CONvergence

my first convention ever. i've never been to one, so i did not really know what to expect. in the end i just ended up wandering around like a newbie, which i was. but there is always a first time for everything, and now i know what to expect whenever i go to another convention, and i know what to not do to not come out looking like an idiot.

much thanks to kitsune-chan and her mom, who provided me with a ride to CON. =)

the main reason for me wanting to waste three green pieces of paper with the number 20 on them, is james kakalios. he's a UMN physics professor whose recent work on analyzing the physics in comic books made him famous. that is, according to him, something that even his 100+ scientific journal publication could not do. we really should all just go into the entertainment business.

his book PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES is coming out on september 29th. i am definitely getting it. i think professor barbara jones might also be interested in this unconventional teaching strategy. it wouldn't hurt if i made an oral report about this when i get back to UCSD.

i don't know since when an anime is considered a science fiction, but there was an anime showing. got a chance to watch the first 5 episodes of ONEGAI TWINS, which, aside from all the cheesy, typical shoujo anime jokes and lines, was quite remarkably hilarious. a typical shoujo series would have a guy as a main character, and would have AT LEAST five different girls falling for him. well, take that and add a GAY guy falling for the main character too, and you get onegai twins. not everyday would you see a gay character in a shoujo series (unless it's a yaoi shoujo, which case leave me out of this), so that was a pretty slick, totally unexpected yaoi twist. props props. mina was cute, too, but that's an entirely different ballgame.

also got to see an episode of COMIC PARTY, which seems rather lame at first, but in the end it seems like it's got a good potential to be quite an entertaining anime series after all. a story about a few highschool students in exploring the world of doujinshi is somewhat promising, and i'm somewhat tempted to start a doujin myself, but then this comes to mind:

procrastinator's creed #10: i shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when i get around to it.

add this to the one above:

procrastinator's creed #12: i know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan.

and you have a perfect recipe to never start anything. i hold the procrastinator's creed dearly, so don't expect anything.

some of today's spoils include four laminated posters:
__ natsume maya and aya from tenjou tenge.
__ chibi naruto, jiraiya, gaara, hinata, iruka, sakura, rocklee, kakashi, pakkun, a strawberry cake, a chicken leg, a christmas tree, and that one ungrateful brat sasuke.
__ skuld, belldandy, and urd from ah! megumi-sama.
__ the entire mugiwara kaizoku-dan on a grassy cliff.

three bumper stickers:





the third will be a gift for david. i can't think of anyone else more appropriate to give it to. the first two are mine, of course, because those are pretty much what i tell myself everyday.

a new chopper plushie:



and last but not least:



oh yeah. i love toys. now how the hell am i going to bring all this shit back to california?