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Many thanks to both of you. Snow I can deal with! Finding my way around is the problem! I may get lost and show up late - but I'll show up! lol!

See my post #373. Also don't be afraid to stop and ask direstions. People are pretty friendly.

Humor me on this one:

This rally I'll be working the press table again: greeting and answering their administrative questions and handing out releases and the like. I don't give press comment: I feed it out to whoever they want to talk to, etc. And I help out of towners and tourists who are learning what's going on.

Can you see how, to perform these functions, it's going to be useful for me to appear accessible and not be tied up in social conversations?

It's not useful to have a big social conversation in front of the table, just in terms of the press accessing the table. (Yes, I know, I'm very "visible," but still! ;) It is *particularly* not useful to be involved in a big social conversation with me that you won't let go of even though there's a press person waiting patiently to ask a question. I was too nice about this in the past.

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"What's her problem"? LOL, I love you all and yes I did wake up with a bee in my bonnet. All the better to tell you all what's really on my mind. I've no authority to cop such an attitude, but be forewarned I'm doing it anyway: I HAVE A PRESS TABLE ATTITUDE!!!

Even when I appear all nice and accessible and chipper and relaxed -- that's 'cause that's my job. Come help work the table if you want, but let's not use it as a social gathering point.

And absolutely, permission to mock my "press table attitude" granted. I don't write this TOTALLY without a sense of humor. Be as frisky as you want before and after the rally! But not during the rally. :) You've been forewarned. Let me do my job, and don't make the table inaccessible to arriving press and tourists, OK?

This is all a subpoint of goals we all share: to expand and welcome new members and get our message across to new people and be accessible.