I'm heading to DC next week for copyright meetings. I thought I was going to have no spare time, but it looks like I might, so if anyone wants to get together, let me know. It looks like I'll have the morning and early afternoon of 12/10, afternoon and evening of 12/12, and possibly one other evening, available.

I thought I was staying at Jurys Washington Hotel, but when I went to look up the address online, I discovered that they're closed for remodeling. Lovely of them not to have mentioned that to me, despite my confirmed reservation. Anyhoo, our travel office is currently trying to reserve me a new room. Once again, Buffistas have saved the day, as I probably wouldn't have checked the website if I weren't posting here. Thank you!

I have email and cell phone in my profile. X-posty with Press.

Anyone have any Portland recommendations?

Anyone have any Portland recommendations?

As in, places to go? Powells. You must go to Powells.

Yes Powells is awesome. That's where I found Vampire People.

It occurs to me that, although I said I couldn't do June 5th - 7th, I actually kind of maybe could.

Hmm.

I mean - I should be back at school on June 8th, in Bangkok, which makes it very much less than ideal and probably not doable...but I'm off school from 3rd - 7th for the Half Term holiday, so it's not totally inconceivable. Just highly highly impractical. But....want!

Fay, did you include the dateline in your calculations?

Lovely of them not to have mentioned that to me, despite my confirmed reservation. Anyhoo, our travel office is currently trying to reserve me a new room.

ugh. Let us know if you need help finding a place, or if you want to run a location by us.

Yes. As I said, it's highly impractical - obviously it would involve taking a couple of days off work, which is very unprofessional and something I would be extremely reluctant to do - in situations where I only have 2 days off work in the first place, this is totally pointless, but with five days off work it becomes...well, still highly impractical, but not insane.

Thanks, Vortex. It sounds like our travel office was able to get a room in another nearby hotel. I should know tomorrow for sure. I'm just glad I found out in enough time to get another place. Reconfirming already confirmed reservations is my plan from here on out, as this is not the first time this has happened to me. Well, the other time was much closer and they weren't closed, and they did find a room for me, but they canceled my reservation for a completely unknown reason. Even they didn't know why they canceled it.

Fortunately, my bad travel cloud doesn't seem to rain on friends or traveling companions.

I would ask for a coupon for a free night's stay. To confirm a reservation in a closed hotel is unacceptable.