Saturday, April 29, 2017 "Sneakercon."

Saturday, April 29, 2017
Week: 38
Songs to Remember: Moves Like Raindrops - kmlkmljkll, Strange - MASC, Hook가 - HIGH4:20

        Today has been so long, it really felt like the whole weekend. But no, there's still tomorrow, still Sunday, and uh, still gonna be waking up before 8:00 AM, let alone 11:00 AM.

        But it was different, a very interactive experience. I couldn't ask for a better distraction. So, the morning started off with waking up at 6:30 AM to try our (my cousin and I's) luck at getting the new Yeezy's online. Those sites, however, were heavily traffic'd, and, we were not able to grab any. We had Burger King for breakfast, got driven to the BART station that's 15 minutes away to go to San Francisco to pick up my Yeezy's.

        This was my first time riding the BART, and uh, yeah, not pretty, heh. Well, it went fine, but, you know the people, it's, it's public transportation, like what was I expecting? The trip took about an hou until we finally arrived in SF. The Adidas store was located right outside the station, so that was pretty convenient. And man, was the line, long. In actuality, the hour we spent in that line could've went by much faster, had the store's code-scanning software "functioned" properly. Otherwise, we would've been out maybe 20 minutes in.

        The BART trip back took another hour, I had my dad pack our stuff in the car when he picked us up so he can drive us straight to the Bay Area sneaker convention. The line there though, was even longer. A whole hour wait, again. It, really felt like Anime Expo, heh. Not the waiting, well, yeah the waiting too, but like, everybody, was stunting. Everybody was wearing Yeezy's, Nike, Adidas, etc. It was, like cosplay, but, stunting at the same time. Stunt-play.

        We finally got in, we actually met up with my cousin's friends,3 of 'em. At first I was kinda ehhh about 'em, but turns out they can relate to me pretty well, and me to them, since, like, we all share the same knowledge about stuff/interests, like video-games and clothing. Pretty neat. Inside, when we finally got inside, there was like, it was crazy. Huge line to meet Qias, a YouTuber, uhhh, basically every single sneaker YouTuber was there. Umm, we went, to, start selling our shit. My shit, actually, my Yeezy's, my clothing, etc. My cousin and his friends helped me out quite a bit.

        To sell, you basically either post-up at spot, and just, sit there and have people take a look at what you got. Or, you can go around, with a shoe in your hand, and see if anybody takes interest to it. I'd say selling is sorta difficult here because there are two factors: the type of shoe itself, and the sizing. Oh man, the sizing. Apparently medium was not the average shirt size there, and neither was size 9 in shoes, heh. We eventually posted-up, sat and sold for about 45 minutes or so. We were able to sell 1 item, out of my, well two actually, out of, set of maybe 10 pieces. It was a headband, about $10 above retail, and my Yeezy's, which I sold for $440, which considering it just came out today, was a size 7.5, and is more common than the Black & Red V2's, it's not too shabby.

        After the wait, we packed up, walked around for a bit. Took some pictures with some of the YouTubers there, and then headed out. It was, crazy, to see all those shoes, items, people, all in one place. Makes you feel kinda minuscule compared  to them, but that makes it more fun I guess. My cousin's friend drove all of us to the mall near my house afterwards. We shopped and looked around, and ate there as well. Yeah my diet lately has not been the best, as it's been consisting of flavored drinks and fast food. But you gotta live a little sometimes, ya know, ya gotta live a little.

        Oh and I forgot to mention, while my cousin and I were in San Francisco, standing in line outsie the Adidas store, a lot of people passed by. I got a glimpse of the kind of people roaming higher-SF and uh, they were, I found a lot of 'em to be like, wow. Wow as in, wow, "Man, fuck them kids bro. Look around bro. Look at life. You see, you see these fine bitches over here." Yeah I see 'em. I was like "Wow, you know, there's shit-ton of people I've never met yet." I, I barely know like, 500 maybe right now that I can name. Probably even less than that. I still got more years, of, my youth. Young-adult youth, that is. There's more to come. People that is, and years too I guess, heh.

        Anyways, after fucking around in the mall a bit, we got Starbucks, uhh, actually talked to an old KDT member, who was a senior last year there. I never really talked to her, but, she remembered my name, so that was cool. Umm, when we all done with whatever, my cousin's buddy drove us back to our house, and, my cousin got picked up after that to go home, and, now it's just me here, with, a lot of clothes on the floor, and, it's 11:52 PM, and, I got 7 minutes of dance to learn.

        Also waking up at 8:00 AM tomorrow, and staying at school until around 8 PM, for the performance. Gonna be long, gonna be, definitely long. And, definitely looking forward to the KDT "Prom" as well as the lunch break where lots of laughter will ensue. Hopefully. And so, see ya.