> get lamp

I had a thought about a possible way of orchestrating a "meal plan" of sorts for another attempt at a gather. I know from experience that bringing your own food from a long ways away is difficult to impossible*. If you have someplace nearby to buy, that helps, but still it'd be hard on anyone who'd be trying to take a plane. But on the other hand, I am definitely not up for actually arranging for catering (yikes!) or cooking everything myself.

So I thought, how about a "food bank" approach? People who want to buy into the plan pay extra on top of the registration fee, and then check some boxes in a list or whatever indicating their general food preferences, and food is bought and brought on their behalf by a person or people actually local to the site, but they still have to prepare it themselves. Perhaps additionally those bringing food and not buying the plan could be asked to bring one extra item (such as a box of cereal, a can of some vegetable, etc) to add to the pile just in case. Does this sound like it might work, given sufficient cooking equipment and facilities?

* - Basically fuhgeddaboudit if you are trying to cross an international border, not that I expect any Canadians; even some states have rules about what can be brought from other states, and actually California is one of them, although I've only once been stopped on the way instate and asked if I had any proverbial fruit to declare.

Re my creepy feel-good post (lol), something I posted in a comment:

Like I say, for certain values of "love". I was trying to use one word to cover all bases and English is teh suck for that kind of thing. When I say "more intense" I meant "than I feel about people who I didn't put on the list", not necessarily something burning. Just positive enough that I recognize it as a genuinely positive emotion, rather than something neutral (I am awfully neutral about a lot of stuff).

If you are wondering why I would post such a thing at all, "a certain community" happened to be about suicides, thus the "because who knows what the hell will happen tomorrow" subject line. I don't mean that I think anyone is planning, and neither am I, but [insert natural disaster here], for instance.

In short I like to feel like someone out there feels good about me, so I was pre-emptively returning the favour (?!?).

Good grief, I never thought... Where's the shame in simply making up a name that I just think sounds cool, so long as I honestly give that as the reason if I'm asked? I do want it to describe me somehow, but why does it have to perfectly encapsulate my being? I think I have been taking this way too seriously, and letting idealism get in the way of practicality. Except for that core vibrational resonance that no one with a human windpipe could pronounce anyway, a name is just something for people to call you besides "Hey you!"

While I don't think the following phrase applies in all situations (I agree with those who feel net mockery is able to cause real hurts), I think it certainly does here, to me: "Get a life. It's just the goddamn internet."

The foregoing thoughts have almost certainly been influenced by reading postvixen's writings on fluorescence, identity-play, and the like. (I am 68% fluorescent! *giggles*)

This all said, I do offer you the following quote from Hubert H. Humphrey: "In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."