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Back from Anthrocon~
15 years ago
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Anthrocon fuckin' rocked. Here's a Day-by-Day review!
Thursday - Nine hours of bus-riding from Newark to Pittsburgh. Since my roomies weren't wouldn't be here until the next day, I ended up hanging around the Zoo talking to random people. eventually I found
el3ctrophr34k who was playing Apples to Apples. I took a few sips of his ungodly awesome homemade mead. At some point I followed him up to a small room party where I hung out and laughed at anything funny. Around 2:30 Plague went back to his room at the Omni. I went back to the Zoo and was called over by 
zeroxtolerance and his posse. Was in there until the wee hours of the morning. Bought a sketch from the guy, too. But I didn't have anything to protect it with so I let him hold on to it. Unfortunately, I never got any kind of protector and I had only seen him one more time, in passing, so I ended up not being able to take it. My bad, dude!
Friday - Hung around the Zoo after Mizuki and friends left. I got my badge around 10AM, then attended opening ceremonies and the opening of the Dealer's Den. Around 3PM, when my room mates,
lukesnowcat and 
thedoctor arrived. From there, I went up to the Omni and chilled out for a while. It was nice not having to lug all my clothes around. Later, I went to 2's show, which rocked ass, like I suspected. From there, I wandered the Zoo, again, to no real result, but watching the suiters was just as fun. I went up my room about an hour later to sleep in a real bed for the first time in nearly two years.
Saturday - Another bitchin' day at AC. Woke up around 11, showered, and set off to the Zoo once again, hanging out with no one in particular. Was a little lonely, but it was fun. At some point, I went back up to the room to get to know Valse a bit more, since I really didn't really know much about him at all. After a very nice get-to-know-you session, I was invited down by Valse to meet up with Luke for dinner. After a while of hanging out, waiting for a few of the snowkitty's friends, we headed down to a Japanese restaurant, which wouldn't take us all in unless we had a reservation, or something. Was only kinda paying attention. Half of us broke off - one half went in the Japanese place, Luke, Valse, a few others, and myself went down to Fernando's. Damn good food there, like always. Got meself a tuna sub. First meal I had had in two days! Afterwards, we all kinda...splintered off. I ended up at the hookah circle. Hung around there for a while, talking to the random folk there. It was some good stuff, - peach flavored tobacco with Everclear as the liquid. Got me a li'l buzzed and rowdy. That was really, fun! After we ran out of coals to fire the hookah with, we dispersed. After, I got Valse to come with me down to Uncle Kage's show. Again, funny-as-hell. The wolfie and I went back to the room to watch some TV and relax for the night. There was some point I tried to find the 7-Eleven. Little did I know it was in the Double Tree. Durr. Went back to the room after a fruitless attempt to get smokes.
Sunday - Last day of the con! Didn't really do much today. Got a jar of bananas that were soaking in rum with banana flavoring for a year and three months, courtesy of my buddy Plague Rat. I hung around Luke, his friends, and Valse again. Had dinner at Paninis and Pizza and had the best sandwich I had ever tasted in my freakin' life. Portabello mushrooms, onions, herb mayonnaise. Ugh. It was too awesome for words. Also, one of Luke's friends, bought me ice cream :3 After that, we went up to closing ceremonies, giggled at Uncle Kage's speeches, aww'd at some kitties, and saluted the new Anthrocon flag. Got a li'l teary eyed, too. God knows why. Went up to the room afterwards, alone, and promptly started watching Cartoon Network until we all went to sleep. Uneventful day, true.
Monday - So I decided to stay an extra day. Luke and Valse checked out at 10AM, I tagged along with them to the Westin to say my 'good-byes'. It was a little hard to do, but I managed to keep myself constituted well. The rest of the day was spent trying to keep my phone charged, playing Final Fantasy on said phone. Some time later, I hugged my first fursuiter. And, man, does it do wonders. Sometime later, I met
nikogor and his puppet before he went off to the bus. The rest of the day was spent hanging around the Westin until I got kicked out for loitering. Then I wandered the city for a bit until it got dark, at which point I went to the train station to just hang out until the train came.
Tuesday - Waited for the train. Talked to some of the travelers, hung out, then got on my nine hour train ride back to Newark.
Home - It's where I am now, typing this, eating those bananas. Hats off to Plague Rat for making them for me. Seriously, dude, these are super good.
Thursday - Nine hours of bus-riding from Newark to Pittsburgh. Since my roomies weren't wouldn't be here until the next day, I ended up hanging around the Zoo talking to random people. eventually I found
el3ctrophr34k who was playing Apples to Apples. I took a few sips of his ungodly awesome homemade mead. At some point I followed him up to a small room party where I hung out and laughed at anything funny. Around 2:30 Plague went back to his room at the Omni. I went back to the Zoo and was called over by 
zeroxtolerance and his posse. Was in there until the wee hours of the morning. Bought a sketch from the guy, too. But I didn't have anything to protect it with so I let him hold on to it. Unfortunately, I never got any kind of protector and I had only seen him one more time, in passing, so I ended up not being able to take it. My bad, dude!Friday - Hung around the Zoo after Mizuki and friends left. I got my badge around 10AM, then attended opening ceremonies and the opening of the Dealer's Den. Around 3PM, when my room mates,
lukesnowcat and 
thedoctor arrived. From there, I went up to the Omni and chilled out for a while. It was nice not having to lug all my clothes around. Later, I went to 2's show, which rocked ass, like I suspected. From there, I wandered the Zoo, again, to no real result, but watching the suiters was just as fun. I went up my room about an hour later to sleep in a real bed for the first time in nearly two years.Saturday - Another bitchin' day at AC. Woke up around 11, showered, and set off to the Zoo once again, hanging out with no one in particular. Was a little lonely, but it was fun. At some point, I went back up to the room to get to know Valse a bit more, since I really didn't really know much about him at all. After a very nice get-to-know-you session, I was invited down by Valse to meet up with Luke for dinner. After a while of hanging out, waiting for a few of the snowkitty's friends, we headed down to a Japanese restaurant, which wouldn't take us all in unless we had a reservation, or something. Was only kinda paying attention. Half of us broke off - one half went in the Japanese place, Luke, Valse, a few others, and myself went down to Fernando's. Damn good food there, like always. Got meself a tuna sub. First meal I had had in two days! Afterwards, we all kinda...splintered off. I ended up at the hookah circle. Hung around there for a while, talking to the random folk there. It was some good stuff, - peach flavored tobacco with Everclear as the liquid. Got me a li'l buzzed and rowdy. That was really, fun! After we ran out of coals to fire the hookah with, we dispersed. After, I got Valse to come with me down to Uncle Kage's show. Again, funny-as-hell. The wolfie and I went back to the room to watch some TV and relax for the night. There was some point I tried to find the 7-Eleven. Little did I know it was in the Double Tree. Durr. Went back to the room after a fruitless attempt to get smokes.
Sunday - Last day of the con! Didn't really do much today. Got a jar of bananas that were soaking in rum with banana flavoring for a year and three months, courtesy of my buddy Plague Rat. I hung around Luke, his friends, and Valse again. Had dinner at Paninis and Pizza and had the best sandwich I had ever tasted in my freakin' life. Portabello mushrooms, onions, herb mayonnaise. Ugh. It was too awesome for words. Also, one of Luke's friends, bought me ice cream :3 After that, we went up to closing ceremonies, giggled at Uncle Kage's speeches, aww'd at some kitties, and saluted the new Anthrocon flag. Got a li'l teary eyed, too. God knows why. Went up to the room afterwards, alone, and promptly started watching Cartoon Network until we all went to sleep. Uneventful day, true.
Monday - So I decided to stay an extra day. Luke and Valse checked out at 10AM, I tagged along with them to the Westin to say my 'good-byes'. It was a little hard to do, but I managed to keep myself constituted well. The rest of the day was spent trying to keep my phone charged, playing Final Fantasy on said phone. Some time later, I hugged my first fursuiter. And, man, does it do wonders. Sometime later, I met
nikogor and his puppet before he went off to the bus. The rest of the day was spent hanging around the Westin until I got kicked out for loitering. Then I wandered the city for a bit until it got dark, at which point I went to the train station to just hang out until the train came.Tuesday - Waited for the train. Talked to some of the travelers, hung out, then got on my nine hour train ride back to Newark.
Home - It's where I am now, typing this, eating those bananas. Hats off to Plague Rat for making them for me. Seriously, dude, these are super good.
And I have more mead at home. I'll have to room with you next year.