11/3 Meeting Recap

• Thanks to everyone who helped out at Longhorn Halloween! I still have several unclaimed costume items, so please make sure you grab them at the next meeting. If you can't make the meetings, email me and we can set up a time for you to pick them up.
• If you signed up for a Yule Ball ticket last week and didn't pay for it last night, we unfortunately had to take your name off the list. That doesn't mean you can't get a ticket, it just means you don't have any tickets reserved right now. You can sign up again at the next meeting, but make sure you pay within a week to guarantee your spot. You can also buy tickets for friends, but we are restricting the ball to only UT students, so please keep that in mind.
• We've got another service project/fundraiser coming up in a few weeks! Every holiday season, BookPeople sets up a deal with local nonprofits: we gift-wrap customer's books, customers tip us $1-2, and we get to keep all tips. Less work for the BookPeople staff, and a nice bit of income for us. We currently need people who can work on Tuesday, Nov 29 from 8-10 PM; Thursday, Dec 1 from 6-8 PM and 8-10 PM, and Monday Dec 5 from 4-6 PM. If you want to work more than one shift, list the shifts you can work in order of preference and I'll let you know which ones we need you for. We're limiting the number of people to 3 per shift per BookPeople's guidelines, so the slots are being filled on a first come first serve basis and I can't guarantee you your top choice. You'll get 3 house points for every hour you work, and the money we earn will be used to make the Yule Ball even more awesome and to kickstart the projects we'll be working on next semester.
• The next Quidditch match is going to be the weekend of the 18th (specific date and time TBA) and we'll be selling concessions again! Sign-up sheet for bringing food is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArAqdbMi3tCTdF9SaFRIQTVwNE95MVpYQktwcE9hREE. If you want to make things on your own or have an idea for something we could sell, let me know!
• Finally, Wrimos! Don't forget about the Frenzied Novelists write-ins every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 at Bennu Coffee. Also, we'll be having an HP write-in (mostly meaning there will be butterbeer) this Friday, Nov 11, at 7 at SRD. More info here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=285368498160124. Also, author Maureen Johnson is now NaNoWriMo's official Agony Aunt! Every day this month she'll be answering a NaNo-related question on her tumblr. Check in every day to find out how the writing process is like chasing a wheel of cheese down a hill or how the 50,000 word goal isn't so much looming over you as staring wide-eyed at you, rather like a stuffed owl. Words of wisdom we can all live by. :)
• **UPDATE**: We realize that the UT-students-only restriction on the Yule Ball is a bit problematic for those of you with non-UT dates. With that in mind, we're amending that restriction: As long as there is one UT ID per couple, you're good. We don't want an influx of non-UT people, so please respect this rule (i.e. don't bring a group of non-UT friends and pair them up with your UT friends so they can get in), but we also don't want anyone to feel reluctant to come because they can't bring their SO/best friend/what-have-you. As usual, if you have any questions just let us know.