Hi pals,

well, I had a good journey to Magdeburg yesterday, only missed one train, and now am deep among the furry crowds of EF. That's also what was my first impression: There are too many people, social overload for me, so to speak. Which leads to my main problem that I don't know anybody and am too shy to speak, and with the awkward expressions on my face and my stiff movement, I am definitely not whom one would talk to. I always thought I wasn't impaired so much, but watching people made me realise how grave my deficiencies are.

Other things that bug me:
- Why can't hotel managers imagine that there are people who don't use the lift? Once again, in the hotel where I reside (not the Maritim), the staircase is only designed for fire emergency (and you can see that by the dirt) and the doors can't be opened from its side, meaning that I'd always have to ask at the counter that someone unlock them for me. Thankfully, the staircase is so badly looked after that the doors are jamming, such that the mechanism won't shut them completely and I can leave them open for a gap.
- The events usually go like this: I'm waiting with a crowd in front of the door. Once they let everybody in, I let the others pass because I can't bear being squeezed in a queue. When I finally enter, the seats are all taken and I get to stand where I can't see anything at all. Just now, I wanted to listen to "Your first furry convention" and had to leave because it became so full, one couldn't even put a foot through the door.

So all in all, I like to watch all these fursuiters, but otherwise I don't really enjoy it. Though I can't believe I even got one hug for donating money, that was nice. Yesterday I went to my room at 9 pm because, and I am grieved to say that, even programming and tedious debugging is more pleasure than being the lonely one among happy attendants.

I will present Faunis on Saturday. Added two more areas, fixed some bugs, made the robots work again. Maybe then my time will come.
:o(