everything but the girl

No, not that kind of plug.

As a part of my project to Avoid Being Spoiled for Tonight's Supernatural, I'm in an HP kind of mood today, so...

1. The hard drive on the HPEF server crashed completely, so while we're still getting everything back online (wow, there was a lot of content there!) you can get info about the event, and register, via portus_2008 - and if you haven't made your hotel reservation yet, you should do so now! You can do so by going here - and if you have any questions before the site goes back up (hopefully this weekend) you can ask them here.

2. Coming soon - submit a play for the SpellCast Podcast Plays that we'll be recording at Terminus and Portus this summer. And if you're attending either event, please consider setting aside some time to participate in the recording, either as an actor or an audience member.

3. If you're a full-time college or grad-school student, the Katie O'Brien Scholarship Applications are open for a few more weeks - we're awarding a writer, an artist and a community service volunteer each a $500 scholarship. Rules, info and the application are on the website.

And in non-HP news, has everyone heard the casting spoiler for S3 of Heroes? If you haven't, the spoiler info is here. Now it's time for me to go avoiding those SPN spoilers again....

Maybe I should head back to Target and pick up another Tater of the Lost Ark.

So I've been dealing with FictionAlley's Katie O'Brien Fundraiser over the last few days (well, sorta weeks, but actively the last few days).

We were going to do a two-pronged fundraiser this holiday season, and sell these wristbands that say Creativity Is Magic, just like last year, but which have a 128kb flash drive in them, so you can take your fics, or a Firefox browser, or any other documents, wherever you go. We thought it would be handy for those who access on the road, or from multiple computers, or in a library, etc. But they're a pricey thing (if we sell them for $25 including US/Canada shipping, and $4 more to ship overseas, we make about $4 on each of them, all of which goes to the Katie O'Brien Scholarship Fund) and we wanted to have something available at a lower price, like the wristbands were last year.

So we ordered these eGrips that go on the back of a cellphone, camera, remote, mp3 player - anything electronic - and ordered a bunch, with a terrific design that lowlands_girl put together. We sold a few dozen at Lumos - I have one on my cell - and they're cute and lovely and we were going to roll them out next week except...

They all stuck together. I mean, the ones on the top of each stack are fine, but the ones underneath all stuck to the above-one's back.

Luckily, the nice people at Identity-Links.com are taking them back and giving us a full refund, but it means we don't have something on hand for a holiday fundraiser. We have a few dozen wristbands left that we were saving for this summer's conferences, but that's it, and it might be too late to do something cool. (And yes, we already called Lush, and they don't allow reselling of anything, so the WICKED bath melts will not be an FA fundraiser, alas).

If anyone has any suggestions or connections with promo-company-type people, let me know. Otherwise, stay tuned for the flash drive wristbands, which will be available next week. ( You can see a purple one behind the cut - but remember, we have aqua coloured ones, too! )