A couple of days ago, a friend of mine called me and told me that he was going to go to a seminar in the city.  I asked him what he was going there for, and he told me that he had been given a ticket to go hear Fuad El-Hibri speak.  I told him that if he could get any other tickets, I would really like to go.  He told me that the seminar had been sold out for quite a while, but he could probably talk to someone that could sneak me into the sound booth or something like that.