Manifest tomorrow. It's their tenth anniversary. So they moved venues from Melbourne University to the Melbourne Showgrounds...means that now most people will be able to FIT to watch the cosplay...XD

Taking the day off work to go. And man do I need to. I am just about over that place at the minute.

Trying to get art printed and ready to go...but it comes out so dark! Still have recieved some tips from other artists! Here's hopinh they work. Officeworks is gonna thhink I'm so strange tomorrow. XD

But still. I get to be a geek all weekend and no one will care!

Awesomeness.

...I wanna buy Ulquiorra and Grimmjow plushies...

I think the appropriate word to describe how I have felt the past week is, giddy.

In December...I'M GOING TO JAPAN!!

*giddygiddygiddy*

I haven't booked the tickets yet but the flights are all still available. Fly into Tokyo, ski in Narita, eat Kobe Beef in Kobe, see the temples in Kyoto, go to a real kareoke place and maybe an onsen! Buy heaps of junk I don't need!

It's going to be awesome!

Wooo!

Now to get through the rest of the year without getting distracted...

XD

Man, I love this time of year. All the comedy galas are on TV and there are piles upon piles of live shows to go and see! Of course, were I to see them all, I would be horribly broke. So I must pick and choose carefully.

In the end Soon dragged me to see Nina Conti. Which was not a bad thing, cause she was about the ONLY funny female comedian on the Oxfam Comedy Gala. Ventriloquism is highly underrated. Her show was called "Evolution" and, that being my area of study, I found highly amusing in itself. The talking money was apparently the 'missing link'. XD

If she's ever in your area - go and see her! Even if you just go to the rude monkey.

My desktop has slowly filled up with projects that I have been trying to complete. I finally got one done! woohoo Working full time really does leave you with next to no time for anything else...especially when you get dragged out every weekend. Not that I'm omplaining mind, but sometimes you just need a night in front of your computer making sure your external harddrive hasn't become corrupted.

My computer wouldn't recognise mine yesterday. Then when it did all the anime had been wiped *MAJOR HEART ATTACK* So I plugged it in to my laptop. Stupid bugger was messing with my head. >.<

Meh...look at the date...I feel old.

Hee hee. My first interstate con! Anime Island Convention was held at Tasmania University over the 7-8th Feb. It wasn't as good as I hoped it would be (some parts) but others were far beyond my expectations!

The Fruits Fashion was incredible. Where they found the time to put together such amazing outfits, I don't know. Cosplay was mad. Never have I seen the entire Organization 13 together (well except for the four who were apparently in Germany...). And the detail on some of the costumes. (Mums around the world should be prayed and bowed down to!)

Decided not to enter the art comp though, as I had to be on a plane before the judging even commenced.

Their very compelling Tornament of WIN! was ... interesting. Cosplay Mystery Date was a laugh and I was bitterly disappointed that I was unable to stay for 'Thank Kami you're here'.

On a sad note; while I was down basking in the moderate weather that was Hobart, my poor home state Victora was suffering through a 46 degree day. And there were many many bushfires. There are at the moment 76 people confirmed dead and over 700 homes obliterated. The town of Marysville where I used to stay when I went skiing as a kid is gone, as is Kinglake and Kinglake West where we take the students from my school on camp. And the fires are still burning their way Northwest-ward tonight. I feel almost guilty for having fun this weekend and not knowing about it until late yesterday.

They're also thinking that at least one of the fires was deliberately lit. D<

Thank god it is cool enough for me to turn my computer on! The last week or so here has been absolutley nuts. According to the records, this has been the hottest Melbourne week in over 100 years! I think the last run of weather they had like this was in 1903.

Just my luck that it was the week I went back to work. >.<

So it was 30-something on Tues, 44 on Wed, 44 on Thurs, 44 yesterday and today it is supposed to be 38. I haven't had much sleep...at least we get dry heat here though. I doubt I would cope well with humidity.

Still. Off to AI-con next week! I find it funny that my first visit to Tasmania is for an anime convention. XD But if it isn't good I plan on going to the chocolate factory (and possibly the Cascade brewery) instead. Or we might hike, who knows. I'm going to submit 'Original Characters' to their art competition (if they have one).

Pity is that I miss out on Rach's 30th. She's having a Guys and Dolls 1920s theme! *crushed to not be able to go*

Have picked up my writing again. Updated 'Only the Weak' on ff.net. 'Another Time' looks like it's update might not be that far behind. I was reading over some of my past chapters...I never thought I could write particularly well but I was certainly holding my own attention! I was actually really pleased with myself! Ha ha!

Goal for the year: Stay motivated! ...for as long as possible... XD