PAX East approacheth

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PAX East is this weekend! Eeeeee! Check out this sweet ass schedule. Things I'm most looking forward to: Johnathan Coulton and the Video Game Orchestra, "MMO gamer behavior 101," "Everything you always wanted to know about game journalism...", and "Girls and Games: The Growing Role of Women in the Game Industry." And that's just a couple examples.

Also, I get to meet a ton of guildies that I've never met before. Awesomeness is bound to ensue. Also, I'm probably going to meet up with Maerdred on Friday, which will be pretty awesome. =D

We have three guildies (hi Luth, Lumi, and Lampy!) who are staying at our place tonight through Sunday. As such, much cleaning has occurred! Seriously, look at how clean this apartment is:



No recently-laundered clothes that I'm too lazy to put away on the couch! No glasses or beer bottles hanging around on the table! And look at how shiny everything is! Other than the fact that our little tree is STILL not properly potted, and is still in a huge plastic container that used to hold cat litter, our apartment looks pretty spiffy.

We should have company over more often, simply to kick us into hypergear-cleaning mode. Our living room hasn't been this clean in AGES. ^^

On a completely different note, our 10 man achievement runs have been going pretty well. We've gotten to the Lich King and have had a few great attempts, and also a crapton of lousy ones, too. But I think we're going to get there. We got into P5 really cleanly once, and damn, it felt good. Sooo close to grabbing the Kingslayer title. Hopefully next week we'll rock it out.

On another completely different note, who's playing FFXIII? I was never into the FF games (like, at all - guildies will have epic hour long debates about which is better, 2, or 6, or 7, or whatever, and I'll be like, I LIKED TEH OCARINA OF TIEM, and they'll be like, whatever noob), but I've been watching Pete play and I really dig it. I've never enjoyed turn-based games, but when I watch FFXIII, I'm 100% distracted from its innate game mechanics by the HAIR. The characters' hair is just...... there are no words. /drool. Their video-game hair looks better in every possible way than my real life hair. Seriously. Wtf.

Time to get a few more things ready for this weekend. Hope to see some of you there!

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PAX East 2010

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Who's going?

I'm pretty psyched about it because it's RIGHT in Boston. I could walk to Hynes Convention Center in about 30, 40 minutes or so. It's very, very close. Although I suppose 40 minutes isn't actually "close," but then again, I walk 45 minutes to work and 45 minutes back each day, so to me it's a jaunt in the park. My point is: I don't have to take a car/train/bus/plane/boat(IMONABOAT)/gryphon there. Which means I don't have to spend money on said travel arrangements. Which means I'm TOTALLY GOING TO MY FIRST NERDY GAMING CONVENTION EVER!!! ./squeeee!

For more information about PAX East, go here.

The basics:

1. It's March 26-28th, Friday - Sunday.

2. It's in Boston.

3. There will most likely be some kind of early version of Cataclysm to check out.

4. 3 day passes are 55 bucks or so.

5. No, you cannot stay with me, because even though I would love to have a giant resto druid party chez Valis and Averna - I could make you guys Maple Leaf Cocktails, or Fig Leaf Drinks (get it? LEAF? bahahah), or Averna's Barky Arms Margaritas - but alas, our apartment is very small, and we're already lending much floor/couch/spare bed/basement space to guildmates (just kidding about the basement, Lumi. There are rats and it's gross and I swear our housemates have stored carefully wrapped dead bodies down there. I wouldn't make you stay down there. Also, there are spiders, and I'm talking about the big ones that you find in the basement of Karazhan. I can hear them plotting my demise every time I go down to do laundry).

And so. Anyone? Let me know in the comments!

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