Salad Sammich

Here’s an update on the stuff I’ve been doing lately (sorry about the lateness Dylan )

The Sudnay before last I went to the Supanova expo at the Brisbane RNA grounds. All the people with fancy game and anime-related tshirts made me feel really boring by comparison. I almost got lost trying to find my way there, but luckily I spotted some cosplayers. God bless cosplayers. I was originally going to get in for free as a voluteer, but stupid gmail put the email I needed into the spam folder so I ended up paying $20 to get in. I spent most of my time volunteering anyway because I felt like it. It was almost all shops there, next time I go to a game/anime convention I should remember to bring actual money.

I probably should have mentioned sooner that April 9th (last Wednesday) was my birthday. I guess I’m just scatterbrained. I had a birthday party on the weekend and invited some friends around Brisbane. My parents came up to visit and brought their projector (which, by the way, is still here and Carrie has been playing Metroid on it :P ) Unfortunately a bunch of people couldn’t come so it was just Myth/Jen and one of my friends who lives next door to me. Still, we had a good time :) We played some Magic the Gathering,
sung to Singstar, and watched Myth’s DVD of Happy Feet. We also ate a lot of cake and snacks :P

As for presents, Rosheen (Carrie’s girlfriend, our new flatmate) gave me a DVD of “Tales from Earthsea“. I’m waiting for a good time to watch it, since it’s a Studio Ghibli movie and it should be good. Carrie bought me a little plasmaball. It seems to eat up batteries so I should get an adapter for it. I also used a gift card to get a $20 iTunes card and buy Peggle for my iPod. It’s the most awesome game for the iPod ever :D

Another awesome present was this huge new 22 inch widescreen LCD my Dad gave me :D It’s 1680×1050 resolution. Sitting it next to my old LCD it’s like having an extra 1.5 monitors :P I’m overwhelmed by the amount of screen real estate I now have. I don’t even know what to use as a wallpaper XD

Went to the Animania Festival today. It was pretty neato, even if a little small. I got to watch some free anime XD I also ended up buying three shirts and two DVDs :P

I wish I wasn’t so damn lazy and actually got myself working on all these unfinished assignments though >.<

I think I may have just wasted a lot of important work time watching the last few DVDs of .hack//Sign…

… it was probably worth it. It’s just so intriguing once you get into it. It’s possibly one of my all-time favourite things in the whole damn world. It ranks next to things like Discworld, Zelda and chocolate. The ending left me with all sorts of unanswered questions, some of which were answered when I found a bonus episode in the extras. That episode then created yet more questions.

Now I’m left with a great desire to buy the games and OVA series that goes between seasons 1 and 2. Then I can finally own all of the .hack// series