Collective Geekdom FTW

I wish I could go to more conventions. Any conventions - sci fi/fantasy, show-specific, anime, comics, filk, really anything! I read people's posts about going to DragonCon or the Stargate conventions or ComicCon San Diego and I am so incredibly jealous, because it sounds like so much fun. I'd love to go sleep in hotel rooms and drag all over a convention hall, meeting up with other geeks, going to panels, standing in line for ages to get things signed, going to hotel room meet-ups from my lj comms, all the stuff other people talk about.

I guess I'm not just not that good at dealing with the idea that other people are having fun without me. *grins* Plus it makes me feel like a bit of a bad geek, since I'm not doing enough of the 'cool' stuff. As much as three days in a hotel arguing about Dick Grayson vs Jason Todd vs Tim Drake vs Damien Wayne can ever be considered cool (side note: colourofsaying  has listened to me talk about this stuff so much that she, who has never read a comic in her life, has actual opinions on it). I'm mature enough to know that as fun as it would be, I really can't afford it, but not, it seems, mature enough not to pout about it.

At least there is YaoiCon, which is always tremendous fun. I'm about 99% positive I'll be going again this year. I already made the hotel reservations ages ago, since those go so quickly, but I've been holding off on registering until I knew whether or not Hanjuuluver was going to be able to go. To avoid a repeat of last summer's mess, she is most pointedly not mentioning to her parents that she'll be going, but since they moved the date back so far, she needed to make sure it wasn't going to conflict too badly with her finals. But it all looks good, so we'll be there! Anyone else?

(I'm thinking about going to WonderCon in San Francisco next year too, but we'll see how my finances shake out. I can probably scrape up the funds to do it without too much guilt if my aid package next year is good and I make money working over the summer. Otherwise it's just too much not in the budget. As is anything in a city I can't reach on the CalTrain.)

Remembering Waterhouse's Name Was Surprisingly Difficult

Icon post! Because sleep is for losers and I have way too much time on my hands, clearly.

5x Rahm Emmanuel icons, because I realized I didn't have one and THAT IS A TRAVESTY
6x art icons - Degas, Mary Cassatt, Vermeer, Waterhouse, Millais, all awesome. Made for my writing journal, dancerinthestorm .

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

AAAAH WHY AM I STILL AWAKE.

*pouts*

Call Center Milstone Achieved: Today I had a woman tell me that if I called her again, she would report me to the FBI.

a) I, personally, have never called you before
b) I really doubt the FBI cares that your alma mater engages in *gasp* fundraising. How dare we!

I probably handled that call less than well, but I tend to get rattled when someone starts yelling at me the second they pick up the phone. It did pretty much set the tone for my day, though. I was also treated to a concert across the street loud enough to rattle our windows, having to write very awkward emails to my advisor and my lit TA (HATE writing to professors so much), and my roommate throwing a crying fit about her boyfriend's evil lack of sympathy after she got hit in the face with a volleyball. The five hours of sleep I got last night probably are not helping my mood.

If I didn't have so much work to do this week, I'd just say fuck it and spend the rest of the evening reading Cable & Deadpool. Instead, I'm going to try to get as much of my reading as I can done early, and then maybe spend a little time on the Booster/Ted de-aging fic or the Hakoda/Bato fic about the meaning of tent sharing in the Water Tribe that I want to write now. Or something.