My husband came home from today's events at his professional convention with cooler stuff from the association than I've *ever* gotten from either ALA or MLA at their conferences. This year I got a pen (exciting!) Ken, however, got a mug (equally exciting actually, since we own about 15 already between us), a mini reading light that unfolds itself (oooh, was I jealous!) and a totally kick-butt bumper sticker: "Archivists make it last longer!" I begged and pleaded and insisted that he put it on his car but he stood firm. So I put it up by the computer in the living room, fridge-magneted to the side of our file cabinet just above the "Spay Your Catgirl" poster he gave me when I was doing the anime/manga mini-con at work.
Yes, we are both insane.
More insanity: last week he poured about half a shot of Glenlivet (yes, the $35-a-bottle single-malt Scotch) into a glass of pomegranate juice. Yeah, pomegranate juice isn't exactly cheap either, but Glenlivet as a mixer? In a plastic glass?
We won't talk about my costume for Otakon, or what it says about my obsession with a certain manga/anime series. Or about my conversations with the computer printers at work, though that's normal, isn't it?
For those of you who don't do the con thing and have forgotten my post about going to BookExpo, "schwag" or "swag" is free stuff you get from conventions. It usually refers to the fun type of conventions such as Origins, Comic-con, science fiction conventions, etc. but it can also apply to professional conventions, at least, that's how I apply it since my profession allows for some pretty cool schwag (books/manga being my favorite, no surprise there!)
My posts will continue to be bizarre as Otakon starts Friday and there will be pictures taken.
Also I'm trying to get you people to respond a bit! This is a blog, not a manifestation of my ego (well, not much, anyway).
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