So many things happened behind the scenes of these photos:

1) I had to buy a new camera cause of environmentally induced damaging (f*cking wind) and while I made sure that the Sony Alpha a6000 had an app to remote trigger the photo, it didn't occur to me to check how long I'd have to pose. Every camera I've ever owned has had a 10 sec self-timer, but guess what? With the Sony? 2 SECONDS. Also, it's much harder to see before you trigger the timer what the camera is focused on so... fun times.

2) This is iteration two of this outfit, mostly due to the fact that I took a bunch of photos in outfit one, hated myself, went back home and tried again because I bought this sweater for myself last year as a birthday gift, and I am determined to figure out how to style it on my frame.

Would you believe me if I told you that this is not my favorite t-shirt and jeans look? I picked up this Marine Layer tee as it was being discontinued, and while it's not bad, do you know what's better than a soft black t-shirt? A soft white t-shirt (which sounds like I'm being accidentally racist but in reality I just think it makes the color of my skin pop more).

In other news when I went to see my hair stylist last month we went with a darker brown with red undertones because I'd like to phase the red out (it's very high maintenance and I'm sick of leaking color everywhere) but you know what I see here? RED red hair, which probably means I'm f*cked cause I'm not going to chop it all off and start over.

Despite this past weekend being one of the warmest that wasn't also *constantly rainy and humid*, I did not spend any of it in a pool. Which would be tragic but instead I joined almost a thousand people at All Star Comic Con, one of the newest additions to the DMV's geek convention line up.

I haven't been to that many first year conventions, though I guess with three (or four if you count Wicomicon) under my belt I do have a pretty good idea of what I like. All Star excelled at communications and on-site customer service, could have done better at providing a bigger number of diverse (by topic) panels for attendees and seating/accessibility access for any of the activities done in the atrium area. All in all I would give it a B-/B, and would go again in the future.

Also, this root situation. It's getting really real and I should probably do something about that.