It has been FAR too long since I made a proper LJ post. I meant for this post to be about Comic Con, but that's only half-written and I don't have the energy to finish it tonight.

But yeah, went to Comic Con a couple weeks back and had a great time, but I'll ramble for pages and pages about that in another post. The weekend before that, my brother, dad, Nur, and I went to an A's game vs the Red Sox. Great game, the A's won, had great seats, everything was great. Except that we left like an hour later than I wanted and missed out on the giveaway for the game; a Reddick jersey replica. Reddick is my favorite A's player, I wanted that, boooo. My dad told me I could leave early to get one, but I wanted to go as a family, so… bah. Oh well, I can make my own or something.

The day after the game was my dad's birthday and it just happened that my uncle and aunt from SoCal were staying at my parents' place that night on their way to Seattle! We had a nice dinner with lots of pleasant conversation.

Last week Nur kindly took me to a local jewelry shop… to get my A's hat signed by Eric Sogard! Because for some reason he was signing there? He's really cute and seems nice and now my hat has a nifty signature on it! The next day we went to the J-Pop Summit in J-Town and participated in the Real Escape Game which we TOTALLY WON (along with like 600 other people BUT STILL, we've never won/escaped before). Saw awesome people there too, and it was generally just awesome.

Uhhh what else has been going on… oh! The always lovely Jump crew was kind enough to let me join them on last week's (7/29's) Shonen Jump podcast! I give terrible opinions and advice! I'll also be on the next episode (8/5's), because I happened to be in the office that day, but I'm still terrible in it, so yeah. But I did get to talk a bit about two books I worked on that are coming out on 8/6 (Nura 16 and Tegami Bachi 14) and say a few words about Ayatsuri Sakon. The awesome editor for Blue Exorcist is on the 8/5 podcast too, with some great Blue Exorcist discussion. The podcasts talk about the current Jump issue, so beware of spoilers!!!

I went to visit Viz on Friday and ended up coming home with a box of books because I'm a manga loverhoarder. It was like 30lbs and I had to drag it from about Pier 39 to the Embarcadero BART station which is… pretty far if you're trying to lug around a box of manga. Nur came to my rescue and ended up carrying it the last four or five blocks to the BART station and then from our stop to his car. T^T~♥ Like I told him in my plea-text for help, my eyes are much bigger than my muscles. Then we came home to three big boxes from RightStuf, a bajillion books from like… four different HUGE orders from the last three or four months. It was manga madness in our apartment, got something like 125 new volumes in total yesterday. Where the hell will I put all these? At least right now I feel pretty satisfied with all my manga… stuff. Like there's nothing nagging in the back of my head, reminding me to pick up this or that. I should have pretty much everything I follow preordered for the next few months and hopefully I should be able to avoid any major orders or manga splurging.

Oh, I also got the Tsuritamas BluRays in from Sentai yesterday. Love dem fishing boys. SPEAKING OF WHICH! Anyone want to cosplay Haru from Tsuritama at Japan Expo USA? We have a Yuki, a Natsuki, and an Akira (with Tapioca!!), but no Haru yet. =(

I'm also trying to finish up John Doe from Dream Eater Merry for Japan Expo USA, but I'm sorta thinking I'll just take it slow and wear it for Minna no Anime's Halloween Party? Ehhhh… I haven't decided.

Went to another A's game today, another lovely game, but I slept terribly the night before and the sun during the game sapped my energy. And I also got sunburned, lol.

It's been sorta busy lately, but in a fun way. Good times.

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Forgot to mention it in the last post, but last week I went to an A's game with my sister, dad, and Nur. We had some GREAT seats, just eight rows off of the bullpen. (Costco tickets man, great value.) It was A's vs Twins, and not my initial pick for a game, but it was right after my sister got home from overseas and right before she went to Kansas with my dad. She only had a day between when she got home from Kansas and when Nur and I leave on vacation, so it was really the only time that worked for all of us. But the game was great! Seriously great! The starting pitcher took a little time to get into the groove, but once he did he was FANTASTIC. And there was a TRIPLE PLAY. A freaking TRIPLE PLAY. Goddamn, I love baseball. A's won the game, 4-1. I could feel my voice going out at the end of the game from all my screaming. I need to make it out to more games next season! T^T

This last weekend was the J-Pop Summit at J-Town. Don't really care much about the summit itself, but was very excited to participate in the Evangelion: Escape From an Angel game. It was a Real Escape Game, which are mind-blowingly hard and mind-blowingly fun. Our team could be any size, so we had a group of seven; six Minna (or ex-Minna) members, and my big brother. Usually the games are mostly sit-down sorts of things, but this one was sort of like a scavenger hunt and had us running all over J-Town. We got really close, but did not succeed in escaping or surviving the Angel's attack. XD;; One day I will escape one of these games!! The next Escape Game is going to be a haunted ship theme, I guess? In San Francisco, sometime in the winter, before the end of the year? I guess dates aren't out yet. Everyone in the area should go, it's sooooo much fun.

Been playing more Xenoblade. About 30 hours in now, just before Prison Island. My current team is Shulk, Dunban, and Riki. I switch out characters once I make them love me max out their affinity with me. Riki is sort of annoying, but his Japanese voice is SO ADORABLE, kyaaa~! And he's pretty damn useful in battle. I'm having a great time making Shulk look fabulous with all his cute outfits… I really liked the "Grandma's sweater" look he had going for a while at the start of the game. And hehehehehe, when I got the shirts that aren't actually shirts? So I had a topless Shulk running around? Bueno~! He looked so cute. I was trying to get the whole Jungle Set for him, but I was missing his pants. The new set I have for him is looking pretty tribal too, so maybe I can just mix and match the sets or something. Really loving the game though, so much fun. I have all sorts of theories about the story and Shulky-Shulk, but I'm afraid of posting them and stumbling on spoilers. I want to see fanart and fanfics too but… the danger of spoilers… Oh well.

You know how it goes. 59 images, some swearing, rambling, etc. Nur took the prettiest pictures in this post.


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I have these scans of this manga with a super moe manly man. In a maid outfit. I've been meaning to post them. It's one of the greatest manga series ever. EVER.

This post is filled with me posing with a lot of things. Consider yourself warned! Remember, Nur took the good pictures! Also minor swearing, fangirling, changing tenses, etc. 76 images.


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