Abi, is 1-5 September Labor Day? We're still hoping to be at the Renaissance Weekend in Monterey.

We could start voting on the 30th

Alternately, which city Deb is voting for is pretty obvious. You could appoint a proxy or something.

Anyone who's going to DragonCon will also be out of town most of that time period.

Alternately, which city Deb is voting for is pretty obvious. You could appoint a proxy or something.

Oh, yeah, that's not what was twigging me - it was more that the holiday weekend is likely to see a lot of people elsewhere.

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Susan, is a matter of couple weeks going to be any actual help for you right now, right?

As the tag shows, I know this is none of my business, but if you were trying to back all the way out because of the not inconsiderable demands on your mind and heart right now, don't be afraid to do so.

Your father's condition is completely different than you thought it was when you offered to take up the torch. You are in serious need of a job and are in the middle of a search. You're writing a novel, and you have an extremely active and curious toddler. If you can't do it, you can't do it.

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Not to sound partisan - the intent is to sound humanist - but I'm in total agreement with Cindy. Susan, the circs are different.

Susan, honey, you aren't letting anyone down. Please stop beating up my friend Susan, she is going through enough right now.

I would be happy to pitch in on Seattle. I can easily do long distance research and communicate with hotels via the interbunny and ask locals reconaissance questions about locations, etc.

Cindy, Deb, and Trudy, that's actually what I was kind of hoping someone would say--and Trudy, that would be great.

If Seattle is the city chosen, I firmly believe I'll be in a good position to work my event planner mojo when needed. It's just the next few months that are looking impossible.

Susan, I was planning on checking w/ Plei and seeing how much of the planning we could pull away from you. The only reason I hadn't spoken up is because I was trying to figure out if you needed it as a welcome distraction, or if it was going to overwhelm you.

Well, that and the fact that I am dreadful at event planning. But I can work around that.

Thanks, Jilli. The odd thing is, some kinds of work are a welcome distraction--my novel page count has soared in the past few days--but my logistics/detail energy has always had its limits, and right now what I have is 100% taken up by job search and the editor cancelation/replacement crisis for the October writers conference (a much more trivial but very time-consuming issue that came up after I volunteered).

Jilli, this is probably going to sound weird - but if I can help at all from down here, give a yelp, okay?