serene | last night (Reply)

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.