Apology

[Mike Cleven]

Nadja Adolf wrote:
>
> I apologize profusely that my personal letter to Mike wound up here.
> I'm just very upset right now, and in a state of shock. I can't believe
> that they'd do that to Michael, no matter how much they felt I'd fallen
> off the turnip truck.
>
> For years, he's done so much work for that conference, he's planned his
> free time to be devoted almost entirely to making it work - and then
> they kick him out because he brought someone who didn't meet their
> standards for being interesting. It's doubly offensive because I spent
> 90% of the time having a cold in the hotel room anyway.
>
> Anyway, I'm really upset, and I'm sorry this got here.

I'm sorry, too; because I'm not sure what happened here.  I didn't mind
Nadja forwarding a part of a private email we'd exchanged, and maybe I
accidentally forwarded her bit about Michael .... and the turnip truck
(?).  I completely understand the thing about snooty conferences and
cliques of that kind; I'd just come back to Vancouver from a major
theatre conference in Delphi to an actor friend's cold-reading party in
Vancouver; and the actors there gave me some of the same off-handed
treatment; without even having a clue where I'd been or who I was.
People are people, but conferencees sometimes aren't....

Kilapi chako wawa.....

MC