That's too bad.  You know, Balthazar does lunch; we don't have any plans for Friday or Sunday lunch yet.  Maybe we could make a reservation then?  And if Balthazar falls through, oh well, it's not like we're going to starve to death in New York City.  Ninja New York looks atmospheric and hilarious, and they even have party space if it's not too expensive.

Last edited by satyreyes (05-12-2008 06:08:42 PM)

I'll definitely be at Woo Chon. I love me some Korean BBQ.

Sign me up for Balthazar and the Met! And I will have no valid student ID at the time of our trip to the Met because I will have graduated already. ;

Unless it says the expiration date, bring your ID. If it's recent to the last, I'd say, 4 years as far as the date on it, you're safe. They do not check that hard. At the Museum of Natural History I've gotten the student discount with having my ID at all, the lady just figured I was about student age.

As long as you guys have time and space in the hotel for such changes, go for it.

Hotel arrangements I've left to everyone to figure out on their own with the people they're staying with, so I trust everything's on the up and up.

Giovanna wrote:

NOTE NOTE NOTE:

The Met is booked for 9:30am, June 1st. Keep in mind it'll take like 15-20 minutes to get us all through security. Please come with cash, so we can pool it together and pay and GET THE HELL IN THERE.

The following people bring 8bux and their student ID:
Yasha
Stormcrow
SexingTouga
Shattered
Frosty

[snippety]

I do have a student ID, and it has no expiration date listed on it.  Hell, my university hasn't even refunded me the money I put on it (it's also a debit card to be used on campus to pay for parking, food, etc.), but if this throws a wrench in the plan, I'll suck it up and pay the extra bux.

Update on the hotel situation. Here's what I've got so far, let me know if anything needs changing.

Ashnod, SexingTouga, Rhyaniwyn, Rhya's roomie in one room from Wednesday 5-28 until Monday 6-2.

Shattered and Mercury in another room from Thursday 5-29 until Monday 6-2.

Is that correct, feasible, acceptable, whatever? These can still be changed, but I need to know soon if they need to be.

Stormcrow wrote:

Update on the hotel situation. Here's what I've got so far, let me know if anything needs changing.

Ashnod, SexingTouga, Rhyaniwyn, Rhya's roomie in one room from Wednesday 5-28 until Monday 6-2.

Shattered and Mercury in another room from Thursday 5-29 until Monday 6-2.

Is that correct, feasible, acceptable, whatever? These can still be changed, but I need to know soon if they need to be.

Where are you in this arrangement?

I'll be in a single room where I won't keep anyone awake. Mercury, I'll have to consult with Shattered about this, but I currently have you booked for one bed in that room. I'll make up the difference between that rate and what you would have paid had I been in the room, since I'm backing out at the last minute here. If you'd prefer the separate beds...well that would be best to talk to him about I suppose. Let me know if I need to make changes though.

!!! Alright everyone! Yasha and I are going to be in NYC by this evening for our vacation. That means except for every couple days when we cart my laptop to a wifi cafe, we will not be here. Most of you should have my cell number, and if you don't, satyr will give it to you if your reasons seem appropriate. Yes, he is currently the king of the forum. Hopefully he doesn't get drunk with power and start going all Saionji on everyone, but I wouldn't worry about it, he's really more an Utena type. Just keep him the fuck away from any dark-skinned older men or we'll come back to a mess.

So...DO NOT CALL ME JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES. I love you guys but I hate phones and am not the type to sit around in a restaurant blabbering away on one. If something important has happened, by all means give me a ring. If it's something that can wait a couple days, SEND ME AN E-MAIL, don't PM me! E-mails are quicker to check in the pay computer downstairs so I'm likely to check them more often. WHEN YOU ARRIVE SAFELY AT YOUR HOTEL, if you have a cell, toss me a text message, so I know everything's on the up and up. Don't abuse the text messages though, I pay for them.

Couple last things: Everyone needs to arrange for arrival plans for people staying with them. IE, Shattered is probably going to arrive while all the other forum members staying at the hotel are out, so inform the frontdesk he's coming and to let him in. Know the street address AND intersection of where your hotel is! '25th and 3rd' (that's me!), is going to sink in a lot easier than the street numbers, in case you get a cabbie whose English isn't especially good. No, I'm not being racist, it's just something that happens rather often.

Once in New York, I carry a subway map with me, a choppied version of this. (Itself a heavily edited copy of the official map I made for Yasha one year. ) If you're hopelessly lost, I can get you on a subway, but don't fear others! I've never had a rude response when asking even really stupid questions like 'Where's Water St?' or 'Um where's the closest subway station?'. If it's very important to you, the numbered lines (red and green) are the cleaner/newer ones, since one carries the tourists, and the other is the LES -> Wall Street crowd.

I'll be bombing around my house for the next couple hours packing stuff I wouldn't pack in front of my family (I'm stealing half the cupboard and shipping it up to Canada. THEY DON'T USE KEY LIME BBQ SAUCE.), so if you catch me and have any questions feel free to call. I'm honestly going to be much harder to contact after this, though I'll try my best.

I'll see you guys soon!

Have fun, girls. See you soon.

Ha, seconding bella -- if anyone wants a phonecall from about as close as Antarctica as the forum gets, I'm your penguin.

I don't know if I mentioned this, but Kealdrea was going to go to the prom held last weekend with her boyfriend, but she decided not to, because she is aware of the sad truth that very few will admit; the prom is stupid, and not worth the time and money. Instead she was talking about going to a local amusement park or even Six Flags with him instead, which really does sound better. So after they talked it over yesterday, my mom told me not to make any plans for this weekend, because we would be going to Six Flags. (She and him are going to a closer one some other time, but somehow Six Flags came out of not going to the prom.)

But here's the thing... About an hour ago, she also told me to make sure that my friend who will be visiting tomorrow gets home earlier because she didn't want to have to be tired when she drove five hours to get there. Five hours... Apparently this Six Flags we're going to is in New Jersey.

I'm horribly sleep deprived at the moment and therefor not thinking clearly, but I've checked and double-checked the facts, and there's no doubt about it... Something is very wrong with this. Very wrong indeed... I mean, for one thing, I could have sworn that New Jersey was right below Massachusetts, but I guess that was Rhode Island. But more importantly, how the does it make sense that we'll be driving past New York to an amusement park, when we could just go a week later and save an hour and a half by just staying at New York, or maybe just stopping there on the way back?


... If there's any chance that I fix rearrange things so that I won't have to drive past New York and think, "How nice! If only I were here a week from now," then would it be too late for me come? I hate to ask so ridiculously late into the planning, so please don't think it rude of me.

I'll have to think about this after I get some sleep.