Well it's been a while...mainly because I have to post about the whole Katsucon mess and I really needed some distance on it before I could. But first, since it is a new month, new magnetic poetry! (Aren't you lucky... the two people who actually read my blog writhe in pain) The lightening beneath the blooming garden above a universe turned by time I dream darkly of spring Okay... so Katsucon...yeah. Well, I believe on focusing on the positive, so I'll start out with what went well! On Thursday Marcus, Shelly, and I drove up to DC to stay in our friends apartment. It was a pretty uneventful trip, especially since I slept most of the way. Marcus wasn't able to put everything I'd made on the table because there wasn't much room. But what was there was generally well received. Takuto sold in roughly 15 minutes of being put out on the table. Whee! (Thanks whoever you are!) I sold all of my Onigiri keychains and all but four of my Kyou keychains. A lot of the window clings went as well. I've been dragging my feet on getting the rest up for sale. Off of my page. Lazy, lazy me. It was cool though that people seemed to have fun with it. I got flowers on Valentines day (from Shelly, but still I appreciated the thought). I saw some really cool music videos, my favorite being Kusoyaro's Sappy Self-Indulgence. There were a lot of really good videos overall, and I have to say I didn't hate any of them. (That's pretty rare.) My friend Shelly is not an anime fan, she's not into the "scene" at all, I got a chuckle out of one video over that. There was a romantic Angel Sanctuary music video that we were watching that at the end of, and before the next video, I leaned over and whispered. "By the way, Those two...They're brother and sister." LOL, Shelly's face was priceless. I got to see Piro of MegaTokyo speak, and saw some cool cosplay. I watched some anime, most of which I'd seen but I got to see .hack//Sign which was more interesting than I'd thought. On Monday I had a really good spinach and goat cheese pizza. So that was all the good. Now the bad... I'll have to go day by day on this. Day 1 Thursday Feb 13th: The ride up...Nothing went wrong. Day 2 Friday Feb 14th: Thursday night I knew I was getting sick but I didn't want to admit it. I felt like I had to get up like every two hours to go to the bathroom. (I'm sure you SO wanted to know that) When I finally woke up for good in the morning I knew it for sure. My throat hurt and I felt really warm. My face was flaming with a bright blush and my face was giving off so much heat that my glasses were fogging up. Shelly'd had strep, and had a problem where she had it, thought it went away, but it hadn't. I'd been around her during her contagious period, so I was pretty sure that that was what I had. We looked in the phone book and found an urgent care place that took in walk-ins w.out insurance. And one $120 doctors visit later we confirmed what I already knew. I had Strep. It was Shelly's nasty won't-go-away-with-regular-antibiotics strep, so the medication was expensive. Shelly paid for it, and I still owe her the money for it. I hate owing people money. -_- We went back to the hotel to update Marcus (who we'd dropped off on the way) on the situation, and register for the con. I was contagious, and I really tried not to breathe too hard on the people in the registration line. Then we went back to Shelly's friend's apartment where I slept for the rest of the day... mm... it's really late... I think the rest of the days are going to have to wait for another post to go into detail on, but here's a quick rundown: Day 3 Saturday Feb 15th: Nothing much went wrong, I actually had fun. The only bad thing was that I fell asleep way early and missed out on all the fun evening and night activities. Damn illness... and there was the strange guy Shelly and I met over lunch who told us about his lesbian squirell comic... Day 4 Sunday Feb 16th: It snowed. A lot. Couldn't drive to Shelly's friends apartment, no cabs were running reliably, and Marcus and I missed every shuttle to the metro. Got lost on the way to the metro. Took us an hour and half to get to metro station in wet, driving snow, waited 3 hours in the metro station for various trains and exchanges. Day 5 Monday Feb 17th: I don't remember monday. I think I was sleeping. Or moping. But I did get good Goat cheese and Spinach Pizza. Day 6 Tues Feb 18th: Got in a car wreck. Car totaled. Big accident, girl died in another car behind us. Didn't get home until Wed. And thats all I have to say about that...for now