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SWILbusiness:
-SWILoween is next Friday night. Be at the WRC at 8. Pay Herbert for food: $3 now, $4 at the party, $5 afterwards.
-Nominations for next year's presidency are next Saturday. See below for more info about how they work.
-Philcon: still Nov. 17-19. We're still getting a room together. Let us know if you want in and we'll connect you to the relevant party.
-Pumpkin Caroling on Halloween: go from door to door singing Halloween Carols. Meet in Parlours after dinner, circa 6:30.
-Monday's movie will be Svenkmeyer's version of Alice in Wonderland, which is twisted and bizarre and wonderful. 10pm in the media lounge.
-Send favorite webthings to Finlay so she can add them to the swil.org links page. Also volunteer to help print digital archives (an ongoing project) and organize existing paper records.

Non-SWILbusiness:
-NaNoWriMo = National November Writing Month: write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. Herbert, Andrew and others are doing this crazy thing: if you want to participate talk to one of them.
-Cantatrix's annual fall concert about death and the German language is on Tuesday (halloween!) at 5:30 in the belltower. Don't be late or you'll miss it.
-Roundsing on Wednesday evening, maybe.
-BMT show next Saturday (the 4th)
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SWILnews #6 of the Robocalypse Revisited

Brought to you from the unexpurgated writings of Daniel Jamison. Mostly.

...From inside, we heard the screams of flesh and metal. "Why?" screamed Revan? Yes.
The meeting was called to disorder for the last time.

SWILoween, far in the future, too far for our corrupt fleshly forms, but it is next Friday.
Come as something abstract.
#3 before, $4 at or $5 after it. To Herbert. (To pay for food. If you come with your mouth sewn shut, you probably don't have to pay, but you won't have a very good time. -r)
Help Herbert move stuff ~4pm on Friday.
No rowdy drunks. (Or we will throw them out the window.)
Herbert seeks a coffee-maker, baking slave, and the sweet escape from robotic doom. Vegans go first. Bring mugs. (I don't like the way that sounds... -r)

More events: Philcon - awesome in 2 weeks. Charles Stross - KIDNAP the Father of the ROBOCALYPSE

Nominations NEXT WEEK!!!! ROBOCALYPSE!!!! MAYBE!! (Bear in mind that this is after SWILoween. Our thinking is that if you stay up all night and still show up for Nominations, that shows dedication. If you didn't stay up all night, then you got sleep, and have no right to complain. Nominate anything/anyone. Actual people have a right to refuse nomination. Platforms will be due at meeting in another few weeks. If you don't like this schedule, tough beans, you should have said something at meeting.)

On REAL Halloween - Pumpkin Caroling. Surprising! Not arrestable! Maybe!
Miles refuses to celebrate, revealing his robotness. 

WHERE ARE THEY?
Drums, Drums
in the deep!

Saturday Night SWIL - Rocky Horror at Bryn Mawr, or sitting outside the quad after the lights went out.

SWIL Movie - Star Wars: Sid Meier's _Alice_ (please see the summary for the correctly-spelled version -r)

Webstuff: send links to Finlay to update the links section of the webpage. If it's online and you like it, we want it there.
Lorestuff: Army of volunteers wanted to print out all info from website (all digital archives) so we can eventually give it to FHL so it won't disintegrate over the next n years. Also to paw through our archives and see what we have so we can organize it and feel good about ourselves.

THEY ARE COMING

You missed: apple picking, hobathingamacadooie (aka polish puppet theatre).
You can still go to: BMT show next Saturday (the 4th), Cantatrix concert on Halloween at 5:30, Roundsing on Wednesday (maybe), NaNoWriMo (scary: lose your individuality through creativity, 50,000 words, 1 month, good luck all!)

Called to Order!