I made my therapist cry

I had a new Physical Therapist Assistant today. She asked what did I do while I was doing my hamstring stretches and I said I worked at the University. She brightened and asked 'Do you know Joanne Ford? How is she doing?'

I had to tell her Joanne had died. She was heart broken. She had known Joanne pretty well. She used to be a vet tech and babysat Joanne's cats. She's going to help me to find a home for him. I was asked to help today but the problem is he's an unfixed male (she didn't believe in neutering, it's a thing down here, a stupid thing) who has to be an only cat. This isn't going to be easy.

I was having trouble today in PT. I had stood for too long and my compressed nerve was really aggravating, weakening my leg. So in exercise #1 my knee completely dislocated so I spent the whole PT session with the estim on and an ice pack while I read my ereader. Sigh. Hurts lots.

I have decided on my nano novel. I'm going to go back to Aneurin and Kaleo's world where I have a few chapters (that I won't count) started. I had planned on doing what i SHOULD do and do the sequel for Temple et al then realized all the research necessary. I'll talk more about this on Jana's blog soon but let's just say high level research and nano are a bitch. It was too late to get a plot for my YA novel sequel that I thought I'd be doing since it's supposed to be a non-erotica year. I'm just not feeling it. Kaleo bugs me every night so I should just do this and get it out of the way. I'm registered at Nano, DocDana if you want to find me. I've got all the busy work out of my face.

Here's the tentative cover for the lamely titled Behind Blue Eyes (it's just something I named it so I can find it). I don't know why the title disappeared.

Tsubasacon

Today I headed out to Tsubasacon. I wasn't planning on going since I was supposed to be with Mom, Brother and SiL at Bob Evans Farm fest but since they canceled and I have a three day weekend, I went.

On the way there I went to Hillbilly Hotdogs for lunch. It is an experience. I had the ala cheesy and a coalminer. Yum Yum. The most hysterical thing was there was a teenaged boy from Italy there. He seemed bemused by it all, either the decor or the bluegrass music I'm not sure which.

( Because you have to SEE Hillbilly's to believe it )

Next time I'm bringing a sharpey.

Mom said she didn't think I enjoyed the con when she asked. I said well not as much as I should have for the 30$ cover charge. For one, you can tell the organizers are young and not THAT organized. Who the hell has TEN registration lines but only one of them credit card. Who carries that much cash around? And the slick pretty con info booklet was next to impossible to figure out where anything was. Sigh.

Still, the thing I like best about cons are dealers' rooms and the internet has more or less destroyed that. I'm getting long in the tooth in many ways and I just don't get THAT excited by panels like I used to. I've more or less see it before.

The dealer's rooms were less anime and more anime adjacent. Lots of original art being done which was cool. It would be even cooler if I were in love with Attack on Titan and I'm not. I love Levi and Zoe and the rest is meh. Which is funny since one of the vendors I spoke to feels exactly the same way. She and I did talk a long time. She wants to break into the m/m erotica field. I gave her my email and told her to contact me for more info. I bought one of her leather steampunk bracelets and wore it the whole con. Love it.

I also got an indie comic book The Hues that has the tag line Girls will save the World. It's near future SF and looked interesting. I picked up a print of a character I don't know but he was so striking he was worth a few bucks. Aoba from DRAMAtical Murder some Boy's love thing that I'll have to watch someplace that isn't here with my shit connection. I got him from Chibs Panda

There was someone there who made Ghibli sculptures that were made of adorable and another had stickers two for a dollar so I got a few of Levi (I'd like to glue them to magnets and make it more useful). I also got myself steampunk goggles (so yes bought more steampunk than anything). I love them. They're purple.

One vendor had a few FMA things (and people LOVED my new FMA shirt. I was stopped a lot to ask about it) but I thought about it and decided I didn't see ELD using a drawstring book bag thing and I REALLY wanted their psycho-pass ball cap but I don't wear them enough to spend 20$ on it. (will look to see if Rightstuf has it....) I didn't find the wallet I wanted. Well I did but I KNOW I can get that cheaper elsewhere).

I also met the lead singer of Kazha and I foolishly did not get her to sign a CD for me. Ah well.

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I ended up at the Q& A panel with the guests (except for Dunbar). I didn't plan on it but since the dealer's room was so small and I spent so much to get in I decided why the hell not. Now yes it was a friday but it was at 4 pm. Almost NO ONE showed up. I felt so bad I actually asked a question to keep the conversation rolling. Turned out everyone went to the autograph room to be the first in line so they said all of us could get an autograph first but I didn't have anything TO autograph and honestly I'm not that big into VA's. They were very nice guys so I regret that a bit.

I also bought The Captains from L. Jason Queen before heading out. I tried one of the places that tripadvisor recced for dinner: Nawab It was very good and the manager/owner (I'm assuming) loved my steampunk bracelet. As did a lady who walked out with her companions when I did. She also wanted to know what I was reading then her husband said, she has a trunk full of books, want some? I showed him MY trunk of books, only if you want mine.

From there I went to a book store. Go me. Books-a-million had sent me a coupon and I got manga naturally, two new ones, The Ancient Magus's Bride & Itsuwaribito. And then I had to drive home in a monsoon in the dark up a windy river road. Fun.

The cosplay was pretty...lackluster but there were a few good ones ( Con pictures )