I think I’ve finally recovered to about 75% since the convention this past weekend. Every year I find that more people I know go to conventions. Ever since we met a big group of people at a CNAnime 2 years ago, we’ve been getting more and more involved in these conventions and having more fun (cause more people = more fun!) This year, I found out that one of the ex-thesis students and a grad student went to the convention. It was weird because I would have never guessed that they were into anime.

The weekend itself is a little blurry due to the lack of sleep so it might be a bit rough in terms of jumping around in timeline. Friday. I met girl L that I found to be extremely annoying. It was just the way that she tried to act cute, but it was all wrong and whiney. It’s alright to act like that sometimes when you’re around a boyfriend, but to do it to every single person? She also didn’t know when no meant no. No, we don’t want to go all the way up to our room to retrieve your shit even though you don’t live there. Anyways, she left a bouquet of flowers made of ribbon in our room. Since her boyfriend had not arrived yet, I can only assume that she made it. That and..I just can’t see any guy making flowers out of ribbons for his girl. So she called and asks us to bring down the flowers. I volunteered cause everyone else was so tired. I go to the lobby where she said she’d be and I walked around for 5-10 minutes and still can’t find her. I go back upstairs pretty pissed, but while on the elevator, a guy told me that he hoped that someone had given those flowers to me and that I looked good with them. I’m sure that guy was only trying to be nice but it made me feel pretty good. It was very sweet of him to say that. ^_^ 

Saturday. I went in costume and a handful of people asked for our pictures. The attention felt really nice. I look at the pictures now and it’s like “ewwwwwwwww” but it was fun while it lasted. It’s a little uncomfortable when we’re around this one guy. He has this strange way of acting around the girls he’s attracted to. So he used to like this friend…but she’s been dating my other friend now..and it’s like…dude, stay away from her. Like FAR away. It’s just uncomfortable with him around knowing he used to like her. So I try to arrange ourselves such that he stands and sits far away from her. It’s almost amusing if you know what you’re looking at.

Nothing happened on Sunday except for the post-convention hang out. At first I didn’t want to go because it would mean I would go home late (and I had to work the next day). In the end, I did go and I’m glad I went. I didn’t do much but it was fun. 

I think the thing that I really wished I did was get to meet more random people. I would love to talk to random people and hopefully become friends.

I bumped into a friend today at the student center during lunch. It was hilarious how she was so happy that I get to meet the boy soon (in 9 days). She was more excited than I was! *shakes head* Her happiness is a bit contagious.