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Paper weighs a lot. I rediscover this every time I pack my sketchbook bag.

I am not looking forward to the walk between the "cheap" (for some Philadelphia value of cheap) garage and the hotel. The luggage has wheels (as opposed to The Luggage, which has feet), but I still have the book bag and my laptop briefcase (and if I weren't the sort to do the fanny pack deal for cons I'd have a purse too).

And I loathe Philadelphia. And this year we're actually in the middle of the foul beast rather than skirting the fringes. The City of Brotherly Love makes me wish I was licensed to carry concealed (or to carry period). I fully plan on not leaving the hotel except for going from car to hotel and hotel back to car at the beginning and end of the con. I might consider leaving for a meal or two, if going in a fairly large group that I can somehow keep toward the middle of rather than traveling at the edge of the herd. Philadelphia makes me feel like a prey animal and I don't like it.

Oh yeah, I was going to post art in this one. I almost forgot. Those legs I drew so long ago got a torso and arms and stuff.

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Dammit. I need to get to sleep so I can get up at Oh God o' Clock in the morning for my drive to Philadelphia (whee, a twelve hour drive) and I can't find one of the cats. She's probably just under my bed or something but I did have the Mystery Room (the one full of boxes and neat smelling stuff, but also the lair of the Cat Eating Machine) open earlier and she might have braved the CEM to explore. I've checked that room twice, but until the cat is at the door or on top of stuff that means diddly squat.

10pm update: Found her. Under my bed. Most of the space is taken up by banker's boxes full of books and a rather large bin of sweaters but there's a space in the back over the heat vent. It makes a good den apparently. Of course my looking for Patches has her sister worked up into a high speed frenzy so she's practically bouncing off the walls in here now. It could just be Shadow's normal Nightly High Speed Obstacle Course Run though.

I know as soon as I actually get them out of my room and shut the door to sleep that Patches is going to wail like one of the Damned. She was doing that this morning about an hour after hafoc left. The food is in The Humans are Going Away configuration and she is Not Happy about it.