Apply for Membership

November, 2007 -- This is our new form which allows people to apply on-line. Although we have thoroughly tested it, about 2 or 3 percent of the people applying have problems. If that happens to you, please copy any error message you receive and then email it to James Mitchell at jmitchell@kensingtonllc.com and please include your name and telephone numbers. He will call you quickly to try to figure out what is going wrong.

We have been hosting parties in Boston since November 2002. Starting in November 2007, we will also be giving parties in Los Angeles. Do you want to receive invitations for parties and events in:

Boston Yes No

Los Angeles Yes No

(If you are bi-coastal (i.e., you spend time in both LA and Boston), you are welcome to choose both cities, but this is uncommon.)

Name

Full proper name (including any middle initials or name). Please list your first name first, then your middle initial or name, and then your last name — e.g.,
John S. Smith, Hillary Rodham Clinton, E. Philio Wigglesworth.

First name (as you want it to appear on your name tag)

Last name (as you want it to appear on your name tag)

Salutation / first name (how you wish to be addressed, what you want people to call you — e.g., if your first name is "Elizabeth," you may prefer to be called "Betsy")

Sex Male Female (if you are transgendered, write to us and we will figure out how to classify you)

Password

Your password must be at least 6 characters or numbers long. Case does not matter. Whatever you type in (all upper case, all lower case, or mixed), we will store your password as lower case, in order to eliminate confusion.

Re-enter your password

E-Mail Addresses

Primary E-Mail Address

Please re-enter your primary e-mail address

Please provide us with the e-mail address you wish party invitations to be sent to. This should be an address you check on a regular basis. In addition, this should be a "permanent" address — i.e., an address that you will have for a long time. If you're employed by a company and you might not be working for them two years from now, then wouldn't it make more sense to have invitations sent to and you have an alternative e-mail address (such as Hotmail, gmail or Yahoo), it would probably make more sense to provide us with your alternative e-mail address.

If possible, please do not provide us with an AOL address. AOL regularly flags a lot of e-mail as spam, even when it is not spam (these are called "false positives"). When we then try to call them about this problem, the technical support is literally the worst in the world.

Other E-Mail Addresses — Please provide all of your other e-mail addresses, so that we can contact you in case your primary e-mail address bounces.

Telephone Numbers

We need to have all of your telephone numbers — home, work and mobile. We ask this for two reasons. First, if all of your e-mail addresses go bad, my secretary needs to be able to contact you to find out your current e-mail address. Second, on rare occasions we have to cancel events at the last minute. Under such circumstances, in addition to sending you an e-mail, my secretary will call you.

If you don't have a work telephone number (you're a student, for example), then please check the applicable box. You should do so only if you truly don't have a work telephone. If you say that you don't, but you work for a company and you do, my secretary will simply deactivate your membership and you'll no longer receive invitations.

For each phone number, you should also specify whether we should telephone you at a particular telephone number. Choices are:

1 — Preferred
We should try this number first
2 — Fine to Call
Calling this number is also fine, but try the preferred number first.
3 — Second choice
We should try the preferred number first.
4 — You prefer us not to call you at this number
We won't call this number unless we are unable to reach you at the other numbers.
5 — Don't call
We will not call this number unless (i) it is an emergency (i.e., you're attending a party that evening and it just got cancelled) or (ii) every other number is not working.

If you are indifferent as to whether we call you at one number or another, then tag them both as 1 — Preferred. If you have a particular telephone number but do not wish us to contact you at that number, then you should supply that number and then flag it as 5 — Dont' Call.

Mobile Telephone Number

Please enter in the following format
(nnn) xxx-xxxx
where (nnn) is your area code and xxx-xxxx is your phone number. Please make certain to include your area code.

If you do not have a mobile telephone number, then check here.

Is it OK to contact you at your mobile telephone number?

When is the earliest we can contact you on your mobile number on weekdays?

When is the latest we can contact you on your mobile number on weekdays?

When is the earliest we can contact you on your mobile number on weekends?

When is the latest we can contact you on your mobile number on weekends?

Home Telephone Number

Please enter in the following format
(nnn) xxx-xxxx
where (nnn) is your area code and xxx-xxxx is your phone number. Please make certain to include your area code.

If you do not have a home telephone number, then check here.

Is it OK to contact you at your home telephone number?

When is the earliest we can contact you on your home number on weekdays?

When is the latest we can contact you on your home number on weekdays?

When is the earliest we can contact you on your home number on weekends?

When is the latest we can contact you on your home number on weekends?

Work Telephone Number

Please enter in the following format
(nnn) xxx-xxxx
where (nnn) is your area code and xxx-xxxx is your phone number. Please make certain to include your area code.
Extension

Is it OK to contact you at your work telephone number?

Other Telephone Numbers

Other telephone numbers (please describe)

Please list all of your other telephone numbers, including area codes and extensions. Please list whether it is OK to contact you at these numbers, and if so, the earliest and latest times it is acceptable to contact you.

Residence

Which city and state do you live in?

What is the zip code of your primary residence?

What is your profession? Please provide as much detail as possible, ideally several sentences. If you are a student, please list where you go to school, what you are studying, and when you expect to graduate.

Marital status Single / Never married Engaged Married Separated Divorced Other

Relationship status
Single and looking for a serious relationshipSingle and looking for a casual relationshipSingle and not looking for a relationship"Taken"Other

If you have children, please list their names and year of birth

Education

Please list all schools attended, degrees obtained, and your major/concentration, and when you graduated.

Year of Birth

We ask that you provide us your year of birth. We ask this because going forward, many of the parties we will host will be age specific. (The large cocktail parties will always be oriented to all ages, however.) Please note that we do not need your exact year of birth, you can approximate — if you were born in 1980, you could list 1978 or 1982, and that would be close enough. After you become a member, you can change your year of birth if you wish to record a different year. For further information, please read the section in our "Frequently Asked Questions" on year of birth.

Please note that we do not provide your year of birth to anyone, even our facilitators. We use it solely in our database for sorting which individuals are invited to which parties.

What is your year of birth (year only)?

In addition, we ask that you tell us the age range of people you ideally would like to socialize with. This information is used primarily for dating purposes — e.g., if we were inviting you to a speed dating party, and you want to meet people who are between 25 and 35 years old, we would use that information in determining which events to invite you to. You do not have to provide us with this information, but if you do not, there will be certain events that you will not be invited to. After you become a member, you can change these age preferences at any time.

What is the minimum age of people you ideally would like to socialize with (primarily for dating purposes, rather than general socializing)? Please enter the year of birth for such age. If you are totally, completely indifferent, enter the year 2050, which means there will be no bottom limit on the age range.

What is the maximum age of people you ideally would like to socialize with (primarily for dating purposes, rather than general socializing)? Please enter the year of birth for such age. If you are totally, completely indifferent, please enter the year 1900, which means there will be no upper limit on the age range.

Reports of People Attending the Parties

Before each large and smaller cocktail party, we send one or more reports to the other people attending. These reports list the name, descriptive tags, descriptions and any public (but not private) requests to the facilitators. You can choose to receive none, some or all of these reports. You can choose as many reports to receive as you would like.

Everyone attending, not sorted by gender Yes No

Everyone attending, sorted by gender Yes No

Men attending Yes No

Women attending Yes No

Hobbies

What are your hobbies and interests? What do you do for fun?

Why Are You Interested in Joining?

Why are you interested in being placed on the invitation list? Please be as specific as possible — e.g., "I want to make new friends," "I'm looking for additional business contacts," "I want to meet someone to date"

If one of the reasons you are joining is for social reasons (as opposed business networking or for dating), it would be helpful if you were as specific as possible in what you are looking for — "I just want to meet other women," "I'm looking for a tennis partner," "I want to meet people who collect stamps."

If you're interested in joining for business networking purposes, it would be helpful if you were as specific as possible in what you are looking for — "I'm looking for a new job," "I want to change careers," "I am a freelance Web designer and I'm always looking for new clients," "I'm trying to start a company and I want to meet potential investors," "I'm looking for a business partner," "I'm looking to hire several employees." If you answer this question, the facilitators may read what you wrote and then try to introduce you to other people.

If you're interested in joining for dating purposes (at least in part),it would be helpful if you were as specific as possible.

Tell us what you are looking for in a romantic partner. List everything that matters, from physical characteristics to other characteristics.
Tell us what you are not looking for in a partner.
Tell us the age range (minimum and maximum) of the person you are looking for.
Tell us what kind of relationship you are looking for -- "I'm looking for a casual fling," "I want to fall in love but not necessarily get married," "I'd love to meet a life partner and get married."
If you're on any on-line dating sites, please tell us which ones and your screen name.

If you tell us this information, our facilitators may try to introduce you to people they think you might be interested in meeting.

Please note that these are social parties, not singles parties. Lots of married couples and those who are in committed relationships attend our parties. On the other hand, if you are single and looking, it would make sense to attend our parties, since many people who attend are single and looking. We sometimes do host singles parties, but those are different from our regular parties.

Tell us about yourself. Where did you grow up? What should we know about you that is not covered in the other questions on this form?

Internet Dating Sites

You are not required to provide us with this information. If you do, James and the facilitators may read your profile and try to think of people in the group you might want to meet. If you were interested, we would then make an introduction, either by e-mail or at a party.

Are you on Match.com? Yes No