Vote results!

Yes: 40
No: 2

The proposal passes.

And since that vote passed, it’s time to start the 2012 F2F process! West coasters, it’s your year. You have between now and November 20th to sell us on why your city is the city we should gather in next spring/summer. Post your initial interest, do your research to give us some hotel options (or just pick the best one and focus on it), and decide which two weekends you would like to propose to go with your city. We will vote at the end of November. (I didn’t realize that with the shift in dates the week we’d said we’d vote this year is Thanksgiving--we should probably wait until the following week to vote.)

PIMP YOUR WEST COAST CITY, BUFFISTAS!

All discussion will take place in F2F. If you’re interested in potentially attending the F2F next year, you may want to subscribe to the thread during this month to participate in (or just observe) the conversation.

Those of you who have been in Bitches and the Delurker threads recently may have seen that our dear Deena has been having a difficult time of it lately. Her health has gotten much worse and she has had to shut down Drollerie Press and stop working as a result. So, a few of us have evilly conspired to try to do something nice for her to cheer her. I will be collecting funds through paypal at my profile address through November 1st. If anyone wishes to send me a check, please e-mail me for my home address.

Discussion of what exactly we should send will continue in Bitches. Deena, if you're still lurking, don't peek if you want to be surprised.

Whoa! Totally wrong thread. Apologies and moved to Beep Me.

Last Call for Participants in the Gift Exchangamadoodle.

Right now we are at 16 confirmed. I think a few more of you responded to inquiries from me and I may not have gotten you added.

Here is the link if you want in, go and join the merry gang of exchangamadoodlers:

[link]

ALSO! if you are an exchangamadoodler and you want to give me restrictions on who you get, email me. I already have it set so that no one should get who they got last year. ALSO ALSO, you can do the wish lists and the info on all the elfster site, so no one else has to be the keeper of the data on what you like and what you don't and what the what what what what.

DC-, Baltimore-, and other local-istas, mark your calendars for brunch on Sunday, November 6th. We will be sending the vibrant, voluptuous, vivacious, and vital Vortex off to the wilds of suburban Connecticut with three of her favorite things: friends, food, and mimosas.

Discussion to take place in F2F. More details tomorrow....

More details:

Vortex has suggested Masa 14, which has a unlimited prix fixe brunch (including unlimited brunch beverages) for $35/person. Menu here: [link]

We are under no obligation to follow her suggestion, so if anyone has other ideas, make your way to F2F and let's discuss. I would like to finalize location and head count as soon as possible in order to ensure there's adequate space for us.

Time-wise I was thinking around 11 am/12 noon, which gives the suburban DC and Baltimore folks time to get downtown without getting up at the crack of dawn on a Sunday.

Tomorrow evening, I will be pushing the magic button to assign matches on elfster. Find my previous post to click and join, or forever hold your peace (until the slacker exchange is announced). Also this is last call for anyone who would like to submit restrictions on who they get matched with. just FYI, if your request is to not draw me, I will make you draw me twice, but all other requests I will honor.

I am posting this with bonny's permission.

I am taking donations, no matter how small or large, to help bonny deal with the cost of her much-beloved Bartleby's surgery.

It's a tricky surgery, so tricky that her regular vet will not be doing it, and two specialists have been called in. Without it, B's quality of life would spiral quickly down.

The procedures and meds look to be between $3000-$4000

You all know how vital Bartleby is to bonny. I've been doing some backchannel collections, but I KNOW not everyone's in this, because I don't have All The Addresses.

I sent what we've amassed far ($149, due to PayPal fees) to bonny this morning. I'll let her speak for herself regarding her surprise and joy.

If you'd like to contribute, you can use my PayPal at wordslinger@eringriggs.com

Whether it's a little or a lot, whatever you can spare accumulates and is needed.

And if you can't spare anything, no worries. We know you would if you could!

Mille grazie, you wonderful people!

Per my original post in Press last week, the collection for Deena ends today. If anyone wants me to extend it for them, or if you want to e-mail me at my profile address and tell me what you want to send in, I can account for that now and get the money whenever you're able to send it. I'll be sending a mass e-mail out tomorrow so that we can decide what to do with the funds collected. If anyone has any questions or concerns, please post them in Bitches. And thank you all for being so extremely generous!