I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

Cheese Man ,'Chosen'


F2F5: I forget that everyone isn't us

Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon.


megan walker - Oct 26, 2010 1:51:24 pm PDT #6243 of 12707
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yes, but sometimes it's Mountain time and sometimes Pacific.

Maybe that's an argument for Mountain being West.


Typo Boy - Oct 26, 2010 1:52:57 pm PDT #6244 of 12707
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I think organizing entails things like:

1) you either know the area the hotel your rec is in, so you know pretty well what transit is in the area, what atrractions are easy to get to via transit or walking or

2) You are willing to do the research, which for some things may involve going there personally, so that you can see that the transit that is a few blocks as the crow flies is miles away in practice because of closed areas.

That extrapolates to other stuff. You either know it or are willing to find out, and finding can sometimes involve going there in person.


Trudy Booth - Oct 26, 2010 2:01:41 pm PDT #6245 of 12707
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Erin organized the first F2F long distance for a city she'd never been in.

Other Buffistas had and were able to answer on-the-ground questions she could not find out on the internets.

It was pretty swell.


Strix - Oct 26, 2010 2:13:35 pm PDT #6246 of 12707
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

For me, when I said I'd pimp KC, I meant be the F2F organizer main person for that city. Like, if people chose KC, I would be the point person. I don't think it means a person needs to be in the city; I did Chicago without ever having been there, but I must say, KC would be MUCH easier to org than a city I don't know since I live here.

When I did Chi, I didn't even own a cell phone! (wait, did I? what year was that? 2001?? 02? Maybe I did.)

I must say, though, I think it's easier for a F2F to happen in a city where there are localistas. There's connections, maybe for better prices, and localistas might have cars, crash pads if flights go AWOL or something. F'instance, I know I have connections for liquor. Ahem.


Trudy Booth - Oct 26, 2010 2:17:01 pm PDT #6247 of 12707
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Up hill! Both ways! In winter!

If there is a place you really want to have an F2F, imho, you shouldn't let personal geography stop you from trying to do just that.


Steph L. - Oct 26, 2010 2:27:49 pm PDT #6248 of 12707
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

When I did Chi, I didn't even own a cell phone!

I actually got my first cell phone right before the first F2F, mostly because I was sure my mom would call my apartment all weekend and if she didn't get me, she'd call the police or my landlord or both.

I wish I were joking.

(And then I remember at the F2F, someone called and left me a message, and my phone was so new that I had no idea how to retrieve it, and we were all in a group about to go...somewhere, and I just stuck my hand with my phone up in the air and yelled, "Does anyone know how to access voice mail on this phone?!?" Someone did, of course.)


brenda m - Oct 26, 2010 2:49:51 pm PDT #6249 of 12707
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Andi, that's about the size of it.


WindSparrow - Oct 26, 2010 2:56:51 pm PDT #6250 of 12707
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Brenda, thanks for the reassurance.


Liese S. - Oct 26, 2010 3:05:48 pm PDT #6251 of 12707
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ha. We are the lone remaining continental time zone holdout state. All you people with your crazy time changing ways. Daylight savings, harumph. As if you could save time, you bunch of loony flibbertigibbets, messing up my teevee schedules. Thank goodness for tivo, or I would shake my fist in your general direction. Which from here is all the directions!
 
Ahem. Sorry, time curmudgeon kicking in there. Yeah, maybe Mountain time should be West coast, so long as Denver gets its chance sometime. So, right, midwest. And remember, there`s no rule that says we can`t repeat, so we can do cities like Chicago again. I mean, otherwise we will eventually get to all prohibitively expensive airline cities.


dcp - Oct 26, 2010 3:27:15 pm PDT #6252 of 12707
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

For me, West starts at the Continental Divide.

East is The Other Side of the Mississippi, but that doesn't work for F2F planning purposes.

In a Buffistas context, I think of Detroit as Central, even though it is farther east than Atlanta. Nashville and Mobile also Central. Toronto and Pittsburgh and Atlanta and Tallahassee are all East.