Wow...just wow. AkiCon was such a huge blast!

I haven't had so much fun at an anime convention in a long time, and it felt sooo good. Made some new con buddies, cheered my head off at the Soul Candy concert (Premiering songs from their first real album! It was SO COOL.), was highly amused by the hilarious 'musical' attempts of ~xXKingAceXx to get people to buy the prints/bookmarks/cellphone charms being sold by fellow GasuKan-er ~ji-hwan in the Artists' Alley, cheered like hella crazy at the Cosplay Showdown (~ji-hwan's BlazBlue cosplay group won the grand prize! $500!!! And happily, my bud ~Javakat343's fun cosplay skit won 2nd prize in that.), attended =PhotoPanda's first ever panel (on cosplay photography), had some Yu-Gi-Oh lolz with my bud James (cosplaying as Yuusei) and a girl who was cosplaying as Thief King Bakura (she kept stealing the little Millennium Eye lens-thingy of mine! Gah!), finally got to meet this cool guy who badly wants to attend GK (~Raif-San), and got to have fun sharing experience & tips as a guest speaker at the crossplay panel run by Carlos (of Soul Candy) - called "Crossplayers Guide to the Galaxy".

There was TONS of other great stuff that went on during the con, and it'd take me a long time to write about here and I may risk boring you with all the details...LOL. Totally psyched and looking forward to next year's AC and hoping to have some way better (and cooler-looking) costumes. As a matter of fact, I have a crazy-awesome idea right now of trying to pull off a slightly mascot-style costume of "Boota" from Gurren Lagann. Fufufu... I'm going to try my best on fulfilling this - for the joy of having a warm & comfy costume, and have fun being that kawaii little pig-mole of awesomeness. >3<

I'm attempting to get a job at the GameStop store at Pacific Place. Here's to the hope that this'll work out and I can finally be rid of dumbass Burger King. *crosses fingers*

In other news: I had a blast at GasuKan's 2nd anniversary (a.k.a. GK #21). Enjoyed some tasty food and goodies brought by the cosplay group 'R.A.P.E. Productions' (really loved their tempura, negi tamago, and pomegranate seeds; and there was a cake with =PhotoPanda's logo!), and for once I stayed a long time at Pochi's when folks went there later in the evening (though it felt weird since I missed the late bus home; oh well, still worked out okay - just got real cold on the walk home from 15th avenue...I've gotta remember to bring stuff to change into from now on).

And also, my cosplay plans for AkiCon are now finalized =

Friday --- "Konoha Gakuen" Choji
Friday Night --- "Raver" Choji
Saturday --- "Raver Fox" (fuzzy & fun stuff)
Sunday --- Maximillian J. Pegasus

Thanks to my dad's wonderful efforts, the electricity in our home won't be shut off (however, due to using part of the money for next month's rent in making a payment in a deal we worked out with the electric company, I'm sure we'll be in hot water again soon...ugh).

Doesn't change the fact that my job situation is still in a dark abyss, and so far my job hunting has been extremely fruitless and making me even more depressed. I swear, it seriously looks like all local employers are discriminatory against fast-food workers! (even though folks always claim that experience in such jobs are a sure win-win way to get better ones... Pfft...what a joke.)

In other news, GasuKan's 2nd anniversary gathering is coming up, and I hope it'll be awesome. Going to do an unique and crazy costume for it - my own 'shinigami' version of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland (a.k.a. a creepy dark envisioning of that character). Already got most of it worked out from amid the things I already own (only needed to buy the ears, some white gloves, and creepy fangs for this; not bad), and all I've got left to do is find one of my dad's pocketwatches to have fun with (he already gave me permission to tinker with it for the sake of helping my costume to be cool...LOL). And if getting ready for this wasn't crazy enough, AkiCon is in just a few weeks! I'm quite looking forward to that, since I get the joy of being an assistant for the crossplay panel (entitled "Tuck Everlasting"... *snort* gosh that name cracks me up).

Attention DA friends: I'll be losing the electricity in my apartment in a few days, due to not being able to pay the bill for months. That means no internet access for who the heck knows how long. Besides the utter frustration and immense stress that already puts on me, something even worse happened today when I showed up for work...

...My boss proved how much of a dick and a heartless bastard he is, by REDUCING my already way-too-frikkin tiny hours to even less. NO ONE could ever live off of 10 hours a week, paid minimum wage!!!!!

*momentarily erupts into a giant storm of shouting cusswords*

So... I'll be working my poor ass off looking for a new job, which truly sucks since I haven't been feeling well lately, and most certainly will have a horrid time of doing that/keeping in touch with friends once my electricity gets cut off (and if anyone mentions getting hold of a group that gives financial aid for paying the electric, forget it - my dad tried more than one and they turned him down, mentioning some BS about not getting enough funding, etc.).

Yesturday was GK20, and despite the fact that it was raining quite a bit for most of the day, it still was a lot of fun. A few folks besides me had fun doing Konoha Gakuen cosplays (mostly their own unique versions, not truly the official look; ~sailoronymoon did a pretty kickass Sakura that included a punk-y skirt & knee-high socks with cherries on them), so that was neat to see. There were also quite a bit of newcomers, and that rocked (like ~MiyuYuuhi, ~strawberryspots, etc.). The location chosen for this one was "Pratt Park", which is one heck of a cool playground that has all sorts of artistic and clever features (including a few that, as I and a few buds discovered, would make this place an epicly LOLtastic place to have a Yu-Gi-Oh photoshoot some day). And later on, I hung out with a small group that went to Westlake Mall for dinner (which included 2 awesome girls cosplaying as Deidara and Sasori). Just as we were eating, several Japanese teens came over and asked if they could take photos of us, and they were so delighted to run into people in cosplay. I'm not kidding about this... and it made dinner all the more awesome. XD

In other news, I'm eagerly looking forward to attending AkiCon (all 3 days! w00t!), and also hoping to save up the money I need for cosplaying as Janus at SakuraCon next year (it'd be the greatest joy ever to finally get to do one of my dream cosplays, and esp. a character from Chrono Trigger; and even if it doesn't get done in time, I still plan to run a little CT/CC photoshoot on the first day of the con - I've gotten quite a few folks happy about the idea).