Day one!

[oyceter]

We have arrived in Mariposa!

The universe has apparently decided that it is no fun embarrassing people unless there is an audience involved. I thought I was going to start with this morning, but in fact, the misfortune starts earlier! coffeeandink managed to miss her plane by five minutes (which was secretly good for me, as I was still scrambling to pack, as I managed to forget quite a few groceries). Alas, when I checked her flight status for the later flight, the plane seemed to be stuck on the runway for about an hour, which meant she got in around 1am.

Instead of going to bed like sane people, we instead watched vids! Alas, most of my vids seem to be either emo Spike vids that I downloaded five years ago, or amazingly good yet horribly depressing vids featuring footage of the atomic bomb. and nothing happy or cute. Finally, after going through several sort-of-happy vids, we got to Charmax's Pushing Daisies vid and Laura Shapiro's cute Hiro/Ando vid.

Then, as Mely hadn't yet had coffee and therefore did not have enough brain function for higher math, I was woken up at 9:30 California time. Also, the toilet overflowed, which I swear, has never happened to the condo before. Then after we spent many long hours in the car, entertained by my insanely bouncy Happy Mix #8 and Mely's Imaginary Vids soundtrack, I got a speeding ticket. I swear, first ticket ever. Also, I feel a speed limit of 55 mph on a dead straight road in the middle of nowhere is somewhat insulting (and everyone else was going fast!), particularly after they force a 55 mph speed limit on roads that wind up dangerous mountains and should actually be 35. Everyone was speeding past me as I tried not to get ticket #2.

But! We are now here, and we all got distracted by various cracktastic and awesome media we brought, including Rachel's Mithrans-in-Japan-cow manga (cracktastic), Yoon's Joseon court book (awesome), and assorted artbooks (sartorias fanned herself while going through the Saiyuki ones).Day

Comments

[octopedingenue]

YAY! Also jellus!! I am coming next year.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[oyceter]

YAY!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You forgot to mention the phallic obelisk.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I think we had moved on to Aesop Rock by the time you got the speeding ticket.

[cofax7]

Yay, you're there safely!

Hug everyone! (And please tell sartorias I really enjoyed Inda.)

[oyceter]

I did, and she was very happy!

[seajules]

I'm glad everyone made it there safely! I hope you all do reports, so I can join in the fun vicariously. *G*

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Have fun! And possibly discuss whether you think the live action movie Honey & Clover (http://www.amazon.com/Honey-Clover-Masahiro-Takada/dp/B0014Z4ONY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1207371762&sr=1-1) could be or is any good. (Me, I'm scared of the idea of a live action version.)

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I'm not part of the Mariposa crew, but I'll note that I thought it was wretched. Well, it's more mediocre than awful, but given the excellence of the anime and manga, mediocrity seems like a travesty.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

It screwed up in several major ways, but hit things right on a couple of times too. So, overall, good for an adaptation. (But, grain of salt, I am optimistically looking forward to live Nana too.)

[actoplasm.livejournal.com]

Glad to know you guys all made, especially since my wife didn't respond to my text as to whether she was alive or not!

Take lots of pictures!