WisCon

[laceblade]

Karaoke was heinous Thursday night. cabell tried to seduce me. That's what my boyfriend gets for not showing up!

I woke up hungover, and then spent 8 hours minus lunch working The Gathering, which I'll be in charge of next year.

I'm seeing many amazing people, and am finding myself a lot more amiable (except after 9pm when I start to get tired/crabby) than my previous two WisCons. It probably helps that I don't go home to a house I hate every night.

ANYWAY, my day is best describe in my (mostly free) haul thus far:

A GUY HAD ANIME POSTERS! FOR ONLY $3!! WISCON NEVER HAS ANYTHING ANIME! I SCREAMED IN THE DEALER'S ROOM!
--Ouran High School Host Club poster with the boys in tuxes holding cake
--Sailor Moon poster with the four Inner Senshi in battle poses
--Final Fantasy VII Advent Children poster with Tifa pulling her glove on
--Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle with the four main characters in kimonos in front of sakura blossoms.
--[I MIGHT BUY MORE TOMORROW, THERE WAS A FRUITS BASKET ONE WITH TOHRU HOLDING MOMIJI'S HAND.]
--Advanced Reader Copy of Terminator and Philosophy: I'll be Back, Therefore I Am
--ARC of The Hunger Games
--ARC of xxxHolic: Another Holic
--2008 sneak peak of CMX manga, which includes Kaoru Mori's Shirley and The Name of the Flower (looks very pretty!)
--zine: Entry Level: approaches to getting used to the idea of talking about class, edited by wrdnrd
--zine: no history, no self by littlebutfierce
--zine: cipher by wrdnrd
--zine: revolutionaries make books
--APPLEWOOD BACON BURGER AT THE GREAT DANE, THAT SHIT IS FOR REAL.
ETA:
--A sweater recommended to me by Ellen Kushner
--a mixed CD by cabell called "Murder Ballads for Baby and Friends"

I never saw a zine before today, and I think they're pretty keen.


The only panel I've been to so far was "Not Another &$%@$ing Race Panel." It was....special. It totally beats last year's drunken BSG panel. badgerbag live-blogged the event, a truth which was revealed immediately after nojojojo said that her preferred robotic body part would be a cybernetic vagina. The post is here.

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Ever since I got really dizzy and half-slumped against my apartment door two weeks ago, I keep feeling like my head is slowly rolling to the side, or like I'm not entirely awake or with it. I don't think this is a side effect of birth control, but if it is, somebody let me know.

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I feel like people keep doing double-takes at me. Say hi to me, damn it; I didn't put heinous pictures of myself in LiveJournal for nothing.

Comments

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Hm...I don't think the dizziness is associated with BCPs. You could be having some inner ear issues (have you had head colds at all?) or maybe iron deficiencies. It might be good to have a bloodwork panel done.

I love how everyone looks at your nametag- it's like that at science conferences, too, but not nearly as obviously or as often as at Wiscon!

I am already in love. :D

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

I had a blood draw when I went to the doctor, and everything came back normal. ALSO I haven't been sick lately, thank God.

Maybe I'll just ask when I go in for my second HPV shot, which should be soon if I schedule the damn thing.

I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, :)

[momomom.livejournal.com]

The dizzy/muzzy headed thing needs investigating if it continues. The HPV has a tight window as far as timing goes so be sure to get it scheduled. I hope all is well and it probably is.

[nylorac15.livejournal.com]

Birth control does some seriously heinous things. I've read on forums that some women get dizzyness and vertigo-like symptoms when they go off the pill, so... not sure how to interpret that for you. I hate BCPs, though. So much that I am no longer on them.

I hope WisCon is lots of fun! Those posters sound like win.

[britrock37.livejournal.com]

Not to freak you out, but there is a higher risk of stroke associated with birth control so you may want to seriously consider getting this checked out. I had a few days when I got really dizzy and my roommate called her aunt who was a nurse and the two of them proceeded to freak out and make me go to urgent care because of the risk of strokes.