Friday, 4 February

This morning I had a meeting with the Senior Events Planner at Rockefeller University, located at 66th and York. She showed me some available spaces at the school and I fell in-love with the Welch Hall Reading Room. The cost was a little high (try $400 more for the room than at NYU) but since we're running low on time (and options), I asked the Planner to put me down for a "soft-book," an industry term meaning "tentative booking." I then went down to Houston Street and Lafayette, to look, again*, at NYU Wagner Institute's facilities. The room is awkwardly shaped and would serve better lecture style than for our purposes, which are to encourage discussion amongts the panelists and audience members, but it's available for our time slot (we agreed on a date and time JUST yesterday).

When I returned to the office I discussed my findings with the CEO and recommended the Welch Hall; he was not impressed with the cost and said to keep looking. So I spent the rest of the afternoon emailing different venues, making calls and leaving voicemails.

I worked the full shift today.

*refer to 1/19/05 entry