Two weeks = 14 days = 143hrs

Countdown time baby!
The AX schedule's out and I've already taken a gooood look. Oh yes, seems like Sty is indeed still alive and decided to contact me the other day. She finally got her airplane ticket and then followed to help her younger sister get her passport documents ready (apparently that girl's a lazy mofo and can't do it herself). The hotel reservation deadline suddenly also approached out of nowhere (luckily I was checking regularly) and so we rushed to get that done as well. We were hoping for something cheaper but obviously on the frickin' last booking date, everything was practically gone. We ended up just having to get what was best and got the Westin based on the reviews I read on the forums. I also encountered a system hiccup during hotel booking which had me freaking out past the hotel deadline but the issue was on the server side so I think our reservation is safe now.

Now, finally, we/I can relax until then.

Lately it's been just work. Due to the recession, apparently my expected pay (what I originally was getting when I was working there in the past) will drop TWO DOLLARS. I was shocked to hear this but now that I've thought it through, I might just have to deal with it. It's just that I'll have to continue to put in some more effort to find a better paying job even though I thought the search was over. I don't like the idea of a wage drop but my job IS insanely slack so I'm a bit stumped. However, I would rather be busying my ass away and getting better pay than sitting around figuring out what to surf and labouring away - hurting my fingers while sticking labels on beer boxes (yes that's apparently part of the OL's job now). I feel my laziness might just overwhelm me this time rendering me useless in job hunting. I want AX, then fireworks, then PAX, then gtfo summer - I want school again so I don't have to think about it.

On the weekend here held our uneventful convention, Anime Evolution. I decided to follow Saboo and crew down on Saturday to check out the new venue. The $55 entrance fee was a complete turnoff, thus we found a unsecured way in from the back escalators. There wasn't anything we wanted to see in particular so we basically walked the convention center inside and outside and then borrowed badges from someone we knew so we could see the dealer's room. When it was my turn to go in, I unluckily bumped into a previous classmate from our program who dropped out in first year. It's unluckily because he's talkative... and he talks a lot of bs. He went on about his life screw ups since he last saw me, his shroom high moments, information I didn't wanna know.... it was strange to even find him here out of all places. Apparently he had a friend who was interested and told him to check it out. Being the adventurous guy that he was, he came. So I ended up talking with him for 45 minutes before Saboo called me to rush me back. There goes my dealer's room experience. We walked a bit of downtown afterwards, had awesome as usual Tropika for dinner and then "dessert" which ended up to be mostly drinks. My only highlight was the giant Mudkip cosplayer we saw. I asked him to eat my head (cuz his mouth was THAT BIG). It was great!

So I have a number of things I want to accomplish this summer. The first thing completed was watching all of Gurren Lagann. I can officially say that it has sparked me to start rewatching anime again... and that means getting to cleaning my harddrives first! But about the Gurren: the first arc is AWESOME!, the second arc is AWESOME-okay, the third arc is AWESOME but can be better. I was hoping for the scene from episode 1 to be the conclusion to the series. It feels so much more glorious and awesome for Simon! I love Simon, he's my favourite~ :3 Next is Kamina (because he's KONISHI! ..well half the reason) The epic shouts and speeches reminded me of awesome Aquarion (tempting me to watch it again) and all the other elements just screamed Gainax. It was fun but it was a bit disappointing that there wasn't any hidden backstory - you know, stuff us watchers take super close notice and then conjure up some insane theory that this is what really happened! That's always the fun part but there doesn't seem to be one in this case...! In either case, I shall go and indulge myself in the music video extras now.