/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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>First con
>Show up before all my friends Friday
>Hands visibly shaking, super anxious for some reason
>Go to bar across street and drink on an empty stomach to calm my nerves
>Come back and wander around drunk with some creepy dude I met at the bar who kept asking every slightly attractive female cosplayer for a picture
>Friends finally show up and I ditch him
>Spend the rest of the con wandering around regretting not cosplaying
>Lost my Gurren Lagann flag at some point
>Missed most of the panels that interested me
>Drunkenly wandered away from a cosplay girl that I think was interested in me without remembering to get her number
>Spent a bunch of money I can't afford to spend
>Got con plague
>Friends left early the second day because they had work in the morning
>Realize all the panels I had an interest in had already happened on Friday
>Friend I was meeting got in a fender bender and had to flake
>Spent most of remainder of con drinking overpriced gin and tonic in the hotel bar and questioning my financial decisions and wondering why I'm such an autistic fuckwit

Werewolf was fun though!

Overall 8/10 going again next year, but this time I'm actually going to put effort into a particular cosplay and not just half ass it with normal clothes and a gurren lagann flag draped around me, hahaha. I really wish I wasn't such a ball of nerves that I need to be drunk to handle cons.