con debating

[rose_of_pain]

Oh boy. Well, I thought I had my con schedule for this year figured out but now I've got all these possible cons that people have suggested I go to and I don't know which ones I should go to. ^^;

I'm obviously still going to Katsucon. The only thing I'm not sure about is when and how I'm getting there. ^^; I don't really want to have my Dad be late to work just so he can drive me there. Especially since his office is in the completely opposite direction.

Then for the weekend of May 28-30 there's both Anime Mid-Atlantic in Richmond, VA and Animazement in North Carolina.

Well, the 28th is the last day of school for us seniors and unless they give us a half day or something, I won't be able to go to either of these until after school ends so might not get there until late night.

Both cons have their ups and downs.

Anime Mid-Atlantic:
Positive Aspects:
- MadHatter (she's being FILTH Kyo at Katsu) has offered her room to me
- It's a really cheap, small con
- drake, Ganesh, and co. are probably going
- Steph could probably go and maybe some of my other school friends
- kinda close (well, reasonably anyways)
Negative Aspects:
- Though I do know some people going, it's not that many right now
- It's a really small con and I might get bored
- Need a ride that could take me, Steph, and whoever else goes to the con after school
- Even though its technically closer than AZ, Richmond still takes forever to get to

Animazement:
Postive Aspects:
- Know quite a number of people going
- Asura has offered her room to me
- Though more expensive than AMA, still a reasonably priced con
- My group of school friends were considering going to NC anyways
- I can get out of the MD/VA area for onc
Negative Aspects:
- NEED A RIDE! That's what it comes down to. lol Can't go if I can't get a ride. ^^;
- It's farther away and a bit and costs more than AMA
- I'll probably arrive really late at the con because of school

Really, both depend on if I can get a ride or not. If I can't get a ride to either, then obviously I can't go to them. ^^;; I'd probably be only bringing 2, maybe 3 costumes to them as well since they're both small and not so sure how long I'll actually be at them.

And to make me even more indecisive, Herra is making it sound like we could actually attend A-Kon without having to kill our wallets. o_o I don't know about that one though. It's the day after graduation and well...its in Texas and I don't think my parents would be very happy about me going out to Texas right after graduation. I also wouldn't be able to go to AMA/AZ if I went to this one. Because they're just waaaay too close in time frames.

Then we have Otakon. Which is a definete. I even have a full cosplay schedule for it in the works. lol But I am NOT, I repeat, I AM NOT reserving a room this year. I'm going to leave that to someone else. ^^; I know enough people going that I won't have to worry about that, really.

Then we come to the last few months of 2004, with two more possible cons. Nekocon and AnimeUSA. I really do want to go to Nekocon this year but it all depends on when its going to be and whether I can convince a fellow con-goer at St. Mary's (with a car) to take me there. I'm sure that won't be too hard considering the people I know that are going to be going there. And I don't know about AnimeUSA. It all depends on who goes this year and how close it is to Nekocon.

So yeah, um, what cons do you guys think I should go to? lol I aiming for at least 4 this year. Since I'm pretty sure I can afford them and I want to explore some more options now that I'm old enough.

~Lyn

Comments

[silverphoenix.livejournal.com]

1) Come to Animazement. Lyn. Come and Party with me, Becky, Alyce, Britnay, Jamie, and a whole bunch of other kickass peeps. (I will post more on this later today)

2) Otakon: If you want room space, you got room space.

Hmm

[deg-luv.livejournal.com]

Animazement sounds like a plus here, except for the ride, thing.

Be happy though, I can only go to Anime North -_-;

[catatonic-van.livejournal.com]

I always wanted to go to AZ, during both 2001 and 2002 I made plans to go but they never fell through. I think Yu Watase often attended that con too. I'd go for AZ if you can make it work out but ama is definately more convenient for us DC peeps.

I think fanime is that same weekend, so I'm sure there are going to be a lot of choices for everyone to pick from that will divide the crowd of people you see at any one of them. I already preregistered for fanime, but I can only go for like... two days in order to get back in time for school. At least it's one of those bizarro 4 day cons.

tee.. you used the icon I made you ^_~

[rozefyre.livejournal.com]

*sigh* YOU KNOW WHAT?? we need to get off our lazy asses and learn to drive . . . especially me. Damn this con stuff is getting so inconvenient.

Laura, being the excellent organizer that she is, got Danny's college age sister to come with us to katsu, so we can go yay ^^. but on Saturday and Sunday, not friday ;_;. remind me, isn't that the day you were doing the Cain group?

[ex-24cylind.livejournal.com]

Well...if you really want to go to Akon, I'm driving down after my graduation too. Which day do you graduate anyways? So yeah if you want to and ifs its not like the day before, I can take ya.

[ofthelily.livejournal.com]

if you really wanted to go to Animazement we could probably swing down and get you on our way there.