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batyatoon ([personal profile] batyatoon) wrote2003-11-25 11:28 am
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Dream fragment

Long and fairly convoluted dream last night. Here's the bit I remember:

I'm at an airport, with Alex, waiting for a connecting flight. For some reason this airport provides beds -- large soft beds with quilts -- in the waiting area for the comfort and convenience of airline travelers. I'm taking advantage of the bed to catch a nap, because I'm exhausted; Alex is sitting on the edge of the bed reading a book

And we hear singing. Quite nearby. As follows: "Make it one for Washington and all his gallant men, / And one for the girl who once was mine...." By the second line half a dozen voices have joined in. By the time they reach "And don't forget the Blacksmith of Brandywine!" I'm out of bed and singing along, and we're both looking around frantically trying to find where it's coming from.

Where it's coming from is a lounge of sorts opposite our waiting area. And there they are. Filkers! A good twenty or thirty filkers, some with guitars out, in a ragged circle around the lounge, with their luggage piled up around them.
And we hurry over to join the circle, and there are exclamations of welcome and hugs, and somebody asks me where Lady Mondegreen is performing next, and I'm somehow not the least bit tired anymore. And we sit down to sing until our flight arrives.


...*sigh*

We really ought to have a housefilk sometime soon.
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[personal profile] camwyn 2003-11-25 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, sure. You got filkers. I got to confuse poor Dr. Watson. And I woke up before Holmes came back with the citation that made him think our serial killer had left Britain for "the island of Surrey".

Envious now. (Admittedly, not by much. It's not often that I get other people's fictional characters inside my head when I'm asleep, so that's almost as welcome as your filkers were to you.)
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[personal profile] mtgat 2003-11-25 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
*happysigh*

The beds remind me of the Knight Bus (Redeye flights make you wear rose-coloured glasses?). Mmmmm ... Filkers in the Potterverse ...

In a demonstration of my complete ignorance...

[identity profile] kimpire.livejournal.com 2003-11-25 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
"housefilk"?

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2003-11-25 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, there *should* be beds in airports. Wouldn't that be lovely?
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sleeping in airports

[personal profile] beable 2003-11-26 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
The budget guide to sleeping in airports:
http://www.sleepinginairports.net

Started by a woman from Toronto, makes me proud to be Canadian.

(BTW to Batya) I added your journal to my friends list, I'm Merav's friend from Ottawa if you remember me.

Housefilk? Did someone say housefilk? :-D

[identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com 2003-11-25 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
We really ought to have a housefilk sometime soon.

How about this weekend, with Special Guest [livejournal.com profile] khaosworks? See here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/khaosworks/301753.html) -- he's going to be in town this weekend. (And has indicated that he might be interested.) (I've also e-mailed [livejournal.com profile] ladymondegreen, whose place he's going to be staying close to while he's here, about the possibility of hosting -- but I feel certain that if there's a conflict, you can work it out ;-)

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2003-11-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Have to check with the roommates, but it looks like the Pigeon Factory is the venue. That being our house.

Saturday night good for everyone?

*hugs*
LMG

[identity profile] khaosworks.livejournal.com 2003-11-25 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I will be in town, but I'll have to check what my schedule is. Likelihood is that Saturday will be feasible, though.

I can be reached at 770-906-0512.

Where is...

[identity profile] jerusha.livejournal.com 2003-11-25 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...the Pigeon factory? [livejournal.com profile] anach and I will be in Westchester, but may not be able to make Saturday night. (Driving back to Chicago starting really early Sunday; probably need to spend Saturday at home with parents as will be out most of day Friday.)

Email is fine; jerusha@lj works.