Ya try to get out, but they keep pullin' ya back in!

[serene]

Last night was *wonderful*. This reading, though it stays small, attracts the most interesting and enthusiastic poets, writers, and listeners. The non-reading customers were louder than usual, but the intrepid spoken-word geeks soldiered on.

Thanks ever so to:

the always gorgeous wordlover klwalton,

the never-forgettable eeyore_grrl,

the fun and steadfast ptigris, whose idea the prizes were, and they've become a real hit,

the clever raconteur catzen,

the incisive and sub-rosa-witty T (who may or may not have an LJ, but if so I don't know the user name),

the consummate performer Christopher,

the ever-hot-and-lyrical M (barista extraordinaire, bagel purveyor, cleaner-up-after of inconsiderate crumb-leavers),

the earnest hip-hoppy N (newly extraordinaire barista, and former spoken-word virgin),

my lovely and talented sogwife,

and our adorable audience, which included M (was it M? or J? -- I know it had a double letter in it, help me out here) and someotherguy, along with a cute little kid who kept saying "That's not nice" when we used profanity.


In other news, my boss at Ikea called today. He wonders if I would mind, since he hasn't been able to hire a coordinator since ours left a couple of months ago, working weekends for another six weeks or so. I had offered to work weekends to begin with, and he said no, and then I moved on with my life and the eight-day countdown. I don't want to work the Christmas season at Ikea. I especially don't want to hear the Christmas *muzak* at Ikea. I'm not 100% sure of this decision, but at this moment, I'm, pretty sure I'm saying no. I don't need the tiny bit of extra income enough to give up every weekend to Ikea Christmas Madness.


In other other news, had a lovely day. Spent a short but gratifying morning/afternoon with stonebender. Learned what's up with the Ed Roberts Campus (Guy thinks I might be bored by the political intrigue, but I'm so not), and saw that Gilly-the-dog is doing better, which eased some worry for me. Then the plan was to come home and go shopping and do laundry, but someotherguy and I ended up going xmas shopping and walking instead, which was just as useful. Walked from home to Rockridge, ate a lambburger, shopped some, got something fun for stonebender. BARTed to downtown Berkeley, shopped some more, and ordered the Weetzie-Bat books for one of the niblings. Got a cool, cheap book for someotherguy, and a couple of ninety-nine-cent books for myself -- an Alice Walker and one by Armistead Maupin. Walked home from downtown Berkeley. Total of around 4 miles (3.6 according to google maps, but we backtracked a little for dinner), and I really liked it. I don't walk enough when I'm so busy.

Only downside of the night was that I accidentally paid a bill out of the wrong account. They paid it, but it overdrew me, so now I have to transfer money over and I'll have a fee to pay. A drag, but it only bummed me out for a few minutes. Hard to sustain a bummer when you have such a happy day to view it from.

Comments

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

Wow. Steadfast. Always admired steadfast-ness from the day I heard the tale of the Steadfast Tin Soldier. Happy and honored to know someone (wonderful) thinks of me as such.

Cool.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Glad the reading was a success. Had we not been so sick we would have joined you all.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

Which Alice Walker? I was recently blown away by "The Temple of My Familiar", so I'm looking for recommendations.

I'm glad that the readings are working out!

Maybe

[steelmagnoliaca.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could do every other weekend at Ikea or maybe just one of the weekend days. Ya know, enough to keep the discount and get a tiny bit of extra cash for the holidays but still allow you the free time you deserve.

You have the upper hand, they need you. A counter offer is definitely within reason. :)

Valerie

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

In other other news, had a lovely day. Spent a short but gratifying morning/afternoon with stonebender.

Yep!

Learned what's up with the Ed Roberts Campus (Guy thinks I might be bored by the political intrigue, but I'm so not), and saw that Gilly-the-dog is doing better, which eased some worry for me.

Hmmm political intrigue? Probably more like family squabbles :-) and we are very happy that the Gilly girl is okay too.

shopped some, got something fun for stonebender.

Oooh!