My sister came to visit this past weekend. Which, if you'd told me five years ago that she would visit me for a weekend and we'd have an amazing time, I'm not sure I would have believed you. But we did, and most of that time revolved around eating and watching Parks and Rec, and it was great.
Anyway. On the way home from the bus terminal where I picked her up, on the subway train, there was an ad for Anime Boston declaring that it is celebrating its tenth year. They're using inclusive counting; the first year of the con was 2003.
That's also the last year I went, the only year I went. I was a freshman in college. I took a bus from Saratoga all the way out to Boston, and somehow without even planning it beforehand ended up crashing in a hotel room with a pack of people I'd only met that day. AND A MEEJ, who I'd known online for ages but only met that day when she tacklehugged me from across the crowded lobby. I hung out with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shala and my friends Katie and Emily, who happened to know Meej's friend Skye from an old roleplaying game. I helped people with cosplay paraphenalia. I went to the hentai panel. I snuck out of the room full of sleepy nerds and took a bus back to Amherst and had half of Easter dinner with my family before going back to school.
Ten years. God, I'm old. And I miss people, and in some ways I miss the freewheeling fun of cons and the way I was so much less shy and more social in a way I wasn't anywhere else.
Anyway. On the way home from the bus terminal where I picked her up, on the subway train, there was an ad for Anime Boston declaring that it is celebrating its tenth year. They're using inclusive counting; the first year of the con was 2003.
That's also the last year I went, the only year I went. I was a freshman in college. I took a bus from Saratoga all the way out to Boston, and somehow without even planning it beforehand ended up crashing in a hotel room with a pack of people I'd only met that day. AND A MEEJ, who I'd known online for ages but only met that day when she tacklehugged me from across the crowded lobby. I hung out with
shala and my friends Katie and Emily, who happened to know Meej's friend Skye from an old roleplaying game. I helped people with cosplay paraphenalia. I went to the hentai panel. I snuck out of the room full of sleepy nerds and took a bus back to Amherst and had half of Easter dinner with my family before going back to school.Ten years. God, I'm old. And I miss people, and in some ways I miss the freewheeling fun of cons and the way I was so much less shy and more social in a way I wasn't anywhere else.
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TEN YEARS
WHAT THE HELL, NOME-BOT
also I got your valentine and it was awesome like a possum
I MISS THOSE DAYS TOO wow I distinctly remember that as one of the few things I did before I considered myself an actual grown-up to still linger in my brain as "unequivocal good times". <3
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I am glad the valentine made it there! <3
I would almost consider looking up the cost of a day pass and heading down to check things out, but I am going home for PassEaster again. Which is why I have never been back to AB. SORRY, GUYS.