#am14

my day began friday. i worked midnight to 7. got home about 745 ate some breakfast took a shower packed some last minute things and discovered i lost my train ticket. after tearing my house upside down and inside out i gave up and then discovered i can just have them beep the barcode on my phone.

left just in time to get at the station perfectly on time

then i find out the train was delayed an hour

walked down to macdonalds for a hashbrown and frappe and tried not to fall asleep standing up

train finally gets there around ten

tried sleeping on the train but failed

got to the chicago station about 230. was supposed to be there at 1

took a taxi to the convention. finally get there around 320. just in time to miss the spg autographs

this place is HUGE. about as big as the fairview heights mall and all the land it occupies. at least. everything was so spread out. all the floor plans i'd memorized from last year got thrown out the window. got lost immediately 

dragging my suitcase and backpack i try to meet up with my bunkmates and can't find them. found out later their train was delayed too.

also can't find the crowne plaza and no one knows where it is. i can't even get anyone to stop and talk to me. even the workers were too busy to help. tried stopping people to ask for help and they kept on walking like i was a ghost. no one to talk to or text. no internet signal. crappy phone signal. phone dying. i found the vender room but didn't go in it since i had all my luggage with me and i thought it'd be weird to drag it through everywhere. also found nopes-into-the-sunset and they were so cool and let me hug them and i started calming down a bit and they showed me to the badge room

found the registration room and grabbed my badge to make use of time. my feet were getting blistered and my backpack was giving me heatrash on my back so i sat in the giant registration room helpless with tears streaming down my face freaking out full panic attack mode. wondering what i'd do if my bunkmates didn't make it at all. or stood me up. or were blowing me off or didn't care and about 100 other doom scenarios cuz my brain hates me. stomach in knots. i wanted to just curl up and die right there. every nightmare of being abandoned in a mall coming true. energy drink induced sleep deprivation not helping.

by now it's about 530. i saw sam then david and steve beeline out of there. i waved feebly at them but they didn't see me. not that i really wanted them to since i was drenched in sweat snot and tears.

finally my bunkmates showed up. i almost didn't recognize them cuz they were all fanbotted up and i haven't even seen that many pix of them. and then we go to the hotel so i can drop off my stuff and take a quick bird bath and put on my costume. all of that in 15 minutes. i found out i was literally only quarter mile down the road from the freaking hotel i was looking for. but from the front of the building i was in i couldn't see it cuz it was hiding behind another hotel. 

so then we talked and stuff and i started calming down.

a lot of people asked for a pic of me since i was lsp. a lot of people asked me to do an impression and i actually can do a pretty decent one but not when i'm on the spot and people are looking at me so i just smiled and said nah. (OMGLOB. MELISSA. HE LOOKED RIGHT AT ME)

and then we found the room the concert was going to be in and we wasted a few hours talking with people before it started.

the entertainment guy before the concert was horrible. legit. i wanted to up and leave or have headphones on he was so bad. unfunny. so unfunny it wasn't even funny for being unfunny it was just that unfunny. i think he sang a song called boob sandwich. i have no idea. my head was full of fuck. my face was full of wat.

THEN THE CONCERT WAS AWESOME BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT IS ALL A BLUR. i don't remember any specific little neat stuff. except when rabbit was detuning spine's guitar. i thought that was hilarious. but idk what day that even was. i don't remember all the songs or what order they were in. GG is hilarious. the puppetry is perfection. i'll never understand the art of how to coax expression from an inanimate object like that.

WHEN RABBIT WENT ON STAGE MY HEART STOPPED BEATING

CRAPPY BOOTLEG VIDEO ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH. HER MOVEMENTS ARE SO PERFECT AND THE NEW LOOK. OMG. STILL PHOTOS DON'T DO JUSTICE. and what's weird is she doesn't DO anything different? all the movements are the same and how she moves her head and stuff but with the hair it's like she's controlling it. idk how to put it in words. but it's perfect. PERFECT. wait till u see some good videos ok. idk if i like it more than the ears or the same. but it looks far less cumbersome for her to deal with which makes it less nervewracking for me to watch. idk

then spine gets on stage and it takes him like two steps to get across the stage

hatchworth basically summersaults in lol

and rabbit like saunters to her spot with the keytar and just rocks it the fuck out. it doesn't even look like she's playing it but she is. but it looks like her fingers are just gliding over it. it's so good

they all did. they all moved in that majestic and janky animatronic way the entire time so freaky and fascinating and mesmerizing 

THE STEAM PACKS WERE SO COOL. spine's were timed so perfectly. i especially loved when he'd do a high note and start steaming like he overheated. i was waiting for someone to come out with a fire extinguisher like in iron man hahahh. (i can just see it tho -JUST CUZ I'M SMOKING DOESN'T MEAN I'M ON FIRE) and i also loved the part before a way into your heart and beth tries leaving and rabbit like marches her backwards to the chair hahaha

after the concert i went and got some stickers and a print from the merch booth. beth and james are so cool. i probably could have talked to them for an hour. but i pretended i had somewhere to go and a life to have and went outside. my bunkmates went to the hotel to unbot themselves. then i ran into lornawitch and i wanted to hang out with her so bad. i should have kidnapped her to my hotel. i just wanted to get out of my outfit and charge my phone for a minute but as soon as i hit the bed i was dead like a brick. i was up for over 30 hours and had a really rough day. i'm pretty sure i didn't even close my eyes. 

saturday was a lot better. i woke up in a hurry around 8. nate and sol were getting botted. spine and malfunction. i took a quick shower and threw back on my lsp outfit. and by the time it took us to walk all the way to where the fan meetup was it was freaking over and dispersing. so then we all walked another hundred miles to where the panel was. and then we all practiced that song a few times. bunny showed up the earliest and started talking to people. i was too timid to move. then david showed up and we all got in place. and he recorded it. and there was even a little intro. and a violin and some guitars. it was pretty exciting. and then after the song bunny went and hugged everyone. she looked so touched. trying to not cry and ruin the makeup. i think we all was. (don't cry around me cuz then i'll cry. ;n;) then david said something like "meany fans singing touching songs and making us cry and ruin our makeup" and then he walked into the room while bunny kept hugging everyone. i was stuck back in the corner watching and she was just so gorgeous. and then she was right in front of me and i didn't know what to do i was like oh hai!. and i wasn't expecting a hug. but she was like poofyyyy! and gave me a little hug and i got a face full of boobage. (it was wonderful lol). and then i grabbed my purse and ran for a good seat and recorded the panel for some friends overseas. but sam was sick and i wish i could have asked him questions.

then right after that was the photos. and we had to walk only 50 miles back to the fleamarket room and wait in line. since i'd ordered mine online a long time ago for the wgs and the bots i was in one of the first groups. but i couldn't see what was happening through the umbrellas so when it was my turn i didn't know what to do or how to act. cuz i learn by watching but when i'm just shoved out there like that i get superbad stagefright kinda? btw they're all super tall ok. and pretty scary when they're in full costume. i was speechless. i think i might've squeaked a few words at them. my voice was pretty shot by then. i almost sounded like fluttershy. and i was too nervous to ask for the pose i wanted. which was me fangirling/ screaming into a phone while they just stood there looking all cool and nonchalant. (OH MY GLOB. MELISSA. SPG IS RIGHT HERE. I'LL CALL YOU LATER)

i had no idea with the humans tho i just wanted it to look pretty and steve started playing with the fluffy stuff lol. i about stepped on him/ knocked him over tho cuz i didn't know he was right there behind me. he like towered over me. could have used me as an arm rest lol.

and then i ran out of there like a scared deer almost knocking people down and i was shaking so bad i had a few drops of blood come from my nose probably from blushing to death. (((i'm so sorry i'm so awkward and socially inept omg.))) and then i went to the hotel and shoved my panel footage into my computer and got changed and chatted with some people idk

AND THEN THE SATURDAY CONCERT.

as good as the friday one was, the saturday one was a bit better i think. they had us all stand and dance for a song at the beginning. before all our legs had a chance to fall asleep. it got us all pumped. and everything was hilarious. i don't remember what happened but it was awesome. and then at the end rabbit asked us all to stand again and people were on their feet before she got all the words out. and it rocked so hard. all i want is to live in that concert forever. then hatchworth and rabbit were back to back and i was like what is this what is happening and then i was almost crying at the first note of wired wrong. that is my favorite song on the cd and they performed it live for the first time at the concert i happened to be at!! holy golly gee!!!

and then it was over so fast. they all rocked so hard. i wish i could have seen the left half of the stage but there was a big tv thing and that helped. and i love how they all take turns in all the spots. tho my cameras died like 2 songs in :c next time i'm bringing more cameras. i wish i had more pix.

then on sunday i woke up and went to the autographs place. i didn't plan on anything to say. it went so fast. i said hi to carolina and chelsea. they're so nice. they recognized the pic i had them sign and i was sad i couldn't find anyone with a color printer. then i had them sign my geekshot print. and then bunny. was like right there. in that cute bat hat. and i could hardly talk cuz of the concert. my voice was almost a whisper. and i didn't want them to sign the pic of us cuz the picture is proof enough i saw them but to have them sign something i drew? hell yes. but she seemed to like my drawings. i told her she's my main inspiration and i try to never miss an art stream. and she smiled. didn't say much. and then david. he seemed distracted. not very talkative. he smiled when he saw my drawings. i told him i loved the show and wired wrong and i don't think he heard me. he didn't say anything. and then sam. he said he liked the drawings. and i told him i specifically drew it in black and white since i knew i probably couldn't get it printed but i didn't think it'd pixelate and he said it looked cool anyway and i said i love watching his artstreams and he seemed to recognize my username. he talks to me on there sometimes. i wish i could have hugged his face he is so adorable. and then there was steve. he said I SEEN THESE BEFORE when he saw the pix. and i was like whoaaa awesomee. but i just had him sign the print cuz i didn't think to bring more of my art ;n; maybe next time i'll just print out all my lame comic things and make a book and throw it at them lol idk.

and then after the autographs i went and had to check out and got all my stuff but didn't want to go to the train station yet so we went back to the fleamarket room and saw david just standing there talking to people i think he was the ringleader and chelsea and carolina and beth and james were still there waiting for people to pick up the rest of their prints. they looked about bored out of their heads. and i got a quick hug from david. he hugs so good and tight. and i talked to him a bit about the dvd and stuff. and i was brave enough for eye contact this time. cuz there wasn't a lot of people and we were kinda all just standing and waiting around. then i got a pic of him and sol. i forgot to ask for one of me and them or us or anyone else cuz i'm a derp. i so should have got some selfies. derpaderpaderpaderp