Life QotW: Personal Projects

What project are you working on right now that's not work related?

Funny you should ask. I was just getting ready to post about it in hopes of getting some people to help out. Some of you may already know me as stinalyn over on the BookCrossing.com site, and I am presenting an "Introduction to BookCrossing.com" workshop on July 3rd at Mensa's Annual Gathering in Denver, Colorado. Part of the presentation will be to allow each participant (while supplies last) to take a book that has already been registered on the site, add an online journal entry, and then release it to continue its trackable journey. I'm toting along several books myself to release in this fashion, and other BookCrossers have already pitched in, sending books to me and to the helpful Denverites listed on the MensaAG BookCrossing profile that I set up to facilitate this project.

How can you help? Well, I highly recommend joining BookCrossing, if you haven't already. It's free, the site won't spam you, and it's as anonymous as you want to make it. (For instance, nobody knows veteran BookCrosser watchcat's true identity. We suspect she is really Paris Hilton.) Once you've joined, you can use the site's private message system to "PM" one of the helpful Denverites about sending them a book or two that you've registered on BookCrossing and are ready to release into the world, and they can see that it makes it to me at the convention hotel.

And even if you don't feel ready to join the fabulous community of bibliophiles that is BookCrossing, you can send me a message through Vox if you'd still like to help out somehow.

And, like it says in the MensaAG profile page, we're planning on a public (neither Mensa nor BookCrossing membership required) get-together, probably the evening of Saturday, July 5th. So if you're in Denver that day, keep watching that profile for an announcement of the exact when and where. We'd love to introduce you to our community!