Halfway through sending out Gift Exchange messages tonight I was interrupted by a pathetically ill Blue Eyed Boy (the full story involves stomach flu - you really don't want to know any more). I hope to finish sending out the announcements tomorrow.

If you sent me an email about participating and don't hear from me by Sunday, or if you foresee any problems getting a gift to the Buffista whose name you received, email me at my profile address.

One more thing and then I'll shut up about California already. (:

As a couple people mentioned an interest in coming to the Beyond Baroque gig in Venice, which is at 10 p.m. we were wondering if people might want to get together a bit earlier somewhere in the vacinity. Van Gogh's Ear maybe? That didn't do something stupid like close while I've been gone, has it? I'm so out of touch.

Also, access to Internet will be limited while I'm gone, so if someone wants to marshall the Laista troops, maybe they can shoot me their phone number. Profile address works.

Need. Vacation. Now.

DC/Baltimore-istas, on Saturday, December 13, the Raquel Cineplex will be showing the extended DVD of The Two Towers. I'm thinking a potluck dinner, lembas, and almost four hours of movie goodness! Profile addy good.

I offered, and Nilly graciously relieved me of the task, to host a slacker secret santa this year if there is interest. I think if there are at least 5 to 10 people interested it would be worth doing. If you could just stop in to Bureacracy and let us know if there is interest, that would be great!

Re: the above. Judging by emails I've gotten today, there's some confusion as to whether latecomers can still get in on the gift exchange.

I'm happy to continue matching names. OTOH, if Nilly wants to do a separate second round of name-matching, the more people there are the easier it'll be for her to do so.

I've decided to just declare an arbitrary cutoff and pass any more names on to Nilly. So... Nilly and/or Sophia, please email me so that we can pool our collection of latecomers and make sure no-one gets missed. Thanks!

I'm so pleased to announce that Darling Violetta will be our musical entertainment at The Wolfram & Hart Annual Revue. We'll also have deejayed dancing through the night as well as a surprise or two.

DV are the band who wrote and performed the theme song for Angel. Check out their site to hear more.

Hope you can come!

If anyone wants a pair (or two) or wrist sweatbands, e-me and they're yours. (They're swag from the OC party, but they don't say OC or Fox anywhere on them. I have no use for them myself, but it seems a shame to throw them out.)

Slacker Secret Santa: All of you who want to exchange presents with other Buffistas but haven't mailed Dani about it yet, this is your chance!

Please send your info (board name and snail-mail address) to my profile address until the 1st of December. By then, I'll match you up to pairs of givers and recipients, and let you know which is who.

Dani has already sent me the details of the people who slacked in mailing her, so even if you don't get a notification from her, nobody is missing.

Anyone who makes model ships? I have a bunch of tools (rigging tool, hull sanders, etc) and also a 1:100 model, never touched, of the HMS Victory. Hate to give them to my secret santa-ee Goodwill if there's an interested Buffista.

Edit: Taken!