Hostel experiment was successful, in that it disproved a hypothesis

I'm posting from home on Saturday night; I'll be going back to Boskone in the morning, but I'm sleeping here tonight. Our plan had been to stay at the youth hostel on Hemminway St, three blocks from the con, and that's where Lis is staying tonight; I'm not.

See, we wanted to demonstrate that I could stay at a youth hostel, because they're cheap. And if I could stay at youth hostels, we could potentially travel more, which would be a good outcome for Lis. So I got my hostelling card, and we tried it.

Lis had no real trouble sleeping last night. Me, however -- I count last night as among the most horrific nights of my life.
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