My first... I don't remember what year I went to ConneXions, but it was probably 1999 or 2000 since I went with two due South friends and the lot of the panels were about old school through-the-mail fanzine fans giving internet fans the stink eye. ("Back in my day, we had to wait for the mail to come! None of this 'Turn on the computer daily and the porn just arrives' thing! Internet fen are lazy and unworthy.") Plus, at one point one of the volunteers said we didn't look like fans in a rather negative way. Thus, we three spent a lot of time at the local mall and just attended what interested us.

My last one was my favorite, Escapade 2002. Met so many people IRL for the first time! I also got a very flattering moment of somebody seriously fangirling my writing. Since then work got in the way, then my brain surgery and its aftermath, and since then it's been a money issue.