248 days until departure

UPDATED to reflect actual math rather than pretend math.

That's what my airline told me when I was checking my flight information for World Fantasy. I was talking to...drumroll...Mark Teppo while he was trying get flights to Wiscon. Then we were comparing WFC flights, etc.

248 days. That sounds like a long ways off. Do I really have to wait that long? But that's just a little more than six months, which seems really soon. Of course, it's actually more like eight months, not six. Math is not my strong suit.

The event of the year/the hub around which my spec fic year turns. We're as far away from it as we can get. Who's going?