lithera ([personal profile] lithera) wrote2010-07-27 09:09 am
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Good and bad and some in the middle

So!

I am back from SDCC! It was awesome and I had fun and I relaxed and... generally was not stressed out. Until Sunday.

Geeze, that was the return trip of awfulness.

It started out totally promising with Anthony Stewart Head showing up and then sitting across the aisle and just behind me. That was pretty neat. Then the plane broke and it just got worse from there. I must note that celebrities being on planes with me spells flight calamity and doom - doom, I say.

Got my luggage back yesterday. Sean says he had three TSA tags. I only had one BUT they had very obviously opened my stuff. Not just may bag. No. They opened up sealed boxes. They opened up BOOKS sealed in SHRINKWRAP. I'm a little ticked off about this. Some of that stuff is for other people. If it was just MY stuff, I'd still be annoyed but probably less so.

Not cool. I understand that maybe my stuff was kind of cool and there were thins you wanted to look at and read BUT IT IS NOT YOUR STUFF. YOU DON'T GET TO DO THAT.

Anyway, on the positive side, it was generally a good trip and I will have nothing to do with American or Alaska on my way east.

Here is a list of the Best Films of the 00s. Not sure if I agree with all of the ones on here but generally, it isn't a bad list. http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-films-of-the-00s,35931/ There is one in the Top 10 I don't agree with and only one in the Top 10 I haven't seen. If you haven't seen the 25th Hour, you can borrow it from me. I really like that movie but it isn't an easy movie at all.

Also, I am now writing articles/reviews for Popbunker.net. You can check me out over there: http://www.popbunker.net/2010/07/san-diego-comic-con/ I should have something at least once a week but we'll see how that goes. Look at me! I'm writing and stuff.

37 days until PAX.

Re: Ridiculous.

[identity profile] lithera.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

I'll be using that.

[identity profile] pullthestars.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm surprised you guys didn't go with Virgin again.

[identity profile] lithera.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It was $150 more per person and that seemed prohibitive at the time.

[identity profile] xnbach.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Look at you all writing and stuff :)

[identity profile] lithera.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! I'm all like, skilled and stuff. I really need to bash the rust off of those skills. 600 words used to be like 20 minutes work, you know? Now, it is a chore and self-editing has never been easy.

[identity profile] sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Obviously being fucked over by American Airlines makes you a bigger terrorism threat.

[identity profile] archeon.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
congrats on the writing gig, I'm sure I'll be reading!

[identity profile] lithera.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

I'll still be putting stuff up here but it is nice to have something all official.

[identity profile] kayay.livejournal.com 2010-07-29 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see why they'd have to open books up, lest they think you're stashing illegal items between the pages but their scanner can't pick it up, in which case they have, perhaps, bigger problems -- like a crappy scanner.

I have an uncomfortable feeling some workers at TSA just like to nose around other people's stuff just for the hell of it.