Friday May 24th, 2013
It is So Incredibly Hot right now. I might just go in my bathroom and write this. Maybe. I'm thinkin bout it.
HERE IT IS. THE LONG-AWAITED-BY-VERY-FEW CON RECAP: FRIDAY!
Friday May 24th marks the DAWN of Anime Boston. Unfortunately I didn't take the day off from work to play around at AB so I wasn't able to run until around 8:00 PM.
8:00 PM I get on a bus to the Hynes Convention Center. My heart beating like that of a little schoolgirl making a confession to the boy she loves. It was Fancy Friday at work so I was wearing my pencil skirt and heels.
Anyways, the plan for Friday was to hit up the karaoke room and see if I could sign up for the "competition" on Saturday. Of course, there were only 5 spots open and it was first come first serve (ridiculous!) so I didn't get a spot. No surprise there. There was only one panel I wanted to go to on Friday and it got completely BOOKED so I couldn't get in. I ended up hanging around the terrible karaoke room for the rest of the night.
I sign up for karaoke cause WHY THE HELL NOT. You only get SO MANY CHANCES to sing Anime Karaoke, so you better take it. The line was long so I sat around for a few (shamefully terrible - just the way it should be) performances, then hopped over to the room next door to watch some English Dub screenings of Panty & Stocking, which is basically Powerpuff Girls but with SEX.
I love the show. Here's the premise:
I'm like, oh that's cool. You're a little weird and creepy and also 30 years old but I have no friends here so I shall talk to you a bit I guess. I'm talking to him and this cool-looking asian guy goes on stage to sing. And then I'm next! So I get on stage and start belting it out and I'm real cool and singing anime songs and reciting Japanese lyrics that I don't understand.
THE WHOLE CROWD OF PEOPLE DRESSED AS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS GOES WILD! And then I'm like yay and I get off the stage and sit back down next to Lee.
The cool asian guy that was on stage right before comes over and goes:
Guy: "Sorry, wow that was really good. I just had to come over here and say something to you."
Me: "Omg hahasdlfkjadlkbkadf" *still shaky from being nervous. I'm kinda stage-nervous??* "hahhahahahhahah thankssssss."
Guy: "Hey, listen. Are you gonna be here tomorrow?"
Me: "Yeah, I'll be coming all weekend."
Guy: "Wanna do a duet tomorrow?"
UH YEAH!!!
So we exchange numbers and names (his name is Richard) and then he's like "gotta run!" and dashes away.
I decide it's getting a bit late and tell Lee that I'm heading home. He's going to the Green Line as well so we both walk there together. This was REAL risky. I could've been KIDNAPPED by this 30 year old Vietnamese guy but I decided to walk to the T in the dark with him anyways.
And since I'm sitting here writing this post, you can all stop worrying because Lee was a normal, cool guy (other than the fact that he's kinda jittery and a little creepy). We (well, I reluctantly) exchange numbers so we can maybe meet up again tomorrow and he gets on his train and zooms into the darkness.
After that, it was pretty smooth sailing back home.
And that was it for Friday. I was literally there for like 3.5 hours, MAX, and I made two 'friends'! Social nerd skills go!
It is So Incredibly Hot right now. I might just go in my bathroom and write this. Maybe. I'm thinkin bout it.
HERE IT IS. THE LONG-AWAITED-BY-VERY-FEW CON RECAP: FRIDAY!
Friday May 24th marks the DAWN of Anime Boston. Unfortunately I didn't take the day off from work to play around at AB so I wasn't able to run until around 8:00 PM.
8:00 PM I get on a bus to the Hynes Convention Center. My heart beating like that of a little schoolgirl making a confession to the boy she loves. It was Fancy Friday at work so I was wearing my pencil skirt and heels.
Anyways, the plan for Friday was to hit up the karaoke room and see if I could sign up for the "competition" on Saturday. Of course, there were only 5 spots open and it was first come first serve (ridiculous!) so I didn't get a spot. No surprise there. There was only one panel I wanted to go to on Friday and it got completely BOOKED so I couldn't get in. I ended up hanging around the terrible karaoke room for the rest of the night.
I sign up for karaoke cause WHY THE HELL NOT. You only get SO MANY CHANCES to sing Anime Karaoke, so you better take it. The line was long so I sat around for a few (shamefully terrible - just the way it should be) performances, then hopped over to the room next door to watch some English Dub screenings of Panty & Stocking, which is basically Powerpuff Girls but with SEX.
I love the show. Here's the premise:
Panty and Stocking – the Anarchy Sisters – are two nasty-ass angels who got booted from the pearly gates for being foul-mouthed bitches! Now they spend their nights blowing up ghosts in the seedy abyss between Heaven and Earth. Panty likes sex, Stocking likes sweets, their afro-sporting main man Garter Belt has a fetish we can't mention. Together, they're turning the mean streets of Daten City into a buffet of bodily fluids. Ghosts don't stand a chance against their lingerie of mass destruction, and if this debaucherous duo can collect enough Heaven Coins, they just might get their halos back. It's a slim chance in hell, but anything can happen when you're rolling commando, especially with Panty and Stocking!So I sit down and watch an episode or two and this guy sits down next to me. I walk out of the screening room to go back to karaoke and this dude follows me in. Turns out this guy has no idea what Anime Boston is all about. He doesn't even really watch anime. His name is Lee Smith and he's a 30-year-old Vietnamese guy who came to check out the con because of some online single-persons dating thing meet up I have no idea. He says he's lived in Boston for 10 years and that he's a preschool teacher and aquatic instructor on the weekends. He thought I was 25.
I'm like, oh that's cool. You're a little weird and creepy and also 30 years old but I have no friends here so I shall talk to you a bit I guess. I'm talking to him and this cool-looking asian guy goes on stage to sing. And then I'm next! So I get on stage and start belting it out and I'm real cool and singing anime songs and reciting Japanese lyrics that I don't understand.
THE WHOLE CROWD OF PEOPLE DRESSED AS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS GOES WILD! And then I'm like yay and I get off the stage and sit back down next to Lee.
The cool asian guy that was on stage right before comes over and goes:
Guy: "Sorry, wow that was really good. I just had to come over here and say something to you."
Me: "Omg hahasdlfkjadlkbkadf" *still shaky from being nervous. I'm kinda stage-nervous??* "hahhahahahhahah thankssssss."
Guy: "Hey, listen. Are you gonna be here tomorrow?"
Me: "Yeah, I'll be coming all weekend."
Guy: "Wanna do a duet tomorrow?"
UH YEAH!!!
So we exchange numbers and names (his name is Richard) and then he's like "gotta run!" and dashes away.
I decide it's getting a bit late and tell Lee that I'm heading home. He's going to the Green Line as well so we both walk there together. This was REAL risky. I could've been KIDNAPPED by this 30 year old Vietnamese guy but I decided to walk to the T in the dark with him anyways.
And since I'm sitting here writing this post, you can all stop worrying because Lee was a normal, cool guy (other than the fact that he's kinda jittery and a little creepy). We (well, I reluctantly) exchange numbers so we can maybe meet up again tomorrow and he gets on his train and zooms into the darkness.
After that, it was pretty smooth sailing back home.
And that was it for Friday. I was literally there for like 3.5 hours, MAX, and I made two 'friends'! Social nerd skills go!
