Okay so! Let me break this down for you

WEDNESDAY

The day before my flight I was packing ALL DAY (except for working on Friday's comic). Since I was leaving on Delta I needed to minimize my luggage, but it still ended up that my two suitcases were each forty pounds. As it would later turn out, I massively overpacked. If you were at my table, you saw the sign that I had; it was only laminated that night.

My business cards had arrived JUST IN TIME and thank goodness because they were really cool and I ended up giving a bunch away.

THURSDAY

My first flight left 20 minutes late, which sucked because my connecting airport was Atlanta (flight crew was held up by their driver who had overslept). In that one you have to ride a subway to get anywhere, and I'd gotten to my connecting flight with like five minutes to spare. I was surprised that, it being a Delta flight, I still got a full package of pretzels. I don't think there were any furs on the plane because it was still rather early.

Anyway, I managed to lug everything through the airport to the bus station and eventually the hotel without anything being snatched off me (this is a perpetual fear of mine in big cities). So, when I got there I noticed that all the hotel staff were already wearing the pins I designed (uploading later!) which was neat. I had to wait around in the lobby for a while; at the time I was still nervous because it had felt like the other conventions I had gone to where I didn't quite belong, up until  Takaza showed up and gave me my room keys, then I felt a little better.

I felt a LOT better when I saw the gift basket the staff had given me; including lots of sodas, snacks, and what was most awesome was the new cashbox that was much, much better than the one I had brought.

So, I had previously ordered the books to arrive at the hotel and they had come without any problems, especially considering the misprint in book 2 had been fixed. Whew! I had like 70 copies of book 1 and 90 of book 2.

Anyway, I had the GOH dinner at about 6:30 that night and it lasted a very long time; I don't recall exactly who all was there, but I think there were six members of the staff, and also  thornwolf and  skorzy and it was really nice despite the fact that I felt so shy and didn't end up talking a lot.

Later that night my roommate Sleet showed up (I don't think he has an FA and it's not the one who has that name); I had not planned on having a roommate but the one who was planning on hosting him had to bail at the last moment and I really didn't want his time there to suck, so I let him stay over. So, I was all ready for the con when it started the following day!

FRIDAY

Then I totally sucked and missed the Opening Ceremonies. I'm sorry guys! But Sleet and I were going to have breakfast and we missed it at the O'H, so we looked at the restaurant guide and figured the super nearby Pancakes Eggcetera was close enough to walk to--and it was, but it took like a half hour. Gah. This would come back to bite me again later. (However, I had their Eggs Benedict with corned beef hash, and it was the BEST EGGS BENEDICT EVER, seriously try it)

So, I was back afterwards for opening of the Dealer's Den where I was seated between  astolpho and  thornwolf and I was like completely swamped immediately by people wanting to buy my books. Holy crap.

I'll need to get to this later! Check back for part 2!