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This past weekend is one of my favorite times of the year. Comic-Con. I might not have been able to go, but I love watching the trailers and the panels and the cos-plays. There's so many new movies and shows that I can't wait for after this weekend. Maybe next year I'll be able to actually get tickets and I'll be able to see everything in person.

I got a phone call from my dad.   I hung up and he called back, left a voicemail.  I had blocked his number, his old number.   He changed it.  I'd block this new number too - but he said he wanted to come visit me before the next school year.   He didn't say when.  Maybe it's a bluff.   I've never told him where I live.  I just feel like if I block his number again, he might find me and show up.  At least this way, he might call first and I can get away.  

It makes me feel like I'm in a bad horror movie.   When I finally started to feel like the monster was gone, he finds a way back into my life. He's not as bad as the monster in my dreams, but he's scary enough.   

It's got me thinking of taking a trip.  Hiking or some other student budget-friendly vacation.  I think I could get the time off work.  My boss would understand.  Any recommendations on places to see?

I seriously have to question people’s judgement at times. I had a meeting with a new client tonight, well a potential new client, at a nightclub they were interested in booking for their party that I was supposed to plan. They called to tell me they were running a few minutes late and I didn’t think anything of it because traffic can be rough I know and I was able to use the time to look the place over more, get more of an idea of what we could do with it.

All of it sounds good right? Until they text me to let me know I have to meet them outside because the bouncer won’t let them in with their TODDLER. Who the hell brings a toddler to a nightclub and expects to be let in? And if that wasn’t enough to make me seriously question whether I wanted this job that badly or not when I finally got a chance to talk to them face to face I found out that the party they wanted to throw was for the child’s birthday. They thought it would be fun to have their third birthday in a club because that’s where they were conceived.

We're back in California, and it looks like the OC decided it was time to give me a welcome back present. I haven’t had a Dream in a while, but I knew I wasn’t done with them yet.

We had a new visitor to our club in the dreams, a girl who flew all the way from Paris. Apparently she mistook one of our club members for a character in a video game, and decided they were engaged? First of all, what? How do you just decide someone’s your fiance, someone you’ve never met? And how do you lose touch with reality that much that you think real people are video game characters? Also I try to pretend I don’t know how much it cost to fly from here to Paris. How did this girl afford to be able to afford to fly from Paris to Tokyo on a whim?

She’s decided she doesn’t like any of our personalities (we’re not that thrilled with hers, either) and that she’s going to be our club manager. So she is changing our “characters”.
We’re even given a script to follow, making movies of these characters. Our club is to sit down and have tea and sweets with girls and talk to them. Movie… really not necessary. My contact slips during the filming, after an altercation between her, two guys she’s making act as mobsters, and a ladder. I guess that was the last straw for Tamaki. He finally hauled off on her, following with Kyoya, who broke her camera.

Kyoya finally telling her off seems to have broken through to her and ended her crush on him. ...Unfortunately, now she has one on me. So. That’s fun. Who doesn’t want to date someone who isn’t even on a first name basis with reality?