33girl: Thanks.
Wow they do? Often? I just didn't want to, well, annoy them.
Would that still apply to me though? I mean I don't think they have an actual designation of 'colony', I think of us as an interest group (they're the only international we'd petition and our group was set up to do so). I don't know if, if they did have colonies we'd be one or still an interest group since there's no way of knowing as there aren't any.
Ooh re-read your post, the person we dealt with in the past (not 100% sure if she's still there...) is based at the Internationals office herself, and in charge of the type of chapters we'd hope to become one of.
ETA: WEEK OR TWO?? :-o Damn, they must've wondered about me!!! Feeling stupid now. I spoke to them really briefly in September while I was in AL/FL to see if arranging to meet up with one of the regional people could be arranged; it couldn't be due to time in the end as I wasn't there long but prior to that I spoke to them in July/August I think. By letter as I recall.