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Miles to go before I sleep…

Celebrating all the nomads out there.

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Miles to go before I sleep...

Celebrating all the nomads out there. 

Win a $100 Marriott Gift Card from MilesCop.com.

-You are in the food court going to the Hilton. You take the sky bridge. You are in the Marriott. You take the other sky bridge. You are in the Hyatt. You take the sky bridge. You are in the food court.

-You are in a Very Serious Panel discussing First Amendment Law. You hear Gangnam Style through the wall.

-You hear a woman scream. She runs. She hugs Darth Vader. She is fine.

-You hear a woman scream. The escalator is eating her ballgown. It tears. The Addams Family comes to her rescue. Supergirl mends the gown. She is fine.

-You hear a man scream. His dragonhide stiletto has gone through the grate in the broken Atlanta pavement. He falls. Six anime characters and a Harley Quinn come to his rescue. He...will be fine tomorrow.

-A mother is dressed as Misty from Pokémon. Her baby is a Togapi strapped to her front.

-A mother is dressed as Misty from Pokémon. Her children are the Pikachu evolutionary line.

-A mother is dressed as Misty from Pokémon. Her baby is a Magikarp. Years later you see a young Gyarados. You remember the baby. You wonder.

-There is an hour wait at the Hardrock. You go to the food court instead. It takes an hour to find a table.

-You are in the overflow seating for the food court. It used to be a Mexican restaurant. You look at the broken floor, the missing ceiling tiles, the shelf hanging crooked on the wall by one last screw. It has not changed since last year, or the year before, or the year before that.... You wonder why nothing new has used the space. You wonder where you would sit if anything ever did.

-There is...a character. You’ve seen it twenty times today. You have no idea what it’s from. You are scared to ask.

-There is a character. You have never seen it before. You tell the cosplayer they look great and ask what they are. They excitedly tell you the life story of this fictional person. They finish then hurry to catch back up with their friends. They never told you what it’s from.

-There is a wolf in the Marriott. An actual wolf. It is a service dog. You want to pet it. You spend the next half hour helping prevent drunk pikachus and storm troopers from petting the wolf.

-You are on MARTA with Spider-Man.

-You are on MARTA in cosplay. The train is full of sports fans. You feel the way they look at you, like you are a freak, like their jersey and face paint is any different from your costume. You all exit at peachtree station. The platform is full of Sailor Scouts and Doctors Who. The sports fans realize they are outnumbered. Some of them are afraid. Some of them will be dressed as the joker next year.

-Someone is crying in the bathroom. They just want to get their contacts out.

-Someone is crying in the bathroom. They were too far back in line, the room filled, they didn’t get to see David Tennant.

-Someone cries for help in the bathroom. It’s a variation of Spider-Man you have never seen before. She can’t unzip her suit. You help her. She is drunk and swears she will see you again next year and buy you a drink. You see her next year. She gives you a glow stick.

-There is a woman in a Marriott Carpet dress. There is a Sailor Marriott with the Carpet pattern on their fuku. The Marriott Flying Carpets quidditch team has the pattern on their robes. There is a car painted like the Carpet. There is a vendor selling Cult of the Carpet merch. The Carpet is copyrighted. You hear there is a lawsuit. The Marriott hasn’t had that carpet in years. You’ve been walking through the Marriott all day. You have no idea what the carpet looks like now.

-There is a character. You’ve seen it twelve times today. You have no idea what it’s from. You see it for a thirteenth time alongside another character from the same thing. You know both characters. You know the entire life story of the character you’ve seen thirteen times.

-You want to go to a panel. You find five simultaneous panels. You narrow it down to two. You go to neither of them.

-You want to go to a panel. You find five simultaneous panels. You narrow it down to two. You go to a sixth because it is in the hotel you’re already in.

-You want to go to the burlesque. You meant to go to the burlesque last year. They move the burlesque. Everyone gets there before you. You do not go to the burlesque this year. Maybe you will next year.

-You are in the Dealer’s Room. You want to buy a sword. A vender hands you a D-20 die made of gemstone. You roll it. You nat 20. You spend $100 on stone dice. You do not buy a sword.

-There are hundreds of men in kilts. This is normal. A woman chases them with a leaf blower. This is normal. You would worry if she weren’t there.

-There is an ambulance outside the Sheraton. You hope everyone is okay. You think there was an ambulance here last year. You can’t remember.

-You are in the Walk of Fame. You meet your hero. They are the sweetest person you have ever met.

-You are in the Walk of Fame. You meet your hero. They’re a creep.

-You are in the Walk of Fame. There is almost no line for George Takei. You do not understand why. You talk to him. He is the sweetest person you have ever met.

-There are hateful protesters outside the food court. No one can hear them. Darth Vader is playing bagpipes.

-You wall past a woman wearing a censor bar and pants. You walk past her again After Dark. She is no longer wearing a censor bar. Or pants.

-You are at the Yule Ball. It is a fun, family party. The Golden Trio run by in their Hogwarts robes. They are too young to go to Hogwarts.

-You are at the Yule Ball. It has just hit eleven o’clock. The children are escorted out. The lights go down. A belly dancing elf pulls out a flask. You don’t know from where.

-You are at the Yule Ball. Batman is on a date with Sailor Moon. He asks if he can kiss her. She says no. He leaves. She dances with the elf, then with Madam Hooch.

-You are at a panel. Someone has the mic. There is feedback. The sound guy tries to fix it. There is still feedback. The sound guy tries again. There is still feedback. There is always feedback. No one blames the sound guy.

-You need an elevator to go down. An elevator arrives. It is going up. You get on. You go up fourteen floors then go down. You clutch the handrail in the zero gravity.

Here are some few pictures I left out during the educational tour that I just recently saw on my hard drive❣️

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