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Rorschachs Journal 08/11/2010 Otakon 2010 edition


Sorry!

Apologies to everyone I normally mail stuff to on my GGS, especially to Amelia as ever since San Diego Ive either been extremely busy or tired. Lately Ive been quite a bit down, busy being on call and tired to boot. Its carried over to this week and Im still feeling it. To be honest though, I know in my heart that Im the only one who can pull me out of this downward spiral. I need to get tough on myself, make some tough decisions and simply execute. I think starting some sort of workout regiment will do wonders. I have finished buying shipping supplies so no more excuses, I will start packing tonightmy new ship out goal date is Monday, August 16th. So please be patient everyone!

I also think that after all of the traveling I did (eight weekends in a row on the road!) that I wound up gaining like 10 to 15 travel pounds that Im trying to shed now with a good diet. By diet I dont mean going on a sudden diet by not eating in some way, I mean going back to my correct eating lifestyle of veggies, meat and no unnecessary carbs/fat/salt. Being back home also means I can go drink my normal 8+ glasses of water I normally drink, which keeps my metabolism very high despite very little cardio.



On Friends, Friendship and Honor

I try to live my life my way and through the years of growing up (and I still am growinghopefully up!) Ive come to realize that my way could be called honorable or chivalrousit all comes from the books I read as a kid. I guess CS Lewis would call it having read all of the RIGHT books. (As opposed to Eustace in Dawn Treader) Its my life (and you cant have it!) and thats how I roll. BTW, my favorite movie to quote is Vanilla Sky. Because every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

But rolling this way often gets me stuck into difficult situations, once that other people would call unpleasant. I guess more on this later

As for friends, I recently made my top 8 on SG and then even more recently I blew it up when I suddenly had more than 8 people I could considerI think its about 11 right now. But that may change again...or stay the same in number with people just shifting in and out.

When I have a SG friend (someone on my Friends List), I have a strong tendency to want to get to know them and want them to get to know me. Anyone else, I dont really consider a friend. This includes a fluid exchange of dialogue. In fact it necessitates this, I think. I dont compromise on this, whether youre a guy SG fan to a pink. Friends are people who trust you enough to rely on you and you can trust enough to rely on themthat cant happen if there isnt dialogue, if you can't call on them or they can't on you.
There are however a few exceptions:
RL friends on my SG I dont care if I talk to RL friends on SG because Ill talk to them when I see them.
New Friends I gotta give them time
Old Friends Many of these people have been my friend and just dont frequent SG as much as they used to or have gone into lurker mode (I spent a year like that myself)

I think maybe I need to edit the list again as each person I consider a real friend, I spend a lot of myself on those people. They get all of meI figure I deserve a significant part of them. After all, friendship here is a mutually agreed upon thing. Luckily I can count at least 8 people like that. Im lucky and rich in that aspect.



Otakon 2010

Speaking of good friends, I made a surprise, secret mission..err visit to Otakon this year. My partner AGAIN was just awesome, helping me out and offering to get me any information and anything else I needed to make the thing happen so quickly. And I went to surprise a couple of friends.

Here are the pics, as long promised!

Opening some MTG packs, M11.


This was Sunday, the day I flew out. _Smurfzilla_ and piratehookerrr standing in front of my booth for a pic. Just adorable! The funny thing is you can tell a bit about their personalitiesI didnt ask them to pose, they just kinda both went off like that, haha. I had fun at the show but it wasnt mission accomplished until I got a hug from each of them and I got this pic. I want to thank both of them oodles and oodles for pushing around their precious con-time schedules to come see me specifically, during the show. I know their con time is much more precious than my normal con-time because on the West Coast we have tons of cons and on the East Coast they just have this one for anime-related stuff. *hugs*

The bottom pic is my pal Karen again IRL, she had her own Artists Alley boothshe told me she raked in so many commissions that she kept having to jack up her pricesin the end she just had to finish them later and mail em after the con.


As always you can get the pics in full size here.

It was a blast. My partner was great. I got to meet the people I went to meet. Period. Exclamation point! And Im thinking about going again next year too and possibly go to the NYC ComicCon. Should be great!

- R
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PS Apologies on the pics but in order to get this journal out in the same day I wrote it, I didnt do the normal Photoshop per image. (Yay, Im at Islands as I finish writing this and the Sundays song Heres Where The Story Ends just came on. )


Next time you hear a woman sing and think or say "she's a great singer!" just compare to this girl first.


PPS - More love for dance and current top 40. GODDAMN I AM NOT AN USHER FAN. NO. I AM NOT!!! Fuck...yes I am...now.


WTF is going on with me? But seriously, this music, this sort of ear candy is the only thing keeping me up and going... Forgive me!