Oh Otakon, Oh Otakon, You Eat Up All My Money...

[chibi_trillian]

Jeebus Chris, Otakon's coming up in less than a week and my costume's only half finished. DOOM. I'll get it together somehow. I'm going Goodwill-diving for the pants and shoes in a few minutes.

Some wankers stole Indigo Creature's green laser pointer--you know, the hundred-dollar kind of laser pointer--in a restaurant. The really bad part is that I walked right past the assholes (they were shining it in each other's eyes like the morons that they were) and went, "Wow, I've never seen anyone else with a green laser pointer like Indigo Creature's before. Small world, eh?" Massive grr-ness.

Character creation for jacks_shadow's new game tonight. *pets Marion* You'll be a good little paranoid professor, won't you? Though you still need a last name...and to eat a freaking sandwich, boy. Ethan can't help being his scrawny self--he has bad genetics and a lifestyle that burns a lot of calories to blame. You, on the other hand, can. Sammich. Now.

This will be the first almost entirely geeky weekend I've spent in a while. Next weekend will obviously be solid geekery, and lucky me, I'm walking into it with a fresh paycheck. If I don't spend my rent, I'll be lucky.

My Dilbert boss struck again. Apparently, me not being a mindreader is a major career flaw, and due to my inability to read his thoughts I apparently have the IQ of a four-year-old. I hate being talked down to in very small words when I suspect that I'm more intelligent than the person condescending to me, as he's answering an entirely different question than the one that I just asked (also in very small words and for the third time). Fortunately, my Geeky British Boss sided with me.

Can you imagine the employment discrimination against someone who actually WAS a mindreader? Brr. You couldn't work retail, couldn't work anywhere with confidential documents and projects (like where I work), and your co-workers would be utterly paranoid about you reading their minds no matter where you worked. You'd be constantly suspected of being an industrial espionage agent (and mindreaders would make good ones, too) and you wouldn't be able to hold a job for longer than a few months.

Hrm. That would make a good story.

I just looked at my last entry. Crap, but that was silly like what. It sounded like *shudder* a typical LiveJournal entry. Bleh.

*does the Otakon Dance*

Comments

Re: I love this icon!

[chibi-trillian.livejournal.com]

I always do, as do any of my cosplaying friends who are staying at my apartment for Otakon. The looks we get are priceless. Fortunately, Otakon is such a big con that we usually have otaku-type company inside of three stops on the subway line. The Inner Harbor is FULL of cosplayers for the entire weekend. The poor tourists get so confused when they see Yuna, Ash Ketchum, Edward Elric, and Luffy standing in line at Burger King.

Re: I love this icon!

[mellfromva.livejournal.com]

Wow, cosplayers and the Inner Harbor? That must be so cool! All I ever got to see in the Inner Harbor were tourists, alchoholics, homeless people and the water taxi. And alchoholic homeless people on the water taxi. They were the nicest of all.