very, very, very long weekend.....

comicon. gazillions of people. much Cool Stuff (tm). many costumes, some cool, some lame, some scary (10-foot Pikachu?!?!), some outrageously funny (woman pushing around a zombie mannequin in a wheelchair). saw neil gaiman, dave mckean, joss whedon, lisa henson, quentin tarantino, and daryl hannah. got evil ideas for making strange alien artifacts out of polyurethane foam. art show was kinda lame, didn't sell anything :(, but andrei made some potentially useful contacts for me. spent too much money on a bellydancing/priestess costume, and a stuffed scorpion :). restrained myself from getting a new sword, multitudinous t-shirts, the new munchkin expansion kit (munchkin fu!), lord-of-the-rings figurines, or plushie egyptian deities.

and, uh, wow, these new drugs are f*cking INCREDIBLE. more detail on that later, but let's just say I've been focused now for, uh - *counts* - 108 hours straight. it is the oddest feeling to wake up and be straightaway able to complete entire thoughts in one go.....