this week my parents came into town - with good timing. i had about 50 dollars left in my bank account and absolutely no food in the fridge. my sister was supposed to send a birthday gift with them (they visited her first), but i never received it. conversation with her is...awkward sometimes. but i slid right back into the old routine with my parents. i missed them so much!
annnd...they threw me a surprise party!!! the first night they were here they took me to a thai restaurant...and as we were walking there i saw shapes that looked like my boyfriend and roommate running by on the street ahead (a la ventury bros. style). then i ran into my other roommate and a friend...who said they happened to be walking in the area. i totally bought it and my parents and i continued onto the restaurant - where everyone was waiting! amazing. so much fun. BEST PART - for the birthday dessert, the restaurant put on this weird music with an asian guy singing "HAAPEEE BURRRTHDAYY, TO YOUUU" with the accent and everything. fantastic.
took them to every place i could think of in boston, which was rather hard. contrary to popular belief, boston does not have millions of things to offer and shuts down at a relatively early time. but we discovered an amazing hole-in-the-wall chinese restaurant and went to see the musical "Spring Awakening" (which was great, if not REALLY AKWARD TO WATCH with your parents - kind of like the Dead Poets Society except with sex instead of poetry), so i'd say we were entertained.
since picture blogs are popular, i shall post some:
uuugh, the stupid cunts downstairs are throwing a party for the third time in a row this week and screaming and yelling in the courtyard...again. maybe i'll file a noise complaint.
parents visiting reaffirmed by need to go home, though. there's just not much to gain in boston any more, unless i did a 180 and completely changed my lifestyle...whatever that means...stream of consciousness here. i seem to be losing rather than gaining. losing money, friends, focus.
right after the parents left was anime boston, which is kind of the retarded cousin of anime conventions. i had a fucking blast with AutumnOvertures - we scouted cosplayers, went to see the delicious voice actor Troy Baker speak and she put up with my indecisiveness in the dealer's room. this is why i love SG - meeting awesome people.
a couple people got my costume (Kaede Smith from Killer 7). there were some awesome cosplayers, as usual. particularly a group of asians who did The World Ends With You (Squeenix's latest godly creation), a band of steampunk kids, and even Old Greg from The Mighty Boosh (don't know where that last one came from).
bought waay too much, including 5-9 of Here Is Greenwood (great old series).
anyways, that was my nerd rant. i need sleep now.
