Haiku Fun & Ramen Noodle Yum! Dec 7; 1:00pm; Rathskeller

Equipment we have to use at the event from the Student Center:
Blackboard, Easel, Karaoke Machine

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We should make different variety of flyers for this event!
We should mention that everyone is welcomed to read their favorite haikus written by someone else or read their own!
Ramen will be served as well as other refreshments and perhaps some snacks.

• What kind of ramen should we serve?
  It would be nice to have two types and serve it similar to the ramen we had at the character date auction event last year.
  
  
  
• What else can we do for this event?
  

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I'm not sure if anyone else is old enough to remember the ASSIT Coffee House events... but they were pretty cool. Everyone would get together for a geeky cafe kind of vibe. Theyd serve different kinds of coffee and snacks, and all night we'd just hang out, read poetry, kareoke, some would sing or perform musically. I could see having a couple of haikus broken up with different musical pieces. I remember hearing some awesome violin from our event with KASA, are they available? (I would leave out the kareoke, but include singing with musical instruments.)

As far as food... You can make two different bowls of ramen by starting with a different base stock. You could easily do a spicy veggie broth and a porky rich broth.

One thing that needs to be established before the bill is sent out is exactly what package of noodles we use. There are so many different kinds, I would screw up the shopping if I was sent alone... >_> (Udon noodles for life!!!) This event needs research on exactly which noodle and how much its going to cost us to add extras such as meat and veggies.

Snacks should be light, healthy, easy to make, no temperature problems... the downside to all of those coffeehouses was that it was all junk food... how about edamame, pickles, and or onigiri? (not sure about the rice and noodle combo, but hey choice of starch?)

That's a great idea. Our first haiku night was a shared event with the Normal Review. We sat around Cafe Diem reading poetry. Perhaps we should do something like an invatation to the other clubs?

Actually on that note, maybe we should release a letter to the other clubs stating our events and asking if anyone wants to join in? and stating right there that if you want us to come to your event, just say so? Thats always a nice, hi we're your neighbors lets get together kinda thing.

omg those caplico sticks look awesome... and can we please buy the kitty bag? I just want the bag....

We will be contacting other organizations about our events later when we figure our more on what we are going to do at our events.


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so, how did this event go?

Based on the very brief first impression of when I walked in, it seemed to be going well. The food was out, presentable, and layout was nice. I liked the "start here" sign, that is a nice touch.

If you are going to advertise an event starting at 1:00PM, you must at least make an attempt to start at 1:00PM. The event started at 2:03PM. Honestly, this isn't a surprise.

Things happen and events are late. But we should not be known for that.

I've noticed that events are starting after the advertised time, later and later. Sometimes, nothing can be done. But the attitude should not be, "I'm sure we'll be late anyway, so I'm guessing 2ish?".

You guys can do better than this, hold yourselves accountable to what you put out in public.

(If we have the room reserved for 1-5pm, it does not mean our event HAS to be from 1-5pm. Of course, we can use 1-2 as a setup and 4-5 as a breakdown time.)

In the last few months I've seen the bigger events start on time and go swimmingly, and the smaller events start late and suffer lack of planning. Weird.

other than the temporal distortion that the SC Rath seems to occupy, how did it go?

I think the event went really well. The problems with the outlet was kind of to be expected, considering the same thing happened at Iron Chef. The ramen was FANTASTIC and everyone enjoyed themselves. I think it was nice to have haiku interspersed throughout the event -- that way everyone got a chance to have some ramen and listen to haiku.

All in all, I think it went pretty smoothly. Of course, the start time was an issue, but there were a lot of people (myself included) who would have absolutely been there for setup had we not had prior obligations (in my case, a class I absolutely couldn't skip.) So I think the reason why it started late may have been due to lack of manpower to get it all started. But that's to be expected around this time of the semester.