Can you change me to definitely coming to the marathon? My advisor is pretty chill with time off as long as work gets done. Taking the week for Mikefest is no problem. MAGFest is another question, still. I don't know if I would find enough stuff to do there to merit staying for the extra week, or if I'll even have the time off for it.
I want to say something about MAGFest and housing.
I will try to get housing until the day before MAGFest, however, once MAGFest starts, it's not worth paying for the house because there will be less people. We'll all have to roomshare.
I'm frothing at the mouth to go, I could even pay for myself. But I doubt I could convince my parents to let me go alone to the other end of the country. Stupid being 14.
My attendance is going to depend on how much things end up costing. Probably just going to end up being marathon only, but I will attempt to budget for staying through MAGfest. Mark me down as likely for the former.
I'll probably have a better update in a few months, but hopefully I'll know sooner, since where I work is making the temp workers "Temporary Permanent" on a tenure of 18 months. So we get all the benefits of the normal employees.
With that said, by the time January rolls around, I will most likely have vacation/PTO time to use. There's a chance I'll be able to do both this and MAGfest, but for now let's just hope I can use my time off to come on Thursday, instead of Friday for Mikefest by then.
I can't say the food situation isn't a bit disappointing, but everything else sounds great. And if cold beverages are allowed, I have to imagine everything would turn out completely fine Anybody who was cleaning up Mountain Dew cans last year after the marathon would probably come to the same conclusion.