This morning, at 10 am my time, registration opens for the classes at Sock Summit. If I am feeling this level of anticipation (and a little bit of anxiety: will I get any of the classes I want? will I even be able to get into the sock hop, or will I be the only dork sitting in the lobby?)(yes, I was a geek in high school, why do you ask?), I can only imagine how Stephanie and Tina are feeling as they watch the clock count down and wonder whether their server will survive the initial onslaught. All I can say is, they've clearly done everything humanly possible to get ready for that first ten minutes; my hat goes off to them.
The registration instruction page says to have your first, second, and third choices of classes ready, as well as your cup of coffee, since you get fifteen minutes from first initiating your session to losing the classes in your cart. I think I'm ready.
List? Check. Back-up list? Check. Cup of coffee? Check. Book by Hortense Powdermaker (honestly, I couldn't make this stuff up) to read in the meantime? Check.Anyone else out there registering this morning?
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I just don't think I can do it - which is too bad, since I'd walk to the West Coast to see Barbara Walker. I didn't plan that as a pun, really, it's too early for that. So since I'm not registering, you have one less name in competition. Good luck!
Good Luck:)As I am not going I have my fingers free to cross them for you!
Will you tell us what was your first choice even if you will not get into it?
And I also what to know the name of the book please :)
I really hope you get what you want
I'm trying. I think the server's crashed.
What's the book? Just by the name, I want to read it.
Good Luck!
YES YES YES!! And, after the server crashing in the middle of my first registration, managed to get all classes but one in the second try. I actually went back a little while later and there were miraculously openings in the majority of classes. So glad I'm done with registration, now I can relax a little. :)
So it's really happening, eh? What classes did you sign up for?
oh good you are going, i love that you are going. I'd love to go ... but that *** ocean is in the way. I think any sock class would be fab .. and how can you choose?
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Sadly I'm still going to be in Texas when it happens :(
Hoping for you! I'm not going. Already went to The KNit and Crochet Show (well, I went to Portland and then was late and missed the class registration, Sigh).
Fingers are crossed...
I hope we don't have to go through that process again. OMG. And your notes are so much neater than mine! *wink*
Glad you are happy with what you got, and I'm glad we'll see each other in Portland! Beyond that, I'm not spilling the beans....
(((((hugs)))))
So were you able to get into the classes you were hoping for?
Hortense Powdermaker sounds like a character from a Lord Peter Wimsey novel :)
I hope it worked for you! If I get to go, it would just be to the market, dragging my semi-local sister. I didn't want to sign up for stuff and not be able to make it healthwise, better to leave them open for others. But I'm with Mary Lou, I'd walk there to see Barbara Walker--I'd give her a hug and thank her in person, finally, for letting me use some of her lace stitches in my book.
My son lived near her during the hurricanes that hit her area, and we swapped a few stories over the phone; she was very glad to hear he'd helped out at the Red Cross shelter there. It gave us a sense of connection beyond even the knitting.
Please tell her I said hi!
Oh, and one of my favorite cookbook authors renamed herself as a 60's idealist newly married 16-year-old, and has kept the name since: Crescent Dragonwagon. Superb recipes, absolutely wonderful books.
Unfortunately, such joys are unknown here in the Antipodes so I hope you got what you wanted!
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