Logan’s Run Online

So, I haven’t updated in a while. I think I’ve completely forgotten to finish that other list of things to write about. Life goes on. A few things I wanna share with everyone in lieu of other posts for updates:

• Midterms are fast approaching. I’ve only got one actual exam, and I believe I’m pretty well-prepared for it. We’ll see how it goes after this Tuesday. Then I’ll be free from schoolwork and ready to relax for a week of Spring Break.
• Speaking of Spring Break, that’s coming up, too! March 9th through 13th. I’m going to visit the South Florida Renaissance Festival on the 8th and do a few other things with my family and friends. Are you in South Florida and want to meet up with me at some point? Let me know.
• I went to MegaCon yesterday. It was quite interesting, for my first convention, at least. The hall space is huge. I’m not really into anime and/or comics, so about 98% of the convention didn’t apply to me. But I had fun with my friends–and that’s what matters. (I dressed up as Captain Hammer, too. John went as Dr. Horrible. Many lulz ensued.)
• “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” A small motto I discovered in the last episode of Futurama I watched. It may be a new type of creed I’ll try to live by.

Oh, and I’ve turned a tad more apathetic toward certain things lately. This should resolve itself through the usual college events of homework, tests, and business. Again, as my most-often creed goes, “life goes on”.

OMG IT WAS AWESOME!!!

First off, a small review of the event itself: the scarezones were undoubtedly the best parts, as the scareactors actually interacted with you and were personable. The haunted houses, although very well conceived and engendered, didn’t and really couldn’t have that type of one-on-one interaction with you. Plus, they weren’t as scary as a guy sneaking up behind you and revving a chainsaw as you’re standing in a group of your friends studying a map and trying to decide where to go next. The chainsaw people were undoubtedly the best in terms of scare-factors. Although, I did love the “Dead Exposure” haunted house–they used a really creative idea of outlining all the objects in the room with UV-reactive paint and flashed black strobe lights, creating a really eerie, glowing effect separate from the usual strobe scenes found in haunted houses. The room in that house with the vast number of people that you bump into was, quite hoenstly, awesome.

The shows were alright and generally on-par with what I’d expect from that type of entertainment.

THE BEST PART OF THE NIGHT

I was wearing my Captain Hammer t-shirt from earlier in the day when I was dressed in my full Captain Hammer getup as my Halloween costume. Literally, all I had on was the t-shirt. Still, by the end of the night I was waving to the wicked witch at the entrance, Elphaba, and she called down to me:

Is that a Captain Hammer shirt, my dear? My, my, he is an arrogant one. Almost as egotistical as me, and that’s hard to do! Still, Dr. Horrible, that kid is going to go places. I can tell. *cackle*

Wow. Simply, WOW. A character actually noticed my shirt AND referenced it. Could it get any better? The answer, of course, is YES. Earlier on in the evening, my friends and I rounded the corner in the “Fractured Fairy Tales” scarezone, with a bunch of “scary tale” figures like Little Red Riding Hood and the Mushroom Man from Alice in Wonderland, and we did encounter that very Mushroom Man. On top of a giant mushroom, with a microphone and powerful, booming British accent, he was directing people:

It’s so nice to see everyone here tonight in my humble village. Please, proceed on in that direction if you dare…to be scared!

We were all looking up at him as he was making his rote speech when he noticed me. He did a quick double take, completely stopped his normal words in the middle of them, and then, dropping the accent and COMPLETELY breaking character:

I LOVE YOUR SHIRT DUDE! Dr. Horrible FOR THE WIN! You are now my FAVORITE person in the entire park tonight!

And when I say “breaking character”, I seriously mean breaking character–the change between his British Mushroom Man and “Joe the Universal Studios employee” was as tangible as the one between night and day. It was AMAZING and absolutely MADE my night. The fact that a shirt that I was wearing as part of my costume actually influenced and affected someone that much, especially an employee scareacting causing him to BREAK CHARACTER in order to laud me for it. WOW. God, that was just an AMAZING moment.

Apparently the Captain Hammer t-shirt has that effect on people–earlier on in the day while biking around campus with no handlebars, two girls screamed “CAPTAIN HAMMER WE LOVE YOU”. Wow. Didn’t know a shirt could do that much.

All in all, an amazing night, especially since I got to spend it with my friends that I haven’t seen in such a long time. Now we’re all back at Lauren’s apartment, watching Disney movies before sleeping.

Happy Halloween!