I'll be your date. :) *flutters eyelashes* I mean, I'll be in Chicago, which is marginally closer to NYC than Santa Cruz. It's even almost not quite in the same time zone! This is destiny, man! Maybe I could even mail you the stuff I keep being too broke and lazy to mail you while I'm there. Although there might be ants in the package. There's ants in everything these days, as far as I can tell.