P-C, I'm busy all day (grading...feh) and all night (sleep study) on the 24th. Sorry!

What! I sense lameness. Boo-urns.

Laura, I'm only doing it because it's easier for me to just type onto the page than to tell someone else. It's a symptom of being a Bad Delegator. I've always really liked your pages.

The symbol of Atlanta is the Phoenix (rising from the ashes, as seen in Gone with the Wind), and I'm hoping someone can work that into a graphic for this F2F. Actually, the graphic could be anything, but Atlanta doesn't really have a distinctive skyline, and I hate to fall back on the omnipresent Georgia peach.

We do need to talk about the prom and get some volunteers for things.

If we have the prom at the hotel, it will cost about $1,200 plus food plus liquor. I've lined up a licensed bartender, if we go that way. That will make the prom $50+ per person, depending on how many people are coming. That's high, but the rooms are cheap, which is the trade-off.

I checked into using Manuel's meeting room. The room is free and they sell some fairly reasonable appetizer platters, but the drinks would have to be at bar prices from a Manuel's bartender. Also, it's not a room you can entirely shut off from the rest of the bar, so it would be hard to have our own music.

I have another possible option, but it's about 3/4 mile away, and I don't know that people will want to be walking in the middle of the night. It's a pretty safe neighborhood, but it has terrible sidewalks.

Can I get some people to volunteer to be on a committee or the F2F Secret Cabal or something? I'd like to have different people in charge of different areas, such as the hospitality suite, if that sounds like a good idea to y'all. Also, can someone volunteer to keep track of who is coming and their contact information, and put it into a table or something?

Also, that's so cool, Jon.

Ginger, I think you've got a date wrong on the information. It says that the hotel may not have Buffistas until Monday. May 19.

It seems the best option to do the prom at the hotel. Convenient and all that. I'll either be driving, or renting a car so I could help transport people, but being able to pop back to the room for down time during prom is a plus.

I can keep track of the contact info.

Oops. Thanks, askye. It's fixed. Most of my brain is still filled with cold viruses.

The prom would be very much do-it-yourself at the hotel. We can add the extra-special Buffista event of decorating the prom room on Saturday.

Thanks, Laura! Profile address good?

I'm happy to do anything to help with the F2F, just let me know.

I believe Jon may just have said something incredibly dirty about me, but I am too busy being excited about seeing him and other LAistas to be mortally offended, the way a proper lady like myself normally would be.

Profile address good?

Yep

I believe Jon may just have said something incredibly dirty about me, but I am too busy being excited about seeing him and other LAistas to be mortally offended, the way a proper lady like myself normally would be.

Proper lady.

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Is there anyone, proper or otherwise, willing to be a point person for our Tuesday gathering? I don\'t have a cellphone, and will not have constant Internet access, so it would be great if I could call just one person and have him/her pass along any last-minute changes.