• to wayne, our mysterious disappearing volunteer *smirk* i think i might have scared you on friday... and i kept forgetting your name *sweatdrop* sorries! but it was cool that you finally ended up cosplaying kirito on saturday, i got a pic of you fr/ sharon's site, kakkoii *grin* thanx for helping out when you did, although a lot of times you had to go off and do security or whatever else... blah *smirk* next year you should be a full-time jrock room lackey! we need a full-time lackey, after all... we'll give you pocky if you do... *grin*
  
  
• to gloria, thanx soooo much for volunteering, you were invaluable for the 31 hrs you stayed there *grin* and whoo, you made a good hyde, i looooove that spiky nailed apple you had *grin* ahh... just remembering... calamari and yummmmmmy pizza... mmm... from now on i'm only ordering appetizers *grin* you're coming down for an2k3 again, right? next year we'll do all night karaoke again and finish off our rendition of shinshoku, 'good moooorning mr. feeeeeaaar!!!!' and... somehow we'll try and remember to press volume up, not channel up *smirk*
  
  
• to kisa's friend, kevin right? it was so cool of you to pretty much moderate our panels for us, always playing devil's advocate *smirk* i still feel bad that i didn't make it down to the room in time for the start of the jrock in the mainstream panel, but you were handling it pretty well so it was all good *grin* lemme know when or if you get your con pics developed and scanned, i really wanna see! *grin*
  
  
• to oscar, it was so nice of you to help us out in the room, even though you didn't have to *sweatdrop* especially friday night when everyone else went to sleep... you helped me clean up and even sat through some of that yaoi... hope you're not scarred for life now *smirk* but really, you were there to help out when we didn't have anyone (eg. when i was freaking out in the hallway on saturday *sweatdrop*), and you sang karaoke with us! without me having to threaten you! *grin* you gotta go all-night karaoke w/ us some time again *grin*
  
  
• to gui's bro, & my friend monnie, thanx for helping out when you did, monnie especially cuz she got dragged into helping out against her will *sweatdrop* i felt so bad ditching you with the room, especially with you not knowing where the videos were and all... but we really appreciate it *grin*
  
  
• the gackt fangirls! never underestimate the power and tenacity of gackt's followers *smirk* i admit i was kinda afraid of some of you... when you all kinda swarmed in on saturday to watch the gackt interviews and all... but it was nice to see that much enthusiasm *grin* it's just too bad we didn't see any of you guys on sunday, i'm sure you would have all loved to join in the raffle for the life-sized gackt poster... but ah well, life-sized gackt has already found a happy home w/ heather *grin*
  
  
• to everyone else who participated in our panels, thanx for speaking up, we got some really good jrock discussions going. if it weren't for audience participation... well... we'd have never shut up ranting about gackt... gackt... and more gackt... and a little hyde and kyo too *smirk* it's also good to see evidence of the underground jrock fanbase in north america, there'd have been no jrock room at all if not for you guys.
  
  
• to *everyone* who showed up for our all-night party on saturday, even if it was just for a little while, thanx for coming (though i wish you would have *stayed* so we could've actually had a party *smirk*). big shoutouts especially to the girls who did some gackt dancing & imitating w/ us, you guys were so much fun *grin* and the guys who came in too and stayed up w/ me and gloria, i can't believe you stayed there first of all, what w/ me hogging the mic w/ my whiny shiina ringo singing *smirk* but you guys did hang out for quite a while, and were actually pretty positive about getting to know more about jrock. might we have converted some of you to the jrock craze? *grin* the rest of you, even if you only stayed in the room cuz you had nowhere to go (*cough cough* those guys who came around 5am cuz they were locked out of their hotel rooms...) it was nice to have some company, so thanx anyway for dropping by *smirk*
  
  
• the guy who won our pin the hair on jrocker game, can't remember his name now but he was the anime north hentai coordinator, wow, you really deserved that prize, even if you don't like pocky *smirk* particularly b/c you kinda got dragged into the game cuz we needed more players and you had nothing else to do... *smirk* and cat too, who came all the way from puerto rico i think? and won the hidden meat hunt, you had some pretty creative reasoning for your answers *grin* thanx both of you for sharing your pocky prizes! *grin* and also isis and camille, our only other participants for the hidden meat game *sweatdrop*, that little u+k performance was damn entertaining on a really boring sunday *grin* hope you like your little super chippendale thong gackt *grin*
  
  
• dan, who will now forever be known as mr. au revoir gackt *smirk* thanx for coming in and posing for us *grin* you do know that you have about a billion fangirls now, don't you? *grin* it's too bad that one pic i got of you w/ the au revoir pv in the background didn't turn out too well... stupid low-res projector... but that's ok. i kept on running into you all over the place too, specially on my way to the elevators, should have been smart enough to try and get more pics of you *smirk* but me always forgetting my stupid camera... blah... just one word: '...MAGNUM' *grin* man, i thought kisa was gonna die when you did that in the green room before the masquerade *smirk*
  
  
• to Psydoll for performing, the concert was soooo good! ^^ despite all the stupid sound problems, the songs sounded so good... i really like that vampire song, i've never heard it before... but i especially loved machinery lemmings, that was the best, me and sharon were singing along the whole time *grin* i felt kinda dumb though when we started doing that fan hand gesture thing... but it was all good *grin*
  
  
• to the whole AN concom, 'specially Eileen, Norm, Dave, Tamara, and also the guys in the con office who kept finding my staff badge for me *sweatdrop* and put up w/ our power ranger mecha movie on sunday night (eheh... *wry grin*) thanx for giving the jrock room a place at AN, and also for bringing Psydoll here to perform *grin* we had a great time doing the jrock room this year, and hopefully we'll be able to bring it back for AN2K3 and make it even better.
  
  
• and last but definitely not least, a personal thanx to my partners in crime, the other jrock room organizers, sharon, gui and kisa, i love you guys *big grin* we worked so hard, endured a lot of stress, and even pulled through a few really frictiony tough spots here and there, but we ended up pulling off a great room, and a pretty... entertaining skit for the masquerade too *smirk* it was great working with you guys this year, hopefully we can all get together again next year and make the jrock room the best theme room at the con! *smirk*... well... being generally the only all-weekend theme room... our little jrock minicon in itself... it won't be too hard to do... and if anything... we'll still have a blast even if no one else does *grin*

thanx again to everyone else i forgot to mention, and again to everyone who came by, the jrock room would not have been possible w/o all of you, i luv you guys *grin* also to all the cosplayers i took pics of, and all the ones i didn't but really wished i had, you guys were amazing! hopefully next year i won't be such a chickenshit and i'll get up the guts to finally get your pics *grin* to everyone else, fr/ the security gophers to the masquerade bunny girls to the ppl selling the bubble tea (which i regretfully never got to try), keep up the good work, you made AN pretty damn good this year, and see you all at AN2K3!