For SF convention hotel liaisons everywhere...

This showed up on the OryCon list. It fits the realities of every convention I've ever worked on:

To those who must negotiate,
For those who would associate,
(The complex scales of hotel rates
And travel plans to moderate,
With poverty a strong Mandate
to find a magic cure-all date
When moon and stars collaborate
to find the perfect time and place),
I'll light a candle for our fate.

-- A.E. Trembley

(Reprinted with permission)