...you make convention plans with a friend but they forget to include you in theirs.

So space in a room that I thought I had reserved has been given to someone else, and now I am looking for people who have one, preferably two spaces open for room sharing. I was looking to do some severe cost-cutting anyways as I wanted to try going god-level for this con, and will be flying down. Given how the whole hotel was apparently privately booked for con staff, I'm not holding my breath that I will be able to find any openings, but I'm putting this up here anyway because you never know.

My other friend and I are looking into cheap hotels several miles out from the convention. I'm not sure I want to do that because traffic in Chicago guarantees that you either won't be on time and/or will have exorbitant taxi fares.

Again, not holding my breath. At this point I am pretty much writing off attending MFF this year and going to FangCon instead, since I have multiple avenues towards getting into that one.