In the little "About Me" section on the right-hand pane of this site, I've always had the part that says "I am a motion picture exhibition facility engineer", which is just an extravagant way of saying I am a movie cinema manager. Mundane and pretty much...a crap job.

Several months ago I added "I am also a spy" in the descriptor. Of course, this too is just an exaggerated job title for my side-job, the official title of which is "Field Researcher". "Spy" and "Field Researcher" are both over the top titles for what the job actually entails, which is taking pictures of the event-boards in certain hotels a few times a week. (for research!)

Yeah. "Field Researcher". Whatever.

Anyway, I've been doing this Picture-Taker job for almost a year now. It's easy money and it doesn't take long. It's not very interesting though.

However, yesterday I rolled up to my first hotel and noticed a bunch of strange-types milling around at the side of the hotel, taking pictures of themselves. They stood out because they were all decked out like they were superheroes or something, with costumes and all that shit.

"Ahhhh!" I thought, "Must be a comic-convention happening here today...".

Turns out it wasn't, but it was an Anime convention. Once I entered, I was right in the thick of it. They were all in my way, getting in front of the event-board I needed to snap. But at least I blended in because they were all taking pictures of each others floppy shoes and comical swords and stuff.

There were all kinds of faeries and wizards and people with costumes made of felt and bright white wigs. Here's a couple of pictures, of this person....and this person.