Because aquilis - nox wrote a journal of our time at Comicon this year, I thought I'd do my take on it as well, even though her summary is going to be better than mine regardless.

So yeah, the whole shebang started a LONG TIME AGO when I decided that hey, I was going to need volunteer hours to pass Health, and what better place to volunteer than comicon? I'd attended each of the three previous years and had a pretty fun time, so volunteering should be a pretty cool experience. I was right, of course.

Friday: Didn't volunteer. Had school. Next year the event falls on memorial day, so we'll be able to attend then.

SATURDAY: THE BEGINNING. We foolishly (though it turned out okay in the end) decided to volunteer from six in the morning to twelve in the afternoon. So of course we all brainfarted on that little detail and forgot we would have to get up as early as we normally do on a school day to attend the con. But because this was actually something I wanted to go to, I didn't have much of a problem waking up so early.

So we arrived at the Mesa Convention Center around six or so, FOUR HOURS before the doors even opened. So we occupied ourselves with looking around with king sized posters and finally got down to business - setting up.

(All we did was throw bags and schedules on a table. Though we found out we should have stacked a LOT MORE)

So after running out of bags during the first two seconds after the doors opened, I abandoned aquilis-nox and akuma-wolf(who later had to go outside to deal with a growing crowd) and some other guys who never mentioned their names to hand out bags while I lugged really heavy cardboard boxes full of more bags onto the table and unloaded them over and over again. As soon as I set down five more, twenty disappeared. It was hard to keep up and pulling all the boxes out did a number on my back.

But after our shift we finally had some time to play around. We went shopping (I didn't buy anything, didn't have any money that day) and besides, who honestly needs a kunai knife? Anyone here a serial killer? Didn't think so. (Besides, those buttons and keychains and stuff were like three bucks each)

And then we went to a panel with aquilis-nox and akuma-wolf. Where I made a complete fool of myself. I had asked (Yuri Lowenthal) if he could please say a line from Ben 10. ("OOOOH, THE PROCEDURE!") and of course ended up talking fast out of nervousness and stumbling over my words. So I seemed like a complete dickwad.

But other than that everything was pretty okay. We went home god knows when (my dad picked us up) needless to say our legs freaking HURT.

SUNDAY: Thank god we signed up for a later shift. (Four to eight) I slept in, sort of. If it had been up to me, I would've slept in til two. But akuma-wolf had gone early and wanted us to be there, so I sucked it up and had my dad drive aquilis-nox and I to the con and arrived around one. So we shopped (I bought this ADORABLE bunny necklace/watch) for fifteen dollars. Usually stuff like that sells for thirty. And I also bought this absolutely awesome print, which was later stolen.

However, I talked to the woman who sold it to me earlier and told me that if I emailed her she'd send me another one for free. She was so gosh dang nice that I have to post the link to the webcomic here, [link] CLICK ON IT. It's pretty dang funny and it's good to look at, to boot.

But anyway, the shift starts at four and aquilis-nox and I find ourselves on guard duty at the front door for two hours. Eventually though, no one was allowed to come in anymore so we abandoned our posts and began helping putting away a bunch of "limited edition star trek posters." I saw enough of Shatner that he will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Plus, all the staff started swarming where we were putting them away at, so we just started giving them away for free since there was just so many left over. For a limited amount of time, WE were the most popular people at the con.

But then we were kicked out an hour before my dad was supposed to show up so whoever could go and finish the clean up. We kind of just messed around until he showed up, and later went to Wendy's and tried not to fall asleep in our fries after an exhausting day.

SOME OTHER THINGS

I see cosplayers every year I attend. Here's how I see things, and no one has to agree with it.

GIRLS: If you're wearing a costume so revealing that it embarrases other people, don't wear it. Just because it's a convention doesn't mean you should dress like a whore. Have some self respect.

Guys: Take a fucking shower. You're not at home. you're in public. I actually happen to MIND if you smell bad.

So there