With the announcement that Adam Schiff will stop by at least one of our book club meetings (!) our ranks swelled from 40 to 120! Remember, we may not know in advance which of our zooms Adam Schiff will choose to attend.
For anyone who missed the previous posts, and to ensure that all the information is available in one place, I’ll outline the broad plan here and supply a few details.
Gift books: I have paired each of the 11 BJ peeps who are receiving the gift books with another BJ peep who is gifting a book. It looks like most of the Amazon orders should be arriving on Saturday. If things are tight right now with the holidays and you want to participate but the book cost is a challenge, there are still other gift offers available. Just send me email.
We agreed to start the book club after the holidays, so we are looking at a start date of January 12.
With 120 participants, we can’t have wide-open discussions of days and times and all sorts of other book club planning. So I’ll lay out a plan that can be adjusted here or there at the margins. We are happy to have input and feedback but it’s not practical to think that we can be voting and making the decisions with some group process.
I chose Wednesday evenings – if that turns out to be a terrible night for a ton of people, we could choose Thursday evenings instead. But I think those are our best choices. We can’t expect Adam Schiff to stop by on a weekend; he has a family. He is most likely busy during the day; I understand that he has a job that keeps him kind of busy! :-) Monday nights and Friday nights are not great, though for different reasons, so those are out. So I landed on Wednesdays.
? Thoughts on Wednesday evening vs. Thursday evening? ?
Let’s start at 8:00 pm Eastern time. That’s 7 pm in the Midwest and 5 pm for the West Coast peeps.
Let’s plan for a total of 6 book club meetings, with an option to extend it if the group feels there is more to discuss.
? How often do we want to meet? Every other week? ?
We will have a mix of book club posts and book club zooms. I’m thinking of BJ posts for 2-3 of the book club meetings and BJ zooms for 3-4 of the book club meetings – with all of the BJ thread meetings coming first, and then shifting to zoom meetings after that.
? 2 book club posts and 4 zooms? Or 3 book club posts and 3 zooms? ?
Thoughts on length? I’m thinking 90 minutes, with an option for an additional 30 minutes if we are still going great guns.
? Is 90 minutes good? Is 2 hours better? ?
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Reading the book
Let’s all plan to read the whole book before the book club starts, because with 24 chapters (if you include the prologue and the epilogue) it’s just not practical to go with a “just in time” approach, reading each chapter just in time for the meeting.
I’m thinking that for this book it’s best to go with broad themes for discussion, rather than focusing a meeting on a particular chapter or chapters.
There are no book club guides for Adam Schiff’s book, so we are on our own here.
For the past 4 nights, I have listened to the audio book as I am falling asleep, and then I listen again in the night if I wake up for awhile. The effect is a bit of jumping around – I might sleep through 3 chapters and wake up to a different portion of the book. But it’s giving me a feel for the book, which is helpful for the planning that can’t wait until I finish reading the book cover to cover.
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3 Themes for Discussion
I have tentatively decided on topics for the final 3 book club zooms.
Meeting 4. What Didn’t You Know Before You Read the Book? What Surprised You?
Meeting 5. So Many Shocking Betrayals!
Meeting 6. We’re Not Helpless Passengers On a Bad Ride – Making Our Own Shade.
? Do you love these? Hate these? ?
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Themes for the other three discussions
What other themes would be good to discuss?
If you have started the book… is there a chapter or section that struck you as a good focus/discussion area?
If someone else suggests a an area that you also think would be good, please chime in. I’m not looking for an infinite list, or the longest list possible – I’m looking for mutual areas of interest that would be good topics/themes for the other 3 meetings.
? Topics or themes you want to suggest? ?
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Split between posts on BJ and zooms
Adam Schiff will only stop by the zooms, not the BJ posts.
? Do we want an even split between posts and zooms? Or 2 posts and 4 zooms??
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Questions for Adam Schiff
Remember, we may not know in advance which of our zooms Adam Schiff will choose to attend.
And we certainly don’t know whether he will just want to listen (surely not! hopefully not!) or whether he will talk with us or whether he will take questions.
So we definitely need to be prepared with questions for Adam Schiff in advance in case we get that opportunity.
What questions would you like to ask Adam Schiff if we get that opportunity? Please share any questions you have now, in this thread. We’ll ask again before our first zoom, so we can make the most of this opportunity.
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? Has anyone heard of Bookclubz for organizing book clubs? Never mind. I am not going to ask 120 people to create an account. ?
What did i forget?
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Auntie Anne
I’ve not used bookclubz.com – my book club uses Book Movement. But from what I can tell from poking around the site, bookclubz looks far superior.
PatrickG
Double checking I didn’t get paired with someone for a book. Would hate to disappoint if spam filters got me or some such :)
Jackie
Wednesday’s work best for me. Thurs evenings I’m committed to grandkiddo commitments.
WaterGirl
@PatrickG:
We had more offers for gifting than we have recipients. At this point anyway!
I do have you down with an offer, so we’re good there.
Scout211
I used to use BookMovement.com to organize my book group. But then they started charging a yearly fee so I went back to manually organizing it. I am not familiar with Bookclubz.com but it looks like it serves a similar purpose and it’s still free. My book club members were split between those who hated it because you had to get an account and log into the site to connect to the schedule, etc., and those that loved it. As the organizer, I really liked it because you can list everything online and it really cuts down on the constant emails and calls like, “Scout, where are we meeting, which book are we discussing, etc”. You can send out the schedule, any announcements and updates easily to all members through the website. I liked that a lot as the organizer.
I guess using that site would depend on whether the jackals here feel okay to get an online account with Bookclubz.com. It certainly would make your job easier. ?
In answer to one of your questions, it would be my preference to have the fewest zoom meetings possible. Just my 2 cents.
ETA: either night is good with me.
SiubhanDuinne
Not to jump the gun too much, but as excited as I am about the Adam Schiff: Midnight in Washington book club, I am equally excited about the possibility that we might segue from that into a book club discussion of Jamie Raskin: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. It will be released on January 4, 2022. I suspect that the two books, in tandem, will be a powerful set of bookends to this extraordinary time we are in. I really hope we’ll also discuss that as a group, but whether that discussion should follow on the heels of the Schiff book or whether we should wait a few weeks, I don’t really have a strong view.
Wednesday nights would be better for me.
P.S. I would be happy to buy one hardcover or two kindle versions of Raskin’s book for jackals who are feeling a post-holiday pinch in January
WaterGirl
@Scout211:
i guess i should have thought of that. i’m not going to ask 120 people to sign up for an account somewhere. thanks for the input.
geg6
@Scout211:
Seconded on the fewer Zooms. One or two are fine by me. Can’t say I want more than that.
Either night is fine for me but would prefer Wednesday if you force me to make a choice.
I just got my book yesterday and haven’t gotten far yet. Still on his childhood.
And a big OT: My employer has named it’s first female president and it’s a woman! Not only that but it’s a woman of color! There are those who bleed Blue and White who will not like this one. little. bit.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Yay!
Double yay!!
Hahaha fuckem.
narya
I prefer Wednesdays as well. Two threads, four zooms would be my preference, because I find it easier to participate in a zoom than to have to scroll through threads. At work so I can’t think much about themes, but I like where you’re going.
ETA: 90 minutes with an option for another half hour sounds right, and i like the 7 pm central start.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
Here she is:
https://onwardstate.com/2021/12/09/source-louisvilles-neeli-bendapudi-to-serve-as-penn-states-next-president/
Any jackals around who can tell anything about her?
skerry
Wednesday is better for me.
My bookclubs use blookclubz. It works well for us, but you do have to have an account.
The split between zoom and BJ sounds good.
I am able to provide a book if needed.
Thanks for organizing this, WaterGirl
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
She sounds good. She sounds fierce.
Leto
@SiubhanDuinne: Did you see the article about Rep Raskin yesterday? (WaPo) Jamie Raskin’s Year of Grief and Purpose; A son’s suicide, an attack on the Capitol and a congressman’s renewed sense of mission
WereBear
@WaterGirl: Perhaps, then, we can pin the post of the moment, to keep up. Like a bookclub thing on the side as we have for other things. Still…
I would certainly sign up with bookclubz.com to have a Balloon Juice book club easy to organize for the people who are surely doing too much.
I would adore something like that: to join with people I already know in varying degrees, on political subjects I am eager to learn more about, and to supplement my social calendar, which is not what it used to be!
So count me IN for bookclubz.com and follow up with the book suggestion… and we can rope in that professor (tongue in cheek – I’m a fan of Tom Levenson) who writes books, no? We got plenty of culture vultures here.
WereBear
@SiubhanDuinne: You have intrigued me! Thank you, I will accept, and I look forward to chatting about it, in any case :)
NobodySpecial
I won’t have the opportunity for the book club due to schedule, but even without seeing the book, I have one question for Mr. Schiff: Why do so many of his fellow congresspeople appear to be sleepwalking through this crisis, and what will it take to get them to start acting publicly?
Good luck, enjoy the discussion!
Miss Bianca
Thursday evening works better for me because I’m always recording my radio show on Wednesday evenings.
ETA: Shit. Well, I may not be able to participate in real time then, if it’s going to be Wednesday nights at 6 pm my time. Oh, well. I’ll still read the book. : )
PJ
Some random thoughts:
1) Six or seven posts or zooms on one book, each one lasting 90-120 minutes, seems like an awful lot. I know it would be a lot for me. I would prefer maybe two or three, max. One could be about the contents of the book itself, maybe the second could be about what steps can be taken to prevent this from happening again?
2) Posts with comments are not very conducive to actual discussion that you might get in an actual book club. Maybe have one post for everyone to chime in with what they think might be important things to discuss in the zooms?
3) 120 people is way too many for a zoom call if you want an actual discussion between everyone (it’s fine if you just have a handful of people talking and everyone else listening). Of course, probably all 120 people will not actually show up, but you need to plan as if they will. It could be this is what you meant by multiple zooms, but it was not clear to me. In any event, I think it would be best to assign 20 people (max, smaller is better) to a zoom so that everyone who wants can actually contribute to the discussion without it being cocophany. Alternatively, you could start out with one big zoom for everyone, where Adam Schiff addresses everyone and takes some pre-planned questions (maybe collated from an initial post?), and then have people assigned to 6-10 breakout rooms of 12-10 people each (again, smaller is better in my experience) to have a more in-depth discussion. Adam could jump into any of those smaller zooms if he wanted.
Just my thoughts from a year and a half of zoom meetings.
PJ
WordPress just ate my edits, so I will try to type them out again:
You need to have someone very familiar with zoom lead each zoom session to go over protocol with people who are unfamiliar with zoom or who are familiar but cannot remember basic zoom hygiene. There is always someone who has something noisy going on in the background, TV or the radio or children, who does not understand that they need to mute themselves when someone else is talking. So people need to be walked through how to mute, how to turn off their cameras, how to use the chat, how to raise or lower their hands, etc.
WaterGirl
@WereBear:
WereBear, can you say more about what you mean by that?
zhena gogolia
WaterGirl — I had suggested you ask his chief of staff to look at the guest post I did on his impeachment performance. A lot of nice comments there.
https://balloon-juice.com/2020/02/05/guest-post-adam-schiff-profile-in-courage/
I also offered to buy someone a book but haven’t gotten assigned.
Either Wed or Thurs evenings are probably okay for me, and 8:00 ET is great. I will be less free after 1/24 but will do my best.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: The chief of staff never even looked at the one-page file i sent him that explains what Balloon Juice is. :-)
I do, however, still have a tab open with the guest post you wrote. So I did see it, but i think the chief of staff is too busy to do any homework, so i haven’t sent it on to him. I won’t forget about your post, though, and if there is an opportunity, i will certainly take it.
PatrickG
@WaterGirl: Thanks for confirming!
zhena gogolia
@PJ: We probably need to know when exactly Schiff is coming and do it as a webinar.
guachi
I’ve used MS Teams, but never Zoom. Does Zoom have a place to write comments?
Or a way to virtually “raise your hand” so if we have a moderator then the moderator can call on people to talk?
Betty
My 2¢. Wednesdays are OK for me. I think a maximum of 6 sessions, perhaps evenly divided between blog and zoom. A 60 minute zoom is about my limit. I think weekly makes sense so there is some continuity. I have no idea how to accommodate 120 people on a zoom. Yikes! If Mr. Schiff only joins one session, we probably won’t get more than half a dozen questions to him so they will have to be somewhat overarching.
WaterGirl
@PJ:
i have asked for exactly that in this post. :-)
HRA
Either day will be fine with me. I do not do Zoom and when I did was never to be told about it. I will be looking forward to the discussion about it. First daughter showed up 2 weeks ago with the book for me. It is the busy season for now and that is my excuse for only reading the early part of the book so far. Even having watched that whole day of January 6, the first pages he wrote of it brought it back as I never expected it to happen.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia:
We can not know that.
I was told that we MAY OR MAY NOT know in advance. We are not controlling this, so i think we just have to roll with the punches.
For every zoom, be prepared to have a regular zoom with a topic AND ALSO have questions prepared in case we get to ask him questions.
I have asked for people to submit questions in this thread.
WaterGirl
@guachi:
YES.
geg6
@guachi:
It has all those things. Much easier to use than Teams, believe me.
WaterGirl
@guachi:
YES.
Everyone will need to be muted unless they have “raised their hand’ and are given the floor to talk.
WaterGirl
@Betty: I agree on the questions. That’s why i am asking for questions now and will ask for questions again before the first zoom after more people will have already read the book.
We’ll collect the questions, identify the most common questions/ best questions and have a list of the curated questions at all the zooms.
If Adam Schiff shows up at a particular zoom, i’m sure he’ll make some remarks, and then we can select a subset of the curated questions that seem most appropriate given whatever Rep. Schiff has said when he pipes up to let us know he is here.
Scout211
@guachi:
Zoom (at least the free version I have) does have a side bar for messages that you can type to one person or more. That would actually be a very good way to manage the zoom that Mr. Schiff attends. We could type questions to him or to his aid and he could answer the ones that he chooses (or the aid chooses). Then there really wouldn’t be the problem of too many people on the zoom or cross talk. We could all mute our audio and send questions via the side bar.
ETA: never mind. WaterGirl just addressed this question/answer issue.
CaseyL
I thought I posted a comment, but it seems to have gotten eaten.
Thursday would be better for me, as Wednesday is an in-office day, but if you can’t shift the day, can you shift the time a little? I’m barely home by 5:00 PM PST.
If you could start at 8:30 EST, that’s 5:30 my time, and a little easier to be home, online, and ready.
The only topic I can think of right now, is maybe his insight into how the House can overcome the institutional (as opposed to legal/cultural) structures that seem to protect insurrectionists. I.e., why didn’t Pelosi refuse to seat them? Why do they still have access to tools and information that could endanger the other Representatives and the country?
A Good Woman
@narya: Basically on board with everything you suggested.
However I would addthat if we find ourselves with 120 people on board a Zoom, that can get pretty unwieldy. As noted above, multiple smaller rooms might address the question of dealing with a large group if we are looking to enable participation by everyone who shows up.
If Mr. Schiff is able to join us, then I would suggest pre-submitted questions, especially since he may have very limited time to visit. The one previously suggested regarding the action, or rather the lack of action, by his peers in addressing the challenge to our democracy, seems most on point. These two paragraphs from the recent Atlantic article about Peter Meijer are illustrative of the overall concern.
“In light of his side’s attrition—Cheney kicked out of the GOP leadership, Gonzalez and Kinzinger quitting Congress—I asked Meijer how he now thinks about the divisions in his party. “There are people who are part of the problem,” he said. “There are people who are actively trying to fight the problem. And then there are people who have become acutely aware of the problem, but don’t know how to fight it.”
Meijer wants to believe that he’s in the second group. But more and more, he belongs in the third. He can see the foundational threats facing American self-government—but he can’t decide how best to counteract them. If he now views the struggle to rebuild his party as a long-term proposition, then part of his job is “just surviving,” he says, sticking around long enough to recruit allies and gain momentum to take back control of the GOP. It’s a common instinct, and a dangerous one, because the party is playing its own long game.”
So that’s my $.02
SiubhanDuinne
@Leto:
I did. I admire him so much.
Ruckus
WaterGirl, with 120 participants I believe that any live video conferencing will be more of a presentation situation than a discussion. When we did the Zoom meetings here before I recall we had 30-40 at most and it got a bit of a struggle at times. So for me I think 2 or 3 Zooms should be max. It does give a different feel than the written word and with Adam Schiff in attendance that would be different. Having a choice for him to attend might be the only way we would get to hear him.
Also doing actual posts would allow the discussion to expand because Zoom really limits the way some people think/interact, even as it frees up the process for others. We may all be humans and mostly on the same side, we still all have our proclivities, blind spots and methodologies of public speaking – or not.
bemused senior
Agree strongly with running it like a webinar, with breakout rooms.
Sure Lurkalot
I’m hoping to join in from time to time and looks like I’ll have to buy the book because my library says the hold is 10 weeks. I don’t have financial issues so I’m reluctant to grab a free one from all the generous peeps who offered.
I have a monthly meeting the 2nd Wednesday at the same time. It’s a 2 hour Zoom and I get antsy after about 90 minutes. It overlaps my normal dinner time and my attention span has taken a hit as of late.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus:
I don’t know what you mean by this.
PJ
@WaterGirl: Well, yes, but I meant about the contents of the book, which I, and presumably others, have not read yet.
WaterGirl
@PJ: Got it. That’s why i said i will ask for questions again before the first zoom, at which point more folks would likely have read the book by then.
Another Scott
Thanks for doing this. It should be interesting.
I’ve only read the first chapter so far – maybe he addresses this later. I’d like to know his thoughts on:
– What does he think the path forward is when too many of the other side will violate their oaths, throw out any norm, support any lie, suppress the vote, and more, if it means that they can keep their elected seat? Don’t there have to be consequences for doing these things (or they will continue and get worse)?
– We all know that politics is a messy business and that one has to be able to find a way to work with people who one disagrees with. And good people can have absolutely horrible political views – humans are great at compartmentalizing. But too many, e.g., Boebert and MTG, are beyond the pale. Where does one draw the line, and what is the path forward? The Ethics Committed process used to take too long, and seems to be broken now. Is voting them out the only recourse? Outrage can be a great motivator, but we have to know where to direct it. If expulsion/censure/etc. is impossible or too difficult, then what can we as citizens do? Where can we direct or efforts (please don’t say that all we can do is donate money…)?
On the mechanics of the meetings, it sounds like you’ve got it well in hand. Video meetings don’t work anywhere near as well as MS’s commercials would have us believe, but can be fine if only one person has the floor and questions/comments are given by a moderator (rather than having people chime in themselves). Making sure everyone in the audience mutes themselves and turns off their cameras is important, obviously, also too. ;-)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Thanks for all the input! i can mute everyone, so that’s not an issue, but i have a question about this.
Turns off their cameras? Can you say more about that? Anyone can set their zoom so they only see the speaker’s image.
narya
Here’s a thought: have our topics/dates/plan for Just Us, AND have a backup list of questions specifically for Mr. Schiff, if/when he shows. If/when he shows, we switch to the designated leader, who asks those pre-selected questions. That way, it won’t be a free-for-all when he joins, but we can go on as we wish when it’s just us Juicers.
Yutsano
Wednesdays are okay. I would be fashionably late at best since I’m off work at 1630 PST and it can take over half an hour to get home. We’ll play it by ear I guess.
zhena gogolia
@narya: Yes, I think it has to be something like that.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: This would be so Rep. Schiff wouldn’t see us, just black squares with our nyms on them.
ETA: That would somewhat replicate the webinar experience.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: I would second Another Scott’s questions. I have none that are any better.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Keep in mind that 5pm is very early on the west coast and Rep. Schiff is from California.
WaterGirl
@narya: that’s exactly my thinking, which i tried to express up top, but possibly not clearly enough!
We have the plan for that evening and we have our questions for Adam Schiff in our pocket for whenever he shows up.
i also expanded on that at #34;
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: Maybe you can dial in by phone on the way home?
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: What would be wrong with him seeing a screenful of squares with our happy faces?
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: I don’t think it’s as important as muting. I was just trying to interpret what Another Scott was trying to say. I think it’s fine either way.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I did consult with one California BJ peep about the time – it’s a balancing act between starting too early for CA and ending too late for the east coast. Maybe we could split the difference and start at 8:15 eastern?
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Ah, okay. That makes sense.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: For folk that are working regular jobs out here, that won’t make much of a difference. Personally, I’ll probably be working evenings(the coveted closing shift, 3pm-12am), so I can’t participate anyway.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
I detect snark.
But then I’ve had zero contact with Adam or his chief of staff so I’m going on what I’ve read here..
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: I still don’t get your point. Sorry if i am being dense.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I suppose it would at least give folks a chance to get to their cars after work and dial in by phone.
WaterGirl
I haven’t seen anyone weigh in yet on ‘every week’ vs. ‘every other week’.
thoughts?
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: I only rarely use Zoom, mostly use Teams. In both cases its over VPN. Our network folks swear that there’s enough VPN bandwidth and they see no signs of any issues, but none of us mere users are able to do much of anything when our video cameras are on (images freeze, connections are dropped, etc.). There seems to be a bandwidth constriction somewhere, but there’s no sign that it will be fixed.
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So, I was saying that only the person speaking should have their video camera on. These videoconferencing things are supposed to be bandwidth-efficient, but my experience is that you’re asking for trouble if more than one camera is on. It should be better if not over VPN, but why risk it?
I’d be very happy to be wrong in this instance. :-)
My $0.02. Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
It was I that was being dense. I should have mentioned that I think we need to give Adam enough choices to attend, he seems to likely have the tightest schedule and it is about him. Second I think we should discuss questions ahead of the first Zoom to insure that we make best use of Adam’s likely very limited time. Therefore I suggest that we have at least 2 posts before the first Zoom. And that whomever is moderator is the one asking questions. Because 2 jobs ago we had 4 hrs of phone discussion every week because about half the staff worked on the road, and might come in the office once or twice a year. That was 4, 1 hr phone conferences every week. It worked a lot better than I expected, even the time I was driving down the road and swearing at someone trying to kill me during one call. Yes there is a fun story. I imagine that others have had the experience of regular phone/video conferences as well and they work fine, once people get used to them
I also think that posts and Zooms are the way to go, first because Adam and second they operate differently as communication methods.
narya
@WaterGirl: That’s what happens when I comment while trying to work. :-)
CaseyL
@WaterGirl: Maybe every other? So people have time to think about things and come up with good questions?
Ruckus
@Another Scott:
I agree with you on the video aspects, especially with the possible/likely number of people. It’s nice putting faces on people and actually seeing them but we haven’t actually gotten far enough on this web/conference thing technically to make one with large numbers of participants work reasonably.
Nancy
Hello, all,
I ordered a copy of Schiff’s book from Thrift Books. It should arrive on Dec. 22. I like Wednesday evening and 8:00 PM zooming will be interesting. Let’s see if I stay awake.
I often work on zoom and have taught a class on zoom during the worst of the pandemic. I’ve been in large zoom trainings. Using Chat is a wise decision for questions. The more gracious presenters have responded fairly quickly to the questions. With this number of attendees, he will need a Chat monitor who can give him lists of questions. Did someone already mention submitting questions ahead of time so that we avoid duplicates?
I am so excited about this and looking forward to the non-zoom events as well. Thank you for getting this rolling.
Joy in FL
@WaterGirl: Since this is intense and dense material for me, I like every other week. But I will be there either way because I do not want to miss the one when Adam Schiff comes : )
Thanks so much for all the time you give to make this happen.
WaterGirl
@narya: we are all multi-tasking most of the time. i didn’t mean to come off as critical.
narya
@WaterGirl: I didn’t take it that way at all! I was just poking fun at myself. I REALLY appreciate all of the work you do here, and especially the cat-herding you’re doing for this particular event series.
Alison Rose
chiming in late to say Wednesday evening at 5 Pacific is perfecto for me.
WaterGirl
@narya: @Alison Rose:
I have a post scheduled for 9pm or so where i lay out all the final plans for the book club – time, dates, number of meetings, zooms vs. posts, etc.
Balloon juice: where you really can’t please all of the people all of the time. :-)
But i do try!
frosty
To be maximally unhelpful, I’m OK with all the times and meeting frequencies you proposed.
bluegirlfromwyo
I’m so freaking excited about this that I’ll show up when you tell me to. Thank you WG!
WaterGirl
New post up with the finalized plan for the Midnight In Washington book club.
The post also links to a one-page writeup of the plan, the dates and the theme for each date.
i also added a link to the .pdf in the sidebar under Featuring.
WereBear
@WaterGirl: I’m saying don’t lose track of helpful posts like this to pin them on the side like we do other features?
We all, including you :), need a one-stop place to find out times & procedures and all the minutia.
WaterGirl
@WereBear: Ha! Now I understand what you were saying.
I had the same thought – the pdf file with the dates and themes for discussion is already up in the sidebar. :-)