Conventions...(was re: Clique-ish) & Halloween Owls

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., aprilgc at i... wrote:

> I like this & Rita's Halloween card idea. I'd be willing to 
> participate (is Rita volunteering to be the coordinator?),

Yes. My @dress is in the message I cross-posted everywhere. I need 
advice on how often I can post the same cross-post: I was thinking of 
three more times between now and October 1??? 
 
> I've got a young wizard who complains that he "never" gets any mail 
> (and he rarely does as most people he knows don't write).

I remember when I was a child and complained that I never got any 
mail (which was true except for birthday and winter holiday cards 
from my grandparents). It must be even truer nowdays, as almost all 
correspondence except bills and junk mail have been replaced by 
e-mail, phone, fax. Back in the days of which I reminisce, my father 
used to exchange weekly letters with his mother (not that they said a 
whole lot, just keeping in touch). Nowdays they would e-mail or phone.

> I don't think I could live with him if I suddenly got 75 cards. <g>
> Any chance we could do a splinter list so those say 10 and under 
> could send cards/ postcards to each other?

Aww, let him be on the main Owl List. It probably won't be as many as 
75.

>  If you don't send out holiday cards  normally, no one is 
> expecting you to do it just for fandom's sake.

Secret: I normally don't send out holiday cards. I normally send 
out not-holiday cards. I am too disorganized (!) to make a holiday 
card list and keep it updated, but I write real Snail Mail notecards 
to those of my friends who sometimes reply whenever I find a nice 
card that I just HAVE to write on.