d*con prep!

ACK! I am so not ready. I have 12 hours to get ready for DragonCon. I'm planning on getting to bed early since I have to be up at 4am to get ready to leave for the airport. *headdesk*

Things left to do:

+ charge all electronics
+ laundry
+ pack
+ go to the post office
+ stop at queenmaab's
+ sign and bag artwork

head esplode?

omg drama

Have done: laundry, various packing, not much else....

Coming back from errands, I picked up the mail... and found a letter notifying me of an overdraft charge. What. The. Frak. I have never had an overdraft on my account in the 10+ years I've had it and there's no way it's possible with me keeping such a high balance in it.

So I got back in my car and drove -- fuming -- to the bank. I get there and the useless teller who I went to to make my large deposit previously was there, looking as vacant as ever. I meet with one of their account managers who didn't understand that my issue is not with the hold on the large deposit (I mean, yes, obviously you have to wait for the check to clear), but that suddenly after this deposit my account, according to this letter, is showing a balance of -$3,000. WHAT. THE. HELL. So a $40 charge at the grocery earned me a $34 overdraft fee. It took her 15 minutes of poking at her computer to finally call over the bank manager.

Bank manager comes over, looks at it, and says clearly this is dumb and wrong and directs the first woman to refund me the overdraft charge. \o/

And it's in my account already. HUZZAH.

Srsly. If I had to explain it again, I would have had a nervous breakdown. I was trying really hard not to be that screaming, pissed off customer. Now that I look on my online account again, it does show the overdraft charge, but at no point does it show my balance in the negative! *keyboardsmash*

d*con!

Okay. I'm pretty much all packed. I will undoubtedly discover that I have missed something in the rush. Oh well. I'm sure I have all the important things... like clothes. And money. And plane tickets.

alorarose, Pano & co, Joel, and a bunch of others are already there... and have already texted me saying so. I almost feel like I'm missing out on the party, you guys!!

No matter. In 12 hours I will be standing in that painfully long pre-reg line after shuttling in to the Hyatt and dumping my stuff in the room. My plan sometime after that is to hit the Walk of Fame, hoping that most of the guests are there so I can get the autograph stuff over with pretty immediately and then just spend the rest of the weekend doing whatever!

I am going to be so tech-ed out at this con. Two cameras (semi-pro 10x zoom & pocket), a DS, and an MP3 player. It's unlikely I'll get full use out of everything, but if I don't bring it, I know I'll miss it and then you factor in any odd pockets of down time that I know must happen, even at DragonCon!

Right. Bed. Have to get up at like... 3am -_-;

Tweets from DragonCon!

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