Watch Where You Are Going
Your humble scribe spent the morning behind a podium, faithful readers, emceeing a breakfast for sponsors, members, and friends of the Mississauga Arts Council. It was the formal kick-off for MAC's 25th anniversary.
The semi-annual breakfast event was held at the Novotel Hotel Mississauga, where it has been held for some years. Usually we are in the second floor "Paris" Room. This fact has some relevance for what is to follow. Today, however, we were accommodated in the lower level "Amsterdam" Room. How worldly.
Some of our guests, accustomed to attending these breakfasts on the second floor, went there out of habit, got their food, took their seats and then discovered that they were not at the Mississauga Arts Council event, but rather the introductory breakfast for the, ahem, International Ferret Congress' Ferret Aid 2006. To be fair, some of the ferret people (is that the politically correct term?) wandered into our soiree as well.
So, what goes on at an International Ferret Congress you ask? The published schedule includes presentations on such diverse issues as "DIM, The Ferret Mystery Killer", "The Human/Animal Bond & Ferrets in the UK"; "Aleutians Disease Virus & the use of Melatonin Implants" as well as discussions on nutrition and cruelty.
BUT, the piece de resistance, available only to those who registered in advance and made an additional $40 donation (beyond the $240 3-day pass), is the Ferret Couture Fashion Show!! (editor's note: Use of the double exclamation point reflects the opinons of the ferret people's web designer(s) and not necessarily those of the Nine Inch Column).
Who knew that such things went on in the Paris Room?
The semi-annual breakfast event was held at the Novotel Hotel Mississauga, where it has been held for some years. Usually we are in the second floor "Paris" Room. This fact has some relevance for what is to follow. Today, however, we were accommodated in the lower level "Amsterdam" Room. How worldly.
Some of our guests, accustomed to attending these breakfasts on the second floor, went there out of habit, got their food, took their seats and then discovered that they were not at the Mississauga Arts Council event, but rather the introductory breakfast for the, ahem, International Ferret Congress' Ferret Aid 2006. To be fair, some of the ferret people (is that the politically correct term?) wandered into our soiree as well.
So, what goes on at an International Ferret Congress you ask? The published schedule includes presentations on such diverse issues as "DIM, The Ferret Mystery Killer", "The Human/Animal Bond & Ferrets in the UK"; "Aleutians Disease Virus & the use of Melatonin Implants" as well as discussions on nutrition and cruelty.
BUT, the piece de resistance, available only to those who registered in advance and made an additional $40 donation (beyond the $240 3-day pass), is the Ferret Couture Fashion Show!! (editor's note: Use of the double exclamation point reflects the opinons of the ferret people's web designer(s) and not necessarily those of the Nine Inch Column).
Who knew that such things went on in the Paris Room?
posted by Benjamin Thornton at 3:03 p.m.
1 Comments:
some of the ferret people... wandered into our soiree as well
Can a breakfast really be described as a soiree?
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