August 27, 1993
Dear Everyone:
When last we checked in with our plucky reporter, she was dealing with
the happy-go-lucky Scungewort family. You
remember: The derelict
former-drug dealer dad who wanted to sell his daughter's house out from
under her? Well, we haven't heard
any more about the Scungewort’s. That's
one of the disadvantages of the deposition reporting business.
You get to see a small part of a
case; but, unless it gets excited and hits the front pages, you don't
generally find out how it ended. Except
for what you can pick up on the Reporter’s Grapevine.
Another disadvantage to deposition reporting is that sometimes there
just aren't that many depositions to go around.
What does a plucky reporter do
when there's nothing to report?
She gets bored.
Real
bored. How bored has our plucky
reporter been getting?
She's SO-O-O-O BORED that
she's been cleaning out her closets. We're
talking about garments that haven't seen the light of day since
Jimmy Carter had
that little tiff with the
Ayatollah
Khomeini. Little piles of
clothes sorted by such criteria as:
·
I'm keeping this because,
if I can just lose a few pounds, I can wear it again.
·
I'm keeping this because,
if I can just lose a few pounds, I can wear it just to prove that I can
fit into it again. Not that I'd
be caught dead wearing it anymore.
·
I'm not keeping this.
I'll give it to a worthy cause.
·
My God!
I can't believe I still have
this!
The piles, like suburbs, gradually inch towards each other until they
begin to form one really big
pile with high points in various places.
Of course, the cats love this. Monroe
and The Cat With No Name can each have multiple piles of clean clothes
to sleep on and not have to share.
Needless to say, there is no telling how long these piles will remain in
existence. “Jeannie” has sort of
a casual approach to organizing her apparel, as opposed to her older
sister, whose T-shirts are always neatly folded and arranged according
to color and theme:
·
Shakespeare
·
Ashland/Oregon
·
Fantasy/Science
Fiction/Miscellaneous
Ditto for suits and coordinating lingerie and blouses.
In other news…
It's official: I'm going to
Seattle in October. Yes, I will
take an umbrella with me. In
fact, I'm already planning what to pack.
The reason for going to Seattle in October is that it is the place and
time for the 38th Annual ARMA
International Conference and I will be there as the representative for
RACS. There will be one other
from our group; but, as yet, I don't know who that will be.
It will be our joint
responsibility to attend as many sessions, visit as many vendors, view
as many demonstrations, sign up for as many additional information
packets, grab as many freebies, and check out as many "hospitality
rooms" as possible in four days (and nights).
Don't expect a Letter that week.
Love, as always,
Pete
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