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Plan B . . . Failed!
Dec. 28th, 2006 11:30 am( pessimistic noise )
Cosplay just barfed a helluva hairball in my lap yesterday. Ikki-con's just a month away, signalling the start of my '07 cosplay season. I had assumed I could take it easy at this con.
It's a local first-year con, so the bar has been set low, to put it bluntly. I only planned to bring one costume to this con, I won't have to drive/fly or get a hotel, it'll be a small con so I don't feel pressured to bring my best cosplays . . . in other words, Ikki should be a low-stress con.
But!
I forgot I had some commissions to finish for Ikki, for starters. Oops. There go my weekends for all of January.
For ACDF, I'm . . . hosting a hotel room (it's really more of a glorified comfort suite), so now I have to do that hostess/chaperon/mother-hen crap with money and roomkeys and rides and blahblahblah. I don't mind doing that for my ACDF pals, but I hadn't planned on doing it at all originally.
Also, after visiting my brother over the holiday break, he seems to be gravitating towards cosplay and he wants to come to Ikki. He's assigned me some anime to watch for potential cosplays for him. I can only assume he'll be including his girlfriend in any cosplay/lodging plans, so I've gotta plan for the both of them.
Not to mention, Ikki-con is currently "considering" my panel submission. The word is they've acquired a lot more floor space and are looking for 30-something panels to fill it over the weekend. I've been trying to get a panel for 3 or 4 cons now so of course I submitted my idea. Now I've barely a month before the con to put the panel together. There isn't enough time to gather any "expert" cosplayers for the panel, but at the very least I've gotta dust off/repair some props and armor for the panel and put together some sort of one-man presentation. Oye.
Finally, some semi-local Gunnm cosplayers (who I thought had lost interest in cosplay) are making sounds like they want to do a Gunnm gathering. I've mentioned before that my Gunnm-love trumps everything else, so of course I'll be doing that too, regardless of my other commitments. But now that means there's one more costume that I have to resurrect and get ready for the ball.
Normally I'd be ecstatic that all this cosplay activity is coalescing and that I'm a part of it, but it seems so ridiculous right now. Cosplay is full steam ahead, but my living arrangement has just pulled the handbrake. It's like my priorities have turned upside down.
Cosplay just barfed a helluva hairball in my lap yesterday. Ikki-con's just a month away, signalling the start of my '07 cosplay season. I had assumed I could take it easy at this con.
It's a local first-year con, so the bar has been set low, to put it bluntly. I only planned to bring one costume to this con, I won't have to drive/fly or get a hotel, it'll be a small con so I don't feel pressured to bring my best cosplays . . . in other words, Ikki should be a low-stress con.
But!
I forgot I had some commissions to finish for Ikki, for starters. Oops. There go my weekends for all of January.
For ACDF, I'm . . . hosting a hotel room (it's really more of a glorified comfort suite), so now I have to do that hostess/chaperon/mother-hen crap with money and roomkeys and rides and blahblahblah. I don't mind doing that for my ACDF pals, but I hadn't planned on doing it at all originally.
Also, after visiting my brother over the holiday break, he seems to be gravitating towards cosplay and he wants to come to Ikki. He's assigned me some anime to watch for potential cosplays for him. I can only assume he'll be including his girlfriend in any cosplay/lodging plans, so I've gotta plan for the both of them.
Not to mention, Ikki-con is currently "considering" my panel submission. The word is they've acquired a lot more floor space and are looking for 30-something panels to fill it over the weekend. I've been trying to get a panel for 3 or 4 cons now so of course I submitted my idea. Now I've barely a month before the con to put the panel together. There isn't enough time to gather any "expert" cosplayers for the panel, but at the very least I've gotta dust off/repair some props and armor for the panel and put together some sort of one-man presentation. Oye.
Finally, some semi-local Gunnm cosplayers (who I thought had lost interest in cosplay) are making sounds like they want to do a Gunnm gathering. I've mentioned before that my Gunnm-love trumps everything else, so of course I'll be doing that too, regardless of my other commitments. But now that means there's one more costume that I have to resurrect and get ready for the ball.
Normally I'd be ecstatic that all this cosplay activity is coalescing and that I'm a part of it, but it seems so ridiculous right now. Cosplay is full steam ahead, but my living arrangement has just pulled the handbrake. It's like my priorities have turned upside down.
