You know how, when you’re a kid, you “count” how far away lightening strikes are from you? The flash happens. One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, and each “thousand” equals a mile? Well… Last night, the lightening and the thunder were simultaneous! Multiple times! Part of me wanted to stay upstairs, where [...]

I get back to this just over a week later, which means a quick recap is in order. Sooo… 1.) The hotel rocks. 2.) Our panel was successful. And 3.) I’m super-psyched about our announcements and the fans’ reactions to them! As I’m preparing for conventions, I always try to bank away a little extra [...]

I always have such good intentions when it come to posting after trips. Finally, here we go! Our panel this year was on Friday, July 2, so I flew out late on Thursday afternoon, just in case there were any last-minute issues. As I headed out the door to the airport, my assistant — who [...]

Whew! The past week was nuts, which meant no blogging for me! Why was it so crazy? It was the annual trek to Anime Expo (AX) in Los Angeles, California. It’s one of the biggest anime (Japanese animation) conventions in the United States, and I made the trip this year because my workplace had plans [...]

If April 2010 had a theme, it (so far), for me, would be “scattered”… not in an unorganized way, but in a jumping quickly, for-the-most-part efficiently and with precision way. I’m lucky; there’s always so much to do that I can honestly say I’m never bored and probably never will be. The cool (and scary?) [...]

We’ve been threatened by the possibility of snow since Friday afternoon, but it didn’t start in earnest until sometime this morning. I woke up around 11 a.m., and the flakes were falling in such a way that I could actually see them through the window, even before I put on my glasses. For a split [...]

Q: What has Alison been doing these past few weeks? The easy and truthful answer is work, work, and more work — some of which I can talk about (like this cool new anime, coming in 2009 to video shelves near you!) and, of course, some of which that I can’t. So, instead, I’ll talk [...]

There’s been a lot going on in my offline world. The evidence? It’s been forever since I took a whole month-plus off from blogging. (I don’t count Twitter because, well… It’s off the cuff, and my particular brand of status updates don’t translate into “real” writing, to my mind, anyway.) Work’s been super, crazy busy. [...]

My mom has always enjoyed the Miss America pageant, and for the first time in a VERY long time, I made it through an entire telecast. (We watched it while on the phone and commenting the entire time.) Some of my friends may be surprised by this, but I’ve never really had a horrible bias [...]

Horribly M.I.A., but at this point, is it really a surprise? ;-) – The proliferation of President Aria throughout my blog is almost complete. The last of the current avatars was uploaded to this location today, but there are more on the way. I enjoy the character art of ARIA — and the critter, in [...]