[identity profile] bookishbabe.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] queensthief
Hey UK,
The rumor mill is all a-buzz.  There is a chance our MWT may be available for a meetup in London the week of April 23rd.  In the interest of selecting a venue, how many of you are reasonably sure you would be able to make it to a ThiefCon that week?  The Gods know we all want MWT to visit our cities, but how many of you are close enough to make it?

Cue the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth from those of us who live on the "wrong continent".

Date: 2/10/12 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elvenjaneite.livejournal.com
Like I NEEDED another reason to make me wish I was back in London.

Date: 2/10/12 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com
I'll be there! Can we please do a weekend because I work weekdays!

Last time we met at the Starbucks by the British Museum and took it over XD. Red beards!

Date: 2/10/12 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com
Also I will try rally Rowana (who set up this comm and now is super busy) and Hebe.

Date: 2/10/12 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
See, if it's you and me and Ro, I think we should go have lunch. If it's you, me and five other people we could sit in the Starbucks. If it is more than that, I'm not sure we should fill up all their tables.

~mwt

Date: 2/10/12 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
And the weekend would be problematic, but for you Em, anything.

~mwt

Date: 2/11/12 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
And I can't use this as a shameless excuse to go back to the UK (and believe me, I am looking for an excuse) because I have a speaking engagement that weekend. And a book due the following weekend. *sob* Y'all have a good time in the Starbucks without me...

Date: 2/11/12 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I want to do a weekday and I will try my bestest but I'm currently off work for two weeks due to exhaustion and vit d defiency (and I feel cheeky phoning up my boss to ask if I can take a day off then while I'm still off) and my department is getting restructured so they're less relaxed about leave at certain times but I will let you know after Monday 20th Feb whether I can take a day off work or two then. :-)

Ro's totally up for up for a meetup btw!

Lunch or Starbucks or anywhere else - I'm cool with anything!

Date: 2/12/12 09:07 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Would it be better to meet in the evening, after work?

~mwt

Date: 2/12/12 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com
During the day is better. I'll get a day off work. I work 2.5 hours away from London and I'm in work at 7:30am so by the time I'd finished work, got to London, met you, got back I would probably be dead of tired and not much fun company.

Date: 2/12/12 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be problematic on purpose. Gah. *offers cookies*

Date: 2/18/12 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hebe0.livejournal.com
I'd love to join in, and could probably take time off work around then.

Date: 2/19/12 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilysia-039.livejournal.com
I'm also free, and I'd absolutely love to meet everyone, even though I haven't really been able to be much of a presence here lately.

Date: 2/10/12 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crazededdisian.livejournal.com
*weeps, wails, gnashes teeth*
I hope those of you who go have a great time!

Date: 2/10/12 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brandy-painter.livejournal.com
weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth has commenced

I will try to be happy for those of you who are on the "right" continent.

Date: 2/10/12 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pigrescuer.livejournal.com
weeping wailing and teeth nashing for missing by a hairsbreadth again (Last London meet up was two weeks before I found Sounis)

Date: 2/13/12 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I'm glum pigrescuer. : (

~mwt

Date: 2/14/12 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pigrescuer.livejournal.com
Well, it is unfortunate that the year I move to America is the year you move to Europe...

Date: 2/10/12 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] booksrgood4u.livejournal.com
Wow, I didn't know there were so many QT fans on that *other* continent...Would someone say 'hello' to Ms. Turner for me?
Edited Date: 2/10/12 10:58 pm (UTC)

Date: 2/10/12 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chubbyleng.livejournal.com
*sniff sniff*

For a moment I was crossing my fingers that it would be the Canadian London and not the British London. *le sigh*

Date: 2/11/12 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
If it was the Canadian London I WOULD SO BE THERE. In about an hour, actually.

I'm still kicking myself that I didn't go when MWT was in Toronto. EVERLASTING REGRET.

Date: 2/11/12 02:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chubbyleng.livejournal.com
She was in Toronto???!!!

When was this?

If it was before 2010, then I didn't know about her then. Still... I live in Toronto; it would have been so easy to have gone.

Date: 2/11/12 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
Yeah, it was a while back -- in October 2007. She spoke at the U of T, along with Philip Pullman and a bunch of other authors. But my kids were pretty little then and I couldn't make it work very easily. Now, though...!

Date: 2/11/12 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chubbyleng.livejournal.com
She was in UofT??

Oh how I wish she'd come again. I'm at UofT everyday.... oh please, please, please come again by 2014!!!!

Date: 2/12/12 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notedby.livejournal.com
I wish I knew too! I have a friend who knew about it in 2007, but wasn't able to go. At least I can comfort myself by knowing I had no idea that she was here. I really hope it happens again!!!

I guess one good thing about this post, (and us wishing we were on another continent) is that it finally caused my to delurk :P I couldn't not commiserate with my fellow Torontonians!

Date: 2/12/12 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chubbyleng.livejournal.com
Yay!!! A delurker! A Torontonian delurker!!!

Date: 2/23/12 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hazelwillow.livejournal.com
She was at U of T? AND Philip Pullman??? Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That is my two favourite authors only a few hours away. Why why did I not know about this..... Aaaaaaaagh.

:(

Date: 2/11/12 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drashizu.livejournal.com
Oh, the weeping, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth!

Wrong continent.

Have fun, those of you who do go!

Date: 2/11/12 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
Great Neptune's Man Nipples! Alas, I am 3,800 miles away. Gnash.

Have fun!

Date: 2/11/12 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com
I'll take photos and bring the red beards.

Date: 2/11/12 10:53 pm (UTC)

Date: 2/11/12 05:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chachic.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)
Lucky Londoners! MWT, if you're ever in Southeast Asia (even if it's not in the Philippines), let me know.

Date: 2/11/12 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chubbyleng.livejournal.com
If she ever goes to the Philippines, I will seriously freak and tow my parents back there within days on some lame excuse like, oh I don't know, "You don't want me to forget Tagalog and shame the whole family, do you??"

Alternatively, I'll phone all my cousins and have them meet MWT for me.

Date: 2/12/12 06:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] openedlocket.livejournal.com
Same here. MWT, if you ever consider an Asia trip, you should know that if ever you come to the Philippines you will be stormed.

Date: 2/11/12 07:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lylassandra.livejournal.com
Or any continent, for that matter. =)

Date: 2/11/12 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hey, everybody!

I have a better idea than weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth (though I'm good at that, too!)

What say we meet in a more convenient locale (say, New London, CT? London, NY? New Britain, CT?) at the same time as those terribly lucky British people, and invade their meetup via skype! All we need is a laptop on either end, and we can have an international Sounis con!

But maybe it's too complicated. (Especially considering I generally can't even make the chats here)

Oh, well.

My dentist tells me that a small amount of tooth-gnashing will not do permanent damage.

~deirdrej

Date: 2/11/12 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lostfayt.livejournal.com
Oh man! I will be here in London then! It would be so cool to meet everyone! I would be up for anytime or anywhere that week.(I'm new to the community, but I've been a longtime fan!!)

Date: 2/12/12 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] larcwen.livejournal.com
I could make a ThiefCon in London that week!

Date: 2/12/12 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilysia-039.livejournal.com
Oh my God! I could be in London that week! Please, please, let's do this!

Date: 2/13/12 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gauroth.livejournal.com
Oh my! Yes, please! :)

Date: 2/13/12 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agh-4.livejournal.com
HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME, London people.
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