I will be leaving tomorrow to spend a couple days in Orlando, FL. I'm really excited. Anytime I get to travel is always cause to be excited and then anytime I get to travel and be with Jose is just perfect. Let's hope that this time when I go to Florida there's not going to be another hurricane situation like when I went to Jacksonville last year.

I still need to pack and get the rest of my homework assignments for this week done. We're coming to the tail end of the semester and then a nice long and very much needed 4 week break, so I'm getting into that super lazy, I don't wanna phase. And working on my final paper for Business Law while being in Orlando is going to be a bear and a half, but it will have to be done. I'll be able to knock it out if I force myself, besides, I'll be taking Melchior with me so that makes things a lot easier.

I'll have more tales from Usa in a little while... Right now still don't have the proper brain capacity to do a full discussion. Although I finally have enough intelligence to form proper sentences, which was more than I can say about me yesterday after I got home. I think I had seriously enough intelligence to run my vital organs and that was about all.

But the 4 something in the morning panel never went down, despite me staying up ALL night for it. What happened (the condensed version) was I was never told what room to report to for the panel, went to a room and sat there for awhile, but there was another panel in that room. I left to try to find what other rooms were available, but the other two panels rooms had panels going on in them and neither panel looked like they were ending soon, so I gave up and went to bed. So much for trying to do the right thing.

I will never ever again in life stay up that late, especially at a convention, for three reasons, 1st being I'm just too old for that trash, 2nd ugh, I forget that's usually when the drunk/ high kids are up meandering around the con and the conversations that go on that late are really sad (i.e. the high dude on the elevator who was on the phone trying to order food), and the 3rd reason is staying up that late makes me feel like I have had decades taken off my life. I went to bed at 7:50 on the dot last night and didn't wake up until my alarm sounded at 8:30 this morning and I still don't feel rested. Even now I want to take a nap (which I may well do).

Yes, that's a good idea and I think I'll do that right now.

Well, we're knee deep in this mess now. Apparently there's a new problem with the fashion show where they moved cosplay back, which the room that's the cosplay overflow room is also the room where the fashion show is to take place. So if they moved cosplay back, then that moves the fashion show back... Poor Yuuki is so frustrated and rightly so I just wish there was something I could do.

Apparently he's not the only one having problems. According to several other panelists, the scheduling has people up until 5:30 in the morning doing panels. In fact I have a 4:30 am panel because when I signed up the website said, if you 3 or more panels then you can be an associate. Fast forward to last Saturday, I get an email saying that you are only able to get an associate badge if you do 6 hours or more of panels. Basically I had to agree to do 1 extra, super mega butt late at night (or early in the morning depending how you look at it) panel. In fact it's the 2nd round of the Geezer's panel. I'm calling it Geezer's panel 2: The Drunks Ahoy Addition!

On the up side, the Villain's panel went well... Some people didn't stay, but most did. I think everyone enjoyed it and I didn't stay confined just to anime. I talked about video games too. Just to stretch the topics out and go a little bit longer. The downside of that panel was Melchior got stage fright and wouldn't play the Utena clip I wanted, also that panel was in the "tv room". Why do I call it, the "tv room"? Because instead of a screen to hook your computer up to, its a television. And not a nice flat screen either, its an old school tv from like the late 90's. And Melchior doesn't have an S video cable feed. Ugh, it was a mess indeed, but it worked out. I have two... Scratch that, three more panels to go before I hang myself from the terrace outside, but I'm sure I'll make them work. Hell, I got the villains one to work and I didn't even really know what I was talking about for that panel, the other topics I'm a little more comfortable with.

Despite it all, I'm managing to have a good time. The Host Club was fun last night (I'll talk more about that later on) and seeing people I haven't seen all year has been a lot of fun. I miss the social aspect of going to a con and I didn't have a lot of that when I went to Anime Next this year.

More to come... Stay tuned. Right now its naptime!

I don't know guys... I really don't know... I think Usa may end up getting the dreaded worse con of the year award. This has been a fiasco and a half (and its only Friday). Bad scheduling, mis-information on panel/ associates badges, and lots of chaos. I'm shocked and appalled. I really do expect better from Usa and this is a dark day for my favorite con. You know its bad when you go to the Programming Ops room and people have that "why God, why?!" look and it was only Friday afternoon.

I have email through my school, but I never look at it. I think the last time I checked my email was sometime in the early part of summer... Looking at the date it had to be July 10th. But when I looked today I saw that I missed out on a boat load of things. I missed invitations, parties, events... Hell I even missed a letter from the school saying I had a $600 dollar credit to the bookstore (Oh snap)! Oh well, I guess I'll be checking that more often from now on...

So I have my roster for spring... Ugh, we're getting into the nitty-gritty of it now. If I pass all of my next couple of classes, then I will have just 5 more classes to go before graduation. Wow, that was fast wasn't it?

So here's my roster for Spring 2010 sessions one and two starting January 11th:

Applied Management Concepts (Online)

Macroeconomics 101- Thursday 8:30 AM- 12:30 PM

Spring session two starting March 8th

Microeconomics 102 (Online)

Ethical Management of IT- 8:30 AM- 12:30 PM

Plus I may or may not be taking Statics at CCP in the spring too. Ugh... This is going to be pretty hardcore.

I just woke up from a much needed nap (I had a horrible nights sleep last night) and the dream I woke up from was really, really weird.

What happened was I was in New York around Bryant Park on the big wedding day. I'm in my dress and I see all these other brides around in their dresses. Some were finishing getting married, some were on their way to their ceremony, it was really weird. So I get a moment to myself and I run outside of the hotel I was in and I see even more brides, doing things. Note there was this really sexy guy with blue eyes and medium length dusty blonde hair (kinda rugged looking oh he was sexy) laying on the ground with some lady in a white trumpet style wedding dress. After I dash past them I see... Of all people, the mother from the Cosby show, arguing about how she wanted her daughter to look on her wedding day. Something was wrong with her dress I don't know what it was, but it there was a problem.

After I go past her, I see a huge dress bag draped across this stair railing. Up the stairs I can hear all these people talking about a bridal photoshoot (thus explains why there are so many women in wedding dresses around). But no one is guarding this lone wedding dress, so I take it and I run to put it on. So now I'm in this red and white dress (similar to this one with the red back) and I'm running all around happy as a lark. However after running around for awhile I go to look for my dress and I can't find it. Right before I wake up I'm in a bridal store with David Tutera (I've been watching WAY too many episodes of My Fair Weddings) and he's telling me that he knows I didn't like my dress... That's when I woke up like, huh?

I have no idea what this dream is supposed to mean? Could it mean something's going on with my dress and I need to call and check up on it? Could it mean something about the original dress which I'm taking with me to AUSA this weekend? Could it mean I've been watching way too many wedding programs (Say Yes to the Dress, My Fair Weddings, Bridezillas, Platinum Weddings, Battle of the Wedding Planners...) Yes these are my regularly scheduled programs and it would be this way even without being engaged, it's probably the latter.

This is what the dream moods website says about wedding dresses and what those dreams mean:

To wear a wedding dress in your dream, indicates that you are evaluating and assessing your personal relationship.

To see someone else wearing a wedding dress, suggests that you are feeling inferior or unworthy.

Maybe this has to do with my underlying concerns with Anime Usa, but really I just don't care about that anymore. Either way, it was a really strange dream.

Ugh there is still so much I have to do and I have like zero in terms of time. So here's the long and the short of it. I will probably be in Lolita for most of the weekend and it's nothing new (since I've been so super poor this year), but sometimes breaking out the classics is good too. I have been debating if I want to/ can attend the Gear Master's Ball on Friday night. And what I was thinking was wearing the 1st wedding gown I purchased as my attire for that event. I mean since I can't seem to sell the stupid thing I may as well get some use out of it, right? So I may do that. I was going to bring Queen Esther, but I really don't feel like getting that out of storage (basically) nor do I feel like trying to squeeze the two underskirts into my luggage.

Once again no cosplay... I'm really beginning to come to terms with my not doing cosplay anymore. I'm not sure if it has to do with lack of liking shows or lack of liking characters or what the deal is, I just know I haven't been terribly interested in cosplay these days.

But let me think off the top of my head what I'll be wearing/ bringing.

1) Rosenrot (Rose Red) Lolita- Maybe change into this after I arrive on Friday.

2) Ralph Wiggum (Casual) Lolita- Planning on wearing this to the Geezer's panel Friday Evening.

3) Gear Master's Ball- My original wedding dress (just so it doesn't rot to death in the closet)

4) Black and white Meta Jsk- Saturday morning for the Pure Evil Panel

5) Pink strawberry Innocent World Jsk- Saturday night for the Lolita panel

6) Blue Girl- My very first Lolita dress I ever made.

I think that's more than enough entertainment for the weekend.

How's this for ironic?  I was just thinking I needed to email the panels coordinator for Usa and lo-and-behold I get an email from the man in question.  So here it is people my panel schedule for Anime Usa:

1) A Geezer's Tale: 11 Years of Con Hopping Glory- Friday 7:00 PM in room Panels 3

2) Pure Evil: Anime's Greatest Villains- Saturday 11:30 AM in room Panels 2

3) Lolita for the Uninitiated- Saturday 10:00 PM in room Panels 2

I'm sure by 11:45 PM Satuday I'll be in my hotel room attempting to hang myself, but eh, this is the road I chose.  So now I have a week to make these panels as good as their topics suggest.  I think I can pull it off.  Even with the limited amount of time I have left.

For the last two weeks I have been getting requests on my wedding planning website.  Yes out of the clear blue sky, people are interested in me planning their weddings now.  Where the crap were you all in January or February when I put that site up?!  Back when I had the time to actually plan weddings.  Now I'm in school and can't do it.

Mostly because planning weddings takes a lot of time and care to properly execute.  With me being in school and a school with such short semesters, there's just no way I can do it and do it right.  Can you imagine having a 10 paged paper due, a final to take, and then a wedding to plan?!  Oh my God, I would hang myself by the end of all that mania.  Why do you think I'm waiting until after I graduate to have my own wedding?!  In order to go to school and plan weddings on the side someone would have to die, there would just be no way.

I think now its finally time to take that wedding planning website down.  I'm not ready.  Plus getting inquiries/ potential clients (which would allow me to pay for my own upcoming nuptials which is doubly sucky) and not being able to take them really bites the big one.