Comic Con is still in the works
Despite the fact that I missed out on purchasing a 4-day pass AND a Saturday 1-day pass, as of right now the trip to San Diego is still on. I called the hotel and was able to change my stay to arrive on Wednesday, instead of Thursday, so that in the event that I only attend the show Thursday and Friday I will at least be able to maximize my time there.
Of course there’s also a chance that I will cave and try to score a better-than-wretched deal for a 4-day pass on eBay. Unless someone out there has an extra 4-day pass and wants to share it with me…?
We’ll probably fly home (or maybe drive? that’s still up in the air) on Sunday instead of Tuesday, which will cut things short but we’ll save the cost of a night’s hotel stay. And we’ll have to miss the Padres game and potentially Sea World. But I’m sure we do both of those things another time when hotels won’t be quite so expensive and perhaps we’ll even have a better idea of other things around San Diego we’d like see or do.
One thing is clear: that this is a trip for Comic Con. Given the ticket snags and the potential Spending of More Money That Could Have Been Avoided, Ben is now asking another question that’s hard for me to answer with a solid, objective line of reasoning:
Why is it so important that you go this year?
Well, considering my line of reasoning for why I need to go to Comic Con in the first place, it’s no wonder that this is another difficult question for me to answer. I’ve already put it off twice for various reasons since we moved to Utah, which is within driving distance to California, and I’m scared that if I put it off again this year that something else will come up next year and I’ll never get to go at all.
This last winter, I made the decision to stop floating along in life and to figure out what it is that I want to do so that I could start enjoying life more and regretting less. One of the things that I want to do is to simply get more out of life, which means taking a few more risks (hmm, like freelance writing) and doing/experiencing things that I’ve been putting off for no good reason (like volunteering at the Sundance Film Festival).
I want to go to Comic Con this year because I have no idea where I will be in my life at this point next year. I have the time now, but the main barrier is the cost. But do I expect to do this every year? Not unless somebody else pays for me to go. Do I think that the experience will be worth every penny? Most definitely.
Now it’s just a matter of making it happen.
