I've survived my first convention.
The experience may be summed up as:
Cold, cold, cold, warm, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, incoherent exploration, Metal Slug, Guilty Gear, Melty Blood, Metal Slug, Machinae Supremacy, Ghost in the Shell, expensive bus trip, insufficient sleep, expensive bus trip, karaoke for some reason, Metal Slug, Guilty Gear, Tekken, Melty Blood, EVANGELION, some freak with a computer holding a dissonant one-man concert, some inexplicable girls' love thing, Kara no Kyoukai, Kara no Kyoukai, Kara no Kyoukai, KARA NO KYOUKAI, expensive bus trip, cold, cirka fifteen minutes of sleep, expensive bus trip, pommes frites for brunch, Melt