Klarinet Archive - Posting 000682.txt from 2004/07
From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Fest is declared open
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:38:06 -0400
Nancy Buckman wrote,
>I have delivered the first of Fest participants
>to College Park and the Conference Center.
>It looks very convenient. The Smith Theatre
>is a stone's throw from the Conference Center.
>BTW, I received a phone call on Friday telling
>me that the Center was overbooked and I was
>being bumped to a location 3 miles from the site.
[snip]
> I made my early reservation to avoid this problem.
>I have a confirmation letter that says my reservation
>is "guaranteed". I'll move, if they pay for my stay
>elsewhere.
I'd been wondering whether I should try to get lodging so I could go to the
nighttime events, but you've just answered that question.... Give 'em
hell, Nancy! When a possible scheduling conflict disappeared yesterday
(construction workers rescheduled, for the umpteenth time), I made a last
minute decision to go to the Fest after all, and commute up from Virginia
by Metro rail every day, if it's okay to register at the door. (Since I
didn't pre-register, I've e-mailed to ask about on-site registration, since
I couldn't find that info on the registration site.) Anyhow, commuting
from home means saving money I might want in the dealer room.
I'm also too late to send off for a klarinet list badge, but in case
anybody wants to spot me in time to go hide before I recognize your badge,
I'll clip to my handbag a photo of Shadow Cat, peacefully snoozing with no
clarinet noise to bother her while I'm gone.
Lelia Loban
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/LeliaLoban
Kerry and Edwards in 2004, because regime change begins at home.
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:40:35 -0400
To: klarinet@-----.org
From: Dick Vigorous <bugchomper@-----.org>
Subject: Fest is declared open
Message-Id: <skitter-skitter-skitter@-----.org>
Hey, hey, whaddabout me? I wanna go to the ClarinetInfest too an hear a
buncha clarinets squeal! Whoa! Sounds great! Is some of em beginners
what squeaks a lot? My favorites! I'll see if I can hop a ride in Lelia's
tote bag.
Yeah, yeah, I'm a rat, a dirty rat, so what? What's it to ya? Ya got
somethin against rats, ya bigots? See this claw? Sit an spin.
I need a break, lemme tell ya. Man, I'd love to lay back an listen to some
clarinets squeakin. One thing they don't warn ya about this jubilee
periodical cicada year is, it's fab while it lasts, but then ya end up with
about six times too many little ratlets runnin aroun screamin fer food
afterwards. See, the cicadas only last a few weeks, an it's a great big
feedin orgy, no doubt about it. The legends is all true. Them big bugs is
the yummiest crunchiest goodies I ever et, an the flavor just bout makes ya
dizzy it's so yummy, though after awhile ya get so stuffed full of cicadas
ya wanna barf an never look at another cicada again as long as ya live.
Also, if ya eat the wings, they give ya the runs. Nobody warns ya bout
that. But sheesh, now there's baby rats followin me up to my attic
hideaway, playin with my tail, stickin them teeny little paws in my ears
when I'm tryin to listen to Lelia squeak a clarinet, stealin my breakfast
crickets an what-all. Too many rats, lookin fer new burrows, is callin
attention to us, too, gettin seen runnin across the yards in broad
daylight. The humans up an down the street, they're talkin bout gettin
organized with neck-snap traps an poison baits. The neighborhood ain't
safe no more. So them 17-year cicadas is a blessin draggin a curse along
behind em, if ya ask me. Some of the big dad-rats, they're eatin their
young just to get rid of em. I ain't doin that yet but if a certain little
squealer don't let go my tail right bleepin now, he's my lunch, kid, you
listenin?
Ya really need special quarters fer rats at the ClarinetInfest, ya know,
cause we're your biggest fans. Maybe stock up a nice crawlway with some of
them crunchy cheese cracker thingies. An cockroaches. I love a nice fat
cockroach but I can't git none of em at Lelia's place. Ya got cockroaches
at the Conference Center?
Happy squeakin,
Dick Vigorous
Biggest Boss Rat in the Burrow
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