Here’s our policy about meeting other MBers offline:
- MuseBlog’s administrators do not encourage you to do it.
- We won’t help you plan to do it.
- If you insist on holding a real-world meeting, your parents must plan it and supervise it.
- To assure us that they are involved, your parents should e-mail us at the gapas @ gmail.com. We will help them exchange e-mail addresses, and they can take it from there.
- Any details about meetings (exact time and place, what you’ll be wearing, etc.) must stay off the blog. Please don’t try to post them. We won’t let you.
- After a Kokonvention, we will post photographs of Kokonvening MBers with parental permission.
- That’s all we will do.
Your friends,
The GAPAs
“We’re paranoid so you don’t have to be.”
I’d like to meet someone on this first post?
Who’s up for a north carolina Kokon?
Everyone in NC! KOKON!
For goodness’ sake, you must learn patience!
Something all all nine year olds lack.
Do you like it when people tell you “you’re too young for that,” “I’ll tell you when you’re older,” that sort of thing? No? Then don’t use your age as an excuse to limit yourself. This is the internet – all anyone knows about you is what you tell them. Make them expect someone older from your posts, cause them to assume you’re twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old: the moment of surprise, when they realize that despite your well-crafted posts you’re “only” nine, is the moment when Plan Mostly Harmless goes into effect.
Age is immaterial. What matters is world domination through intelligence; impeccable manners, grammar, spelling; meticulous knowledge of factoids; humor; tenrecs; empathy and compassion; a burning, slightly obsessive desire for knowledge; and well-aimed pastry.
Also lists. Lots and lots of lists.
I mean 9 year olds named Pie girl.
That would explain some things…..
Manners? What manners? Just kidding.
pie girl – I’m in NC, as are Kiwimuncher and Koppar. We had a Kokon a couple months ago, and I’m hoping to have one in the fall. If that happens, you’ll see something about it here.
OK! Yay!
I thought that south NC isn’t cool enough to house MBers. Probably still is. I have a feeling you guys will be in north NC.
*Hopes Not*
It’s true that we’re more northerly, but most everyone fits into what the tourism industry considers central NC. Anyway, I’ve been to museum conferences in southern NC, so I can confirm that there are indeed some very Muserly people in the area.
I live right in the middle of NC. I’d love a North Carolina Kokon! (If I could get my parents to agree…)
Yes!
We could probably do a middle-of-NC Kokon, that’s central to everyone.
Yep. As long as it’s not like, border of Virginia.
SFTDP
Maybe Raleigh?
Our previous NC kokon was in Durham.
Sounds good to me.
MA kokon this summer/fall would be really nice… I’m crazy busy until the middle of August, though. Other people?
That would be great. Is the last week of August good for people?
I might be in Florida visiting my grandparents at the end of August, though probably not. I’ll have to ask my parents. Other than that, yes, I’m pretty sure that works for me!
GAPAs, what are the rules for over 18 MBers? I wouldn’t discuss any kokovention details on the blog, but I was wondering if there were any other rules? I’m mostly wondering this because I’ve met Penty (given that she goes to my school) and I was curious where that sort of thing fell.
Once you’re 18, you can do pretty much as you please, within the limits of general Muserliness. You can even give yourself permission to post photographs.
Although we’d appreciate it if you followed the same guidelines about keeping planning details and such off the blog, just to minimize confusion amongst other MBers regarding the rules.
All right, cool! I’ll follow the rules with the substitution of myself for my parents.
That’s a good way of putting it.
Oh, and by the way, oxlin, I haven’t forgotten your request. I actually drafted a thread about museums, then got side-tracked by other stuff. But I’ll get it up soon. My apologies for the delay; things have been kind of crazy here; I’m just catching up with February…well, getting there.
All right, neat! I’ll be looking forward to it whenever you do get a chance to put it up. Good luck with catching up!
Julia (Fortune Cell) and eBeth kokonned recently!
They’re an example of such a rendezvous.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6761
Mm. Penty and I have met but I feel kokons involve much more celebration. One time we did get a crepe together way late at night. (someone at our college had a late night crepe stand fall semester last year. It was awesome!)
I’m in CT – that might be possible, but I still have to talk to my parents. *jskrhgghghh….*
And….GAPAs? Post name WIN. That was a very punny fun.
You took the “Kokon” from “Kokonvention” and affixed it to the beginning on the word “Continued” and made it “Kokontinued”.
Sorry, I have a thing for those Delicious Dish SNL skits.
“Yes, you took the “d” off “brand” and made it “bran”. Very clever.”
NYC Kokon this summer.
Up there for two weeks. Two weeks.
Also; Florida meetup with anyone?
Destin beach? Going in July.
Dunno…I don’t go to beaches.
On the topic of emails-I know my parents would love it if I got to meet any MBer, and this might be easier to discuss off-blog?
I don’t want my comment to be snipped because of revealing info that would make it easier to give an answer.
I live nearish to Chicago, and will be here all summer (except perhaps one week in august when we might take a vacation). If anyone’s coming to Chicago, et me know, and even if I can’t meet with you I can give you some good tips on places to visit in the city.
Hopefully at the end of August I will be able to meet up with Fiddler when the tall ships come in. Mom wants to but if we have to leave earlier than expected to get to my college… uhg. But it hopefully will be fine, and Kiki may make it down to the tall ships too, so there’d be 3 of us
Also, during most of the school year I will be in Ohio. Going to college not-impossibly-far from ebeth and Julia which has the potential for meetups if any of us get a car or rides back and forth so woo.
and even less impossibly far from meeeeeeeeeeee
Woooo!
As I’ve said before, I’ll be in Chicago July 3-10 for piano camp, and my parents are supportive of kokons. (Ohcake we’re leaving on Friday… *panics randomly* ACK.)
Okay, not sure I’m free uhg, as that week holds both my mother’s birthday and my graduation party and I’m already going into the city this coming week.
But if I’m not free I can definitely give suggestions on fun places to visit! Millennium park, the Shedd aquarium, etc. Also, there’s going to be 3 firework displays in the city on the fourth (rather than one big one on the third as it previously used to be) so you should be able to see those pretty well.
I am going to try to visit you two sometime in early september…i don’t start school until late september (it’s awful, there’s nothing to do) so i will have plenty of time and boredom for you to relieve me of!
“…i don’t start school until late september (it’s awful, there’s nothing to do)…”
Well, I’ll be a good Samaritan. I’ll let you trade places with me from August 8th-ish through late September. That way you’ll have plenty to do and won’t be bored. It’ll be a sacrifice, but for a fellow MBer, I’ll manage.
Doooo iiiiit! I will show you cool things! And we will go to fun places! And have spectacular adventures!
We are Kokonvening! It is amazing, that’s all that can really be said.
Oh, that and GAPA PHONE CALLS. Yesssss.
I just read the Kokonvention guidelines and realized that we’ve broken just about every single one for this meeting. My parent’s knew that I was going to get together with Grant and Ebeth sometime this summer, but not when, and it was more like “Hey, we’re going to do this, it’s going to be fun, thought you should know.” No parents are present, and the GAPAs didn’t sanction it. *sigh* But we’re all legally adults, so I guess it’s okay.
The day’s not over yet. MWAHAHAHAHA ~Ebeth
Grant-No indeed!
Yes, once you’re over 18, the rules change. In fact, there was a discussion about the subject earlier on this thread. Besides, you were all known quantities, so to speak, and at least two of you have met before. (We’ve even met two sets of parents.)
Does anyone even live in PA?!!!
I think LBK does.
GAPAs, i sent some pictures from the put-in-bay kokon. i sent you kind of a lot, so you can pick and choose which ones you want to post
GAPAs, i loooove you
Got ’em. Unexpected technical and temporal difficulties over the past two days but we will definitely post them as soon as possible.
the word “temporal” always makes me think of time travel. so now i’m having images of the GAPAs running around in a time lord-y kind of way, saving the blog from spamdaleks
oh man i love my mind sometimes
Yah, pretty much how my mind works, too.
By curious coincidence, this comment itself seemed to get lost in a time warp itself. I tried to correct a typo and was told the comment didn’t exist. Then the posts I’d moderated all showed up in the queue again. This kind of thing has been happening to me all day.
i bet paul is crossing his own time stream again. tsk tsk.
REAPERS OM NOM NOM
I told you not to touch the baby, Paul!
i love you lots? i love you buckets!
I love you, too, Ebeth, but I can’t post the pictures until I’m at home. At home and awake. My work computer has been having conniptions all week which has kept me working late late late every single double-chocolate-frosted day this week, and I am here even now waiting on a verrrry slow download from Big Daddy Microsoft. Hence late Random Thread. Hence photo-posting delays. But tomorrow is the weekend, and then I shall post pictures even if the house burns down and I have to take my laptop to Panera.
Well, okay, maybe not if my house burned down. But nothing short of cataclysm will prevent me from posting kokon pics tomorrow.
aww, do not work so hard!
that sounds no fun. sympathy pies
Rainbow and I have one starting the 28th of July. We’ll try to take more pictures this time.
So, Northern Oregon Kokon, anyone?
I don’t think Minnesota is cool enough to house many MBers. *sigh*
Neither is Delaware. Or New Jersey, where I am now.
Or Texas.
*more sighs*
Or Middle Tennessee…
*thinks* According to my mom, we have a relative that I do not know that well somewhere in Tennessee…
XD Nice! You should visit en!
I live in Texas…
Re: MA Kokon
I’d love to have one! And the last week of August appears that it would be fine with me. Sudo? Keiffer? Enc? Anyone else?
Sorry, can’t. I’ll be traveling.
And it’s probably too early to organize a fall kokon.
I’ll be there January!
Yeah!
Actually, fall could work. Except then there would be caking school. >.<
Bonus to summer is that maybe Rq could come.
Ewww school. Sorry. But it would incredibly flamablamablous if RQ came, and I do think it’s a bit too early to organise a fall Kokon…I dunno.
Last week of August could work. Would probably have to be early or late in the week, though. What dates are we thinking?
August would work for me.
Ooh, ooh, where in Mass? I’m in CT, about a two-hour drive from the MA/CT line.
Well, maybe around Boston? I don’t know.
I’m going to NYC and Philadelphia in August… 3rd to the 10th. I’m just putting it forward, because my parents would kill if I tried to organize a Kokon at this stage… guh.
So I will almost definitely be meeting Fiddler and Kiki when Fiddler’s ship comes to Chicago
I won’t say specific things on here and all but eee so exciting.
julia and i are going to a CONCERT tomorrow!
and i am maybe-hopefully-possibly going to another CONCERT next month with jade, grant, and lizzie!
MUSICAL KOKONVENTIONS YAY
and then…what happens if you get a LARGE COLLECTION of some of MB’s most exciting residents together? WE WILL FIND OUT IN JANUARY
Concert was LOVELY even though I was exhaaaausted from my travels and orientation bs.
Anyway TOMORROW I pick up OLIVIAAAA from the AEROPORT and we are hanging out for like OVER A WEEK. Lady Gaga on the 17th? YES PLZ.
Aaaand it looks like I’m going to be kokonvening with Kagy when I’m up in Toronto for a couple of weeks as well! Hurray!
Tomorrow I’m going down to see Fern and her ship! And I’ll meet Kiki and her mother down there as well! So exciting!
Sounds fun!
i am at grant’s house! we frolicked through a field! tomorrow we are rescuing jade and lizzie from collegeland and TAKING OVER CLEVELAND
*runs to warn Cleveland*
It’s too late for Cleveland. They’ll never believe you.
WE ARE ALL UP IN THIS CLEVELAND YO! hanging out at grant’s with jade. we are going to FROLIC THROUGH A FIELD it will be awesome. frolicking pictures to come
HIII JADE HERE. They showed up at my college today and kidnapped me! Well, I had to go out and get into the car myself, and they didn’t even have a blindfold, but oh well. They also lied about having candy though which was sad D:
Seriously though AWESOMENESS IS GOING DOWN
I…. I don’t know how to follow that. Indeed, we are here at my house, it is great fun! It is amusing how much of a novelty fields are to Ebeth. I haven’t taken advantage of the frolicking opportunities inherent therein for a while. Woooooo!
What, no candy? Obviously amateur kidnappers. But I suspect that will be the biggest disappointment of the day. Have a great
timefrolic!Hiii! Jade here. We are back at Grant’s! He made us pasta, yum. And we have CANDY now so I am satisfied. We went to an art museum and a pastry shop (how very muserly of us!). We also wandered a thrift store, whee. Also they are making fun of the fact that after I ate the spaghetti I made all the sauce into a perfect ring along the edge of the bowl. It is TOTALLY NORMAL BEHAVIOR OKAY.
Hellooo! it’s ebeth. full of yummy foods! we had a very muserly day in art museums and thrift stores and JADE IS TOTALLY OCD! lizzie is dancing to tim minchin now. and yeah. fun times!
Hi! This is Lizzie. Grant is a very good pasta cook. And we bought chocolate and stuff and it is good. And now Jade and Ebeth are singing along to Tim Minchin. They know all the words, even in the fast parts. And Grant is washing dishes which is very nice of him. And they are totally real people and very nice kidnappers.
Jade again- Lizzie and I are now singing Heartache over Innsmouth at each other and it is the best.
I hardly did anything, I boiled water, put things in it, and nuked the sauce. Grant, by the way. Went to the art museum, saw lots of lovely stuff, including my very favorite room, the Armor Court. Went to little Italy, I had tiramisu. Attempted to go thrifting, could only find one store and that was sadly lacking in the awesome hats department. Returned back here, I made food, everyone ate it, I did the dishes, and then it was now and then I don’t know what happened. Great fun overall!!
CALIFORNIA KOKONVENTION?
My family is returning to California, where we used to live, in November for my almost-cousins’ bar and bat mitzvahs (they’re twins). I don’t remember the exact dates, but I can find them, and safe to say that we’ll be in the Northern part of the state, especially near the San Francisco Bay (that’s not too specific, right?). No plans to venture south, unfortunately.
Any interest in a Kokon?
For sure!!! There have to be some more NorCal MBers!
Oh! I suppose there are, ha. Ignore that other post of mine down below.
There are Californian MuseBloggers, right?
haha i’m here but i’m in the LA area so any norcal kokon will likely not include me, sadly
Mississippi/Tennesse/Alabama Kokonvention!!!
If anyone lives or is visiting this area anytime soon then tell me I think it would be fun to have one.
Any chance of a Boston area Kokon anytime?
OOOO YES
SFTDP
Around Halloween maybe?
Yes! I’d love to have another Kokon.
is anyone going to the stewart/colbert rallies in DC? i am going with a large group for a very short period of time (we’re going on the big communal city buses which leave at like 2 AM) but i was going to try to meet up with a couple MBers there at some point during the day
My teacher’s going, but I’m not….
Update on Northern California Kokonvention:
My family’ll be in the state from November 10th (though we’ll get in late that night) to the 16th. The Saturday in there will be completely taken up and there’s also something smaller on Sunday, but Thursday and Friday would be perfect for Kokonvening.
Well, you know I’d love to Kokonvene with you, but my parents are kind of mad at me right now, and they believe I am the only person on the entire Internet who is not a crazy perverted stalker, so it’d take some explaining/convincing.
If it will reassure them at all, our parents could exchange e-mails through the GAPAs and then mine could try to convince yours that we are not Creepy Stalker People. Both sets of parentals would be accompanying us anyways, so it’s not like you’re striking out on your own to meet a stranger in a dark alley.
Besides, there’s more than a month for any explaining/convincing needed. I remain optimistic.
Optimism high-five! I approve.
Other Bay Arean/vaguely-in-the-area-of-the-Bay-Area MBers! KoKon?
My trip is only a few weeks away, if you can believe it. I’ll have my parents e-mail the GAPAs if you’re still interested.
Also, you should tell them there’s never been a problem resulting from a kokon (everyone really has been a kid).
And if Cat’s Meow has kokoned before, that’s even better.
Yep, there’s even lovely pictures of me up on the Blog! They’re from an awfully long time ago, but you could even show them to your parents if it would somehow help convince them. I’m a real 15-year-old girl, promise.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1392
Is any one going to be in Washington D.C. between the last three days of this month, and the first two days of November?
One GAPA will.
i’ll be there the 30th. but only the 30th! a one-day shot at the ebeth, grasshoppers! plus i’ll be like, rallying for sanity and stuff
PS robert are you going to that?
VENDY WILL BE!
Rallying for Sanity for about two days! Meeting up would be tricky though, I’ll be kinda floating around with different groups of friends and family.
pfft, you have time to say hi to me and fern! vendykins, if i do not see you i shall be a sad ebeth indeed. i’m just ditching my friends for part of it (they may or may not know this yet…*shiftyeyes*)
Guys, I will be there. I don’t know how it is going to work, since it’s kind of like GAHHHH and I want to meet up with Pip and Ebeth and I may or may not have another friend coming (for now let’s just assume she is, because I haven’t heard anything to the contrary). Also, if she is indeed coming, then I kind of have to go to a concert that evening. Because we have tickets. But yeah, we’ll figure out something. VENDY, YOU HAD BETTER AT LEAST TRY TO MEET UP WITH US!
*continues to hate nested comments*
GAAAHHH YOU GUYYYSSS
maybe i’ll just beam myself over there…
although i gotta say i would definitely be marching to keep fear alive, but you know
take pictures!! SO MANY PICTURES!
You guys are rallying for sanity too?! *amazingness*
Am I allowed to say I’ll be wearing a nice, yellow Pwt Pwns t-shirt? If not, oops.
Sweet! If a clot of weirdos comes up and glomps you it’ll be us then. I’ll probably not deck out in Muser-y attire, unless I skip the concert, in which case I may for sake of being identified by fellow bloggers I don’t know or have ~other~ ways of meeting up with. But yeah. If I see you I’ll be sure to try and catch you. That sounded creepy. Not how I meant it, oops. >.<
Axa~ Pictures. They will happen, I promise you. You can beam yourself places? HOW?! I MUST LEARN THIS SKILL!
Hey, I’m quite alright with being glomped by a group of MBers.
It didn’t sound creepy… to me anyway.
i will hopefully be wearing clothing of some kind! i really need to do laundry!
there will be SO MANY pictures, do not worry!
ASDK:ASFH I WISH I COULD GOOOOO
SO MANY PICTURES NEED TO HAPPEN
also “I will hopefully be wearing clothes” basically just made my life. I don’t know I’m tired STOP JUDGING ME
Going to, I believe, Las Vegas around Christmastime to meet up with my grandparents. If anyone’s there-well, I don’t think anyone’s in that area, but it’s cool.
And Florida kokons are tasty thoughts.
Hmm… Maybe the NC state fair?
Just food for thought.
Too public and trenchcoat-accessible.
true. Discovery place? ( charlotte)
Too trenchcoat-accessible. Ha.
The fair would have been fun, but Sunday was the last day. October is too insanely busy, anyway, with everyone trying to take advantage of the weather.
Man. I was going to go anyway, cause I’ve never been to a fair.
I went to the Virginia State Fair in high school for a marching band contest, but I’ve never been to the NC fair. If I hadn’t had too much work to do I would have gone yesterday. Oh, well.
Has anyone been to the Renaissance Fair in Concord?
I have not. I went on a school trip in the sixth grade but haven’t been since then. That could be good…
Concord Nc, right?
Right.
Oh hey, I just remembered my old band director teaches at a middle school in Concord now. Hm.
Choklit Orange: Singapore kokon? If you even see this…
(Wow, I never thought I’d be posting on this thread.)
I went to the NC state fair on Friday. It was alright, we mostly stuck to the animal barns and veggies/fruits and suchlikes. There was also a falafel stand, which was awesome.
Next time! It seems like a keep meeting cool people in NC. Seriously, Tess, Koppar and Rebecca for the Musers, Ian from ages ago, Rachel’s a shipmate from the summer, and then Pip, obviously. Interesting.
Unfortunately, no Kokons.
It’s apparent that I just need to spend more time there. xD
Four Corners Kokon, anyone? That might be interesting…
Plus, do the GAPAs generally come to Kokonventions? Just wondering.
They try to if they’re in the area. I met Robert…woah, was that three summers ago!?
When did time start passing so fast?
Nice, fast moderation.
“you” in 30.1.2.1 was referring to Cat’s Eye, not Enc, by the way.
I also just remembered that, though I will sadly be absent from the Rally to Restore Sanity in D.C., there’s a sympathetic Rally in my town on the same day. If I can, I’ll try to make it between my soccer game and the Romeo and Juliet play I’m going to that evening. That’s not NEARLY as good as actually going and meeting you guys, of course, but life can’t be perfect.
Any MBers in Minnesota?
There is one, but she’s offline for a while.
Okay, so about a North Carolina Kokonvention:
If we were to go to the Renaissance Fair (which would be fun), it would have to be on the last weekend (November 20/21) because I’m probably going to still be sick this weekend and next weekend I’m going to be in Washington D.C. Would that work for everyone else?
I can’t think of any conflicts but I’d have to double-check the calendar.
Sleepover birthday, sorry!
I have a Youth retreat.
Quafflebirdquafflebirdquafflebirdquafflebirdquafflebird!!!!!
Yesyesyes!
Sorry, I’ve been eating too much Halloween candy.
GAPAs, is it all right just to discuss general laces we might be able to meet?
There are malls, or museums (ugh, but they have good food) or we could just wander about Chinatown or something…
So happy happy happy!
Hey everyone in Boston! I shall be there on March 27th (in the late afternoon/evening mostly). Anyone available to Kokon?
As far as I know, yes.
I hope so! That’d be fun!
Probably, yes!
Hey Boston-area MBers, I forgot about this until recently but I will still be in the area on the above-specified date! Still up for a Kokon?
Me too!
PEOPLE. THE UNPRECEDENTED HAS HAPPENED.
WE HAD A SINGAPORE KOKON.
Mere words cannot express my excitement, which I shall instead convey to you by use of the following syllable: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has there ever been an accidental Kokon before, like, two people arrange to meet but didn’t realize we were MBers?
Ohmigod. It happened.
Sorry, I had a Bubble Tea on the way home, and I was really excited to begin with. GAPAs, I think Quafflebird shall email you the pictures soon.
It almost happened with Beavo and I once, but I think this is the first time!
Details?
I kind of realized I was emailing Quafflebird and the person I was arranging to meet at the same time, and their schedules seemed to overlap strangely…
So anyway, we ate and looked at really, really weird holiday decorations on Orchard Road, and then parted ways- pictures soon, I hope.
So wait, you knew each other outside the ‘Blog and never realized that you also knew each other as MBers?
Woah…. Coolio!
Sort of. Margaret (That isn’t how it was spelled, but I don’t remember how it was.) met someone… I think it was dodecahedron. They went to the same math thing by coincidence and both were wearing clothing that gave each other away. It’s in a MuseCast. Neither really post anymore, but did happen. It was 2 or 3 years ago, I think…
Wow, that’s fully flammy, Choklit Orange!
Ee! Ee ee ee ee! Eee! Eeee! Ee, ee eeee!
*banging* *clatter*
Hello, this is Cat’s Eye’s evil twin. She’s too overloaded with happy of you and Quafflebird and the universe and life right now, but I think what she’s trying to say is that she also loves Bubble Tea, and she hopes that the Kokon was fun.
Woahwoahwoah. Woah.
WOAH.
Wooooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….
That’s INSANE.
OH MY LORD. THAT IS SO COOL.
AWESOME. How did you know each other?
Can we have some more information on what happened with the Singapore Kokon?
‘K… (I hope this is okay with Quafflebird)
After a bit of wrangling with the Singapore bus system (and the lady at the service counter who wouldn’t give me a map) I met Quafflebird at the school where she was debating. We took the bus back to the MRT station and then took the MRT (like a cheaper subway system) to Orchard Road- one of Singapore’s main shopping districts-, where we ate in a food court, and then walked around looking at the obscenely cartooned holiday decorations that had been put up. Seriously. Mickey Mouse with reindeer. If you want to get technical, I had pork rib noodles and Quafflebird had fried rice.
Quafflebird, if you see this, please please please send me the pictures!
Going to Idaho and Las Vegas! I know there are no MuseBloggers in either state, but still just making sure.
So…
Rainbow and I know we live in the same general vicinity. Axa lives farther away, but still relatively close considering The Sprawl. Are there any other SoCal MBers? We have three, from what I remember.
So, Muselover. Which state(s) are you going to? And if you did go somewhere like Sydney, would you be able to kokon?
EEEEEE ALPACALIPS WILL BE GOING TO A CONFERENCE IN BOSTON THIS AUGUST AND IF IT DOESN’T OVERLAP WITH SCHOOL I CAN GO WITH HIM!!!!!!! *spazzes*
The conference is August 7-10, I think, but we might go down a few days before that if I have school things during that time. I wish I saw the look on my face when I saw the email that said he got accepted to the conference. *spazzes more* Just had to put this out here, it’s probably too early to start planning for a possible that’s so far in the future.
Sorry, “possible kokon“. Typo. XD
YAY!!!
I’LL BE HERE!!!
*joyspaz*
And, since Sudo and I have video chat-ed with you, my parents can’t be suspicious of you!!!!! *overuse of exclamation points*
School on August 7th? Wow. Ours starts much later.
Well I have no idea when school starts next year, but there’s also freshman orientation and stuff.
*does happy dance*
Funny fact of my life:
My mom keeps thinking I’m saying “gokon” when I say “kokon”. This is hilariously apt. Gokons are a Japanese thing… I don’t know how to describe it very well, but basically what it is is some people that know each other have a party, and each of them brings five or six people that don’t know each other… So let’s say that I bring six girls I know and whomever else, let’s assume en is a boy, brings six boys he knows… It’s kind of like blind dating but not quite. XD
I am going to be at camp. D:
I’m probably going to Boston this summer, too, and my mom says she’d let me go to a Kokon!!
Sadly, it’s in June and not August, so I can’t meet Fireh. But on the bright side, that means we might be able to have a Kokonvention on Kokonspiracy day (and you really lucky MA MuseBloggers will get 2 Kokons in a summer), which would be awesome!
Also, Errata, if you’d ever like to meet sometime, I go to central Texas fairly often.
Reposting: Hey everyone in Boston! I shall be there on March 27th (in the late afternoon/evening mostly). Anyone available to Kokon?
Almost definitely available!
I’m definitely going to go to Boston (so yay!), but I unfortunately won’t be there on Kokonspiracy Day. We go on June 1 and leave after… 6 days? I don’t remember. We’re stopping in Maryland on the way; does anyone live there?
I do! (So does Princess_Magnolia)
Wait, actually, it turns out that we’re hardly spending any time there at all and not really going anywhere, so the only way we could have a Kokon there would be if you were willing to have it at the airport…
That wouldn’t really be the most exciting place, but oh, well! If you want to do it, we’ll have to let you know which airport via e-mail and then see if you’re close enough.
No, Pseudo and Magnolia live in MA. I think that Pseudo was saying they’ll be there in Boston June 1-6
Oh, I see. Never mind. Good, then. And we’re actually staying until the 8th, not the 6th. We changed our minds.
Oh, cake, I said I’d ask my parents if a Kokon would be okay before April and then I totally forgot today. >.<
I'll try to ask tomorrow. Now off to do school and plot how to ask properly.
That’s fine. We’re still not even certain that we’re going this month, though I hope so.
Actually, if we do go, it’ll be this weekend, so you’d really need to ask her soon if you haven’t already. If you have, please tell me what she said.
Also, if we do go, it’ll only be for a short while, so we’d only be able to do it if you live close to where we’re going, so your parent would need to include that in their first e-mail. If you’re too far, we’ll have to do it next time instead.
This weekend, as in tomorrow, or this weekend as in a week from today? I’ll assume you mean the second…
I haven’t asked her yet, although I’m mostly just waiting for an ideal opportunity. I have most of my ideas in order.
Sorry I haven’t asked yet. I forgot yesterday and then there weren’t any opportunities today.
We might be able to drive to wherever you’re going, depending on where it is. Are we doing anything next weekend other than my sister’s flute stuff? I can’t remember. We’ll see.
And I just went back and reread the thread. It’s making me laugh and be slightly ashamed of my self simultaneously. You’ve really been hard at work trying to get me to notice that you live in Texas as well too, haven’t you? And I’ve been over here being annoyed about the impossibility of Kokons the entire time. I feel stupid now.
It’s alright. I don’t mind.
I’m glad you have permission; I mean next weekend, not today. I got mixed up. I sort of forgot it was the weekend already… I’m not exacly very good with dates, XD.
Anyway, I’ll try t get my mom to send an e-mail sometime today, and we can see if it’s possible.
Permission to Kokon: Granted.
Two days of fretting, fifteen minutes of nervous stomachach, and their answer was along the lines of ‘That sounds perfectly reasonable. Did you get enough for supper?’
Anyone up for another NC Kokon?
YES
Yeppers!
HOLY HIPPOGRIFFS YEAH!
( Reawakening the Potterhead in me.)
51 (Koppar)~ Absolutely! I’m going to be going to college in NC in the fall, so I’m sure we’ll be able to figure something out.
Me, Sudo, and R101 just realized over FaceBook that we had almost had a DC Kokon but things didn’t work out. I didn’t go with my school and the other two just missed it. Sudo is feeling loss, currently, but he has his kitty back so I suppose he’s all right.
I’m going to Boston tomorrow. We’re staying for 8 or 9 days. A Cape Cod Kokon would be nice. My mom is sure she e-mailed you days ago.
Princess_Magnolia and I might be able to Kokon this weekend, but our grandfather is visiting so I don’t know. Other days are bad because of school. Also, we live two or three hours from Cape Cod. (Sorry if that’s too specific, GAPAs)
So, who’s in the Boston or New York state area and might be interested in a kokon? I’m visiting my grandmother in America again, and I probably could kokonvene sometime in the second week of august. We’ll be in New York state (hope that’s not too specific), but with some sucking up I might be able to get her to drive me to Boston. If we rent a car *crosses thumbs*
THIS IS NOT FAIR.
School starts August 8th for me.
My dad is going to be in Boston on the 9th.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
NOOOOOO!
Cinnamoon, I found the Kokonventions thread! You’ve started school already, right? I don’t start until the 7th, but obviously that means our windows for Kokonvening are somewhat limited.
If we were to organize a kokonvention in or around Boston, who could come? Is somewhere else in the New Englandish area better?
Castle and I, obviously.
Assuming that Castle’s mother will allow such things. -.-
If she’s worried about us being stalkers, I believe there are pictures of most of the Massachusetts MBers on the blog somewhere…
She’s much more irrational than that, sadly.
She doesn’t KNOW you, see.
And Mass. is so FAR AWAY.
She’s a lovely woman, just overly worrysome.
That’s why we GAPAs insist that Kokon planning start by asking all parents to contact us, so we can send them one another’s e-mail addresses. That formula has never failed yet.
YOU’RE CAKING TELLING ME
You think she’s bad, you should meet her mother. Oh, god, her mother.
You’d love her even more! You’d be frustrated with her even more! Life!
I could come, if it was in the BU-MIT area.
I would most definitely come. As long as it isn’t in January or at the end of December, because I’ll be away then. We should definitely try and organize something!
I (as you know, Nym) am in Boston,and will remain so all winter.
I would definitely come!
I live in the Boston area-ish. I would come if my parents would let me, which they might.
Does February sound good to people?
Depends on what week.
Watching the Curiosity launch and reading about the NASA TweetUp, I’m wondering- could we ever have a MuseBlogUp, a Kokonvention at an appropriate place, such as a science museum, when a launch, flyby, or touchdown was occurring?
I guess we had a Transit of Venus MuseBlogUp…
ATTENTION NC BLOGGERS
While this thread is active again! We need another NC Kokon! There are more of us now and also I’m only going to be here for another year!
Who’s up for one?
I’ll be in Asheville, NC around the 19th of December…
I AM!! My mom continues to be skeptical, though. I’m urging her to email the GAPAs. And I’d love to meet all of you in person. Where would we Kokon? There are tons of musems in Raleigh.
Last time we went to the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. There were lots of little kids underfoot but it was really fun. Anywhere in the triangle is really convenient for me, though! I remember there being some cool science/history museums next door to each other in Raleigh…
There is a new history exhibit about NC at the history musem. And then, there’s always the art musem. Even if we dom’t pay to see the Rembrandts, it’s aleays a great experience.
I am the same as Tess when it comes to location: anywhere in the Triangle is convienent but I could go with farther.
I’ll be flying to CA during Winter Break, but I’ll still be in NC on the 19th… And I am the same as Tess and Lightning when it comes to location…
I’m pretty sure I’m here the 19th.
Meow! I just found this thread again as well! Sorry for missing your earlier post!
Kokon thinking: I do knowledge bowl. I read on another thread that you do knowledge bowl as well? I see possibility here.
NC Kokon, anyone?
Can we please though? How about late February?
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEBLOGGERS
Let’s make a Kokon happen!
So guys, let’s organize a Boston kokon, eh? For real, not just wishful-thinking-wise. I mean, we’ve got so many people in the Boston area, and it’s been, what, a year? Two? since we all got together. Sometime in late February or March, perhaps?
… do want.
If anyone’s ever in the Ohio cleveland area let me know! Especially if you are touring small liberal arts colleges that might be mine
Ahem.
Whenever one of my friends gets a letter from Oberlin, I say, “Hey, Oberlin! I have a friend who goes there!”
Lizzie- COME TO ME NOW FOREVER except not, y’know, RIGHT now since I’m in chicago on break
Cat’s Meow– Ahhhaha!
And everyone, please mention it if you go to eastern Texas. Lizzie actually went to my metropolitan area once and didn’t mention it on the blog until afterward, so we couldn’t arrange anything (I didn’t mention it at the time).
I actually grew up fairly near your area, and I do go back every now and then, but, and please don’t take this as a personal affront, I am not really interested in meeting with the pre-college-age Musebloggers, just because the age difference makes me feel weird and I would feel creepy.
Also, I’m pretty sure I’m a bad influence.
That’s alright; I was wondering whether or not to add “although the age difference between us is large enough that I’d understand if you didn’t want to.”
Do any of y’all live in Seattle? I feel like Cat’s Eye and Alice do, but I’ve forgotten.
I’m pretty sure Alice’s permanent residence is in Oregon; I’m not sure where she goes to college, though.
Cat’s Meow lives in eastern Washington, but she travels to the Seattle area for soccer fairly frequently.
Cinnamoon and IBCF (who hasn’t been around in a while, unfortunately) live around here as well. Alice attends Lewis & Clark College, which is near Portland. I believe there are a few others who live in Oregon and western Washington, but I don’t remember exactly where.
We actually have quite an impressive number of northwest Musebloggers now!
I think Ducky lives in Oregon.
As a member of Boston University SEDS, I will be attending the International Space Development Conference in Washington DC from the 24th to the 28th, although I’m not sure what particular events I’ll go to yet.
I’m back home for the summer, which means I can make it to DC-area Kokons.
Kai and Pan, let’s have adventures together, please?
I’ll be in town on the 24th for a play, and I might be able to see about going in early, meeting with you guys, then meeting up with my parents before the play.
I’ll be in DC until early-mid July, and I’m basically free all the time except when I’m interning. So after that and weekends are good times! What time is your play on the 24th?
AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TODAY. I got out of work a little bit early, so I was taking a long out-of-the-way walk to the metro to explore a bit, and I found the Barnes and Noble that we kokonvened in all those many years ago! It was so cool!
KaiYves, would you be able/interested in Kokonvening at some point on the 24th (next Thursday)?
How about Pan and Robert?
I would be interested, but I have to get started at my internship and find out what hours I’ll be working before I can make further plans.
Okay! Could you keep us updated as you find out?
I’m free from 12:15 until 7:30 PM on Thursday. Kokon at Air and Space?
Okay.
I’d suggested to Pan that we see the Street Photography exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, she suggested lunch with Robert as well.
If you’d be interested in the exhibit, that’d be fun, or we could do something completely different, whatever you’d like.
Robert, could you send Kai my email or phone number so we can plan in realtime and/or figure out how to meet up?
Right away, ma’am.
And while you’re at it, you can start making plans for a June kokon when I can be in town.Rebecca! Why did you cross that out? We should definitelydefinitelyabsolutelyofcourse do something in June!
I guess that should have been a coughcough instead of a strikeout.
Why, soitenly.
Yes yes yes, absolutely! What time were you thinking?
At any time you’re free, before, say, 6pm or so.
I didn’t have any particular ideas of what to do. If there are any exhibits on that sound interesting that could be fun, or we could go just go adventuring and grab a meal somewhere.
Cool! I usually work until 4, but I might be able to get out early. I’m also allowed to work just 4 days a week if I want, so maybe I can make Thursday my day off next week. And yeah, I’m up for anything! I think general adventuring/whatever sounds good at the time/unless there’s something specifically special going on is great!
Stop by Science if you’re in the neighborhood.
Robert! I’m in the neighborhood every day!
Well, you don’t have to stop by every day. But it would be nice to see you once in a while.
Science is a great place to visit!
I’ll be in DC/NY late August and early September. Without wi-fi. With awesome museums and all.
Kokons?
I live near DC, (within driving distance) so if I am free then I’d love to kokon.
With parents?
Yes, and my art teacher. My mom is quite open to Kokons.
What time in late August?
North Carolina Kokon before September? Please?
I’ll be back down there in mid-late August!
Just say when and where, and I’ll see if I can come.
SFTDP. August may be tricky for me though, I’m planning on making my summer trip to the west coast in early August at this point.
Although she can’t be too specific about that here, where everyone can see it.
I meant the city.
I should be open.
How about mid-August in the Triangle area?
I probably won’t be available then.
July?
I get back to NC August 26, and will be HARD PARTYIN’ because of happy to see my friends again and
terrorize the new freshmenall.And by HARD PARTYIN’ I mean I’ll be going crazy and trying to figure out which classes I should take/am in because my schedule is messed up. Yeah.
So, let me know?
Ugh, no, that unfortunately leaves us basically a two-day window because I’m heading up to Rhode Island on the 28th-ish. WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK
Tess~ Well, I’ll be spending significant amounts of time in NC for the next three years. You’ll be going off to school elsewhere, but your permanent address is still there. It will happen. Sometime. At some point I will almost certainly get a work contract and stay there over a break, which means more likelihood that we’ll be in the state at the same time. So, maybe not this August, but EVENTUALLY.
Yes, you’re right of course. I was hoping there’d be a date that’d work for everyone though!
Cake. I forgot about this. Is it to late to say that I can go to an NC Kokon at just about any date before August 3rd and after August 11th?
SFTDP. *too late
Sorry.
No, not too late! Let’s get moving on this thing! NC MBers are Rebecca of course, you, me, Koppar, Kiwi, Pie Girl, Agent Lightning and Agent Hippie (and Monkeyboy/L). Am I forgetting anyone?
At least one MB parent in North Carolina has told us she is interested in a Kokonvention. If you’ll have parents e-mail us at thegapas at gmail dot com, we’ll happily put them all in touch with one another.
I’ll see about convincing mine…
SFTDP. How involved can we MBers be in deciding when/where? I’m a bit hazy on the rules.
You can be as involved as you like, off the blog. We don’t know everybody who reads MuseBlog (there are lurkers who never post), so we limit the information you’re allowed to post here to near-zero.
OK, thanks.
I’ll have my dad email right now!
He did. Waiting for more…
Drama Llama, but she hasn’t been very active lately.
So I’ll be back in Oregon in two weeks, if anyone’s interested in Kokon activities. My parents would probably be more receptive of the idea, considering that I’m an “independent” college student now. And I also have a car.
North Carolina MBers – I will definitely be available in July. The only question would be convincing certain parental figures, which depends on distance. Sorry for inconveniences, etc.
California MBers – I just got confirmation that I will definitely fly to California on August 23rd, and will be there for at least a week.
Oh no, I won’t be able to meet you this summer! I’ll be flying to DC on the 22nd and won’t be back for ten days. How I miss you…
Oh, cake. I’m so sorry about the timing! I miss you as well, my friend.
Cskia- Great news! Apparently I misheard and misread my information. I’m actually flying to California on the 3rd, not the 23rd! YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF A KOKON; IT IS INEVITABLE MWAHAHAHAHA!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSSS
*explodes into happy fireworks*
SO MANY HAPPY FIREWORKS *explodes too*
SFTDP. Oh, and do you think maybe Swalot could hang out with us too? I’d love to meet him.
I wish he could, but I think he’s going to be in England? (Also, I rather doubt I would get to see him over the summer
)
Ah, that’s too bad.
Back in Chicago for the summer basically, if anyone is around/passing through and wants to hang out with a bored college kid it’s not hard for me to get into the city for a day
A:GJLKSDKLJHDSFOSDI CHICAGO??? I leave next week, but I have two free days on Thursday and Friday.
oh crap how did I miss this???? Now I am too late
Oh well you’re going to school there and I live here so we’ll have to find a time 
Kokons are possible for me within a certain distance. Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York…
This is where I live, so there’s no window of opportunity for a Kokon. Just putting it out there. I think there’s some Musers in the area, no?
I’ll be in Providence during the school year for the next four years!
I live in MA
Anyone in the Four Corners area who’s Kokonable?
SFTDP
I’ll likely be in San Diego at some point during the summer. Anyone else in the area?
My dad just emailed about the NC kokon, but there was a little confusion over the email address. GAPAs, did you get it?
I know my mom got emailed.
California Bay Area Kokonvention. Who here would be interested and able?
I’ll bet Rosanne already has the kettle on.
*envy* I hope this happens and that it is awesome for everyone who actually could go.
There was a lot of interest in a Bay Area Kokon on the Back to School thread last year, but I never got around to organizing it. Freshman year was hard.
I would love to meet Rosanne in the flesh, and any other MBers, really!
Heyya! (Read in a singsongy Lauren Cooper voice.) I’d love to! When are you all free? I’m available some weekends (my schedule for journalism stuff isn’t really clear yet, but I’ll happily blow them off to spend time with MBers).
What general area is convenient for you? I can probably wheedle my way into a ride or take the train to most places in the Bay Area.
CO: Like you, I can get pretty much anywhere that BART reaches, but my stomping grounds are in Berkeley.
Weekends are probably ideal for me, but I don’t know my work-study hours yet so I can’t be much more specific.
I feel like this might be treading near the edges of Acceptable Discussion on-Blog. Should we write to the GAPAs so we can exchange e-mails and plan further details?
Probably prudent, if any of you are under 18.
Done.
A request shall be made to The Parent at my earliest opportunity (which may not be until the weekend, sorry). GAPAs, if I’ve already met Rosanne with a parent present and said parent is alright with it, must she be there again? That might be kind of hard to wrangle.
(*Must my mother be there again, I mean.)
Let’s hear from your mother.
Ooooh! Kokonvening! Yes!
I’m glad to hear it! Hopefully more will weigh in, but two or three is definitely enough for a Kokon.
Hello! I’m in Providence all school year and would be up for a Boston-area Kokon if anyone is interested.
CO, any word from the parent? I’m in the Bay Area now and will be for quite some time.
Second roll call for a SF Bay Area Kokonvention! Anyone else interested?
Well, you know you’ve got Rosanne on board.
Oh gosh; I forgot all about this. Is it too late to send in my email?
Not at all! But I’m leaving Berkeley by the 20th, so if we’re going to do this we should probably arrange it soon.
Oh dear. I sent in my email only to discover that I’d misunderstood my own scheduling and I don’t actually arrive in California until the 20th! I’m sorry.
I’ll be in berkeley beginning the 16th
Robert — Indeed. CO checked in last time I asked, too, but I know she’s been pretty busy lately and never got a decisive response from her parent. I just thought I’d check once more before starting to make plans. Ideally nobody misses out who would be able to make it.
I’m so sorry! As of this afternoon, my mom has sent in her permission.
Received!
Considering I’m turning eighteen next week, do I still need parental permission for this? I understand if I do, and it won’t be all that hard to get.
You’ll be 18 before Kokonvening, so no need for parental permission.
OK, great. Thank you.
I might be able to make it if it’s in the second half of December.
I’m happy to have one before then, too, but the second half of December would be particularly good for me as I will hopefully have a proper driver’s license by then and can probably wheedle my way into borrowing the car.
83 et al. Good to have you both on board. Second half of December works well for me, though I might be kind of busy with prepping for finals. And that’s probably about as specific as we should get on the blog, isn’t it.
Hey! I don’t know how relevant this is, but I’m taking the train to Vermont next week to visit a friend for fall break and I have a 3 hour layover in Washington DC next monday (assuming the train isn’t late (it will probably be some degree of late)).
I don’t know how close the Union Station in Washington is to anything/anyone, but I’m probably gonna hang around nearby/eat lunch after I get in around 1pm if anyone’s nearby! I have to be back to the station 45 min to an hour before my train leaves so I don’t have time to really… go anywhere/do anything… but yeah!
I might be able to stop by and say hello. Union Station is just a 10-minute Metro ride from my office, so, work permitting…
Ohh!! I didn’t see this till now, but if you get a break from work feel free to come say hello!! I think the other GAPA’s might have my phone # but uh, I’ll email it to the gmail since I don’t think you do. I have no idea if the train will be late or not, but it’s scheduled to arrive around 1:10 and I leave again around 4! I’m probably just going to find a café or somehting and hole myself up in there while I wait.
(Alas, our hoped-for meeting did not materialize. The people I work for made me work all day today. It’s such a nuisance having to maintain a humdrum alter ego.)
OK, this is really last-minute and I’m sorry, but I just got confirmation that I got into an internship so I had no idea where I would be this summer beforehand.
From next Saturday until the end of the month I’ll be in California, and for most of August I’ll be in North Carolina. Anyone up for a last-minute Kokon?
I’ll be studying for/taking finals for the week we overlap in the Bay Area, so I’m not sure I’ll have the time
Aw, that’s really too bad. Good luck on your finals. If you do end up having time that’s great, but if not we’ll just have to kokon at some point further in the future.
I could do an NC Kokon in August, possibly.
That would be awesome, Tesseract!
New York City
I am in or near NYC until July, when I will still be nearby but also very busy.
Let’s hang.
I’ll be in NYC mid-June until early August!
I’ll be close enough to NYC to kokon almost all of the time until January, when I will… hopefully still be NYC but the future is hazy.
Here’s my schedule for June, it’s kind of busy, but I don’t get any less busy as time goes on.
Work Monday-Friday 9am-5:30pm — probably can’t do anything on a weekday.
Sat. June 7 I was considering going down to Brooklyn for NYC Resistor’s Interactive Show (they’re the hackerspace the CEO of MakerBot founded…)
I have nothing planned the weekend of 6/14-6/15
Thursday 6/19-Sunday 6/22 I’m planning to be in NYC anyway to attend the Lesbians Who Tech summit. Not sure how free I’ll be but the weekend’s probably clearer than the weekdays.
Saturday 6/28 I go on family vacation, leaving me unavailable until 7/12.
I’ll be there from mid-May until mid-June.
Wait, no, scratch that, early June, I leave for Field School on the 3rd.
I’ll be in Norfolk, CT from June 28 – Aug 10, but I probably won’t have much / any free time to visit people. But if you guys want to come to some of the concerts let me know.
So, mid-June seems popular. Is everyone around the weekend of the 14th?
I don’t arrive until Sunday the 15th
I’m going to be (very briefly) in Washington D.C., New York, and maybe Chicago this June! If anyone would like to get together, please let me know. New York. I’m so excited.
Washington, D.C.,… Doesn’t one of those “GAPA” people live there?
I’m going to be there sometime near the 20th of June. Are you around then? I’d love to meet you, and I’m sure I could badger my parents into sending their permission!
Chok! When in June will you be in New York??
I don’t quite know yet; maybe around the 25th? Oh my gosh this is so cool; how long will you be there?
I’ll be there like 6/16 to 8/7! We absolutely must Kokon. I’m so excited!
WAIT. I am also maybe in New York around this time.
The “maybe” is because the trip is for my cousin’s wedding in Michigan, then driving to New York for my grandpa’s memorial, and everything is still really up in the air. We might just be in upstate New York or there at the wrong time for all I know. Please keep me posted if any Kokon plans develop, though!
I hope for your sake you’re just going to western New York — while it’s only four hours driving from Detroit (a city on the eastern side of Michigan) to Buffalo (the westernmost major city in New York), there’s an additional seven hours driving to get to NYC from Buffalo.
I think a lot of people who aren’t native New Yorkers forget that New York is actually pretty big. It’s not as big as, say, Texas, but it’s still a full day of car or train travel from one end to the other.
With that said, I do hope that we can see you. We were considering the weekend of June 20th in emails?
Robert, and anyone else who might be in Washington, D.C.! I just figured out our schedule for the coming week (lots of trains)- I’m going to be in D.C. Wednesday and Thursday. Would it be possible to meet up either of those days?
I’m also going to be in New York City, on Saturday and Sunday (the 28th and the 29th). Some of that is college tours and visiting relatives, but if anyone can meet up, I’d love to, and I’ll try my best to make a schedule work!
Sorry for the ridiculously short notice. We leave tomorrow and I am so, so excited.
I’ll be at work both days and will be happy to schedule a tour of Science news headquarters whenever I’m not in a meeting. Any after-hours get-together would constitute a Kokonvention and would require parental permission for pre-collegiate MBers.
No sign of Choklit Orange so far.
CO, if you want to watch USA vs. Germany in the World Cup tomorrow (Thursday), your best bet is to head up to Dupont Circle. There will be big screens and an excited crowd. Starting at 11:30, that will be the place to be.
I want to know if you do meet up! I remember visiting Robert at Science. It was great!
I’m back! Sorry- I’ve been without WiFi for a while. I don’t think I can actually meet up after hours, as we’re leaving tomorrow night- but a tour of Science sounds wonderful (as does the soccer; I may have to drag my sports-shy parents to that)!
Robert, could I stop by your office between 3 and 4 tomorrow afternoon? If that’s at all inconvenient, I can probably come at any other time, as all I have planned is itinerant tourism.
Between 3 and 4 should be fine. I’d love to meet your parents, too, if they’re less Science-shy than sports-shy.
There’s a great gelato shop in that neighborhood, too.
I am going to be in DC for a con from January 22-26! Robert, when are you free and where can I email you? Others?
This makes me sound like I’m planning to steal the Hope Diamond but I swear it’s just a gaming convention
And there’s next august!
I’m part of the tetrad reachable at thegapas (at) gmail. I’m free whenever I’m neither working nor asleep. That narrows things down considerably, of course.
I would just like to say as some kind of PSA that if anyone is in Chicago during the school year for any reason I would love to kokon.
I’ll be back in the US & probably around the city from end november onward, probably at least into spring/summer.
That’s great! We always missed each other before!