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I have pictures! Many, many pictures. I took 55, Annie took like... 49. So, yeah. Dial-up users, beware.
( My Skateboard Vert Picutres. )

( Annie's Skateboard Vert Pictures. )

Lastly, an animation Annie made from two pictures of Andy Macdonald she took. Even if you don't watch skateboarding or care about any of this in the slightest, you have to see this animation. It is awesome.
( Andy Macdonald dancing. )

All right, that's all. Expect more picspam tomorrow! :D

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Annie and I are both clearly insane. But in the most awesome way ever. (It is also evident that Annie and me + no sleep + boy love = insanity.)

...yeah. There are no words to describe this. Just let me say that it involves "touched up photos" (i.e. pictures we drew in MSPaint. Or at least that's what I used. She may have used Photoshop) to argue whether Bob Burnquist is having an affair with Sandro Dias and trying to seduce Andy McDonald or if it's all just a misunderstanding and Bob totally loves Bucky. So, here's our conversation.

( What really happened at Vert Skate today. )

...it is understandable if you skip this post, but I absolutely had to document our insanity. In any case, maybe Lulu and Tiffany will find it somewhat amusing, as they actually know Annie and me. Or, maybe we're just completely insane. :)

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I met Bob Burnquist.

A more coherent post about today (with more pictures! Not nearly as many as yesterday, though.) will come after I watch all the X Games coverage I recorded from today. I think I'm still far too in shock to talk about anything right now.

Today was probably the most awesome day of my life.

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What an awesome, awesome day. I saw Women's Skate Vert Best Trick, an Inline (rollerskates) Demo, Men's Skate Best Trick in which Bob Burnquist won gold, and I then met Bob Burnquist. omg I love the X Games.

( More detailed post of my day, including my comments on Women's Skate Vert, the Inline Demo, and Men's Skate Best Trick. )

All right, now for the events I watched when I got home. But first, wtf? They didn't air either the BMX best trick OR the skate best trick events! HOW THE FUCK DO YOU NOT SHOW THOSE!? I mean, I think skate best trick is my absolute favorite event. HOW CAN YOU NOT SHOW THAT!? What the hell?! That pisses me off. I'm just glad that I actually did get to go to the best trick and not being able to find anyone to go and people who told me they'd go backing out for no reason didn't fuck that up. Anyways, now for the stuff I watched at home.

( BMX Freestyle Park )

( BMX Dirt )

( Moto X Freestyle )

( Fiiiinally, pictures from today! Not nearly as many as yesterday. Less than 30. )

Lastly, hi. Did they have to keep showing Tony Hawk's 900 during the breaks on the screen when we were inside? I mean, it wasn't all they showed, but they showed it a fair amount. And dude, that seriously makes me cry. Um, in a happy way, though. It was just so fucking amazing and seeing all the fucking support from the other skaters (that's one reason why skateboarding's my favorite event at X Games; you really don't see nearly as much... support for the other competitors in the other events. I mean, you do see it, but it's just... I don't know. They always seem so much less friendly to me.) and the crowd and how he kept going after it and his expression when he finally did it and... geez. It makes me all teary. So yeah, you didn't need to show me that 9 bajillion times and make me have to stop myself from getting all teary and emotional. Why yes, I am aware that I am totally pathetic.

Skateboard big air tomorrow! ...I will not be there, though. My last day of live X Games (until next year). Man am I glad that I got tickets, though. These two days have been so fucking awesome. I'm so happy and so thankful and so... geez. But yeah. I'm really looking forward to skateboard big air. I mean, first, Bob qualified first in the prelims, and Bucky qualified second. Bucky didn't compete last year, either, so this makes me very, very happy. And last year Bob was injured so he performed pretty poorly. But he's qualified first! This is of course after the top 3 from last year who made it in automatically and didn't have to do the pre-lims thing this morning. But still! And I think it'll be a lot more insane after everyone's already tried the ramp out before. I mean, last year it was this brand new thing, but this year, it's not like... such a new concept, I guess. They've had a year to think about it and work on things and such. So yeah. Should be fun to watch. :D

Ok, now I need to go make some more X Games icons even though I'll only use them like twice a year (now and the Gravity Games). Then maybe I'll have a good number of icons and can make an icon post tomorrow (insanity!).