MuseBlog does not encourage non-virtual meetings. If you’re going to organize them, be careful. The best way to plan them is for your parents to communicate with one another by e-mail. We’ll put them in touch with one another if they will e-mail us (gapa @ musefanpage.com). Meanwhile, you can use this thread for headcounts and other preliminary planning.
Chicagoland crowd: We’ve asked people at Muse headquarters about a possible tour for you. Stay tuned…Sorry–not this spring break!
GOOD NEWS! The people at Carus Publishing say they can give a tour. If you stop by on Tuesday or Thursday after 10 and before 4, you can meet the magazine’s art director and designer. If you come in the morning, the photo researcher will be there, too. Just let us know if and when, and we’ll pass the word on to them.
Yay!! We;re on spring break now, but if we have it next saturday or sunday (when krickets here) mom said we could probably make it too.
You couldn’t visit the Muse offices over the weekend, unfortunately. They’ll also be closed on Friday the 6th (for Good Friday).
Aww, darn. Thursday afternoon? I might not ba able to make it then, though. Hmmm. I’ll ba able to find out more about when me+VF are free when we get home and I can look at the calender. Mom says I couldprbably do it after school, though.
How about a virtual kokonvention? Don’t know how, but I’m sure it could be done. Ask Aeiou. She’ll know. Also, if anybody is coming to England, let me know. Maybe we can meet up.
Wah! No fair! The Chicago MuseBloggers get a tour of the Muse headquarters!
I didn’t know MuseBlog discourages non-virtual meetings! I seriously doubt a troublemaker would come to such a sheltered, close-managed site as this. They’d probably go to a chatroom or something.
5 – no, MB does not encourage non-virtual meetings. they don’t discourage meetings.
6 – Yeah, and also, any stalker could view this from the internet – it’s not protected. And reading-at-baseball-games nerds? Perfect target. So, just being safe and caring for the Bloggers, the GAPAs don’t encourage personal Kokonventions.
darn it!
oh well
There are $1 bus rides from Pittsburgh to Chicago, but the trip is really long (I think 6 or 7 hours, but I’m not exactly sure).
I really want to have a Muse, PA Kokonvention. If anyone is going to be in the Pittsburgh/Allegheny County area, we can probably have a Kokonvention!!!
6- ??? not encourage=discourage
I think everyone who lives near me knows my email. I check it often, if you think we should have a kokonvention.
Sweet, life is good being a chicago area muser!!!
10- Maybe xoj (he/she, sorry I don’t know who you are and love any excuse to use an epicene) meant indifferent.
When is the tour? Not Thursday afternoons, I have Hebrew School. But if REALLY necessary, I can switch it to Tuesday. Piano on Friday, but that’s easily moved to Monday. Unless I have a doctor’s appointment, practically anything’s available to me. Penty won’t be able to come unless it’s a Friday.
Now I really wish I lived near Chicago…are they any other MBers in the northwest US?
Mmmkay. I would LOVE to go to Chicago and see the headquarters…but maybe the weekend after spring break season ends (14 April? Or thereabouts?) Cos I know a lot of people leave their general area of dwelling over spring break and so it would mean that a lot of people might miss it (mostly me — I’ll be in England from 31 March – 12 April).
So some weekend. Please, GAPA?
5, 6, 7-No, they don’t encourage them. And yet they give us a thread specifically for planning them.
10-not encourage + not discourage=neutral
There was some talk a little while ago about a Kokonvention in D.C. in latish May, or very early June (I think we’ll be in the area from May 17 to June 3) can anyone come then? PLEASE?
I REALLY want to go to Chicago. Mom says she’d be willing to take me there this summer instead of CTY. I said no way. muse is very, very close to being as good as CTY, but i’m not giving up 3 or 6 weeks of nerd camp even for a kokonvention.
No one else lives in the L.A. area, do they? If you do, perhaps we could have a kokonvention?
(15),
What are you asking us to do? None of the Administrators lives or works anywhere near Chicago.
England, eh? We have at least one English MBer: iwanttobeamuffin.
Bad news about the tour of Muse H.Q.: most of the people who work on the magazine will be away that week. Also, the whole company has recently moved to a new building, and a lot of interesting items (including the Muse archives) are still in boxes in the basement. Basically, there’s not much to see right now. So I wouldn’t tie myself in knots trying to get over there on a weekday if some other time is more convenient.
16- Too bad you’ll miss the cherry blossom festival (first week of april) but I might be able to make it then.
19-who cares about cherry blossoms? I’m going to the spelling bee! anyway, when would be best for you? (and anyone else who might be able to come).
THF and I might be able to make it. If we can persuade our parents to take us there. But this year would be better than any other year because my aunt and uncle (who we will stay with) are still living in D.C. Next year the State Department’s packing them off to Croatia.
21-I hope you can!!!!!! And this year is better than any other year for me too, since this is the only year i get to go to the pspelling bee (i’m in 8th grade, so I don’t get another chance
)
Uhm, I thought this was clear, but if there will be a Muse Headquarters Tour sometime in the near future, it’d be nice if it was on a weekend…when most of the people are there…and they’re moved in…and most of the MBers who live in a fair proximity to Chicago (I’m about 2 hours away, for example) could go…
Just some weekend when its most convenient for the magazine staff and the MBers who lives close enough. It doesn’t matter to me, so long as its not any time in my mentioned break…
iwanttobeamuffin: how far away from London are you?
I would be more interested in a GAPA tour of Science Magazine or another GAPA place. Yes, I would come all the way.
The HAWK
24-are you saying science is better than MUSE? *gasp* *choke* *falls to ground*
We do have very good vending machines.
26-is that really all that matters? muse is much froodier!
I’m going to be in Chicago land next week. Maybe I’ll just show up at the headquarters and lurk there. Probably can’t though.
Hmm. In order to have a Kokonvention, I need to ask my mum to e-mail the GAPAs. Before I go through the trouble doing this, are any of the Chicago landers even available next week at any point to have a Kokonvention?
20- The cherry blossoms are DC’s pride and joy. They really are beautiful. But the national spelling bee, that really is amazing. Good Luck. My schedule is pretty flexible.
ANyone in san fransico? That’s where we’re headed over the break.
I am SOOOOO jealous of the chicago people. If ONLY I went up there to see my cousins this break.
OOoooohh…. I have not been bitten, I AM the green eyed monster.
Wait, wait wait wait wait wait.
PLEASE do not ignore this PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is the kokonvention in chicago on a WEEKEND??????
If not, I can’t go, and I will feel terribly sad. If so, I will be able to GO.
30- (san DIEGO, not san fransisco.)
24- WHAT?!?! SCIENCE IS BETTER THAN MUSE?!?!?!?!?! *gags* *shudders* *falls into a catatonic stupor* *gasp* *falls unconscious*
23- SHE SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!!!!!! WEEKENDS PLEASE!!!!!
*falls unconscious on top of fellowmuser*
(I live about 7 hours away, but I’LL MAKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
19 and 20- The cherry blossoms in DC where lovely when I went there. We got a fantastic photograph of the Jefferson memorial through one of the trees, and the memorial was framed so lovely (oh wooooooouldn’t it be loverly!) it was fantastical.
Again, weekend? *blinks eyelashes uncontrollably.*
34-We watched our classmates put on My Fair Lady today at school. That’s the only reason I know that quote, lol.
dammit, no tour. guess i’ll just have to settle for wandering around the Apple store. *sigh…*
No, no, no, I never said science is better than Muse, but in terms of distance… And besides, a GAPA tour of Science has to be fun, I think Robert said he would get us a candy out of the vending machine, and it’s closer for some people. I think PP and THF live in PA, or somewhere really close, and maybe others. I just don’t think we could make it all the way to Chicago. They just said at the top of the page that the Muse people said no. I certainly wasn’t trying to indicate that either is better than the other!
where do the other GAPAs work again?
In terms of when, just not on Sunday morning, sometimes not on Saturdays, but about any time on a weekday. I think it should be sometime when non-homeschoolers can attend too. I don’t know when your schools let out, though…
The Excited HAWK
28- Yepsies! Tuesday at 2:30? Er… Cafe Express? (that’s in Evanston)
18- About the tour… I can’t be there between June 21st and July 17th. So don’t plan it then. A Friday in May would be most pleasurable. So Penty and Jadestone can come.
17- Yes, and I would suggest that you read the name of the person who wrote the post asking for people in England. I KNOW that iwanttobeamuffin lives in England – thats ME!
Forget that post. I read Roberts post wrong! Oops!
15 – Whereish?
HOW ABOUT APRIL 10th OR APRIL 17th FOR A KOKONVENTION? WHEREVER IT IS CONVENIENT FOR EVERYONE, PREFERABLY CHICAGO. ROBERT, CAN YOU GET THE MUSE OFFICES TO GIVE US A TOUR THEN ? THIS WOULD BE GREAT, BECAUSE MOST LIKELY A WEEKEND IS BEST FOR ALL
Sorry about the big letters, just wanted to get my point across.
Say “I” if you can come on this date.
i might be able to make it to chicago then maybe
*sigh*
I used to live in Chicago. And Pennsylvania. Hershey, actually. Always smelled like chocolate because everyone used cocoa bean mulch for their gardens. *drools*But, alas, no more. Maybe would could get a general idea of where the most MBers live and then hold a Kokokinvention around there. Previously, there were at least two or three other MBers around where I live, and a freind of mine supposedly just started, though I’m not sure what ther user name is yet. So, that makes around four or five in the Big Mitten.
42-Can’t come if it’s in Chicago (I guess that means it wouldn’t be a tour of Muse! heehee…) But I could probably come all the way to Washington DC for a GAPA tour. Anybody else?
The Organizing HAWK
no….. I can’t go to DC. Too far. *sob* well, maybe because we have friends there but probably not.
Any MBers in Minnesota?
Again, though, PLEASE SEE POST 42!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oops, I meant:
PLEASE SEE POST 42!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any MBers in the general Washington/Idaho/Montana/Oregon area? Or am I the only one?
30- I live near San Fransico.
48- YES! You are NOT the only one! I live in the wisconsin/south dakota/northdakota/montana/illinois/minnesota area!
Area, which is pretty close, and my family will be going to montana in the summer,
49- San Diego .
SEE POST 42!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Please*
I must know.
50-Well, you’re the closest one to me, so far, but I’m still sort of far away. I’m a Washingtonian. xD
52- Aaarrrrrr….. Minnesotan.
The last three days of the third-ish week in April, Korrora’s and my middle schools are taking our grade to Washington, DC. I think our respective chaperones would freak if we went missing to tour Science, though. No matter how good an excuse we have. Sigh. Someday in a few years maybe.
Bring the whole group through. That would liven things up around our usually peaceful editorial offices.
Can we have it later in the day plese???
VF and I have school next week, we have this week off for spring break. We get out at 2:50 and evonstons an hour or so away…
(28/56) I’ll be in Evanston tuesday, I think, I’ll have to check, so that would be a good day. Wednesday I don’t think I can do, I’m seeing Wicked (the matinee). Maybe we could do it later on Tuesday, say, 4? We could all bring adults and Muse objects?
Unfortunately, I am rather constrained by a very busy touring-plan. But I might be able to meet somewhere on either this coming sunday or the saturday after next. I’ll ask my mum.
B-B-But-t!!!!!! I-I-I cant c-come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May I suggest something? The two main groups seem to be either going to DC or going to Chicago, so why don’t the Chicago people post in BOLD and the DC people post in
code.That might make things a little less confusing. OK then,I hereby start typing in my respective code on this thread. :lol: :lol: :lol:The HAWK
Why does it matter though?…
Allrighty, by the time most people see this, they will have been out of school, but all the same: A HEADCOUNT OF PEOPLE GOING TO SCIENCE MAGAZINE: PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND SAYING YOU CAN'T COME. Only respond if you can come. Thn we can start talking about possible dates. Thank you.The About to leave For School HAWK
23- Might be able to somehow convince my parents to get me down there. When?
Tuesday… VF has piano on tuesdays, darn! I most likely wouldn’t be able to make it this sunday (one parent out of town, other working), but the next one I think would be good. That way the people wo live farther off coul get there, plus the people who live nearby.
GAPAs, is the email we ssent last time still good, or sould my parents send you another? One of them will definatly be going with me ( I can’t drive yet).
New permission, please. We’ll sleep more soundly with convincing evidence of parental involvement.
Okay, I’ll have them send it as soon as one of tem gets back… they both seem to have vanished for now…
GOOD NEWS! The people at Carus Publishing say they can give a tour. If you stop by on Tuesday or Thursday after 10 and before 4, you can meet the magazine’s art director and designer. If you come in the morning, the photo researcher will be there, too. Just let us know if and when, and we’ll pass the word on to them.
WHEEEE!! Thursday??? We could make thursday!!! Not tuesdays, though. YAY! Funfunfun. We could only make it in the afternoon, but it woud still be rally cool!!!
Thursday is slightly better for the people who work there, too.
I may have to take you up on that sometime…
*plots and plans*
Everyone going on a tour, take pictures if allowed, and MuseBlog about it afterwards asap. Include all the details you can.
55- Not that I don’t want to, but I think there’s schedules and buses taking us places and stuff. And I’m probably the only MuseBlogger and one of three or so Musers in the school, so they wouldn’t appreciate it.
It’s a six-hour drive to DC and I don’t know how far we are from Chicago but it’s in a different time zone. I don’t think I can do any of this. There isn’t anything in NYC, is there?
Pollyhymnia lives there and might autograph a book for you and take you to tea if you asked politely enough.
I haven’t read Enthusiasm yet, though. Or Pride and Prejudice, for that matter. They’re on my list of books I have to inter-library-loan sometime. Oh well.
GUESS WHAT! I asked my Dad if we could go to Chicago (for sightseeing and Kokovention) and he said “maybe in the summer”. That’s an improvement all right!
Anyways, I had a good idea. What if, when you all go to Chicago to meet, or whatever, what if you each bring a Muse magazine (at least one) and stand in front of the Muse HQ reading it? Then somebody could take a picture and you could send it into Muse. Then you’d have several MBers, reading Muse, in front of the Muse HQ, IN Muse!
72 i havent either. whats enthusiasm about?
62: Uh, we’re taking three day trips out of London (Oxford, Bath and Stonehenge), but we’ll mostly be found in London 1 – 7 April.
Shall we have our parents e-mail the GAPAs? (Or however that works…GAPA?)
I CAN’T GO TO DC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel so sad, I think I’ll cry….
orry i don’t know how to do the weird font thing, but I’m talking about D.C. the best date for me is June 2. any good for anyone else? if not, then sometime before that, but probably not the week before becasue that’s Bee Week.
75- Bathbathbathbathbath. If it is at all possible to meet in Bath someplace, cause we are really close to bath. What day are you going to Bath? Actually, I just asked my mom, and she was kind of suggesting that I wouldn’t be able to come. Tell me anyway, I might be able to get there.
66- w00t! I’m coming on Tuesday! at 2:30! YAYAYAYAY!!!
Hmm. Actually, Violetfire won’t be able to make it at all. She has track till 4:30 every day. But I still might be able to come, on either tuesday or thursday. Not at 2:30, though, cause school gets out at 2:50. Darn.
Robert, when do you think you could give a GAPA tour? People seem to have lost interest, sadly. :(I can come probably anytime on a weekday, but preferably not too late in the day. Is it hard getting out of DC late in the day? By the way, how are the blossoms down there?
The HAWK
Ah, the fickleness of fame.
It’s easy to get out of D.C. late in the day. Just climb on the Metro, and stay on until you cross the border. I haven’t checked the blossoms lately; they weren’t out the last time I looked, but they’re supposed to peak in the middle of next week, so things should start happening very soon.
Is anyone else coming on Tuesday? My mom said I could go only if someone else was coming.
The problem for me is I probably won’t be able to get there in time for a tour. (Noooooooooooooo!!!…). I’d probably end up ariving there around four, which is not. cool. At all. *snibble*
I’m pleased to announce that here in the nation’s capital, the cherry trees have blossomed overnight and are thick and burgeoning and radiant and glorious.
85 – Ooh, pretty! Our forsythia is blooming, and we also have crocuses, daffodils, and peach blossoms. But that’s about all for Pittsburgh.
85-Really? Overnight? 8) 86-Does Pittsburgh have a population of more than one million? Does anybody else want to go to DC? Robert, are you still willing to give a tour? Assuming all of that is true…
ATTENTION!!! IF YOU WANT AND CAN GO TO DC, PLEASE POST SO, INCLUDING (TYPED OUT) EXACTLY HOW YOU WANT ME TO SPELL YOUR MBLOG NAME, AS WELL AS ANY ADDITIONAL TITLES/NAMES YOU WISH ME to put on your name tag. I would also make yours your favorite color if you in clude that, otherwise it will be white. Thank you.
The Nice Name Tag Making HAWK
87 – yes, we have about 2 million people. (I didn’t know we had that many people until a few weeks ago).
When is the DC Kokonvention? THF and I can try to make our parents take us.
88-No date decided yet, but as I said, june 2 is best, maybe sometime before that, definitely not after that.
grrr. IS ANYONE ELSE COMING ON TUESDAY?????
70-I might make it to NYC sometime… How far are you away, roughly?
90- Maybe, if no one else can go on thursday. But I wo’t be there in time for the tour.
85- Oh, fab! (I’ve just realized I use “fab” way too often. I will try to stop) My friend and I are planning to go down (up? I should check a map) later this week.
If anybody will actually attach a date to this DC kokonvention, I will probably be able to make it
90- I don’t think so… As said before, thursday I could come to evenston and do something at the café around 5-ish, but I won’t be anywhere near the ofices before 4.
Hm… I thought I saw a places list somewhere, and I thought it was here, but turns out it’s on the Kokonspiracy thread. Want me to post Panda’s list here or is it not really needed? I’ll update it if you want.
post it here plz
WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Oh. They’re all on Part 2.