In a message dated 2/18/2005 5:35:41 PM Central Standard Time, andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: I've got several cases of whiskey on the back deck, the girls have been notified, I've paid off the cops, and... oh, wait, is the list reading this? Ha. And here I thought we were ALL being invited for quite the bash. <sigh> And Julie and I had quickly gotten awesome airplane rates/tickets from Missouri to SF... But, no. Once again--trapped in the Midwest. Feeling all alone in the Lit-Ideas Community, Marlena in Missouri (wondering, if we all did end up at a grand intellectual bash, what the different 'rooms' of conversation would be and who would be leading which conversation...and what we would serve...) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html