Hi all! I'm working up the courage to join the conference. And, like jvb, I had a little difficulty scraping together the 475 Euros. Since I live in the U.S. I didn't have any Euros, just dollars.
I finally found someone in the neighborhood who would pay me in Euros to mow their lawn and paint their house and wash their car and wash their three cats (ow!) and sweep their roof and polish their silver and file their income tax return forms and walk their dog and babysit their kids and shop for groceries and cook their meals and polish their shoes and perform a hula dance while singing the Hawaiian War Chant. It took a whole day! Whew!
Now that I have the money, I can start writing my part of the story, right? ( Boy am I tired! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" /> )