Monday, October 29, 2007

OU Workathon

September 17-23... As my trip to Arizona draws close, one of the main things that was a motivation to get over here became apparent.

A conference called Otaku University, meant to be an educational weekend for people looking to get into animation, film making, acting/voice acting... Lots of stuff. It was orientated around Anime and Manga (Japanese animation and comics), so it had a lot of educational stuff on that too, as well as some great night time events.... However, this was still a week away, in the meantime we were waiting to hear when the deadline for the program/guidebook for the even was.

On Monday, we were told the deadline was Wednesday!

So this week was a week of intense work and a lot of learning on my part of how to do such things. We ended up having to do an all nighter on the Tuesday, and overall it was a week of exaustion with a promise of going to Magic Mountain on Friday.

...As we found out on Friday however, that was not to be. Pouring, torrential rain made going to a theme park seem a little wasted. So instead we spent the day shopping for a gift basket to give to the three girls we would be staying with in Arizona, who were working harder than us as the Directors of OU. They were also going bankrupt.

So on Saturday, Kristy and I went for a nice walk around NoHo... And bought a lottery ticket:

"Today was a most auspicious one for our plan. We had many good omens and I am now more certain than ever that we cannot fail.

I took my car in to be serviced early this morning because it's a long drive to Arizona and I don't want any unwelcome surprises. Midas called me an hour later and said there was nothing at all wrong with it and they would just do a few basic maintenance things and call it good. I still had no car all day because Midas is too far to walk and Richard was at work. I'm going to pick it up in the morning.

Well, as I said, I had no car today so (Laura) and I decided to go on a walk to the grocery store and around the Arts District. It was raining a little, so we put on some long coats and headed out. On the whole, it was a very refreshing walk. The cool air and rain felt so good. We stopped at a little Chinese place down the street for dinner and the people there were really nice. They even gave us free soup with our meal! The best part of all was the fortune cookies! Here is what mine said:
YOU WILL INHERIT A LARGE SUM OF MONEY
(Laura)'s was also good:
AN UNEXPECTED EVENT WILL SOON BRING YOU FORTUNE

So it seems our plan is shaping up nicely! As we walked on we saw a number of crickets (lucky bugs, you know). Finally, we stopped at 711 and bought the key to our future fortune! Expect good news tomorrow night, my friends! We even did a tarot card reading that eerily seemed to point to our success!"

So yeah, we figured we were set. As it turned out on Sunday, we weren't. However, I demanded that we try again for Wednesday. "The Wednesday Plan!" We said. The term spread to our friends in Arizona, and now it remains as a phrase describing a stupidly ridiculous and desperate plan (for instance, going to a rich area and throwing yourself out in front of an expensive car, making sure to make a thump on the way, in order to get money out of the person).

We give permission to everyone who wishes to use this term from now on.

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