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Round robin shebang
Larry wrote: "I like that idea."me too.
"Or your mangled toes" - HAHAHAHA!!I'm in. Count me in. Love it.
Tentatively in. - Not sure why I wouldn't.
another cool idea. i like the ones that are interactive so we can have both the comfort level of online friends and then also real life friends. in
I've really enjoyed that about this group, Kevin. For a group of strangers, it seems more tangible than most.
Sally wrote: "I'm in. Love this idea."YAY!!!
Cool idea, I'm in. I have a question though - do we ever get to read all the letters that come after ours?
Michael wrote: "Cool idea, I'm in. I have a question though - do we ever get to read all the letters that come after ours?"You do, Michael, once it makes another full round and comes back to you.
Yay yay yay. This will be cool. Is it ok to wait til after the holidays?
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But we should post them all once done. Otherwise only the first person will get everything, and if I was at the beginning I'd want to know what happened after mine.
Me, too. Doesn't it just keep going? That way no one misses any of the letters. It's kinda not a round robin if it stops.
Color me stoopid, I don't know what I was thinking last night now in the clarity of morning!
How are we going to decide the path?OOOH! I know how we can decide the path and calculate the calculations 'cause I've done this in two math classes!
We could do it alphabetically or my the order in which people opted in.
Sarah Pi wrote: "Or I can randomize it."I think someone did that to my life.
It's a quiet day in here today so I'm taking the opportunity to catch up on some threads I've missed. Is it too late to join in on this one?
Not too late! I was hoping this bird would get some international flights in there.
Moi aussi, s'il vous plait (not sure of spelling, girlhood french 45 yrs rusty). Count me in as I regard writing letters a lost art.
there used to be a library at Radcliffe that collected journals and letters of women, lot of women. I assume it is now part of Harvard after they absorbed Radcliffe. I knew someone who interned there once.
It's after Christmas.... Did this get forgotten?
Thanks for the reminder, Janice.OK, here's the list that I see. Let me know if I'm missing anyone:
Sarah Pi
Larry
Britt
Janine
Barb
Heidi
Kate
Jim
Kevin
Janice
BunWat
Sally
Jackie the Librarian
Michael
Misha (dropped out probably?)
Lori
Gail
Michele
New Jackie
Phillip (not Phil)
Gabby
If you want to change your mind you can jump back in later, Misha.Let's see. Does anyone have a suggestion for how it will work best? I think if I get Larry's address from him and send directly to him, and then he gets Britt's address and so on that should work fine.
I still think this sounds pretty fun. I'm fairly confused about how it will work, though.
Sarah Pi wrote: "If you want to change your mind you can jump back in later, Misha.Let's see. Does anyone have a suggestion for how it will work best? I think if I get Larry's address from him and send directly t..."
that seems like a good strategy to me.
Heidi, here's how I see it:I will PM Larry for his address.
I will write a letter, add whatever I feel like adding (photos?) then mail it to Larry.
Larry will get my letter, then PM Britt for her address.
He'll add his to mine, and send both to Britt.
Etc.
When it gets to the end, it goes round again.
I think the PM-for-address is a good strategy because it gives you a heads up to keep an eye out for the package, and if someone needs to bow out, they can say so at the time of the PM, and the sender can skip that person. If someone disappears from TC or GR without contacting us and doesn't respond to a PM in a reasonable amount of time, then we'll skip them as well.
Sure, Michele. I'll add you onto the end of the list.
thank you, Sarah. I love writing letters.
Hi, I've just joined Terminal Coffee. This sounds really fun and interesting. Can I join in too?
Welcome to TC Jackie, yes please join in.
Hi Jackie! You're welcome to join in, but we'd love it if you got yourself an avatar and joined in to the conversations in the meantime, so we can get to know you a little better.
Do y'all want me to organize it at all geographically, or do you like that the package will crisscross the globe a few times? It looks like the last few trips are US-AUSTRALIA-US-UK-US
I think that your list works as it is. Variety is the spice of life.
i like it when it goes all over the place.
Sarah Pi
Larry
Britt
Janine
Barb
Heidi
Kate
Jim
Kevin
Janice
BunWat
Sally
Jackie the Librarian
Michael
Misha (dropped out probably?)
Lori
Gail
Michele
New Jackie
Phillip (not Phil)
Gabby
OK, so like I've said, I'm an idea person, but I'd be willing to see this one out, after the holidays, if anyone was interested.
I'll move it down to shebangs shortly - just putting it in general for now.
The research thread kind of reminded me of this.
My senior thesis involved a collection of letters sent by my college's class of 1903 to each other over the course of a couple of decades. The letters I had spanned 1919-1938.I think I pointed to this once before, but here's the project, still hanging around the internet a decade later: http://meyerhoff.goucher.edu/library/...
And here's my passing thought:
anyone want to write a round robin letter like that? The first person includes a handwritten letter, whatever you want to say about yourself or the place you live or the state of the world or whatever, a picture of your dog or your kid or your mangled toes, some music if you want, whatever. He or she passes it to the next person, etc. So the next person will mail two letters, the next three, until it eventually comes back around. I figure that with this group it could get to some pretty cool places, and since it would just be a flat package it wouldn't get too expensive to ship around.