I find myself in the peculiar position of wondering if I should or should not attend Texas Furry Fiesta, despite it basically being in the same city as I am.

I tend to go to conventions as a sort of 50/50 mix of business and socializing, where I get a dealer's table, I sell some stuff and do art for people, and use the table as a centralized location where people can find me and I have a place to sit. Selling the art and books doesn't make a *huge* pile of money but it pays for the table and convention fees and usually pays for the food and such, so I can take people out to dinner.

However, for the first time ever, this year it looks like I didn't make it into the Dealer's Den - I'm wait-listed, but I haven't heard anything beyond that, so at this point I kinda have to assume that I didn't get in.

I honestly don't do anything else at conventions, particularly now: I don't fursuit, I don't game, I'm disinclined to spend a lot of time watching videos and movies, I'm not really a writer so I don't go to writing SIGs, I most certainly don't dance. I generally don't buy much in the dealer's room, myself (particularly while I'm saving money for a house), and I really don't do the room-hopping-room-party thing. I just chill, draw, socialize and sell my wares.

I realize there's the option of the "Artist's Alley", but to be brutally frank, every Artist's Alley *I* have ever seen at a con tends to have a very "Kid's Table" feel to it, very noisy and disorganized and unprofessional (in terms of the general participants, not the convention's setup).

So I really don't know at this point: I love seeing everybody at the convention, it's pretty much *why* I go to conventions. But I really just can't see myself spending days aimlessly wandering the halls of a hotel/convention center.

-Wolf