Quick Arisia report

This year's Arisia was one of the best organized conventions I've ever been to, and the con staff were friendly and efficient. However the downsides of the new hotel were considerable--among them the wholly inadequate elevator system, and the lack of event space on lower floors which meant the dealer's room and art show were both located at the top of the hotel.

I rapidly became accustomed to walking up and down the stairs to my hotel room on the 7th floor. However, with the dealer's room on the 14th floor, I only visited it twice during the weekend. Many congoers never made it to the dealer's room since they didn't feel like hiking up the stairs, nor braving the endless wait for an elevator.

Pros were thin on the ground, in contrast to the previous Arisias I'd attended, but I did see several friends. Sadly I missed seeing some folks I knew were there, but just didn't run into. I'd been sick earlier in the week and was still crashing early each night, missing the parties.

The long drive was enlivened by the company of jpsorrow and jennifer_dunne, who tried unsuccessfully to break me of my new verbal tick of inserting "In accordance with the prophecy" at random points during any conversation.

And now it's back to the salt mine. I'll be checking in later this week with a wordcount.