This one’s easy.
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alasanonThis one is easy. I was packing for AX.
Anime Expo, that fabled monster that I attended, then skipped for several years, and then made a part of my yearly planning for the past decade. I’m skipping it this year; I want to do something else that isn’t Los Angeles.
(Aside: I do actually love being in L.A., the dry heat and fireworks and endless streams of anime fans. I like how crowded it is [until i get lonely, i always like it best when there are friends around to hang out with, ideally multiple groups]. I like going a day early and bumming around, eating food and waiting for things to start. I like thinking to myself that some part of me was actually born there, in a very real way, because my mother was, and remembering my grandparents in a fuzzy, distant way. I never experienced growing up there, but I feel comfortable in California.)
I spend so much money there, as I do at all events, because I feel compelled to Support Artists EXCLAMATION POINT X4 and because I am very prone to pasting together friendship with cash-ship, without ever feeling entitled to their time because I hand over money. (I faintly regret — no, actually I don’t, but that’s another story that I’ve already written about multiple times)
I’m not likely to change that if I follow through on my intent to attend a distant con instead (indeed, with the exchange rate, it’ll be so much worse) but maybe?
Anyway, I’ve lost the train of thought again, time to hit post and move on. :)
Anime Expo, that fabled monster that I attended, then skipped for several years, and then made a part of my yearly planning for the past decade. I’m skipping it this year; I want to do something else that isn’t Los Angeles.
(Aside: I do actually love being in L.A., the dry heat and fireworks and endless streams of anime fans. I like how crowded it is [until i get lonely, i always like it best when there are friends around to hang out with, ideally multiple groups]. I like going a day early and bumming around, eating food and waiting for things to start. I like thinking to myself that some part of me was actually born there, in a very real way, because my mother was, and remembering my grandparents in a fuzzy, distant way. I never experienced growing up there, but I feel comfortable in California.)
I spend so much money there, as I do at all events, because I feel compelled to Support Artists EXCLAMATION POINT X4 and because I am very prone to pasting together friendship with cash-ship, without ever feeling entitled to their time because I hand over money. (I faintly regret — no, actually I don’t, but that’s another story that I’ve already written about multiple times)
I’m not likely to change that if I follow through on my intent to attend a distant con instead (indeed, with the exchange rate, it’ll be so much worse) but maybe?
Anyway, I’ve lost the train of thought again, time to hit post and move on. :)
