have been unavoidably detained by the world

I'm doing some cleaning in my parent's house

And I found a ton of my con stuff from...2007.

REMEMBER WHEN CMX WAS A THING?

HECK, REMEMBER WHEN TOKYOPOP WAS A THING?

I'm sitting in a pile of bookmarks for manga that are now out-of-print and anime no one remembers. I found the HTML guide tinuviel8994 wrote for me when I started using LJ.

I found my printout of lyrics from the NANA movie, my Kryptonian-English guide, a map of Walt Disney World so old it's for MGM Studios, and a dozen maps of the Lord of the Rings Traveling Exhibition (circa 2004!).

I HAVE A MEGATOKYO CALENDAR. 2007! CMX!

I have ICV2 industry guides because I found those endlessly fascinating.

I found a flier for the "Veronica Mars Season Two Trading Cards" despite the fact that I don't buy trading cards and I missed Veronica Mars.

I also found a House of M sketchbook comic and colored pencils! NEW PUBLIC TRANSPORT ENTERTAINMENT.

I also found my old floppy disks! Guys, my childhood computer died a sad, lonely death but odds are good that on one of those floppy disks, my terrible fic remains.

I just need a computer capable of using a floppy disk. That's going to be a challenge.

I also found approx. 300 different magazines dedicated to the Lord of the Rings movies. They are useless and waste a ton of space, but I can't throw them out! *clutches*

In more recent news, I've been gifted with the 42 Things the Prove the Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the Perfect Man. I admit he's nearly too skinny for my tastes but the writer and I do agree about arms.

Also, he is a ninja. :D

JAPAN. \o/

We spent the first week in a fishing village in Chiba, so I haven't really seen anything of Tokyo yet, but there is a decent manga selection at our local 7-11! And the produce is SO EXPENSIVE. (All I want is an apple that costs less than a dollar.)

Worst news is that our internet access is horrible. Really, really bad. Currently we have eight people sharing one wired internet connection that sometimes only works on one computer and sometimes doesn't work at all. And I feel weird logging into LJ on someone else's laptop. (I keep fandom life VERY SEPARATE from real life. Only a small handful of friends know my LJ handle. I'm not sharing with a group of totally new people, even if we all are kinda quiet anime/manga maniacs. And at least four girls are HUGE K-POP FANS. Still.) So I finally got online on my own comp, and I'm doing a swing-by post. There is wi-fi in one of the other buildings. But it is COLD OUTSIDE.

I did find another Who fan, but he thinks Miracle Day was the best Torchwood series. *twitch* I'm actually very calm when confronting this in real life. I think I said something like, "I personally didn't like Miracle Day at all," and I didn't stand up and declare Ianto's awesomeness or anything.

...of course, now that my comp in online, everyone is asking to borrow it. Closing all fandom tabs...

BYE INTERNET.