Phoenix Rising con

For the first time since I joined fandom, I'm tempted to go to a con (or actually, I'm almost always tempted during the con itself, when my friends, and other people I'd love to meet, are posting lovely stories and pics, but this is the first time I've ever been tempted in advance). And because I'm currently out of work and am not quite sure what my situation will be next spring, I'm sort of planning this far in advance, so I can make room in my life and save the money and so on.

I admit, one of the reasons I want to go to this one is that I haven't seen my ex-city in person since Katrina hit. But I also just want to meet up with people, maybe have the livejournal sleepover I proposed a long time ago. Is there anyone on my friendslist who's planning on going, or even interested?