Wiscon Day 2 - Report 5

After the opening ceremonies, I went back to the room and found a classmate! Hereafter referred to as K1, she and I were sharing the room. She gave me this awesome gift, as a few other people have blogged about (see if you can find them!). It's a notebook she made herself and it has a Japanese theme. I haven't downloaded any of my pics yet, and I won't promise pics, because I'm bad about that. But I may later post a pic. :)

My night was winding down, but first, a panel!

( Not Just Japan )

There were a few panels in the next timeslot, but none appealed to me enough to attend. I made my first visit to the consuite instead. I was amazed. I'd heard good things about the consuite.. free food, really? Here's some of what they had: Veggies and dip, fruit, crackers and cheese, pizza, hot dogs, popcorn, soda. Other stuff too, but of less appeal to me.. like tea or coffee or whatever, and candy doesn't count as real food. I would've gone for pizza, but it looked like their default was pepperoni. There was a sign that if you wanted cheese, you had to ask for it and wait up to 20 minutes for it to be cooked. Why is it only me that thinks cheese should always be the default?

It wasn't clear in the consuite itself that they had veggie hot dogs, but they did. They were SmartDogs, which may have also been vegan and/or gluten free, but I dunno. SmartDogs aren't my choice of veggie hot dog, but they're better than Tofu Pups. Their main drawback is they're small, so the bun dwarfs them. The buns seemed to be all white too. Cheaper, perhaps, but not health-conscious!

I never did try any popcorn. A shame. The soda was in real soda machines, which is great. I don't know why it always tastes better from one of those things.

Then I went back to the room for sleep! This was probably around 10:15-10:30. I could've looked in at the parties, but I think exhaustion won out.