Forum - View topicslightly OT: Post anime convention syndrome
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Viga_of_stars
 Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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Yes PACS. Okay so i made the term up but the feeling is actually real.
After a convention that you had a great time at do anyone feels....bleh inside. I was talking with some dudes after the last con i went to and all of us were like.."aww man. back to reality." "I really dont want to leave." "Im geting so emo after this. Its like otaku land." Myself...I fell kinda down afterwards. Especially if i had a great time. After a week normality reigns in my head and its okay but still. That feeling when you are at a con. a GOOD con at that. Do or did anyone feel that way before. |
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fighterholic
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I totally feel where you're coming from. When I came back from AX, I was literally exhausted, and I had an exam the next morning. Needless to say that didn't go too well. I also didn't feel like going to work, and seeing as how I've closed for the last three days working at least seven hours per shift, it hasn't been fun. Lucky for me I got today off, and I've been enjoying myself for the most part, but then come next week I have a six day work week. PACS is taking it's toll on me and it seems my coworker as well.
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LydiaDianne
 Posts: 5634 Location: Southern California |
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I was whipped on Sunday when I drove home from AX. So much so that I decided not to go on Monday like I'd planned. Well, for two reasons: 1. I was tired and 2. I didn't want to drive 2 1/2 hours for a single 50 minute panel.
But they were long days and were pretty tiring with all of the heat and the walking in the heat that we had to do. If I go for the entire time again, I'm getting a hotel room. I'm not driving like that again. Lesson learned. |
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mjgeo
 Posts: 133 Location: Australia |
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It could be something as simple as not wanting to go back to work/uni/school after having a great time on holiday, and nothing to do with anime or conventions at all.
Or it could be that anime as a hobby is generally an individual (physically) pursuit, and after interacting on a mass scale with other fans you feel depressed at thought of returning to that solitude until the next convention. I'm no expert, so who knows? |
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DuelLadyS
 Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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Can't say I have too much of an issue with this... I mean, sure, I've been depressed on the drive home from the con (especially the year I had to leave early since I wouldn't have had a ride otherwise), but it never lasts long. I bring home so much new junk I get lost in the sorting and putting away and playing with of it all.
Plus, I've learned the Golden After-Con Rule... take the day after the con off too. Get your bags unpacked (if you've got any), upload/develop your photos, get your swag squared away. It helps to take the time to get all the after-trip crap squared away, then veg away the remainder of the day, so you silde back into the noraml routine the next day. |
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Buster Blader 126
 Posts: 1207 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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Well, not really, but maybe just a little bit.
As much as I enjoy a convention, I still don't mind returning back to my normal life. Sure, I'll miss it a little (OK maybe not a little, but not a lot either), but you just have to chug on back into reality, sooner or later. Though I'm sure that I'll eventually feel a similar feeling as say, fighterholic or LydiaDianne once I enter the working world. 
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LuckySleven
 Posts: 426 Location: Refer to page 2 |
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Well it's probably because you just had too much fun and feel lazy and tired to do some manual labor. I can see where your getting at though, it's like the day you return to school after the winter break and wished that you had more time to do the things you wanted but couldn't.
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fighterholic
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Especially when you get into our line of work. The famed retail field! Don't ever stay in this field for too long, it will literally suck your life away 
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Viga_of_stars
Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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That could be a root. I know it is for people who are the only fan at school or doesn't meet many fans. maybe. HELP STOP PACS! HAVE ANIME PARTIES.....well its a start for a slogan...lol
add telemarketing to the list. you know the term manager....well its MAN AGER....they do suck your life away. |
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mistress_reebi
Posts: 735 Location: Canada |
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I guess it's like going on vacation: it's all fun at the location but back in the real world it sucks. It's fun to go back home with friends and watch the anime you just bought.
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daxomni
 Posts: 2650 Location: Somewhere else. |
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Nice post. I don't visit cons myself, but I rarely enjoy traveling back from any type of vacation. I almost never follow the GAVR either. Even if I'm traveling 10,000 miles back home in a single day (actually possible with a little help from the International Date Line and the jet stream) I try to get myself home by midnight local time so I can just go to sleep and return to work the following morning. People who haven't worked with me for long tend to show a bit of surprise when I walk in, but to me it doesn't seem to be that big of an issue. I'm also lucky in that my job doesn't make a huge fuss over people who show up a little late. 
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fighterholic
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Now there's something I didn't do because my work wouldn't allow it. Heck, all my bags are still packed and either in my room or still in my car trunk, because I've been having to concentrate on school and work since I've gotten back. Fine lot of help it's been too. |
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DuelLadyS
Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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I don't give my work any real choice in the matter I'm also trapped in the Dreaded World of Retail (it really does suck out your soul!)... but I turn in my time-off for conventions months in advance (about half a year, usually.) It makes it hard to say 'no' when the time actually arrives. (And I WILL quit if they ever try to force me out of it. I can find another crappy retail job.  )
I did feel a lil' bad last con tho'... as it turned out, the con happened over Easter Weekend. Which was also our Grand Re-Opening after our remodel. And we were on slate for a store audit, too. (Can't say I'm too upset I missed all that, tho'!) |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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I didn't learnt hat rule until after 2 Otakon's with no rest the Monday afterwards. So I switched my Thursday before it with the Monday after. It just means I have to pack sooner and go right from work to pre-reg pick up and the hotel without going home first. I'd much rather do that and have the Monday after a con to sit back and relax. I think in 2004 I went out and partied with some friends afterwards on Sunday and never actually got any sleep before reporting for work at 8am that Monday. That was a mistake and boy did I learn from it. I'm of the same mind as you DualLady. I'm happy during the con and a bit unhappy afterwards, provided it was a good time of course. Once I get home and wake up the Monday after and spend all day going through the swag, figuring where the new models will go and who gets moved, and sorting through the mountain of artprints I forget the con is over as I go through everything. You never quite realize how much you got until the day after when you sit down and go through the receipts lol. |
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fighterholic
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Oh that wasn't the problem. The problem was both me and my co-worker were going to AX at the same time, I had put in our time off two months in advance, but apparently with them not having enough people to work there we had to go in the next day. |
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