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A gust of cold air came through the open door into the Espresso Roma,
followed closely by Daryl, doing his little "back in a warm building"
dance as he took off his earmuffs.

"Whhhew!" he said.  "There must be some sort of feast-day to Aeolus 
coming up."

"Like I'm ever outside to notice" said Monique.

"Actually" said Nina, "It's St. Valentine who has a feast-day coming up."

"Oh, great, rub it in" said Monique, stomping off behind the counter.

"I see that *somebody* is having a bad day" said Daryl. "Working too hard?"

"Well, that too, but mostly I suspect it's the R-word again" whispered Nina. 

"Aha." said Daryl. "Romance."

"Yup" said Nina. "Or lack thereof.  She's been watching Ally McBeal again."

"Uh-oh" said Daryl.  "I know what that means." Daryl poked his head
behind the espresso machine.  "Girl, you clearly need to get out of the
house more often."

"What you need is a party" said Nina.  "Isn't Mardi Gras coming up?"

"Not to mention Carnival" said Daryl.

"They're the same thing, you fool" said Monique.

"Um, I knew that," said Daryl. "But anyhow, great time for a party."
"And besides, it's also almost Chinese New Years."

"True" said Ramon.  "I always figured the best thing about a
multi-cultural country was that we get to celebrate New Years four
times a year."

"I always figured that the best thing was that Daryl believes in
housecleaning for New Years, so it means that the house gets cleaned at
least twice a year." said Monique.

"Well thank you *so* much" said Daryl.

"The way *I* look at at," said Nina, "the best thing about it is that
more New Years means more dinner parties with large portions.
I assume there will be Chinese New Years Dumplings.  And lo hon jai."

"Of course" said Daryl.

"And dancing" said Monique.

"Now you're getting in the spirit of the thing" said Ramon. "When's the party?"

"Saturday February 13" said Nina.  "And rumour has it that Laura
Olson and Anthony Mahone might be back in time by then."

"Ooh, a 'Washing off the Dirt' party, I love those" said Sam.

"Whatever" said Monique.


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 A Party to celebrate Asian Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, 
   Carnival, hopefully the Return-to-Boulder of Anthony Mahone and Laura Olson

  "And Lincoln's Birthday" said Nina.  "I always liked that holiday".

  Supper will be provided, but as always drinks, desserts,
        friends, family, and **dance tapes** are all welcome!
  Saturday February 13.
  Dumpling Making in the Kitchen will commence at 5pm.
  Dinner and then Dancing will start Some Time Later.
  Dan Jurafsky's
  The Yellow Brick House
  1061 Ninth Street (door on the left)
  (303)786-8529


(from Broadway turn left (uphill) (west) on College, then turn left at
Ninth by the Cemetary, the Yellow Brick House is the fifth house on the right,
My doorway is on the LEFT, don't knock on the front doorway,
that belongs to my good friends but not roommates Tom and Jocelyn.)

(from outside of Colorado fly to DIA then give me a call.)

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