I started attending Anime conventions along the east coast in the fall of 2004, and I staffed my first convention a year later in 2005. For some of the people I work with at conventions like Katsucon, Anime Mid-Atlantic, Anime USA, Balticon and others, that’s a single drop of water in a very deep bucket. For me it has encompassed several years of writing, acting, traveling, love, emotional breakdowns, good decisions, bad decisions, deliberate insanity, extraordinary coincidence and entirely too much else to cover in a simple rundown of activity.