Same here. I’ve already put in for two weeks’ vacation so I can get leveled up to 80 as fast as possible on my raiding character. I R nerd. But I R happy nerd. 
I will actually welcome a bit of experience grind. I’m sick of the MH/BT/Sunwell grind.
Me too. Well, not Sunwell (our guild is still working on Kalecgos), but I’m definitely sick of MH and everything up to Council and Illidan in BT (which are still fun, especially Illy).
winterhawk11, did you score tickets? Quite a lot of the officers in our guild had plans to meet up at Blizzcon, but were stymied by the horrendous ticket process.
Today Mike Morhaime posted an apology from Blizzard on worldofwarcraft.com with an explanation that they are going to make 3000 “more” tickets available via lottery. (I think they were holding back these tickets with the intention of making them available in a few weeks anyway, and decided to make nice by throwing them out here now.) People were going insane on the official forums. One person posted that they had made a fraud complaint to the California AG over holds placed on the credit card that didn’t result in ticket sales or something like that.
Follow-up: After four more failed attempts to upgrade using their Web site Monday, I started calling every hour or so, and it was straight busy signals. I repeated on Tuesday (still busy every time), and finally switched to dial/redial/redial/redial for 20 minutes until I happened to get through. The recording said they had “abnormally high call volumes” and I might have to wait as much as 10-15 minutes. About 35 minutes later the battery on my cellphone died. AAAARRRRGH!
After dinner I tried again, redialing as fast as I could hang up. When I eventually got through, I ended up on hold again for over 1/2 hour. When I finally got through to someone, he solved the problem in 3 minutes.
Interestingly, he told me they’d take off the level cap and other account restrictions, but the mail, trade, and auction house wouldn’t work for up to 72 hours while they waited for the money to clear. It was all working within 5 minutes.
I did manage to get tickets, finally, mostly due to sheer brute cussed stubbornness (I basically camped on the site for the entire day until I was finally able to bull it through to the confirmation screen around 1:30 in the afternoon–whereupon it failed. But when I checked my email I had a confirmation number, my credit card company says it’s charged, and the next day I checked Blizzard’s “My Orders” page and it shows it as Complete, incuding the same confirmation number. So if I don’t have tickets, they went a long way to convince me that I did. Fortunately, my guildmates whom we were planning to meet for dinner at the con also got tickets. Not sure yet about the other guildies who were trying.
The whole thing still sucks, though. If they’re going to get that much interest, they should make the convention bigger and sell more tickets. Or, at the very least, get themselves a ticket-sales management agency that knows what it’s doing.
I’m pretty happy today, though–my WotLK Beta key arrived (finally!) in my email.