Kasama had a Nebuta-matsuri. I'm certain I talk about this somewhere else; let's suffice it to say that it's a festival with floats. This particular float was built by some professional float-builders from some other part of Japan. ...like I said, I wrote this down someplace else, so I didn't need to remember it...

I don't live in Kasama. Phillip lives in Kasama. So, while I came to just watch the parade, I ended up being in it. This is at the beginning of the night before we regretted coming, or at least not becoming completely trashed like everyone else at the festival. After this, we hop around town chanting 'rasera, rasera'. I really wished I'd brought tennis shoes...

I went to Comic Market with Amber Chen, my predecessor. I didn't quite learn the secrets of teaching in Ibaraki, but I did get to buy a really cute Brock doujinshi. It all works out.

You may be asking yourself, why is this here, as Erin is obviously not in this picture? Well, come on, this is cosplay baby, you'll never find Erin here. However, this is not the FFX cosplay picture I took at Comiket; rather this is a picture of Nipple Tidus, from Animazement 2002. While you can't see me, I can assure you that I am somewhere to the right and behind of the picture... I was on my way to the con suite to get some lemonade when I noticed all these people bunching up to take pictures of this final fantasy cosplay group, and I didn't want to cross in front of them, so I just waited. 'Oh, those are nice costumes', I thought. 'Oh, that's a pretty good Auron,' I thought. 'Oh, there's that kid's nipple hanging out. ...oh...'

Okay, now I guess it sounds kinda desperate and pervy. But come on, that doesn't happen all the time! And he was hot! And legal! What more could you ask for? (well, maybe that he didn't have a huge, handsome girlfriend in blue pleather.) So, from that time forward, Conni and I spent our time at the con stalking chasing wandering around in the hopes we might see him. Hey, before you say how pathetic that sounds, believe me, it was the most interesting thing at the con. (plus it was free, and didn't necessarily involve fanboy smell.)

The picture definitely doesn't do him justice. The Auron guy was hot too, but only from far away.

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