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Fanime!

Okay, well it has indeed been a while. My last entry referred to Disneyland, and since then, a week has gone by, and I have gone to something known as Fanime. For those that are not into Japanese Animation (Anime), Fanime is the second largest Anime confrence in the 9 western United States. The largest is Anime Expo. During the week, nothing super exciting happened, so instead I am going to focus on Fanime itself. Just as a fair warning, I do have a large bias that clouds these entries and skews them towards a less pleasant side. To clear things up, all my good times seemed to happen when I was NOT with the Anime Club. Now, onto the story.

The time is 9am on Friday morning, and everybody is arriving in front of the 206 common room with their gear. It is hectic, mostly because it is 16 people and our club (or mroe specifically the Fanime coordinator) was very unorganized. The result was us not leaving until ... oh about 10am, almost an hour past when we wanted to leave. Not only did we miss the Tea Ceremony, but it was too late to huddle up wor being a volunteer. And volunteering, from what I had heard, was fun. You got free food, a place to sleep, a hang out rooom, and all you had to do was contribute 14 hours of time to the convention. What a sweet deal. And since it is a three day convention and sleeping is unheard of it is not difficult to get 14 hours in a 72 hour period. My 72 hours was cut to 48 because we got there so late. Okay, not tht big of a deal. Now, onto the events after getting my badge. Just on that note, I had a picture of Epyon on my badge. …