THURSDAY

Like MOST people, Anime North started Friday morning, but not for me. I decided to join a small group of people from the anime club to try to keep each other awake until our bus left in the morning. It was said that we were all going to a all-night internet cafe. I was tickled-pink over the idea of saying up till the wee hours in the morning in a comfortable inviting environment like a cafe. But no. I was lied to. The whores. Instead of it being an all-night internet cafe like I was TOLD, in truth is was a gamers.. thing---fuck. I don't even know if there's a name for it. It's pretty much a room of fifty guys playing MMORPG games.

So try to picture this: Besides crimewave, I'm the only one with a vagina in the room. We don't consider ourselves pc gamers so while everyone else was playing WoW, we were both reading fanfics and lawling hard (me with my robots and her with her MattxMello). Around two o'clock was when my body started to break down. Awree, being the sweetheart that she is took me outside for a breather and to try to keep me awake. If the tattoo parlor was opened at the hour I would have totally gotten a piercing. I wanted to get my eyebrow done for the longest time but since I saw Awree with her nasal septum piercing I wanted one too. Jesus, it just looks so CUTE!
We found a Chinese restaurant and had a late night snack. >3 Then we walked to slothfulsamoyed's apartment and we texted her to see if she was a awake. Being lame like she is, we assumed she wasn't. ;___; Why do you have to get your daily recommended 8 hours of sleep, party killer? We hung out at the porch-steps for an hour sending one word text messages like 'fart' at each other because we're so fucking lame. D;
Then we heard the most weirdest noise ever. It tensed us up and left shivers all over our bodies having no clue what the fuck it was and soon after in our clear view was a guy jogging in the middle of the night breathing heavily and wearing the most LOUDEST SHOES ever. We both shat ourselves thinking it was Pyramid Head. WHO THE HELL JOGS AT THREE IN THE MORNING?! D;

FRIDAY
Awree left at six in the morning with some others because her bus left an hour early before mine and when it was time for me to packed back and I rolled up my chair I noticed something............

My brain broke staring at it for the longest time and I could only giggle like a moron while taking a picture. Jesus, was that thing there the entire night? -snort- I sent Awree a message about it and smirking the whole time. OHMIGOSH. AWREE I THINK THERE WAS A BAG OF COKE UNDER MY CHAIR. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WAS THERE THE WHOLE NIGHT. WTF, LAWLS. <3 I got a reply about five minutes later: That's the salt for my nose piercing, you idiot. Moments involving epic stupidity is what we like to call 'pulling a Morgan.' Like writing testicles instead of tentacles. It's the story of my life. ;{

It's 7:45 in the morning and everyone just wants to jump on the bus and start the day. I met some friends I haven't see in a loooong time. IT'S A FUCKING IDAAAAA~~! <3 All I had with me in my schoolbag was my little black book to doodle in on the SEVEN HOUR bus ride but I ended up sleeping the whole way there... well, I didn't really get to sleep. My eyes were closed though. Hey man, you try to sleep in a bus of 30 hyped up nerds. 8| IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. We finally get to the hotel and met up with my roommates Awree, transientkarma .. and another girl who's name escapes me. ;< She was so nice. Note to self, ask for name was and contact information from friends. 8|

And we wait in line to get our pre-registered weekend pass and it was only a fifteen minute wait. After wandering around the artists alley was when I saw it:

....I just had to stare at it for a while and soak in the fact that there was a twenty foot Optimus Prime right in front of me... then I had to find Ida and shake and scream at her because she's the only one who understands my transformers infatuation before I could confront the booth. ;< It ended up being about TFCON, which I never heard of. I then realized that TFCON was the convention I wanted to waste eight hundred dollars on, not fucking Anime North. GOD! D; I can only afford one convention a year. ><
Alex Milne had his own table selling prints there and I saw him penciling in a page for Reign of Starscream. I talked to him and he's so NICE when I bought a print from him!! 8D
"Hi, I'd like a Starscream and a Chins please." :3
"You can't go wrong with the Chins."
"Nope. I hear lot of people are complaining about how they don't like the exaggerated chins but I think they're not big enough. We need moar chin."
Then I made him laugh.
HE. LAUGHED.
I was calm on the outside but I was jumping off the walls in the private room of my mind. I felt my head rushing with blood the entire time I was talking to him, gawd, he must have thought I was a nut job. ;<
Ida fed me for supper because she bought a whole damn closet worth of food, but not before I recorded the single most coolest conga line ever. Talk about being at the right place at the right time.

Epic. 8D

SATURDAY
Cosplay time! I woke up before everyone else so I got dressed and went to Tim Hortons for breakfast. Multi-grain bagel with cream cheese... that was my diet for almost the entire weekend. I thought I was regular before. BA-BUM-CHHHI! But on a serious note: Tim Hortons = CHEAP AFFORDABLE COFFEE AND BAKERY GOODS = undying love. I love this country. ;---;
By time I returned to my hotel room people were up and getting ready to put on their costumes.

Oh, random fact: Awree had to sneak in two of her old friends in our room. I was fine with it as long as I sleep on the bed that I paid for---also don't think that this was a last minute thing with Awree going 'lawl, guess whut?'. This was planned for months. >3 Anyway, the ballerina girl was one of them, she was a sweetheart.
LOOK! THERE'S transientkarma IN HER EUREKA COSPLAY~~! <3 TOO CUTE!
I was dumb enough not to think about taking a picture of myself. Oh well, I guess you'll have to imagine me in a gothic school uniform then. 8|
I was super excited for today because I was going to meet sosurrealrawr in person for the first time.... I was also extremely nervous. It wouldn't have been that much of a problem if we were in downtown Toronto so at least we could DO something between those awkward silence that were bound to happen. But there was NOTHING. I was willing to pay a day pass for her so we could walk around the convention together but I remembered that a day pass is over $40 dollars. You wish I loved you that much. But then I realized that Patrick printed out a second copy of my pre-registration forum worried that someone would forget to bring theirs because he's paranoid like that. He gave it to me Thursday at that Gamers... cafe... place.  Ugh, anyway, I went back to the pre-registered line with crossed fingers and handed it in.... and it TOTALLY WORKED.
All you had to do was hand in the paper, it wasn't like they had any computers to punch in any numbers to see that I already got my pass friday. >D
FUCK YAH. I BEAT THE SYSTEM. <3
So I got Megan's pass for the day and I wrote down the nickname 'ducky <3'. Harhar. I'm clever.
Waiting, waiting, waiting. killing time until 12 o'clock to come I went to the library and read some Sailor Moon in French. Ohmygod, Serena's name in French is Bunny! ISN'T THAT THE MOST BEFITTING THING YOU EVER HEARD?! -dies of the cute- Then I got a message from her saying she was at the hotel and wanted to know what door I was at. I ran to the main entrance in such a rush I forgot my orange juice. ;c
I began to reply back but about half way through I noticed someone was staring at me all weird like. I looked up for a while, wondered what the heck this person's problem was then went back to my text messaging. 8|
Talk about being oblivious.  u____u
So yah. That was our awkward first meeting. I met the parents. Yes, I am not a creepy fifty year old man, it's nice to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Lambo. *hand shake* 8D
Megan is a lot taller then I imagined. I gave her the pass and told her not to ask how I got it. Then we spent the day mostly hanging around the TFCON booth. I also made her buy a cool poster of the Dinobots if I bought these cute black kitty ears I've been debating to get since friday. We finally got around to buying the poster but by time I went to the table that had those kitten ears it was too late. ;c
They had pink ones. Fuck, I didn't want pink. I wanted black..... so I bought the pink ones anyway and I learned a very important lesson: BE A MOAR IMPULSIVE BUYER. SHIT. 8|
Lawls were had but then she had to leave. So I took a shower and a well deserved nap. <3

When I woke up it was around 6. This was the biggest down point in the whole trip. I just felt really... lonely. Sure, I just hung out with sosurrealrawr and we had so much fun together, but most of the time I was alone at the con. Awree took a bus downtown with her friends that day and I couldn't get into contact with anyone. Ida was off doing her own thing with her PoT buddies. There were no panels I was interested in. No showings of anime I liked so I decided to walk around and take pictures of cosplayers.

If you can't read the sign on the guy's hat: Warning: This NPC does horribly in the next cut scene. Viewer discretion is advised.
My venturing took me outside and walking along the sidewalk there was a group of a dozen people screamed out 'FREE HUGS', and I thought, why not? Since I was lacking and longing for some forum of human contact I hugged them all. This was what it's all about, I thought: interacting and laughing with complete random strangers who all have a same common interest. I felt so much better after that.
Then I ran into transientkarma and company. <3

I stayed with her group for almost the entire night and we went to a panel called the dark side of fandom in which we discussed about wank and how it evolved throughout the generations. One of the guest speakers was a sociologist so it was slightly educational. Then before I knew it, it was eleven o'clock. The panel I've been dying to go to was finally going to start. I even showed up half-an-hour early to make sure I got there in time.

Okay, so imagine a room full of twenty people talking about Silent Hill. OHGOOOOD, THE FUN I HAAAAAAD. <333333 Alsoalso the main speakers were the cos-players I hunted down and took a picture of Friday night. ^^
love_toaster and a few other people came from the other hotel down the street to our room and we all just talked until three in the morning. Emra said she wanted to buy a jersey with a Decpticon insignia on it but didn't because Alex Barf said he's never forgive her if she spent that much money on something that pointless. Okay, first off, it's Alex Barf : his option is invalid for everything. I told her I'd help pay for the jersey because 1. I love rubbing shit in his face and 2. Transformers is awesome. So I gave her my cellphone number and told her to give me a call when she's ready to buy it. <3

SUNDAY

Okay, whomever idea is was it to have national free hamburger day on the same day on an anime convention where there are thousands of people attending is a moron. Okay, right beside the convention center there are a few chains of restaurants there. Harveys was one of them (Tim Hortons was too but I already told you that).
Our bus wasn't leaving until four o'clock in the afternoon but we had to be packed and out of our hotel by eleven... and I was bloody determined to get my free hamburger. So I packed up my room and took it with me to Harveys. I showed up about 45 minutes early, jesus, I wanted my free burger. I was one of the first few in line and when the doors opened I only had to wait ten minutes. It was worth the wait.
The library was a place I went to frequently and when I finished my burger I decided to show my thanks for giving me something to do and read when I was bored I returned one last time to fill out the forum asking various questions like how can we improve your experience here blah, blah, blah?
Then I saw it...

MY ORANGE JUICE WAS STILL THERE. I SWEAR, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP. THE STARS REUNITED US BACK TOGETHER. KINDRED SPIRITS WE ARE. <33333333   I didn't drink it though.
I threw my stuff in the bus and soon after I got a call from Emra asking if I was still willing to help with the jersey. I made my way to the dealers room and it was just a matter of time before we got her the Decepticon top.

love_toaster you look so cute~~! ;D
So I have about four hours to kill and I'm tired and about ready to go home but guess who I walked into??

MEGAN! I RAN INTO A HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND WHO MOVED TO ONTARIO FIVE YEARS AGO. I'M NOT EXAGGERATING, WE SCREAMED 'OHMIGOD' AT EACH OTHER FOR HALF AN HOUR.
I WISH I WAS JOKEING.
torvabeast, lady_silverwing she asked about you guys and she misses you guys. ;____; So no, she hasn't forgotten about her crazy friends from Quebec. <333333 We exchanged phone numbers and e-mails and I hung out with her until it was time to go home.
On the bus we watched Transformers the movie and it was the first time Ida ever watched it. She ships Dinobot/Wheelie now. 8| -bangs head against wall-
Then we watched the most disturbing episodes of Sailor Moon on the bus. It was the story arc with Sailor Mini Moon and Pegasus. Oh god, it's bestiality and pedophilia in one happy package. We were all screaming at the innuendo of it all.

He was wondering why nobody was making any raciest jokes until he realized that the logo was facing him. 8D Nigga sure loves his KFC.

We finally reached Montreal around eleven o'clock at night and I missed the train. Figures. So I have to wait for an hour and a half for the next one. I never wanted to just be home so bad. My train finally shows up and my mom is waiting for me at the train station in my little dipshit town at 1 in the morning. God, I love that woman. <3
So my overall experience? Fucking amazing. Also, long journal post is long. I wouldn't be surprised if my entire flist just complained TLDR FAGGOT. If LJ decides it doesn't like my long post I'm going to cry.
I'll worry about making sense and spelling errors later. This thing took me fucking three days to write.