Ok, I'm just going to do it. Start a new topic! So we were talking in the other one about a pre-November get-together. Then, FriendlyHobo said:
"All right, I'll go for it and say a week from tomorrow, next Sunday afternoon/evening. It'd be like "one week left" count-down. Is that good for people? Would you all rather prefer a public coffee shop, or should we discuss forgettingwalk's lovely hospitality? Should I make a new topic?"
And I was starting to say:
"I'm in! How about we meet at a public place first? That'll give everyone a back-out option - if they stumble in the door and decide we all look really creepy they can just awkwardly back away and pretend they're not associated with this all this backward-minded 'novel writing' hoodoo ;) "
And then I decided to make a new topic so people would know what they were looking at. Or for.
I like FriendlyHobo's idea of a 'one week' advance thing. So, building on that proposal, I submit Capanna Coffee in downtown Iowa City as the place, and how about 2:30 as the time (on Sunday, the twenty fifth)? I think that ought to give folks attending church time to get out and make their way down there.
Personally, I'm wide open in regards to time and place, so I won't be offended in the slightest if anyone would like to suggest somewhere/somewhen else.
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Oct 19, 2009 - 06 42
That all sounds good to me. Capanna's pretty ideal for this.
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Oct 19, 2009 - 12 59
I know that my mom wouldn't allow me to go meet people I met on the internet. But I would just throw out an idea of maybe the new Coralville Public Library. They have some nice tables if that would interest you. Haha!
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Oct 19, 2009 - 17 59
Yay! This is so happening! Capanna is good. Nerdy_Unicorn, you could bring your mom to see we are not the evil that one hears about on Oprah. I know it seems lame to bring your mom somewhere, but well, I won't judge.
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-Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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Oct 19, 2009 - 19 48
My mother still only thinly conceals that it weirds her out a little :) She has almost entirely stopped asking where I met such-and-so at any given time. It's great that she's looking out for you, and she'd definitely be welcome, far as I'm concerned.
So. Capanna, 2:30, Sunday the 25th is still the favourite unless objections are lobbied in the next week.
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Oct 20, 2009 - 07 41
I concur!
Where: Capanna, by the Iowa City Public Library
When: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 2:30 PM
I'll be there! Can't wait for gelato. ;)
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Oct 20, 2009 - 13 08
Well, a teacher that I had two years ago offered to take me if my mom said it was okay (the teacher is also doing NaNoWriMo!)
Sadly, I have a piano recital that Sunday, at about that time, at a nursing home. I think it's called Walden Place?
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Oct 21, 2009 - 10 46
Provided the paper I need to finish this weekend doesn't eat my soul, I shall be there with bells on. Well, not literal bells, that would be rather awkward. But metaphorical bells.
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Oct 21, 2009 - 16 12
Hey! I'm writing in Cedar Rapids but I'd love to join you on the 25th. I hope the CR group does a pre-Nov gathering, but not the same day!
Maya
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Oct 25, 2009 - 08 02
Hoping to see everyone this afternoon at Capanna! Wheee!