As the title states, I swung free tickets to the Seattle Opera putting on a production of Carmen. (I LOVE MY DEPARTMENT). So yeah, it was awesome.

My two cents?

Carmen is a bitch, Don Jose needs to learn how to let go and stop chasing after said bitch, and Escamillo is a douchebag. Carmen and him would've been an incredibly annoying, selfish happy couple together. :d


But yeah. The production was sweet. Cool technical stuff. Sweet lighting and all that. :D We got a backstage tour from one of our Professors, who works tech crew there. It was much fun. Seattle's MacCaw hall is HUGE backstage. :O

So, today was eventful. As some may know, I held a movie marathon Saturday night in my dorm building down in Seattle. It was sweet, each movie being even more WTF than the last. We got to bed WAY too late, and woke up way to early. x.x


Anyway. Even  koohiimonsutaa came down from Canada to party, though we had to drive Koohii back today. That's were it got fun.  forceuser was behind the wheel of the great Wagon, with Koohii up front, me in the back, and my roommate Melody next to me. Now, me and Melody don't have passports, but we figure, hey, we'll just get up to the truck border crossing, and Koohii can get out and walk across to be picked up on the other side.

We bebop our way north (Classic Rock on the Radio, heck YES), past Everett and Ferndale and all those great places. The wait at the border is super long, so we're all laughing about how we won't have to sit in Traffic. Then we look up at the line of cars in front of us and realize we can see the Peace Arch. OH. CRUD.

There isn't anyway to turn around when you cross at the Peach Arch, you're pretty much forced to go across the border into Canada. Which spells pretty bad news for me and Melody. We freak out in the car for about ten minutes, then wave over a border worker to ask him frantically how we can turn around. (WE'RE DUMB AMERICANS. WE DON'T WANT TO GO ACROSS THE BORDER. WE GOT LOOOOOST D:) He tells us there's a turnaround up ahead we can use before the customs booths.

We take it, of course, then realize that the turnaround is on the other side of the American customs booths. Everyone knows that the problem isn't getting into Canada, the problem is getting back out through the American Customs booths. Which we now have to go through.

OH CRUD.

We get up the booth, deciding we're going to play it like stupid Americans. (which we are. . . except Koohii.) Give the man at the booth our IDs ( a passport, an Enhanced Canadian ID, a New Mexico ID from Melody, and a Washington State Driver's License from me. Yeah, guess which one's aren't accepted at the border.)

We frantically explain to the booth man that we got lost, that we didn't even go to Canada, and we just need to drop off our Canadian freind. We're directed down to the little border crossing building so they can check our stories. Cue the standing in line, freaking out about being EXILED FROM AMERICA FOREVER. Being a government office, that gets to go on for half an hour.

Of course, we get up to the guy behind the counter, tell him that we never went to Canada, he takes our IDs and is all "I'll have you guys out of here in 5 minutes." We about cry and kiss his feet. Seriously.

We get out of customs (thank god) and get turned around heading to the truck crossing where we can actually pull over at the border grocery store and turn around before encountering CANADA. We pull over, look around, realize we have no idea how to turn around. There's three lanes of COMPLETELY stopped traffic between us and the southbound lanes (not to mention a concrete wall) and Canada is only a couple yards away.

That, and we have to pee.

Leo goes to get directions (us dumb Americans again), whilst the rest of us check out the terrible gas-station bathroom out back. The girl's bathroom is typically devoid of toilet paper is both dingy stalls, and out of paper towels at the sinks. I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS. So I go over to the men's bathroom. (I'm Androgyneous, so who cares which bathroom I use?) The stall there is well stocked, with two spare rolls sitting on top of the toilet. There's even an extra roll of Paper Towels next to the sink.

I bring them back into the girl's bathroom and BECOME THE BATHROOM HERO.


. . . then we dropped off Koohii headed back south back to Seattle. The end.


So, TL;DR, my International Crime Spree has come to an end. They caught me at the border. Fun fun on a Sunday night.

Yep back from Rainfurrest. Had much fun. I spent most of the time in Rhamphy, getting my derp on around the con. Lots of positive reactions, and one guy even knew I was a Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur :D So happy someone could name the species.


loving the new hotel, even if it is a bit of a walk to get to the convention part from the main hotel. It's not too bad though. And the Hilton is way closer to the Light Rail station than the Marriot was last year. (That's a Big Hill!)

Only thing that sucked was that I still had classes on Thursday and Friday, ended up missing the fursuit games because of it. ;_; I was looking forward to those. Managed to get all of my suits in the parade, including the ones I made for other peoples. Woot.



Now that the con's over, I'm going to be opening up for some fursuit commissions to get some cash flow. (College students gotta eat. :d) Hoping to make some weird and odd stuffs, like moar paleo-suits. I wanna make an accurate Raptor with feathers and stuffs. >w<

1. Will you be attending?
Of course! :D

2. Staying at:
Mai dorm room in downtown Seattle.

3. Arrival and Departure:
Thursday-Sunday.

4. Mode of transportation
Da light rail train.

5. Rooming with:
 koohiimonsutaa

6. Con Plans:
Attend panels, fursuit, have general fun with freinds.

7: How can I find you?
Depends. Most of the time, I'll be Traffic Cone, Rhamphy, or Saisha. I lend out other suits, but if you see Saisha, it's always me. Not in suit, look for the person with the slicked back hair and the Rockabilly duds.


8. Do you do free art?
Sometimes, if I'm bored enough. I usually have a sketchbook with me.
9. Do you have prints/Cds?
Nope

10. Will you be fursuiting? if so: What suit(s)?
Again, Traffic Cone, Rhamphy, and Saisha. Look out though, it might not always be me in TC and Rhamphy.

11. Will you be going to parties?
Probably

12. Will you be performing?
I'm in an act in teh variety show. :D

13. Smoke?
Nope

14. Drink
Nope

15. Gender
Androgyneous

16. Can I hug you?
Sure

17. Can I talk to you?
Course

18. Will you be at any panels?
A couple of them, mostly the fursuit related ones.

19. Can I touch you?
Well I suppose.

20. Can I buy you drinks?
Of the non-alcoholic kind. :3

21. How old are you?
19

22. Can I snuggle with you?
I suppose.

23. If you're pissed off, should I approach you?
I doubt I'll be pissed at a con, but sure, go ahead.

24. Are you nice?
Totally

25. Cliquey?
I usually hang with my freinds, but I love meeting new people.

26. How tall?
6 foot

27. Can I Take pictures of you?
OF COURSE

28. Will you get anything commissioned?
Maybe a peice of artwork. Not sure.

29. How can I get your attention?
Yelling "ED!" really loudly usually works.

30. Can I ask you to dance at the raves?
Go ahead. I can't say I'll be any good at it though. (or hear you, I tend to have headphones in at raves.)

So I'm all excited and stuff, way more excited than I've been for my birthday in years. The fact that my birthday is at the end of August (August 28th, to be precise) means that for the last 7 years I've been on the bench at the State Fair showing my dog.


Now, though, I get to party with furries for mai birthday! :3 Saturday I'm going on the Ride of Dreams, a massive 200+ biker motorcycle ride to benefit the Special Olympics, with  fiskerdoodle so that's going to be pretty sweet.

And on Sunday it's a party at Kayak Point, a wonderful local beach, where we're going to be freaking out the locals and eating a Hemi Orange birthday cake. (cause I'm that awesome)\


So yeah. 1 year older! Wooooo

Went and saw Transformers Dark of the Moon tonight at the local Olympic Theatre with a couple friends. It was a laid back night (usually is at the Olympic) and there were about 10 other people in the audience besides us, which is good because I have the habit of snarking the entire movie to who-ever is sitting next to me. (Thank Primus I have a good friend who snarks right back)

On that note HOLY FRAGGING PIT, so much awesome in one movie. :O It was AMAZING. I went in knowing the basics of what would happen (I love, love, love reading spoilers) but seeing it on the big screen was just incredible. I re-watched the 1st movie last night, and it really highlighted the animation improvements they made in this newest one.

And Leonard Nimoy. -gasp- so awesome. When he broke the 5th wall and used a Spock line, my friend RAGED so hard, it was hilarious.

Admittedly, there's plenty of things I disliked about this movie (most notably Carly, who was notably more useless than Mikaela. At least Mikaela could hot wire cars and customize motorcycles. Carly's only saving grace was the little speech she gave Megatron at the end of the movie. Otherwise, totally annoying useless eye candy who just gets tugged around by the arm and distracts Sam.)

I like that they really dialed back the profane humor for this one, keeping it down to one little (admittedly really funny) scene with Sam and a co-worker in a men's bathroom stall. I wasn't cringing and covering my eyes like when I watched Revenge of the Fallen.

Also, Skyan, if you read this, the scenes at the end where the military guys pull out the flight suits and go jumping out of planes and gliding through the city and crash out of windows and stuff, totally thought of you.

So yes, awesome movie, can't wait for it to come out so I can get me a copy. Only blight on my night was getting sick about 3/4ths of the way through the movie and spending a decent portion of the end in the movie theatre bathroom. (where I could at least hear the movie, which is good I suppose.) Caught the last 15 minutes, but there's a few scenes I missed in there. D:<

Well, I was pissed when the galleries of the car groups on FA were cleared out. Now it seems the Admins have stepped up their game and are asking users to clear all car pictures out of their galleries. As of yet I have not received a message, but I shall assume it is because either none of the Admins know who I am (they are busy people after all), or because I upload more furry-related pictures than I do car pictures.

Still no idea why it is cars that have come under fire and not other non-furry related things, or why car pictures seem to be so high up on the Admins hate-list. Notes from the Admins say that the car pictures violates FA's "Photobucket" Policy, which stipulates you shouldn't be uploading pictures of random shit you own. But none of the pictures that get uploaded are of FA user's cars, they're pictures from car shows of rolling art.

Again, the question still stands, what's next? Human art? Other mode's of transportation? Nature Photography?

I think most of my freinds know that my laptop crashed two weeks ago, it crashed hard. Well, I sent it in for repairs (hooray for warrenties! :D) and I just got it back today! It's so awesome. it runs, and they replaced the keyboard, and all this cool jazz.

Unfortunately, my harddrive was so damaged that they couldn't recover any of my old files, which really sucks. I had some really important stuff on my last computer that just doesn't exist anymore elsewhere. (which wouldn't be as much of an issue if I hadn't lost my Ipod earlier this month as well, it had all of said important videos on it)

But anyway, I have my nice, fast, awesome laptop back. let the TinyChat Webcam battles COMMENCE

So, I'm still reeling from what happened, but apparently every single car based group on FurAffinity have had their galleries cleared, all submissions deleted. There was no warning from the Admins, and still no real explanation that can satisfy the furry gearheads.

A number of pictures I was very fond of are simply gone, and I didn't even have the chance to back up a copy. (especially since my laptop recently crashed and I still don't know whether the data will be recoverable)

The question is, what now? Will users start having their galleries cleared? (lord knows I have plenty of car pictures in my gallery) Will other non-furry related groups get hit as well? Or was it some sort of vendetta against car groups? The galleries were cleared without regards to content, drawn art and photos of suiters posed with their cars are gone too.

No matter what happens, though, I will continue to post both car photos and car art to my gallery until I am told to stop. I love taking pictures at car shows too much to not share it with other like-minded furs.