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Because, see, the hostel I had booked our rooms at emailed me this morning, saying, and I quote: I am writing this message to let you know that we have zero beds available between the 24th and the 28th of July (Comic Con). I do not understand how these reservations were allowed to go through hosteltimes.com. We have been sold out of beds for those days since early April and our allocations have been closed to reflect that the entire time. Your reservations are not confirmed, please work with hosteltimes to make alternate arrangements

And I was like HOLY SHIT and my head nearly exploded, and I wrote them this email in return: On July 13th I booked a room for July 27th-29th because your website claimed that you had available rooms for those dates. This morning I got an email from Nicolas Johnson, manager, saying, [same quote as above.]

What I would like to know, then, is what the hell, exactly, I should do now. I bought my non-refundable plane ticket based on the fact that your website had said that you did have available spaces for those days, and by the fact that I was able to BOOK them. I have proof in my printed out booking confirmation, and
that you did take a downpayment for the rooms out of my account. I can also send you the confirmation email, if need be. If you are unable to do anything about this, I want a full refund of all money spent, and
compensation in the form of another place to stay because, as I said, I booked my flight around the fact that YOU claimed you had available rooms. And no, I am not willing to come another date, as those were the days I specifically wanted.

I used a little swear and everything! Needless to say, I was a little more than pissed. And I hemmed and hawed all night at work wondering what in the hell we were going to do. But then it was confirmed that tinted_glass is the most AWESOMEST PERSON ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET because she's letting us crash at her place! Seriously, so amazing. Because logicandchaos and I were just about ready to somehow surreptitiously sleep around the airport and wash our HAIR in the SINKS and stuff. Which I would still do, if it came down to it. Like Tom Hanks in the Terminal! Dude.

So yes, all is well, at least for the time being. I'm sure there'll be more hiccups down the road, but I seriously don't care right now. THANK YOU SO MUCH, BABEH. <333333333333

Things That Are Also Awesome:

ack_attack's Potter Manip challenge. Oh my GOD, this one made me laugh so hard I had JEARS TEARS running down my face. SEE, THIS SHOULD BE DONE WITH SPN. But I am not as well known on teh internets to create such mass lulz. All the crazy-ass stuff that would be done. Oh man.

This HP/SPN crossover. Dude. I normally loathe crossovers with a passion (except, um, with Transformers) but this made me do clappy hands of glee! DEAN IS A HUFFLEPUFF.

And finally, okay, so, I may have lied about the crossover thing, because this is utter BRILLIANCE and is definite happy making, and goes along with this, which is also amazing.

AND, OH GUYS. I JUST HAD A THOUGHT. What if Gaiman and Kripke cross paths at the Con? THEY NEED TO BE BFF, OKAY. Because Neil needs like burning to write an episode of Supernatural, because I'd probably die of utter GLEE. Why hasn't this happened yet!