And now I back from con...

[nagia]

So, in sum, the con was significantly more fucking fun than last year's. Some of it was that my attitude had changed ("I WILL SCOUR THE LIST OF PROGRAMS FOR THINGS I WANT TO DO/SEE!"), but some of it was that things in the con were genuinely better. I only missed one thing that I might have wanted to see, and only had to deal with Con Volunteers Being Stupid Like It's A Profession Or Something once. For once, I've come home with a list of shit I need to see!

The highlights!

• Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu season two: I SAW AN EPISODE AND A HALF--and I got there fifteen minutes early. Motherfuckers started it early or something, because, seriously, an episode and a half. It ended right after the first full episode that I caught. HOWEVER what I did see was motherfucking brilliant.
  
• Steak 'n Shake at 1:30 Saturday morning: we all met up around midnight, were hungry, realized that the mall across the street with the safe overpass was closed, the Galleria food court was closed, and the only things open were... Wendy's, Waffle House, and Steak 'n Shake? First we had insane problems getting out of the building ("This part of the Galleria is now closed. Go!" "...but those people just left that way..." "Go!"). Then we had to run across the street, near downtown Atlanta, with even more traffic than you'd expect--which means were kind of running for our fucking lives through the street. Then, there was a line at Waffle House asdl;khglhgh wtf, Wendy's closed JUST as we got there, and Steak 'n Shake had us waiting forty five minutes for a table because the waitress was an idiot. (No, really. She was not having a good brain day. There was an obvious solution she chose not to take, wtf.)
  
• AMV Awards were fanfuckingtastic this year. One of the expo entries (for motherfucking "various Macross" of all things, and we all know my complete lack of interest in mecha) made me get super sentimental, won Best Epic, and had much of the audience waving their cell phones like a bunch of schmoopy sentimental retards. The saddest part: the video editor wasn't there to see it. Another one, for a Jdrama whose title I cannot recall but used "Goodbye Lover" which really should have made it narm but somehow didn't actually managed to make me cry for characters I didn't know.
  
• Rock Band Contest Finals! Actually pretty awesome, until I started weeping for my feminism.
  
• The artist's alley was HUGE compared to how it was last year! We even had an art show going on in one portion!
  
• Oh my fucking god, there was a group of really excellent taiko players and I just about died from joy and sdadl;hg;jgh deliciousness. Also, I got separated from my group at Anime Hell, but Anime Hell was hilarious and was improved by the people I was sitting with.

Things Bought

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  
• A really gorgeous Neji print
  
• Some cute Lee and Tenten prints (for a dollar each!)
  
• Something for leviathanmirror
  
• Gungrave, full series, BOX SET BABY

Things I Need To Watch

• Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu season two.
  
• KUROSHITSUJI, mother fuck, it looks AWESOME. Amazingly, the principal characters are both male (one a ridiculously badass shota and the other an even MORE ridiculously badass hypercompetent expy of DoC's Turk!Vincent design) with only one female supporting cast member who, like the rest of the supporting cast, apparently exists only to create problems for our hero Sebastian--and I still love it. I had an animegasm of "OMFG IT'S LIKE AN ANIME VERSION OF JEEVES AND WOOSTER, ONLY WOOSTER IS A BADASS AND JEEVES IS FROM HELL".
  
• 5 cm per second
  
• That Jdrama about the chick with the terminal illness and the photographer. (SHUT UP.)
  
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  
• Gurren Lagann.
  
• Maria-sama Ga Miteru
  
• Ergo Proxy