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rivkaThey posted the SUUSI catalog!!
I am excited. I am so much in need of some happy escapist vacation-dreaming right now, so this couldn't have come at a better time. I spent my lunch break poring over the electronic catalog, making long lists of all the things I might like to do.
They've got a UU parenting workshop this year, which initially had me excited. But it's five whole morning sessions, and registration is "required," meaning that they won't let you cross-register for anything else. I don't want to be locked into it to that extent. Besides, I think I should use the opportunity of SUUSI to feed other aspects of myself. I'm not sure I really want to put Alex in children's programming just to spend the entire morning thinking about her, you know?
So instead I'm thinking about taking a crafting workshop. Or a storytelling class. I know I want to take chocolate-making 101. (Filled chocolates and modeling chocolate. There's a separate truffle-making class, but I'm not all that crazy about truffles.) I think I'll probably skip the canoeing this year, and go on a moderately challenging hike instead. I want to do the Poverty Creek mini-hike/wading adventure with Alex again - that was a real highlight of SUUSI last year. I'd love to do a sunset hike, but the two sunset hikes are cross-scheduled against the beer tasting and the poker tournament, so that might be difficult to schedule.
Of course I can't nail anything down until Michael's had a chance to go through the schedule too, which won't be until after tomorrow night's church board meeting. This year we're planning to use the youth program during the mornings. The one thing I regretted most last year was only making it to one of the Theme Talks, which are from 9-10am. If we bring Alex to the youth program for the 9-noon session, we can go to theme talks and also each take a morning workshop without worrying about the other one's schedule. But nature trips and winery tours and so forth usually start before the youth program opens, and one of us will also always have to be on duty in the afternoon and evening. We could take her back to the youth program from 2-4 in the afternoon, but I feel like that's too much childcare for a family vacation. Once she's asleep at night, we'll be able to go out together - the childcare co-op kicks in at 9:30, and the person on duty will call us if she wakes up. So we can go out in the evening and do whatever.
Amusingly, right on the main page at suusi.org is a big notice: "Click here to pre-order a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from the SUUSI store." They've got a small but functional bookstore, completely separate from the Virginia Tech bookstore. It usually sells SUUSI T-shirts and other memorabilia, CDs by musicians performing at SUUSI, books recommended by workshop leaders, and a range of titles published by Beacon Press and Skinner House (the Unitarian-Universalist Association's publishing houses), but this year they'll also be offering the seventh Harry Potter book at 12:01am on July 21st. I predict that they will be posting the largest profits in SUUSI bookstore history... probably several times over.
SUUSI! Yay!
I am not even entertaining the notion that SUUSI might go the same way as the Farthing Party and Minicon. I refuse to consider the possibility. In fact, what possibility? So there.
I am excited. I am so much in need of some happy escapist vacation-dreaming right now, so this couldn't have come at a better time. I spent my lunch break poring over the electronic catalog, making long lists of all the things I might like to do.
They've got a UU parenting workshop this year, which initially had me excited. But it's five whole morning sessions, and registration is "required," meaning that they won't let you cross-register for anything else. I don't want to be locked into it to that extent. Besides, I think I should use the opportunity of SUUSI to feed other aspects of myself. I'm not sure I really want to put Alex in children's programming just to spend the entire morning thinking about her, you know?
So instead I'm thinking about taking a crafting workshop. Or a storytelling class. I know I want to take chocolate-making 101. (Filled chocolates and modeling chocolate. There's a separate truffle-making class, but I'm not all that crazy about truffles.) I think I'll probably skip the canoeing this year, and go on a moderately challenging hike instead. I want to do the Poverty Creek mini-hike/wading adventure with Alex again - that was a real highlight of SUUSI last year. I'd love to do a sunset hike, but the two sunset hikes are cross-scheduled against the beer tasting and the poker tournament, so that might be difficult to schedule.
Of course I can't nail anything down until Michael's had a chance to go through the schedule too, which won't be until after tomorrow night's church board meeting. This year we're planning to use the youth program during the mornings. The one thing I regretted most last year was only making it to one of the Theme Talks, which are from 9-10am. If we bring Alex to the youth program for the 9-noon session, we can go to theme talks and also each take a morning workshop without worrying about the other one's schedule. But nature trips and winery tours and so forth usually start before the youth program opens, and one of us will also always have to be on duty in the afternoon and evening. We could take her back to the youth program from 2-4 in the afternoon, but I feel like that's too much childcare for a family vacation. Once she's asleep at night, we'll be able to go out together - the childcare co-op kicks in at 9:30, and the person on duty will call us if she wakes up. So we can go out in the evening and do whatever.
Amusingly, right on the main page at suusi.org is a big notice: "Click here to pre-order a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from the SUUSI store." They've got a small but functional bookstore, completely separate from the Virginia Tech bookstore. It usually sells SUUSI T-shirts and other memorabilia, CDs by musicians performing at SUUSI, books recommended by workshop leaders, and a range of titles published by Beacon Press and Skinner House (the Unitarian-Universalist Association's publishing houses), but this year they'll also be offering the seventh Harry Potter book at 12:01am on July 21st. I predict that they will be posting the largest profits in SUUSI bookstore history... probably several times over.
SUUSI! Yay!
I am not even entertaining the notion that SUUSI might go the same way as the Farthing Party and Minicon. I refuse to consider the possibility. In fact, what possibility? So there.
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Date: 2007-03-19 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 07:37 pm (UTC)I'll be at camp too, but since I'm the camp director I will leave someone else in charge after curfew and make a "supplies run" to the independent bookstore downtown.
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Date: 2007-03-19 08:30 pm (UTC)When the last book came out, Michael was working with a rocketry camp for blind teenagers. Their camp had arranged with one of the local Barnes & Noble stores to special-order a large number of copies on tape.
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:31 pm (UTC)Our campers will have a field trip the next day, which means (a) reading on the bus for me! (b) they will have a bookstore opportunity.
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Date: 2007-03-19 08:37 pm (UTC)You said:
I know I want to take chocolate-making 101. (Filled chocolates and modeling chocolate. There's a separate truffle-making class, but I'm not all that crazy about truffles.)
Now that I'm in "the biz" I'm always very curious about people's perceptions about chocolate and its different forms. What makes you not crazy about truffles? How do you perceive filled chocolates as different from truffles?
Thanks.
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:10 pm (UTC)-J
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Date: 2007-03-20 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-20 03:58 am (UTC)It's partly that truffles commonly have either nuts or liqueur in them, neither of which I like. But mainly, I don't care that much for the dense soft texture combined with the ultra richness. I don't usually like ultradense flourless chocolate cakes that much, either. I think of filled chocolates as being lighter, and less... smeary.
I hasten to add that my perceptions are nothing to go by, because high-end chocolates are kind of lost on me. I like chocolates, but I often like cheaper versions a lot more than I like, say, Godiva.
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Date: 2007-03-20 03:49 am (UTC)You know, nothing is stopping you from registering for SUUSI even though it's not in your geographical area. Just sayin'.
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Date: 2007-03-30 06:27 pm (UTC)http://www.campunistar.org/
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Date: 2007-03-20 02:33 am (UTC)