I bet the longer I put off talking about the con the harder it will become to do so, so I'll give it a shot right now!

Our voyage started at 6AM Friday morning, riding with Bec's friend Jaime and an idiotic wanna-be-angsty loser she knew named Michael. We were in Raleigh by 9-something, Mone met us at our room around 10:30 and by 12 we were cruising the hotel in costume. I went to the con believing that getting recognized just once would make the cosplay feel worthwhile. Imagine my surprise when by the end of the weekend I'd gotten my picture taken like 25+ times and a ton of compliments and fangirl squeals! I still can't get over it. There were two other groups of people we didn't know who were cosplaying Gravitation, which made us all feel a little very competitive-- but two friends of mine from UGA, SK and Michelle, did also, and that was (at least for me) a lot of fun! And SK gave me a Kumagurou pin and I'm going to cherish it forever. ;_; As for pictures, we should be getting ours back from Jaime tomorrow and I'll post them here.

As for the con itself, it was a lot of fun but didn't seem like anything too special. I'm not sure if it's because this was my sixth(?) convention, or because it was simply not outstanding. The AMVs totally sucked (Ah! My Goddess needs to DIIIIIE), the only thing that I jumped at in the dealer's room was the Utena movie on DVD for $20 (which is good because I had no money), the videogame room was smelly as always, and... that's about it. It was great to see Jon and SK and Michelle though, and Saturday afternoon we all went to the mall nearby to play some DDR, after which I became dehydrated to the point of nausea and was basically out of commission for the rest of the day. That was lame. But by Sunday I was hunky-dory again and we got home around 8PM or so. I really want to chop all my hair off since I can't stand to have it this long, but I think I'll have to hold out for at least another few months. It looks like we might be hitting Anime Weekend Atlanta this September to see our friends, and if that's the case we'll definitely be cosplaying again.

Well, that wasn't so hard after all.