Saira Megami's Journal

You know . . . it's true. I never update this thing. Ever. And it's come to my attention that I really never will.

My Live Journal kind of sits here, with nothing important in it. No one reads it, because I don't post anything. I am also bad to keep up with everyone else's entries, and I hope that hasn't upset anyone. I'm not upset or blaming anyone - it's my fault, plain and simple. :p

So . . . pretty much I have a journal sitting here not doing anything, and I would rather not have that. There is an un-updated, stylized journal sitting here gathering dust, and I have decided it would be best for me to delete it. I would like to thank all of my friends for reading it, and apologize for not keeping up to date with everyone's entries. I am going to leave this message up for a few days, and then everything will be gone. This certainly doesn't mean I want to break contact with my friends - there just isn't any point in my keeping a log I do not update. Thank you all for reading when I did post, and please keep in touch! ^^ I will see you all later~!

~*Saira*~

If you were a Pirate! by TheHalveric

Username

Yer Pirate Name!

Name yer ship!

Why be ye a Pirate?

Yer First Mate!

hellseal

Yer Cabin-boy! (or girl)

lyricality

Ye're chief rival be the Dread Pirate

viollet_aria

Ye'll be pursued by Admiral

aridinne

Cut to ribbon in a freak cannon accident...

lavenderlilly

Yer pirate captive to use fer yer wicked pleasures

cucumber_green

Number o'ships ye'll sink and women ye'll plunder!

120

Chance ye'll be hanged... or worse.: 86%

Quiz created with MemeGen!

Again, Lyric? We must stop these kinky love/hate relationships . . . and poor Persimmon. Times two. XD

So this entry is a little late - a lot, in fact. But it's here. It will be the convention log so . . . you have been warned. It will probably be long. >.>

Right about two weeks before Anime Festival Orlando 5 (Referred to as AFO or AFO 5 from here on), I realized two very not cool things. The first - there was no hotel room reserved. The second - there was no one going but me. Since no reservations could be made without an approximate number of people, I started asking around.

So right off, William Morrison (Hereafter referred to as "William") could go. After further asking, Jessica Ridenour wanted to go, Blake could not, and William Fickert (Hereafter referred to as "dork-face" (kidding - kidding!!) He will be referred to as "Fickert") was also coming. Since she was coming down, Shannon was invited. So were Persimmon, Brandon and Brian.

Skip to Friday, August 8, 2004. Time to go, and we are down to William, Shannon, Persimmon, Brandon, and myself. Shannon wanted to drive (because she is that freakin awesome! ^^), so off we went in my dad's red Aurora. AFter a trip to Publix and Vystar in St. Augustine, we headed for the con.

Traffic on I-95 sucked. Like alot. We left St. Augustine around 1:30, and didn't get there until after 5:00. >.< So I quickly changed into my green chinese dress, and we headed in. We bought our passes, and went straight for the Dealer Room. Unfortunately, they we closing up, so we were chased back out. >.>

And so we wandered the halls. We met up with Michelle and hung out for a bit - visited her room. She was in 1502 (Lucky~!), which was very close to the convention area. Last year we stayed in building 14, so it was close. That hotel is incredibly huge. We also checked out cosplayers - there were some nice ones, and we kept seeing this one little Ryoma (from TeniPuri) over and over again. ^^ Twas awfully cute. Also, Brandon (as in Persimmon's friend, not Ricondo) was cosplaying Duo. Many of his friends were Seigaku Tennis Players.

So after some Mc Donald's, and lotsa hanging out, we are faced with a rather large problem. It is 8:00pm, and there is still no sign of Persimmon and William. o.O Not good. Especially since she had called quite sometime ago.

And so I went back to the con, and wandered for a long time. A good hour or so. We had a large church group using the hall next to ours, and I even kept pacing through there. At first, several people commented on my dress, which was nice and appreciated. After awhile, these same people started asking what I was doing. All of a sudden, there are a million and a half people "keeping an eye out" for one twenty one year old girl. ~.~

At this point, I am freaking out. Not only do I still want to check-in with the money they have, I am now insanely worried because it's been too long - even for taking the back roads. So I pick up the phone and call Persimmon's home to talk to her mom. Mom says she didn't leave till 6:30, and is a bit less worried than me. She asks me to call her back when I find them. No problem.

Soon after, my dad called back. He told me to put the room on his credit card, and collect funds to bring back to him. It required a few faxes and a phone call for it to work, but the woman I dealt with was extremely nice, and it worked. We were also able to get a considerably better rate, since there were technically only two of us left. (Go me!)

So in we go - our room is number 548. Oh glee. Building 5 is the farthest one in the complex from the main building in which the convention is held. So there was walking. Lots of walking. Persimmon called about 10-ish to say she was in the main building, and we went to fetch. I called her mom back, and we were both much happier ^^. Persimmon also found her friend Daft and introduced me - shock! Lo and behold, the TeniPuri cosplayer from before. ^o^ Yay Ryoma~!

It turns out, dearest Brandon Ricondo FORGOT about the convention and went to Jacksonville with his friend. But we didn't know this. All w knew was that Friday afternoon, he quit Publix and walked out, and went missing. NO ONE knew where he was. So Persimmon and William were searching for him forever, and looking for someone to come in his place. At last, they gave up. They went home for an article (a very important one~! ^^) forgotten by Persimmon, and finally got to leave.

So we went to McDonald's again, and much fun was had by all. Daft was awesome, and I stole William's straw. :D Also, my skirt kept flying up on the crosswalk to and from the restaurant. #>.># This caused amusement. Much amusement.

Now we have the part where your opinion of me goes to hell. Earlier, Michelle, Shannon and I looked through a list of the panels. Panels are generally discussion, or so we thought. o.O For curiosity's sake - Yes, CURIOSITY - we decide we are going to check out the Hentai panel at midnight, and see what the hype's all about. So we did.

. . . yeah. It was all viewing. Graphic viewing that we did not need, and scarred us for life. o.O I was gone before THAT was over with. And there will be no more curiosity. Freaking SCARY.

I went with Persimmon to take Daft back to her hotel. When we returned, it was almost 3:00am, and we decided it was a good time to go swimming. :D We hung out at the pool and hot tub until 5:30. When we all finally went back to the room and showered, it was almost 7:00am. We channel surfed, and found that there was nothing blocked - as in, there were naked lesbians on TV. O_O We quickly flipped AWAY, with Shannon screaming, and discussed exactly how parents were supposed to keep their kids from finding it. It's a hotel - I thought you had to request and pay extra for scariness. o.o At 6:00am, we awoke William to kill the roach on the wall. O.O And then we slept. ^^ But not for long.

Now it is Saturday, and Persimmon and Shannon shoop to the con at 9:00am. I meant to do the same, but fell back asleep like a moron. -_-;; Room service opened and closed the door twice. I wake up to a pin dropping, so I woke up every time. At about noon, they opened the door a third time. This time, they did not close it. Noting the lack of slamming, I crack one eye open to find the woman STANDING IN OUR ROOM AND STARING AT US. So I sit up and look at her funny, and she apologizes. She asked if we wanted service. I said no. How about tomorrow? Also no. Towels? Ahh, yes. Towels. We went to the pool - we need towels. Ans so she gave us some. But I was still freaked out.

William had gone to bed at about 12:00am, and neglected the swimming. He finally stirred at 2:00pm. o.O Amazing - the boy can sleep more than me! And so off we go to the con. ^^

I went straight back to the Dealer's room, hoping for some awesomeness. I found a little bit. ^^ I got a cute little Prince of Tennis wallet to use for travel, and a cell phone strap of Daisuke. ^^ Yes, he is on my phone now. I kept wandering over to the DVD booth - ya know, the cheap anime from Taiwan with lacking subtitles? They had the prince of Tennis TV specials, which I already have, and some Hikaru no Go box sets.

I have wanted to see Hikaru no Go for a while now. But box sets are usually $40 apiece, and they had four of the five or six box sets. So I kept going back, thinking about getting the first one. I definitely could not afford $160 for all four boxes, and $40 was a little under half of my spending money.

Finally, the lady (very American for a change o.O) at the booth said she had seen me come by several times. She then asked me if was Hikaru no Go I kept looking at, and I said yes. #-_-# So she says, "You can have all four box sets for $60."

. . . O_O. "Can I say no to that? I don't think I can say no to that . . . "

And so I have four box sets of Hikaru no Go. ^^ She then offered me the DVD of TV Specials for $5, instead of the regular $12. I got that too. I seriously lucked out there . . .

At another booth, I found a few cute Hikaru no Go things. I cannot state what they are, for I bought two for Viollet as well and they have not been shipped. ^^ I had yet to see it, but the were only $2 apiece, so I bought some. ^^ I was quite surprised at the price. Later, we were sitting outside the Dealer's Room, and I was playing with one. Others started to ask me where I got it and for how much, and they were also surprised. And so I apparently made sales for the booth. o.O

It poured all afternoon, and I spent most of it with William. It was quite nice. ^^ I felt terrible for him, though, because he was stuck with a bunch of silly girls and none of his friends.

That night, we returned to the . . . China Jade Buffet!! Remember that place from the Megacon post? XD I wanted to call Fickert from inside - to ask why there was still no China Sapphirus Buffet inside of the China Jade Buffet. (Biiiig inside joke. But the Apocripha fans on my friends list will get it. ^^;;) I ended up forgetting to do so. >.>

So that night, Shannon did little personality tests. We went to the Yaoi panel hoping for some cute music videos, but it didn't happen. It was boring as hell, aside from the traditional showing of "The Cat Came Back" starring Shuuichi. It was greeted by the usual chorus of everyone in the room. ^^ I actually went to said panel hoping to see Clamp's "Wish" trailer, because I missed it when it was shown at Jacon. ~.~ Luckily, they did show it again. And it was adorable. I think I shall read the manga. ^^

After that, we had cake, and hung out in the room. William got hungry, so he and I wandered across the street to Walgreens. Expensive!!

When we got back, Persimmon and Daft were making fun of the fake lesbians, and swearing to us that they weren't watching it. e_e;; Right. At this point I feel the need to mention that none of us have a problem with lesbians - we were just being given too much information by "Planet of the Babes". o.o There was more channel surfing (safer parts of the TV o.o), and nothing was on. We slept, and Daft stayed with us at our hotel. ^^

On to Sunday! Got up at 10:30, and got out of the hotel EARLY this time! I will forever stay with you guys and Viollet - you all ROCK at getting everything together on time!! ^o^

So back to the dealer room, for one last round. I was tempted by Angelique fastener mascots - namely Arios and Luva - but I resisted. $10 is just too much when they are priced at $4 MAX. I got a TeniPuri eraser set that has five erasers - Oishi, Momo, Kaidoh, Ryoma, and cute little Eiji-kun. ^^ I love Eiji~! Eiri/Harry (I still don't know which is correct) informed me that they were erasers. (At first, I didn't know what they were ^^) He also said I could chew them as gummies, but they probably wouldn't taste too good. >.>

Persimmon and William planned to go at 3:00pm, and Shannon and I were talking about leaving early for lack of anything cooler to do. So Persimmon, Shannon and I went to the Game Room to see what William wanted to do.

We went in to find him playing Super Smash Brothers. I have only played it once, and sucked - but he always does quite well. While we watched, I caught another screen out of the corner of my eye.

I did not know what it was from - I swear.

It caught my eye because someone was playing as a pretty silver haired boy with wings. I love pretty art, so I wandered over.

It was a Tetris game - played with anime characters I had never seen. Just like regular tetris, but some of the falling pieces had glowing stones. Whenever one of these stones was used in making a line, it did . . . interesting things to the opponent. o.O Turned their stack of blocks upside down. Hid their next piece so they wouldn't see what it was. cause the blocks to re-arrange. Destroyed a vertical line of blocks to make things harder. It was quite intriguing.

It turned out to be from Card Captor Sakura. All the people playing were staying there, going in a circle with the controller as they lost to one another. No one was leaving for other games. There was a hispanic girl that played better than anyone - she was the only one to leave from time to time, and only then because she was one of the ones running the game room. They kept referring to it as "Crack Tetris".

Shannon and I watched for awhile. Then I wanted to try.

So I did. And the next thing I knew - it had been two hours, I had gotten good, and I was on a winning streak. o.O I lost after 5 games, but it was still pretty amazing to me. I always played as the angel - someone told me his name is Yue. ^^ After awhile they started trying to keep me from getting him, but they failed. Mwahaha.

At any rate, I did not realize I had been playing for so long. We headed home, and even now, I long to play "Crack Tetris". o.O I cannot believe how addicting it was, and I will probably watch the show because of it . . .

All in all, an extremely fun weekend. I loved all of it, and was glad to see AFO recover from the disappointment last year. ^^ But because of last year, something special was missing - I missed you terribly, Viollet~! T.T And I will find a way to visit you yet - you'll see!!

At this rate, if I take a new quiz everyday . . . there will be posts in my live journal! . . . I'm so sad . . . -_-;;

Take the "You're Senshi Who" Quiz at Wishing Moon.

Yet . . . I am so pleased . . .

You are Jade, Platina's staff officer. Intelligent,
you are always hiding your true intentions.
Some people might hate you, since you have a
harsh tongue and keeps offending people with
that. But why care about it, you are perfect
besides that!

Which Apocripha/0 character are you? (Still without images)
brought to you by Quizilla

So . . .

It would appear that the time has come for Publix and I to go our separate ways. If my meeting with the store manager goes alright tomorrow, I might stay around awhile longer. If not, my two weeks notice goes in tomorrow. -_- There are people I will miss, but I don't hink I will miss the job itself. *sigh* I find myself very unhappy about this . . .

I officially start at the community college in August. I went and took the CPT, and now I have a schedule. Only thing that sucks is that somehow I qualified for DBCC's Honors program, so now I must drive to Daytona three days a week. >.< I am very happy to be in the Honors program, but the drive causes problems with my current job. Because of my class schedule, it is impossible for me to work more than 4 hours a day Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I have four other days, but I have to calculate homework and study time. I'd also like to have at least one day off from both. :p

I was also expecting prep math courses, but I don't have to take any! ^_^ A good thing, but I know I'm going to have to do a crap load of studying to pass math. I also have to but my books in Daytona, because apparently the campus here has books for the classes I'm taking . . . just not the Honors level books. -_- So, looks like Daytona and I will become good friends.

Current classes: Humanities I (Q2 Block), Psychology of Adjustment (Q2 Block), College Composition (Q2 Block), and College Algebra (09 Block). Wish me luck! ^_~

It's not the fact that I hate you. It's the fact that no one TALKED to me about this.

I did NOT say I wasn't moving in with you guys. I said I MIGHT have mono, which was going to be a problem, because it would put me out of work for a month and a half. A month and a half that I didn't want you guys to have to pay for. So I let you know. There was no ultimatum. No one told you to sit there and like it. I was under the impression that we would be staying at Barrington if my dad wouldn't cosign. The day after we talked, I lost my voice. Completely. I called today because I could finally speak. Called you to tell you I wasn't as sick as expected and everything was fine. I made myself go to work too. And my manager asked me not to come in anymore.

Also, I did not invite my parents over to the apartment. I TOLD JESSIE they would be coming to get me Saturday, and they would be likely to come inside. Not my fault if she didn't listen. I did not show them her room. My mom went to the bathroom, and poked her head in there on the way out. I didn't stop her, because I was trying to get my dad out of Natalie's room. Yeah. They're NOSY. And my mom wasn't looking for a reason not to cosign. She wanted to see the size of Jessie's room. That was all.

And no, I didn't turn in my papers. I wasn't going to do that until I knew where I was living. Before my parents found another apartment, I went to a lot of care to get permission from both you and Jessie for them to do so. And it was all well and good with BOTH of you. In fact, you said you were all for it if it would save us money. Then when we hit a problem, and they won't cooperate, all of a sudden I'm on my own in wanting a cheaper place to live, and you guys say you never wanted anything to do with it. I did not ALLOW them to play the "We're not cosigning" game. They are adults too. They did that on their own. I can't control them. I can't just say, "Now now. You can't do that to Jenn and Jessie." Sorry. No power there. My mom told him it wasn't fair too.

And yes, I did agree with what they said. I expressed that concern to you, and you worked it out with Jessie. That was perfectly fine with me.

Yeah, we are almost twenty. I realize we are past the age of mommy talking to mommy. But when you ask mommy to cosign for you for whatever reason, you are asking mommy to be responsible for whatever you do to your apartment. So mommy is holding your hand again now, and you can't ask her to mind her own business. If we had done a deposit instead, it would be totally different. If this is about being "adults" to you guys, then there should have been no cosigning involved.

I also really don't care how angry Jessie was. Jessie didn't discuss this with me, and when it comes down to it - she really doesn't know me. At all. And I barely know her. I didn't stick up for her, and I didn't say anything negative. But I did have plenty of nice things to say about her. Her mother definitely doesn't know me. I seem to be taking a lot of crap over my parents being too involved, and her mom seems quite involved too.

And just so you know, I'm not looking for sympathy as all three (yes, three) of you seem to think. Virtually no one reads this thing, I just put things here to get them off my chest. And yeah, you hurt my feelings beyond belief today Jenn.

And this probably wouldn't be happening if you had talked to me. Because I wouldn't have been nearly so upset if I had actually gotten a conversation, instead of, "Okay. We have this problem this problem and this problem. The best way to handle it is to get rid of you." Just a simple conversation, where we could have discussed solutions. You must know there were better ways to handle this.

I don't think I can express in words exactly how much I hate my fucking life right now.

Fortunately the doctor changed his mind, and said he no longer thinks I have mono - which is good. Matt is giving me hours, and so I get money, which is also good. But I was still obnoxiously sick, and I kept going to work anyway so I could afford to move out next month. Twice, they sent me home early because, "We think you're too sick to be working." And then I developed pink eye.

So I was out for 3 days, and I went back today. I worked all day, even stayed late because I had to miss days this week. My bills are gone, and my mom wrote me a check for $500 so I could move in next month. I was actually having a pretty wonderful day - I saw a rainbow on the way home from work, which made me inexplicably happy. And then I get the voicemail.

Yeah. Thanks for the slap in the face, because that's about all it was. I realize I'm not the victim here, but thanks for talking things over with me - letting me know how everybody felt so I would have some idea of what was going on. It's not cool for me to express concern over money shortages - which I did because I DID NOT want to end up owing the whole world money - but it's fine for you to just kinda toss me out without a word. Thanks. I really love my fucking life.

And now I have to go, because I have a check to return, a bunch of furniture to find a place to store, a pile of shit to unpack, and it's getting difficult to type while crying this hard.

I dunno quite what this does . . . but I'll try it. ^_^;;

And later there will be an update, now that I am back in town. Complete with Yaoi Pajama Party memories. #^.^#

saira_megami

Buh. And today I saw . . . Persimmon! At work! ^_^ Unfortunately, she now has me wanting to go to Jacon. -.- I'm gonna check the rate for single day passes. If I go, we're talking Saturday only and no dealer room. Believe it or not, I have enough self control to not spend any money in there if I don't want to. ^_^ Maybe I'll go to the cosplay - but this is all. About. The Pajama Party. WHOO!

I forgot to mention that I have a coffee table. ^_^ This makes me very happy. I looked into a computer yesterday - not laptops, but desktops. Turns out I can have a very nice one for $800, which isn't bad at all. My dad had mentioned taking out a $1000 loan for a laptop, which I had decided to wait on. Maybe I can do it now for my computer, and if anything is left after taxes, it will be a little bit towards rent. *Sigh* Add it to that mile long "I'm thinking about . . . " list. -_-;

I saw Mae at work a few days ago, and we talked a little about this move. I told her that even if I barely made the year and had to go back home, I would at least be happy with the fact that I was away from this mess for awhile. I think that's true.

Everyone knows about the whole over-possesiveness issue, and how my parents want me to stay home forever. Old news. What everyone doesn't know is about the incessant fighting that goes on here. They are always arguing, and my father has said some horrible things to my mom in the last few months. As a result, she has removed all of her things from "his" room, and put them in the guest room. Honestly, if she weren't completely dependent on him because of health issues, I know they would be getting divorced. At any rate, I'm sick of coming home to it. I think getting away will be very good for me.

Bai for now . . .

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