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Why can't I say "no"?
Mikeo the gregarious Started conversation Jan 19, 2004
As far as I can see, I have one major problem ... I'm just too nice a person for my own good! Two things that have recently come up should illustrate this nicely ...
First thing, just before Christmas I was asked whether I could play my viola in a performance of Pachelbel's Canon in D (the one that *everyone* knows!) for a Chinese New Year celebration this month. I naturally agreed and I spent an hour or so yesterday afternoon with the three violinists (unfortunately no cellist, so I did the bass line) rehearsing this piece. When we were packing up ready to leave, the lady who was organising this nonchalently told me that not only were we going to perform in front of 1700 people, but cameras for a TV station in either Hong Kong or mainland China (or even both) were going to be there, i.e. a total potential audience of about 1.1 billion people! So naturally I'm just a little bit petrified about it all - and it's on this coming Friday! 
The other thing happened the day before - I spend some of my free time helping to recatalogue the Butler Library at Esperanto House. When I arrived that afternoon, I discovered that the Esperanto event "Ni Festivalu!" was using the library, so I couldn't do any work. However, I got roped into a play on the early years of the Esperanto movement in Britain and I'll now have to act out five lines (in Esperanto) at the Esperanto congress in Felixstowe in April/May. Now considering I have never really done any acting since primary school *and* that I'll be acting in a language other than my native tongue, this is obviously making me even more nervous! 
That's basically it ... apart from the usual gumpf about trying to find a boyfriend, work etc. etc.
Why can't I say "no"?
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jan 21, 2004
Traveller in Time 
on his head
"And I was thinking I was acting a little stange lately!
Good luck with your violin perfomance.
But with respect to what I have seen from you, you will manage with ease."
Why can't I say "no"?
Mikeo the gregarious Posted Jan 21, 2004
What have you seen of me and my fiddling (so to speak!), Traveller in Time?
Why can't I say "no"?
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jan 21, 2004
Traveller in Time on his head
"To be honest no fiddling, I sense an urge for perfection in your replies.
To go a step beyond what I read. You do not wear your shirts in sequence as they hang in the closet. There has to be a match in the composition. (I saw the light when Hari Seldon decided to buy shirts by the dozen, all the same.) Shoot me if I am wrong (tomatoes please)!"
Why can't I say "no"?
Mikeo the gregarious Posted Jan 26, 2004
No tomatoes are going your way, Traveller, 
Oh, and by the way, faithful readers, the Chinese New Year concert thingy last Friday went well - I will have video evidence of it hopefully within a fortnight. Now I've just got to learn some lines in Esperanto and how to act! 
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- 3: Mikeo the gregarious (Jan 21, 2004)
- 4: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jan 21, 2004)
- 5: Mikeo the gregarious (Jan 26, 2004)
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