Re: Back from Berkeley, and still grinning.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Quijada" <jq_ithkuil@...>

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> And bravo to you, Sally!  Your talk was the perfect way of starting off
> the
> conference -- an insightful, witty, provacative, at times dramatic, and
> ultimately profound commentary on the conlanging art -- from both
> historical
> and contemporary perspectives.  It really set the tone for the
> conference --
> fun but meaningful.  By the end of your talk, I felt more proud than ever
> to
> be a practitioner of the Increasingly-Less-Secret Vice.
>
> --John Quijada
>
> p.s.  a post on the ZBB by one of our fellow attendees describes meeting
> you
> as "kick-patootie."  If that means what I think it does, I heartily agree!
> ;-)
LOL!  If it means what "I" think it means, John, then I was a little too
kick-patootie coming back on the plane when they told me there was no more
room for carry-ons (because the first fifty they admitted had overhead bags
twice the size of me) and that I had to check my carry-on (that fit the
parameters they insist on) with all the conference materials in it.  I
kicked some patootie and they let me put the important stuff in a bag with
handles, but I got chewed out by a woman I sat next to who felt I ought to
have been more meek, and feminine, and "understanding" of an airline that
doesn't serve its patrons fairly.  United Airlines.  Letter coming to them
posthaste.

But if it means "good," or even "nice leather jacket, then I'll take that
with gratitude!  I loved your talk, AS YOU KNOW, and will attempt to think
of my conworld and its pervasive metaphors before I continue with Teonaht.
Thanks for the nice words about my little speech.

Sally

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