Current location:	Gainesville, GA.
Current mood:	sad
Current music:	REMEMBERANCE - PSYCHO LE CEMU

NOT COMING
Sadly, everybody's favorite kabuki fan-dancing ONI will not be making it to this year's Dragon*Con.
Recognize me yet?

The reason I won't be making it this year is because on May 25th I will be leaving the country to report to my Permanent Duty Station: the naval base in Sasebo, Japan. I'm going to be an Engineman aboard the LSD-46, USS TORTUGA. I may have mentioned this previously, but I thought I'd bring it up one last time before I left...which'll be in about two or so weeks.

I'm going to miss all you guys at the Con, as I've been on staff for almost seven years now (this would have been my seventh), and I've seen Dragon*Con change and grow over the years; seen the good and the AWESOME the con is capable of. Through it all, the staff of D*C has been a little like an extended family; albeit a borderline-psychotic one, but that's why I loved you guys. I felt like I fit in, like I had somewhere outside of the norm where I belonged. You guys gave me something wonderful, and I'll never forget the times I had attending/working this con.
The first D*C I ever went to was in '98...I went with a friend and we didn't have a room. 2000 came around and I wanted to return, but I didn't want to have to pay the then-outlandish fee to get in so I got on staff working Autographs. From there I went to the Brit-Track, then run under stellabambino. Last year I managed by some miracle to get on the Anime Track staff, and that was my last year attending Dragon*Con. I had a great time, and although I was without a room and slept all of maybe an hour and a half over the course of the entire con it was still a wonderful experience.

I can only hope when I get back to return and see just what you've all been up to since I left. If any of you who know me would like to get ahold of my contact information so we can keep in touch while I'm deployed, feel free to drop me an email sometime. It'd be nice to hear what's going on with things while I'm away.

It's been like a long, strange, wonderful dream...but for now I have to wake up and take care of my future. I look forward to the time when I can live in this world again. Thank you so much for everything, and farewell!