food and another panel question

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

I know that there are restaurants listed in the con booklet thingy. Does anyone know if take out is listed (I don't remember there being any listed.)? If not since the Hyatt is so far away from eating places and the transport is infrequent (At least in comparison to the Park Plaza.) could take out places be listed this year in the booklet? If that is not possible at this juncture can anyone recommend good take out places that deliver to the Hyatt? Does anyone know if whoever arranged for the food carts outside is going to arrange for them again? Those were a great idea.

Does anyone know if the monogamy panel is happening this year? It happened 2 years ago and I found it enjoyable. I am not a panelist so I cannot check on Zambia.

Comments

[stacy288.livejournal.com]

Monogamy in contrast to the Polyamory panel?

I second, third and whole fully support this.

-Monogamous and proud.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Yup. The Monogomy panel in contrast to the Polyamory panel. I am in an open relationship myself but as I said I really enjoyed the panel and I thought it was quite interesting. I was looking forward to going to the panel the next year but it wasn't offered. Partly what makes it interesting is the context in which the topic is discussed. That being that a great deal of Arisia is polyamorous. Mostly monogomy isn't discussed in the context of people making a choice of the best relationship set up that works for them. It is usually discussed in the context of having it be the only way to have a relationship. So as I said before the context of the discussion is what makes the panel so much cooler than a lot of discussions of monogomy out there.

[stacy288.livejournal.com]

I'd be very interested in seeing how other Mono's deal with a "culture" that has so many Poly's. Poly is something I do not understand and probably never will, it is not being ignorant, or otherwise, It just is not in any form my cup of tea, nor will it ever.

So, While I don't have any "problems" with poly, us mono's need some love :) As long as the Mono panel isn't a bunch of Poly's questioning Mono's beliefs I'm cool with that. I'd be interested to see how other Mono's get through it :)

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Last time I went everyone on it was monogomous. It was really neat. I left the panel going "Oh, so that is how other people's relationships work. That is really interesting. Maybe I can take some of what they use and apply my own relationships."

[stacy288.livejournal.com]

lol :) Sounds interesting then! I have lots of poly friends, and being bi-sexual (for real real, not for play play :P) I kinda teeter in some weird area, but Mono is something I can't shake.

Its always interesting to learn about others, even if we choose otherwise.


I always love learning from others :)

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Someone wrote a really interesting essay that floated around the internets at some point about how her and her husband were both bisexual and monogomous and how she bought him a calender for him every year with naked men on it. It was quite a good essay.

*

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

When I say "open" I mean sexual contact outside of the relationship but not romantic contact.

Re: *

[stacy288.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm pretty "Exposed" sexually ;) Probably leads to my Monogomacy :P

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Fourthed!

[tehuti.livejournal.com]

It's in Zambia. I hope it gets scheduled too. We poly people get all the love! ;-)

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

It is good to know it is there. For a number of reasons I am totally unqualified to panel it but I hope other people volunteer.

[dda.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know if whoever arranged for the food carts outside is going to arrange for them again? Those were a great idea.

My understanding from the last conCom (these are open to anyone who wants to show up...hint, hint) is that the food carts/trucks will be there again next year as will the hotel's inside food cart/tables. This is in addition to the restaurant's food offerings.

As for the request about take-out places, you might want to send email to pubs [at] arisia (dot) org and suggest it to the publications people; I don't recall who is doing the food guide but that address should (eventually) reach them.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. I will e-mail them and suggest. I haven't really shown up to the conComs. I will make an effort to this year.

[dda.livejournal.com]

I haven't really shown up to the conComs. I will make an effort to this year.

In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that showing up at a conCom often results in someone attempting to enlist your help with the convention itself (aka volunteering you). However, these someones are relatively well-behaved and a simple, "No but thanks" should suffice. :-)

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

I'm head of publications, and will pass on this request about take-out info to my head of Restaurant Guide. I don't know if it's too late to include it, however, as we're running up against deadlines for the pre-con publications. So I promise nothing other than that I'll pass it along, and if nothing else, we're in plenty of time for the following year's con. ;)

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Last year there was the Monogamy Meet 'n' Greet, but no panel per se. That said, it was a fun time, even if [small list of gripes that have already been aired to the appropriate people]. :)

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember that. I didn't go because I am not monogomous in the strictest sense.

Hopefully if the panel runs this year the gripes etc. will be smoothed out.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

There were some non-monogamous people there, but that's mainly because it was held in the Con Suite, where just about everyone walked by and pulled up a chair. That said, the wording means it all - "Meet & Greet" means it's for monos only, whereas a panel means come one, come all, and talk about what it means to be monogamous in a mostly poly society! That, I think, deserves a panel.

[fireheart.livejournal.com]

The monogamy panel is on the list of panels for consideration by panelists, and I believe it has received interest.

-That Program Guy

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Oh. Excellent.

Re: food

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

Next time you're in the part of the city with the Park Plaza in it, looking for cheap food, walk over to Chinatown. It's just a few blocks east - maybe a 10 minute walk to plentiful, cheap, good food.

Not sure about breakfast near the Park Plaza other than Au Bon Pain on the same block - but that hardly qualifies as "cheap, good food". I've seen some bakeries in Chinatown which have breakfast-like breads and such.

Re: food

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

I did notice that and it was nice of the hotel to do that (and I am sure they made a decent profit on it too). For dinner though I usually go out with friends and even though sometimes the restraunts are on the expensive side I budget specifically so I can eat more expensively. I have also gone to Chinatown with friends before which didn't require budgeting. At Arisia I generally eat last nights dinner for breakfast. As I said I also really liked the food carts outside because it allowed the best of both worlds. They were cheap and I didn't have to go very far. There are some things I liked a lot better about the food experience at the Hyatt and there are some things I miss about about the Park Plaza in terms of food.

Re: food

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

I don't think them making a profit was a bad thing. I am sure it will give them motivation to do the sam ething next year. I never ate at the hotel restaurant.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

You can find a copy of last years' restaurant guide for the food near the Hyatt at: http://2007.arisia.org/files/arisia/Arisia-Restaurant-GuideCropped.pdf

It listed which places had take out and delivery services. The Restaurant Guide for A'08 should have similar listings.

We'll also have a shuttle bus running from the hotel to Central Square (and the overflow hotel), so you can have easy access to lots of good restaurants.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link. Part of the problem last year is that the shuttle bus stopped running about an hour before I was ready to have dinner.

[pryder]

Anybody can read Zambia: go to http://two-step.netbusters.com/~trg/arisia08/ and put in the info for the "brainstorm" view. That won't let you edit or vote on anything, but you can see the list of proposed panels.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Thank you.