So we have made it down to Baltimore, and were able to check in, park, and eat.  All of these things were done by around 7:00, leaving what I thought would be plenty of time for us to get our badges, and then for friend to finish the detailing on my shirt.

Cue it being midnight, and we are still waiting in line after officially getting in it at 7:20, without badges.  We are then informed that it is because shit crashed, and nothing else will be able to happen tonight.  Luckily, we were able to get passes allowing us to jump the line at any time tomorrow, but it is still bothersome that we don't have our stuff now even after waiting for over four hours.

They tried to do something different, and in doing that they fucked everything up.  I have never waited this long for my badge; I think the longest I ever waited was the first year I went, and that was when I had to wait on Friday.  Every other year has been really quick on Thursday, so I have no idea what they did wrong and why.

Hopefully tomorrow everything will run smoothly, though I am disappointed that I won't be able to just get my costume on and go.  Though I suppose I could always wait.  I was never a person that had to get up immediately and go to early panels or anything.  Truthfully I could wait until noon if I really wanted.  It depends.  Maybe I'll just go without costume in the morning and put it on starting in the evening.

We shall see.

Also a friend from undergrad (not the one here in Baltimore at the moment) messaged me asking if I would room with him for another person from undergrad's wedding and I could tell he felt really bad when I told him that I wasn't invited.  I tried to reassure him, saying that the groom and I were never very close (in fact, I actively disliked him for a time because he fucked over college roommate and I always thought he was unnecessarily arrogant and obnoxious).  He then was jealous when he realized I was in Baltimore for Ota; I told him he should think about coming one year and that he would always be welcome in our room.