Leaving home, coming home

[starlady]

I can has a swan_tower and K!

I can also, finally, have soymilk ramen at Mamezen with my friend M and his +1, can finish Pluto vol. 8 and the first chapter of Itô Go's Tezuka is Dead (snap judgment: GoITO is a genius and my hero) at the Manga Museum research room, and can send 13.7kg of books to California by special printed matter sea mail rate. I will get them in October or thereabouts. And I had ramune soft cream tonight, at last; it really is pretty good.

This weekend I also packed my large suitcase, prefatory to sending it to Kansai Airport ahead of me (22.8kg, oh yeah) and packed up most of my apartment and gave all the household items and groceries to my friend S, who has just started his MA (finally) at Kyodai.

What else have I been doing? On Thursday I went to Hikone and then to the Nagahama Fireworks with my friend K, which were amazing. Friday I hung out with my high school classmate A and her roommate M in Osaka, which was pretty cool. It looks like I won't actually manage to get to Kobe this trip, which is too bad, but there's always next time.

So yeah, for right now, things are pretty great.

Comments

[kaigou]

Speaking of October, are you planning on being at the Mechademia/SGGR conference again this year? CP's been invited to be one of their speakers, so we're looking at going. I figured of anyone I knew online, you might be the best chance at knowing what's supposed to happen on Friday. The only hint we have is that there's a fashion show, but no indication whether this is the only thing, or just that they haven't scheduled the panels yet. What's your recommendation as a sempai?

[starlady]

Oh my god, seriously!? Yup, I'll be there, I always am.

This is the first year they've added in the "conference" portion as a separate thing, so I'm not actually sure what's going to be going on, but it was my impression from Frenchy that there are going to be conference panels on Friday. The fashion show--which is pretty cool, actually--is always Friday night.

[kaigou]

I just started a new contract (yay me) and hopefully this means I'll be able to send CP and come along for the hell of it, myself. Just a matter of figuring out flights & getting the info on where to stay. Btw, CP'll be doing a presentation on the chibification of the Japanese shaman(ess) into the anime miko.

[oyceter]

OMG I can't believe the summer is already almost over! Sad you are leaving Japan soon, but yay you will be back here!

[starlady]

That is…basically how I feel. =)