10am anthropology of ritual, people went around the room describing what they planned to write their paper on, and the class discussed it. Then at the end we watched some film about an African (?) ritual where everyone was being possessed and they sacrificed some chickens and a dog and argued about how to cook them
comic con stuff, probably a long post so it will be in a read more
walked back to the convention center and akira had to go back to his booth and so bitmap and jo and I walked around for a bit. Ended up going to a line for the ATM before heading off to artists alley. Wandered around there for a bit; bitmap purchased a commission of yayoi (precure) from ryumoto and then we walked around some more. Got many streetpasses.
Then at some point @tuyoki texted me saying she saw us and then after some time trying to look around for her, found her and hugu and nora and then stood there and kinda blocked traffic whoops, so then we split off. Walked around the remainder of artist alley and then went out to the charging stations and waited there for a while until @ephshi arrived. He took a picture with the Akari dakimakura that jo was carrying around, and then we went back to artist alley
fc purchased a commission of silica (SAO) from ryumoto and then fc and I walked around artist alley and he looked for an artist who he knew and owed him a commission, except then she wasn't done with it so we went back to the bkub/ryumoto table and loitered around there for a while. akira and lvlln were back and there was also another guy whose twitter name I don't really remember. After some more time of just standing there, tuyoki, hugu, and @gruffghost were also at the table and then there was a lot of blocking of traffic. akira and jo left to go back to the booth and tuyoki's group also left and then @kevinchai showed up briefly
then later fc bitmap lvlln and I left the building and looked for @lilyki and @simplyphorni outside and then @mattostrofsky was also there and we just stood there outside in the cold for a while. Then started walking toward go go curry, where we met with @zzgzzpop and buffi and the curry place was really crowded. Also there was a cosplay promotion going on and there was a huge thing with Gumi on it and she was holding curry. FC wanted to ask for some of those flyers (because he is mayor of that go go curry and they know him) Anyway it was really full of people who were mostly from NYCC and it took a while to get the food.
went over to herald square to eat the food and then at 8, headed over to the karaoke place (lily's group had to leave because apparently to be in the karaoke place after 8pm you have to be 21+). Anyway went to the karaoke place and I don't have an id that isn't my school id and that doesn't have my birth date on it but luckily I had an insurance card on me and they said it was ok this time?? akira and jo showed up later
anyway karaoke happened from 8 to 11 and it was very karaoke but I didn't have my kindle on me and I'm not good at reading japanese fast so I didn't sing as much. I think @omonomono and one other guy showed up for like 10 minutes near the end. bitmap had to leave early though
~11pm took subway home
today was p.cool everyone was cool and it was good
