zombies and shocks win.
8:15- mods declare the rules surrounding 'vaccine darts' and humans get 4 darts. zeds discuss w-t tactics. labeled w-t's as property of NAS. everyone dismissed from scenario.
8:30- went to stamp for gaming club. played munchkin for an hour or so.
9:40- very hungry. left club for diner. saw two humans inside.
10:00- returned to room. lurked on 'net for a while.
11:30- very tired. went to sleep.
