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I dunno how you found this, but alas, here you are. So enjoy the frightening fruits of my troubled little brain.
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wWednesday, January 30, 2008 |
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feeling: restless
listening to: Ninomiya Kazunari - Yume
9_9
I'm a doof. The concert's not in Mitsuwa Marketplace. The autograph signing event is. The concert is at the Subterranean in Chicago at 6:30.
Guess that's what I get for thinking all along that I wouldn't be able to go on this tour at all and then doing a half-arsed job of checking the schedule with one week remaining.
Doesn't really change much of what I had in mind schedule-wise, I don't think... but it does mean the concert's not free after all. >.> $15 for a ticket... and it doesn't appear to be sold out yet...
Geez, some "official agent" I am.
Wish it was possible to predict the weather... accurately, I mean... *coughs at forecasts that keep changing every 6 hours* That's the main factor holding me back from making firm decisions to drive and lodge and etc. If I do, the tentative plan is to leave as soon as I get up on Sunday, visit Mitsuwa if I get there before 8 pm, stay in a motel half a mile away, hook up with BLOOD on Monday and dedicate that day to them, see them off Tuesday morning, and start the drive back home no later than... maybe 2 pm on Tuesday, so I won't make the whole drive in the dark.
I did remember that I have $50 worth of Walmart gift cards, and since Walmart doesn't have the games I was planning to use them for, I can use that to keep myself fed along the way. There are Walmarts everywhere, right? >.> Or I can sell them to my parents and use the cash at Mitsuwa instead, and pack a couple sandwiches and Capri Suns in a cooler... which I think I'll do anyway... hmmm...
This is all IF the weather holds and I decide to drive.
GOD I RAMBLE TOO MUCH ABOUT THINGS I DON'T EVEN KNOW YET.
*is really twitchy about this whole trip*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 1/30/2008 12:24:00 AM
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wMonday, January 28, 2008 |
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feeling: headache can't decide whether to stay or go
listening to: nothing
AhaHA. I just accomplished stuff. Stuff of the cleaning up nature. Namely cleaned about 8 GB off my hard drive (I'm over 15GB free again, w00t!) and, even more amazing, transferred almost my entire J-drama/movie collection from jewel cases to a 64-sleeve CD case that used to be my brother's but was left to me for some reason and has been sitting around in here for years. That was about... 30-40 discs? Which cleared up a HUGE chunk of space on the floor under my desk where I'd been stacking up all my data CD-Rs and DVD+Rs.
So now I have all this space on my HD and on my floor AND a big ol' pile of jewel cases that can be used for something else.
Why does this feel like such a big accomplishment? I'm such a geek.
Anyway, I've pretty much decided to go to Chicago on Feb. 4-5 to see BLOOD. Now all that's left is figuring out details. Flying would cost $200, which I could afford but barely, and the driving distance would be about 6 hours, barring unforeseen occurrences. Biggest "if" is the weather. Driving in snow and ice is evil enough, but I have a tiny little Toyota that, although 4WD, is so tiny and light that it fishtails on puddles, let alone ice patches. I love the gas mileage though. 40-ish m/g? No more than $30 to fill up the tank? Mmmmmm.
ANYWAY. Off the point. How to plan Chicago... I don't know yet what kind of lodging arrangements and stuff BLOOD's party has made, and Roger won't tell me anything until I tell him for certain that I'm going, apparently. If I drive, I could probably help transport people or bags and be reimbursed for at least part of my gas spendage. On the other hand, if I drive, I'll probably get lost. >> Also have to worry about keeping myself alert on the road, since if I stay overnight with them it's pretty much a given that sleep will not be had. I trust that once I get there I'll be taken care of; it's getting myself there and back that makes me twitch.
Mom and dad briefly entertained the idea of finding something to do for a few days in Chicago themselves so they could drive me, but they don't know of anything they want to see there, and mom isn't keen on traveling in winter.
So that's the dilemma...
Also would be cool to find a way to meet Adion while I'm there, since Lord knows when the next chance might come, but there might only be a window for a few hours unless I stay an extra night, somewhere... hmm... wonder if he'd be interested in just popping into Mitsuwa Marketplace to watch the concert :P
...Geez, I just realized the doors to this event open at 1:00 pm. I'm gonna have to leave at some ungodly morning hour if I drive. x_x Hoboy. I like that schedule in terms of the tour though, cause it sounds like BLOOD and staff might have some time in the evening to hang out, catch dinner, whatever... now I wonder what they have planned...
So instead of leaving at like 6 am, I might be better off leaving the day before and staying overnight in a hotel to ensure plenty of time to rest before they fly in from Boston... but that would add a hotel expense... it'd still be cheaper than flying though...
*head combusts* Whyyyyy am I so broke?
I'm gonna go sleep on this. They say that helps. And anything's bound to help when I'm as sleep deprived and kdjghasdgjdk-ish as I am right now.
[EDIT: It's in Mitsuwa Marketplace! Which is Japanese! Which means free admission and if I leave the day before and spend the night in a motel I might have time to shop for Japanese goodieeeeees! *wiggle*]
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 1/28/2008 03:22:00 AM
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wWednesday, January 23, 2008 |
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feeling: lazy
listening to: Katamari Damacy OST - Sakurairo no Kisetsu
FREAKING COWS.
Anyway. So. I have decided that I want to try making panna cotta someday. Ohemgee, it sounds so good.
Speaking of Italian desserts, I need to find an excuse to eat at Olive Garden at least once a month just so I can try all their different flavors of Italian soda. Because the above reminded me that the vanilla one was A THOUSAND LEVELS OF YESNESS. Mmm.
I'm strange lately. Pardon my idiocy.
Anyway, I'm trying to decide whether I should go see BLOOD's Feb. 4 show in Chicago, and if so, how to best go about getting to and from there. Already decided that it would be beyond stupid of me to attempt going on the whole tour when flights alone would easily cost well over $1000. Maybe even pushing $2000 since two of them would have to be nonstop - and, of course, it's less than two weeks away by now and I've learned the hard way that it's quite dumb to book flights that late.
So hmmm...
I've been feeling really lazy and unmotivated for the past couple weeks. It's the exact opposite of what usually happens every year after I come home from Ohayocon - usually I spend the rest of the month on some crazy high and wanting to accomplish things left and right. This year I came home and... haven't really moved since? I suppose part of that is probably because I was sick for a whole week before and during Ohayocon and took a few days to recover after getting home, and as soon as that passed, my computer caught a bug of its own and it took almost a week to get it all cleaned up too. Idiot fools.
So yeah, since then I've been a slug. More so than usual, I mean. Winter might have something to do with it too, I guess. I love the season itself, but it's the stupid dry manufactured heat pumping into the air that saps my energy and dries me out and makes me stuffy and achy and bleh. Our central heating includes a humidifier, which helps when I'm downstairs, but let's face it... 99% of the time I'm holed up on the second floor, where the central air doesn't travel as well and I have to use the old baseboard heater as a backup.
Also, why are all the good Japanese TV shows on at like, 6 or 7 in the morning American time? I finally find a website/software/thing that can be used to watch all the major Japanese TV channels LIVE, and all the good stuff is on at ungodly morning hours. Pout. Some computer genius needs to invent, like, VCR software for computers that can capture streaming video at any time set by the user.
Now to decide whether to play with Sims 2 or finish re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-watching Kimi wa Petto...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 1/23/2008 02:15:00 AM
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