I just got home from FAU 6, and I'm freakin wiped. I guess I'll do one of those con-wrap up journals that people do since this is the only con I ever get to go to >.>

Pre-Con
Good: Had a pretty good overall time with the guys before the con began. Since this was the 2nd year in a row my family (except my grandma) went on vacation during the FAU week, I had the house almost completely to myself, and I could have some of the guys over a few days before the con began. came on Saturday, and came on Sunday, and , and came on Wednesday. We went over to the hotel on Thursday.
Good: Roop and I went with , , and to the NJ State Fair and had a pretty awesome time.
Bad: Canas sucks at directions. Probably spent ~1.5 hours more than he needed to because he felt like going to the right address... in the wrong town. Way to go >.>
Ugly: I kiiinda felt like a single father taking care of 7 kids for a lot of the con and especially before it when we were all at my house. Canas and Keith have preeetty loud mouths, and I'm pretty sure my grandma heard a lot of what was going on from where she lives downstairs >.> I also spent way too much time cleaning, deciding how/what we were gunna eat, organizing what we were gunna do, etc.
WTF: See this journal

Hotel and hanging out
Good: Our room was definitely an upgrade from last year. With 8 of us in 1 room, we wouldn't have been able to survive in one of their regular rooms like last year, and luckily the father of one of the guys in our group is a Platinum member of Mariott so we could stay in a suite at only $81 per person for the duration of the con (Thursday - Monday (4 nights) among 8 people).
Bad: Similar to my opinion of it last year, I'm not really a huge fan of the hotel. The road it's on it not a fun one to drive on, the cleaning ladies take their suite-ass time to get to our room (and occassionally don't even show), and the layout is kind of all over the place. The Conceirge Room also kinda sucked (first world problems, I know... stfu >.>), so I didn't feel bad at all when we raided it for snacks and drinks any time we had the chance. Overall, it's not a terrible hotel, but I've seen better in Jersey.
Bad: For some reason, I had a hard time really... getting into it this year. I don't suit or anything, but I have a couple outfits I usually wear when I'm at cons, and I wasn't as thrilled to be wearing them this year. I also didn't wear my tail aside from Friday even though I love the thing.
Ugly: There was a lot more downtime this year than most cons I've been to. Some of it was spent well playing Clue (which Roop and I destroyed everyone else at), Cards Against Humanity, and Fluxx, but there was too much time spent with everyone on their DSes and computers just doing things off by themselves. Note to self for next year: bring more shit to do for downtime.
WTF: "In its new tourism campaign, Detroit proudly proclaims that it has finally eliminated a black male in his early 20s, last seen wearing a hoodie." "Having trouble with making a friend? Try dying." God damn Cards Against Humanity...
WTF: Pretty much the only people we knew who was staying at the con besides Jyaki and Kith were  blondevelvet,  flixard and  leshana. By some crazy miracle, not only was their room next to ours... Our rooms were those kind that are connected by a doorway, so we could go back and forth pretty easily. Spent a lot of time, and had a lot of fun hanging out with those guys =3 They and the ~11 person group we had helped finish 8 bottles of liquor (though most of them were at least partly started already).

Panels and the con itself:
Good: The con flowed pretty well in that it seems like not a whole lot went wrong logistically. Registration and other tech stuff involved with the con all actually worked, the pool party they had which I thought would end up being crazy packed was actually nicely spaced and fun. There was also a decent amount of entertaining panels, though some of them I didn't get to go to cuz of timing or lack of interest from the rest of the group (and me not wanting to go alone).
Good: The con raised over $10,000 for the NJSPCA among not even 700 attendees. That's an insane number, and I'm stoked to be apart of it. It's awesome how we destroy our goal every year, and I can't wait to see what we can do next year.
Bad: Some of the panels could have been better dispersed. It seemed like all the interesting ones were jammed into Friday, the only 2 things I was interested in on Saturday was on the same time, and Sunday didn't really have anything interesting to me. I know they can't try to schedule panels based on assumed appeal since that would be offensive to some of the panelists, but stuff such as putting the pool party during a panel probably wasn't the best idea.
Ugly: There was a bridal party at the hotel on Friday, and one of my friends overheard someone say "I can't believe we have to share the hotel with these fuckers" or something like that when she was leaving for the night, referring to the furries obviously. Then later that night a group of them were drunk and being loud down in the lobby, so the hotel staff told them to quiet down. They thought it would be a good idea to pull the fire alarm twice... at 3-4am... No furries were involved, thankfully.
WTF: So I entered the poker tournament that FAU held this year (their first one), and I did better than I thought I would. Spent $50 for charity, and walked away with 2nd place and a Super-Sponsorship for FAU next year. Kinda bummed I didn't win, but I didn't have the chips or the cards to really play the way I would've wanted when it got down to the final 2 of us, and 2nd is obviously still awesome. Props to Roop and Jet for playing well, Canas for snagging 3rd place and a free Sponsorship for next year, and to  solus (pretty sure that's him >.>) for winning it all. I'm absolutely gunna do it next year if they do it again.

So yeah... overally probably one of the most up-and-down cons I've been to. It had some really fun moments and some really bleh/boring ones, but overall I'd say I had fun. Can't wait for next year. Now then... I have 989 submissions in my inbox to go through. Kinda hoped I would make it to 1000 since my inbox has never been that full, but I guess this will do for now <.< Considering what took place in the past week or so, I'm sure it will be full of mega-Pokemon and fat bunnies >.>