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Friday, Anime, schoolgirls and tapes, oh my! Well, I was supposed to be at A-Kon around 9:00 am this morning, in time to retrieve my badge from the helpful troubleshooter who was taking care of all the writers and inform him that Lee would require help unloading her van. Reality spits in my oatmeal once again. For some reason I simply could not get to sleep last night, and I didn't even get "Root, Branch and All" finished for all my insomnia. Needless to say, I dropped off like a stone around 6:00 am this morning, which means I hauled my ass out of bed around noon and had to run around throwing things into my computer knapsack and driving like a rabid bat out to the hotel. This would prove to set the tone of the weekend in general. A-Kon is what you would epxect of a typical anime con -- lots of girls wandering around in sailor suits and yard-long ponytails, lots of boys with huge frigging swords and complicated makeup, a buttload of artwork making its way all through the halls, a dealer's room stuffed to the gills with videotapes, panels on how to draw characters, how to voice them, why the English dubs usually have no resemblance whatsoever to the original Japanese dialog, that sort of thing. The media paneling had a whole bunch of artists, producers and voice actors from assorted anime series, and Jason Carter and Richard Biggs from Babylon 5, who are a pair of absolute con maniacs. This year, however, it also had a writing track, mainly staffed by Lee, Helen McCarthy, Pat Elrod and me. Much to my surprise, today's writing panels were standing room only, and we were getting some really intelligent questions. Unfortunately, I wound up going home at a ridiculously early hour due to exhaustion -- for reasons I don't understand, my left foot started twitching last night and would not let up, which made sleep something of a wistful proposition. Hopefully I'll get a decent night of sleep tonight.
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