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I just want it to be said that dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets are made of win. They are much better than boring nugget shaped nuggets and infinitely tastier than creepy Mickey Mouse Head shaped nuggets.

Plus, I like to pretend the tyrannosaurus rex nuggets are really raptors. GRAR!

also, I am out of tea, earl grey hot. >:(

um. there was something else I was going to say, but I have forgotten it in the time it took me to make the frowny face.

OH. Now I remember! Y'all, 4 day memberships with preview night for Comic Con 2010 are ALL SOLD OUT. ALREADY. 4 day memberships are still available, though. So, you know, for the people who uh, were maybe coming out here in July for Nerdtopia Does Giant Party With Maybe Some Vows Thrown In who want to do Comic Con as well might want to start looking at passes. :D? :D?

also, on an unrelated to most of this note: you guys, HOW AWESOME IS SUPERMAN, HUH? I MEAN, SERIOUSLY. ALSO, I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS, MARK WAID, BIRTHRIGHT IS FABULOUS. A++++ work. I like it better than Kingdom Come (what? I DO. Because you know who's utterly amazing in Birthright? LOIS FUCKING LANE. THAT'S WHO. ALSO THE KENTS. AND ALSO CLARK. AND JIMMY. AND PERRY. AND SUPES.)

as you were.

protip: rum cake is amazing.

also, so so so many people fail at understanding the basics of capitalism that it constantly amazes me. i'm not saying capitalism uber alles or anything, but jeez oh pete's, it is not actually a crime for a company to want to make money off their product.

an in conclusion: Ruthie Henshall is awesome.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-girls-guide-to-comic-con-pg,0,4051009.photogallery?1

ARE YOU FOR REAL, LA TIMES? SERIOUSLY?

GO TO COMIC CON FOR THE DREAMY BOYS? SERIOUSLY?

I go to Comic Con because it is the nerdiest time of year surrounded by people who will dress their 3 year old toddlers up as LUKE AND LEIA, OKAY? and were the 501st legion can do a goddamn parade down the concourse and where two girls can dress up in awesome homemade Enchanted dresses JUST BECAUSE and where fox1013 and I can dress up as lolcats and PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHAT WE ARE.

It is where I go to see Bryan Fuller be a nerd and Kristen Chenowith sing songs and Chi McBride be snarky and where Christine Rose gets a standing ovation for being GODDAMN BADASS and where I could thank Javi for making an awesome show filled with women and people of color (ART CRAWL!) and where I could heckle the Rza and where I can stand there and argue the merits of Superman (many) vs the merits of uh, people without ethics who are LOLEDGY with douchebag fanboys and where random swedish men get superexcited about showing off their Connie Willis collection and where there are ARCs of books and people who like geeking out about books and IT IS WHERE I GO TO BE THE BEST NERD I CAN BE.

So go fuck your dreamy boys BS.

Unless the girls mobbing RPattz enable me to get closer to Jaime Ray Newman. Or the cast of Flash Forward OMG YOU GUYS JOHN CHO + JACK DAVENPORT IN A SHOW TOGETHER = :D :D :D :D :D.

Um. Anyway. Yes.

put in my time off requests for escrow closing day and the couple days after for cleaning/moving purposes -

also put in my time off request for Comic Con. WOOO COMIC CON. IT'S ONLY 5 MONTHS AWAY, YOU GUYS. THAT'S PRACTICALLY TOMORROW.

Firstly: If there are people who are going to Comic Con and you want to hang out or meet up or something and you don't have but want my phone number, let me know.

things what i have done
-called the hotel and asked for early check in (maybe), tax rates (bah), if there is a blender in the room (maybe), if we can leave our bags at the front desk (yes), airport shuttle (yes), and distance to convention center (10 minutes driving, wtf front desk dude. it's 1.4 miles.)

-need to find distance from hotel to ralph's grocery store for to purchase amazingly tacky margarita in a pouch and garlic cheese bread (this we may need to do when the shuttles are running) because we are made of classy.

-hauled out the bags for packing (yes, I know it is more than a week away, OMG IT'S LIKE A WEEK AWAY OMG OMG OMG OMG I CAN HAS AN AMY, YOU GUYS, but there are some Very Important Decisions to be made about media to bring (bed dead and breakfast, seasons of XF so we can "prepare" for the movie, mammoth, other things TBD, the most amazing amy present ever about the baby mammoth being cloned in mongolia 100% TRUFAX, and um. stuff. you know. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THESE THINGS BE DETERMINED OR ELSE WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ENTERTAINMENT FOR EVERY MINUTE OF FIVE DAYS)

-checked the weather.com 10 day forecast: the weather is supposed to be really nice. YAY!

things what i still need to do
-print out comic con badge bar scanny thing

-print out hotel reservation confirmation

-print out train confirmation and directions

-pack

-unpack all the stuff i put in there that i don't need

-flail at amy on the phone (ongoing)

-obtain batteries for camera

-flail at amy some more

1) CONNIE WILLIS IS GOING TO BE AT COMIC CON. CONNIE WILLIS!

2) THEY ARE PREMIERING JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER. I need to work on my reading comprehension! Justice League: New Frontier is premiering at WONDER CON.

Connie Willis! Awesome looking Justice League animated movie! Woo!

Only 8 months to go!

Superman: Doomsday - Adam Baldwin voicing Supes, Marsters as Lex, Anne Heche as Lois. LOIS KICKED ASS, YOU GUYS. She was so totally the best part of that movie. Because she is Lois and therefore MADE OF WIN. Lex was very very very very very very gay. Very gay. OMG gay. Not even slashy, because it was that gay. um. Pretty much that is what I took away from the movie. Not in love with the art style Timm adopted for it, but I am picky. latxcvi, they totally busted out Mullet!Superman for you.

Justice League: New Frontier - LOOKS TOTALLY AMAZING. Kyle McLachlan as Supes, Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman, Jeremy Sisto as Bats (Timm says we will *lose our shit* the first time we hear him do it), Neil Patrick Harris as Flash (YAY FLASH YAY YAY YAY), David Boreanaz as Hal Jordan. It looks *awesome*.

Zachary Quinto is Spock AND SO IS LEONARD NIMOY HI LEONARD NIMOY HI HI HI. 1-18-08 looks totally amazing (not the real name of the movie, which is currently title-less); Spiderwick Chronicles has no soul; the clip of Stardust they showed also seemed to have no soul; IRON MAN ROCKED and I say this as a person who basically thinks Tony Stark is a ginormous douche who got his boyfriend killed; Hot Rod was *totally* charming in the clip it showed; Drillbit Taylor (the new Judd Apatow) looked hysterically funny; Beowulf kinda rocked. If I could remember the first sixteen lines in the rockin' old English, I totally would have gone up and asked. But sadly, all I can remember is the prologue to Canterbury Tales in middle. We scored t-shirts (1-18-08, Iron Man, Star Trek), and posters (Sweeney Todd IS A MUSICAL Y'ALL IT IS A TIM BURTON MUSICAL STARRING JOHNNY DEPP, Star Trek, an Iron Man concept sketch, and I swear there was more but I cannot remember it now).

Then we went shopping and I bought two shirts (a Daily Planet staff shirt and a sparkly Flash logo. I think I may go back for GCPD: SWAT, The Tick Society, and a Wonder Woman shirt). I was cruelly thwarted in my quest for a Shayera, but I will prevail, oh yes, I will. We also went to the Heroes booth and now I am stylishly rockin' a Vote Petrelli button. Um. I took pictures but the cord to connect to my computer is totally in the car. Um, um, what else? We entered the Heroes drawing for a lunch box, Amy totally gave me her ticket for Gerard Way possibly getting in -- on the plus side, if I don't get in, I can totally go to Heroes. And if I do, then YAY GERARD WAY. We're planning to go back, as the chances of them remembering us are slim to none. We got ARCs for an awesome graphic novel with no words and also got posters for it. Um. um. other stuff. We kept getting distracted by shiny things. I have an adorable picture of Amy with muppets. And kickin' pictures of Mr. Terrific, Vixen, and Bats and then one of Mary Marvel and Zatanna. Oh oh and one of me with like, porn star Superman or something. It's awesome.

We got sort of drunk at Dick's Last Resort. The most recent phone post includes our waiter talking for a bit, because he was made of awesomeness. My lemonade with alchohol in was v. v. tasty. Then we sobered up and that was less super. Tomorrow is muppet day, so Amy and I are coordinating our outfits. She is going on a Muppet World Tour and I am Representin' The Street. We are pretty much made of win.

We put off the blood giving until Sunday as um, by the time we made it off the sales floor it was time for food.

ETA: oh my *god*, I'd forgotten how FABULOUS a shower with actual water pressure is.

-Dude, Saturday one-day memberships are allllll sold out.

-Gerard Way won the poll pretty damn handily, so on Preview Night, I shall haul myself over to the Dark Horse booth and ask how one would obtain tickets for the Umbrella Academy signing. Hopefully, I will not come off like too much of a tool.

-I can't tell if I want Isaiah Washington to be at the Bionic Woman panel or not. Because on the one hand, OH MY GOD, I WANT TO GO HECKLE. On the other, the Bionic Woman panel is up against many many things of awesomeness.

-Trapped in the Closet comes out tomorrow! Good times! it will be very very hard not to watch/listen to it before I get to see Amy.

-Hilarity is Seth Green and Michelle Trachtenberg in the "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" video.

-thelionforreal is a wily pimp and has told me I must watch John from Cincinnatti. It is really good, y'all. *shakes fist*

-One of the advantages of going to preview night is that I will get the happy schedule and Amy and I can spend a lot of time being kind of crazy and obsessively highlighting things.

-Adam Baldwin plays Superman and James Marsters plays Lex and Anne Heche plays Lois in Superman: Doomsday. I...am not sure I'm pleased about any of that.

-The BtVS 10th Anniversary celebration at Comic Con involves OMWF. SO MUCH GOOD STUFF THIS YEAR OMG.

T-minus 5.5 days to Weekend of Geekery + Amy.

Y'all, I am sad! As of right now, I have no one to go to Preview Night with. Is anyone going to Preview Night or anyone who has the 4 (or 3) day pass who wasn't planning to go because they, like me, were all sad and lonely? Come with me! It's Preview Night! There is stuff! And shopping! And planning out plans of attack for later shopping/stalking/swag receiving missions!

Dear Gerard Way,

Please come to CCI again this year. It will be fabulous. I promise not to be scary.

Love,
S.

*
Dear BB-guy Howie,

Please to come to CCI this year to shill for Master Replicas. We promise to...well, mock you. But it will be done with love.

Love,
S.

Whyfor must Projekt Revolution and Comic Con conflict? It is the same audience, guys! And by "the same audience," clearly I mean me.

Also, this *significantly* lowers the chances that Gerard will be at Comic Con to pimp his comic book (I could have seen him last year! But I...wouldn't have cared last year and also I was attempting to stalk Brandon Routh, because well. He was there for WoW! Doesn't Gerard play WoW[1]? Now I am totally imagining that Gerard and Brandon Routh are in the same guild and do like, dungeon runs together. Why? Because there's nothing more adorable than hot guys doing geeky things.) But maybe he can be there on Thursday. I mean, San Bernardino and San Diego aren't that far apart from each other! *pretends fiercely*

...GODDAMN YOU, WORLD. GODDAMN YOU TO HELL.

I have keyworded this icon: "gerard way will EAT YOUR SOUL." Because he will.

ETA: Also, if anyone wanted to come keep me company for a bit on AIM (mimesere), that would be awesome. My homework is mindnumbingly dull and I do it only because...uh. Frankly 'cause I have nothing else to do. And hopefully I will get out of class early enough to make it home in time for the Heroes finale. Right now, me and ladysorka are discussing the Emo Allstar WoW guild. Because it's hilarious.

ETA2: We have now moved on to the Guitar Hero Tournament. Because Joe is *by god* gonna win the title of Rock Guitar God from Ray (just that awesome) and Patrick (who tends to win largely on sheer volume of knowledge). Ryan is there solely to defend his band's honor and Frankie thinks the whole thing is hilarious. Meanwhile, Andy, Bob, and Spencer sit around and sulk because they want to compete for title of Rock Drummer God but they are being thwarted in their ambitions.

ETA3: Sadly, AIMexpress crashed and took the Brendon vs JWalk vs Patrick battle of I Play Multiple Instruments and Am Really Really Hot with it. It involved a lot of Patrick wanting to kill Brendon with the power of his mind, Brendon smirking a lot, and JWalk being very chill. At one point, Brendon gets perilously close to saying, "I AM A GOLDEN GOD!" Possibly there was also sulking on everyone's part because no one will let Patrick hit Brendon, even though he really deserves it, and Brendon lost, which hey, the judges are TOTALLY BIASED, okay, and they can't all be sleeping with the judges, now can they, Patrick? Then Pete sits on Patrick to prevent Patrick from leaping over two pianos and assorted other instruments to kill Brendon and Patrick's like, "No, I'm fine. I'm fine! Pete, seriously. I'm fine." and Pete's all, "Uh huh, sure. You know the label will kill you if you kill him." And Patrick's like, "I'm not going to kill Brendon! God!" and Pete is still giving him dubious face and Patrick's all, "I'm not! I'll just, you know, it's not like he needs his legs to be able to sing."

I have no idea why I have decided that Patrick vs Brendon would degenerate into bitchy and violent competition, but I totally think it would. Jon Walker, meanwhile, cedes the competition as being Too Crazy For Him and he joins the guys who are putting money down on Just How Much Patrick Will Hurt Brendon. Ryan Ross is all, "You don't know that! Brendon can--" and Andy and Joe are like, "HA! No." And Gerard and Frankie just sort of nod, because dude, yes, they got ringside seats during Warped, and even Spencer, that traitor, is like, "I'm pretty sure Patrick could take Brendon." Then Ryan sulks and writes nasty things about everyone in his notebook.

Yeah, I have no idea.

[1] *someone* related to FOB or MCR plays WoW, I distinctly remember reading/hearing that.

So, my first act on probably-just-a-week of Sheila was to register for Comic Con 2007. WOO I AM GOING TO COMIC CON! I GET TO HAVE AN AMY FOR FOUR WHOLE DAYS! I AM THE LUCKIEST ME IN THE WORLD!

*cough* Not that I'm excited or anything.

We will get to do stuff! Like the Queers in Comics mixer! and Cinnabon at Horton Plaza! and Sci Friday (I don't even watch anything *on* Sci Friday right now, but I will go! Because it's Sci Friday with a bunch of geeks and therefore awesome)! Shopping! More shopping! Panels! It is Geek Heaven! Woo!

I WILL GET TO HECKLE LAURELL K HAMILTON (as long as her panel doesn't conflict with Heroes)! Good times, y'all!

omg shopping! Maybe they will have the Uhura figure that I didn't buy last year (so hot y'all, seriously. She is why I always sort of look sideways at the people who say there were never interesting women on ST:TOS. REALLY? Because Lt. Uhura rocked my world with her hotness and ubercompetence and hotness. ANYWAY.) and maybe I can convince fox1013 that she really DOES need puppet Angel.