Mountains O' Tote Bags!

According to the RWA web site, the conference next week in Orlando is sold out. I've been registered for ages (uh, January? February?) - so haven't really been back to check the web site all that much. I'm really happy to see this though. I had originally wondered how well-attended this year would be - what with the economy being a craptacular suck fest - and when the venue had to change mid-stream (who could have predicted that awful flooding in Nashville?), things seemed slightly on the doomed side. And while Orlando in July has humidity levels this side of Hell, I think the Disney World locale definitely enticed some "on the fence" folks to attend.

Over the last couple of weeks, RWA has been sending out e-mails begging pleading asking for volunteers, and since Librarians Day is Wednesday (conference really doesn't start cooking until Thursday), I tend to arrive a wee bit earlier than a lot of people. Which means, I'm an ideal candidate to volunteer my services to stuff conference tote bags. Not the sexiest job in the whole world, but one that needs to be done, since every attendee gets a tote bag with various goodies inside.

Well, I got an e-mail yesterday detailing when and where - I have a Tuesday morning shift - and learned a couple of things. 1) There will be 7 books in the tote bags (woohoo!) and 2) they need 2100 tote bags stuffed.

That bears repeating....

2100!!

2100 x 7 books = 14,700 books! 14,700 of the same 7 titles, but still....

I can't wait to see that room with my own beady lil' eyes. And if you're coming to the Blogger Bar Bash Tuesday night? If you're extra nice to me ("Hey Wendy, nice to meet you.") I might just tell you what our freebies are going to be this year. Assuming you can't wait the 12 hours until registration opens for business. Heh.