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

[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.