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Home Again
Jul. 8th, 2019 03:04 amWe went out Saturday afternoon to spend some time with some local friends. We met up at the Mall of America for coffee and then to the theater to watch the new Spider-man movie. TBH I didn't watch the first Spider-man movie, most of my knowledge of it is just Marvel osmosis from the other movies, interviews and whatever other random info gets shared online. I really enjoyed the new movie though and where it picks up for Peter, post Endgame story. I also really enjoyed what they did with Mysterio.
We had a nice time with our friends and got to walk around the mall a bit. I've been several times before, but on our way out we passed a Tomodachi store and stopped in and picked up a few gifts. I didn't really buy anything at the Con this year. I saw a bunch of interesting things, but I've kind of learned that unless I'm buying something as a gift for someone else, or it's something I know I'll absolutely use, a lot of those things end up just piling up in my house. Especially art. I LOVE fandom art but the amount of it that's still wrapped up or in rolling tubes and not framed or on my wall is too much. So until I can get art on my wall I DO NOT need to be buying more of it.
We skipped out on any of the early Sunday panels at the convention in favor of grabbing a decent breakfast and getting on the road early. Both of us were eager to get back to our house and our pets and it was nice to be able to pick up the dogs from our friends and still be home near dinner time. I'm glad to have a day off tomorrow, to rest up and maybe FINALLY get to see Midsommar.
I liked the very relaxed approach we took to the con this year, very much helped by the fact that we stayed in the same hotel as the convention, so there wasn't a concern of having to 'get back' at some point in the night. We both very much needed something that felt like an actual vacation, not just a few days of back-to-back panels in a different city. I think being able to get away with friends a couple of times and spending evenings in the room, reading or watching videos or whatever made it feel much more of a vacation.
One of the cool things at CONvergence is that there's an almost 24 hour movie room, and an anime room. So even if you have nothing else you can find to do at any point in the day, there's likely a movie or an anime available for you to watch. We went Friday night and watched Suspiria (the more recent one from Amazon Studios). I think I want to watch it again when I'm not sitting in a big room with a bunch of other people and hearing the sounds of the con in the distance.
I'm not quite ready to go back to work. I have to deal with making some long term plans once I go in on Tuesday, and I know my Director is in the process of finally hiring us a new manager. So the next few months are going to definitely be a little weird. We go to GenCon in about a month, which is just a nice little waypoint in the weirdness to look forward to.
We had a nice time with our friends and got to walk around the mall a bit. I've been several times before, but on our way out we passed a Tomodachi store and stopped in and picked up a few gifts. I didn't really buy anything at the Con this year. I saw a bunch of interesting things, but I've kind of learned that unless I'm buying something as a gift for someone else, or it's something I know I'll absolutely use, a lot of those things end up just piling up in my house. Especially art. I LOVE fandom art but the amount of it that's still wrapped up or in rolling tubes and not framed or on my wall is too much. So until I can get art on my wall I DO NOT need to be buying more of it.
We skipped out on any of the early Sunday panels at the convention in favor of grabbing a decent breakfast and getting on the road early. Both of us were eager to get back to our house and our pets and it was nice to be able to pick up the dogs from our friends and still be home near dinner time. I'm glad to have a day off tomorrow, to rest up and maybe FINALLY get to see Midsommar.
I liked the very relaxed approach we took to the con this year, very much helped by the fact that we stayed in the same hotel as the convention, so there wasn't a concern of having to 'get back' at some point in the night. We both very much needed something that felt like an actual vacation, not just a few days of back-to-back panels in a different city. I think being able to get away with friends a couple of times and spending evenings in the room, reading or watching videos or whatever made it feel much more of a vacation.
One of the cool things at CONvergence is that there's an almost 24 hour movie room, and an anime room. So even if you have nothing else you can find to do at any point in the day, there's likely a movie or an anime available for you to watch. We went Friday night and watched Suspiria (the more recent one from Amazon Studios). I think I want to watch it again when I'm not sitting in a big room with a bunch of other people and hearing the sounds of the con in the distance.
I'm not quite ready to go back to work. I have to deal with making some long term plans once I go in on Tuesday, and I know my Director is in the process of finally hiring us a new manager. So the next few months are going to definitely be a little weird. We go to GenCon in about a month, which is just a nice little waypoint in the weirdness to look forward to.
