last night

[serene]

I was in such a weird mood last night. Exhausted, as always, but also really stressy and self-flagellating. This, as you probably know, is not my normal state.

Anyway, thanks to final_girl, nadinelet, imnotandrei, wild_irises, alanbostick, ptigris, black_pearl_10, and my lovely sogwife, who lifted me out of self-pity and the grumblies by giving of themselves. final_girl rocked, as always, and we got the privilege of seeing her new work. imnotandrei wrote a poem on the spot and it was good stuff! ptigris has started writing again, and you can see how it's exciting her. sogwife shared some really personal stuff and I adore her for it. There was much talk of finding and losing asses. There were silly prizes. There were lovely audience members (thanks, someotherguy, stonebender, and loracs. There were awesome (and *hawt*) barristas.

It's a small reading. I would daresay it's more of a salon than anything -- small space, handful of people, workshoppy feel sometimes. I love it when it works, and I'm so glad people have been coming by to share it with me. Lately, I've wondered if I'm gonna quit doing it -- to be honest, I prefer being a participant to being a leader. And maybe I'll see if I can get other people to help with the leading thing. (nadinelet says she will help me with publicity ideas, too.) But when it goes well, as it did last night, I really do feel like it's worth the angst.

Comments

[postmaudlin.livejournal.com]

thanks so much for having me! :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'll channel dryadgrl and say "Thanks for being had!"

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Thursdays can be hard for me, but I really do want to come. I promise to make more of an effort. I *know* I'd have a wonderful time. It's just that the getting there at the end of a long day can seem a formidable task. Although, now that I have my really Dommy GPS, I can slide into that car semi-comatose and get someplace; I just do what she tells me to. :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Well, part of my geeking on this is that I know for sure that several people really *want* to come, so it's perfectly possible that it's just a bad night/time. Since I don't have other times available to me, I either need to just accept that it's gonna stay small (which bothers the owner of the cafe a little, but really only bothers me when I'm the only one willing to read), or I need to stop doing it if it's not filling an actual need. Or something. Just turning this over in my head.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

G (who either has no LJ or none that I know the name of)

If this is the G who read someone else's piece from Familiar Men, it's black_pearl_10.

And it was a pleasure to see you, and great fun to hear all the readers!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it went well. *hug*

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Feeling okay today?

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

Really tired and really frustrated today. I just posted an entry about some of the latter.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

Thursday are the end of my work week, so I'm often exhausted from trying to get everything done at work before I leave. Or I stay late to complete stuff. That's part of why I've missed so many. I really do enjoy them. Sorry I left early last night, it sounds like I missed some good stuff. I'm battling another infection and yesterday was day 2 on the antibiotics so that was dragging me down too.

Was the owner happy with the turn out last night? If not, then he needs to re-think how packed you can get that place before you hit fire code violations. Course long before that you will have hit my personal space "violation". ;-)