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Oct. 15th, 2007 08:27 amAsk G. how he got this hickey on the top of his head. Hint: I didn't do it.
Oct. 15th, 2007
since it seems traditional: weekend notes
Oct. 15th, 2007 12:22 pmLitCrawl portion:
1. The audience at Good Vibrations' portion of LitCrawl on Saturday was apparently exactly the right audience for reading "Cocksucker" -- I got a huge positive response to it. And then, for the next two hours, as I sardined myself into other venues in the Mission, people would tap me on the shoulder or the wrist to say, hey, I heard you read just a little while ago, and I really loved that story. That was odd, and also seriously gratifying.
2. Litcrawl's huge audiences always excite me. Wow, so many people, listening to other people read!
3. I always forget, however, that socializing at these things is impossible. (Maybe b/c I remember last year, when I showed off my new exciting mouth hardware to friends on the street. We were on the street b/c the venues were *so* packed we couldn't even get inside.) I am sorry to everyone I missed saying hello to -- especially the out-of-towners. And also to those I could only say hello to, and not much more.
4. But I am glad to have seen you! Hi! Hi! Hi!
5. Also, my body is old, and after two plus hours of standing up, I am not at all prepared to go dancing. My feet hurt and my knees are getting puffy, and this is in my *good* shoes.
Rest of the weekend:
1. Brunch places should not have thumping disco bass at that volume.
2. Shiny new sky blue kitchens!
3. My two new favorite books: Alice Waters' Simple Food and Laura Kipnis' The Female Thing. Yes, this says a lot about me, thank you, move along.
4. I made another batch of ratatouille. I discovered that the book version of the recipe (from Chocolate and Zucchini) is a bit different from the one on the blog. I like the one on the blog better, though both of them are still wrong on the timing -- I leave it in the oven a lot longer than called for.
5. Didn't do as much housecleaning as I intended. I was tired. I am also anxious, a little, about the impending loss of every other weekend for the next eight weeks to a certain training course I'm signed up for. I am thinking about dinners and lunches and early morning transportation, and my sex life and my energy levels and all that fun stuff.
1. The audience at Good Vibrations' portion of LitCrawl on Saturday was apparently exactly the right audience for reading "Cocksucker" -- I got a huge positive response to it. And then, for the next two hours, as I sardined myself into other venues in the Mission, people would tap me on the shoulder or the wrist to say, hey, I heard you read just a little while ago, and I really loved that story. That was odd, and also seriously gratifying.
2. Litcrawl's huge audiences always excite me. Wow, so many people, listening to other people read!
3. I always forget, however, that socializing at these things is impossible. (Maybe b/c I remember last year, when I showed off my new exciting mouth hardware to friends on the street. We were on the street b/c the venues were *so* packed we couldn't even get inside.) I am sorry to everyone I missed saying hello to -- especially the out-of-towners. And also to those I could only say hello to, and not much more.
4. But I am glad to have seen you! Hi! Hi! Hi!
5. Also, my body is old, and after two plus hours of standing up, I am not at all prepared to go dancing. My feet hurt and my knees are getting puffy, and this is in my *good* shoes.
Rest of the weekend:
1. Brunch places should not have thumping disco bass at that volume.
2. Shiny new sky blue kitchens!
3. My two new favorite books: Alice Waters' Simple Food and Laura Kipnis' The Female Thing. Yes, this says a lot about me, thank you, move along.
4. I made another batch of ratatouille. I discovered that the book version of the recipe (from Chocolate and Zucchini) is a bit different from the one on the blog. I like the one on the blog better, though both of them are still wrong on the timing -- I leave it in the oven a lot longer than called for.
5. Didn't do as much housecleaning as I intended. I was tired. I am also anxious, a little, about the impending loss of every other weekend for the next eight weeks to a certain training course I'm signed up for. I am thinking about dinners and lunches and early morning transportation, and my sex life and my energy levels and all that fun stuff.