serene | Poetry night (Reply)

Let's see if I can remember all the highlights from last night:

driving there and back with stonebender and loracs
seeing leback and her sweeties (and S, who has an LJ but I forgot its name)
seeing vito_excalibur, who took a deserved break from writing grad-school applications, and who snrched the best line of the night ("H.P. Lovecraft has nothing on this person," or something close to that)
seeing badgerbag (I'll correct that username if I've got it wrong), who organized the reading, read some good poems, and is a really interesting person
reading my poems, and actually enjoying that
listening to the other poets and feeling like a writer, which is a feeling I like
being told that my poems make it obvious that I live a life full of joy
having a stranger play Chopin for me
the incredible generosity of leback, who drove 40 minutes extra to go get a book to give to the disabled students' program project (thanks to y'all, we're now completely caught up with the list)
walking to coffee/dessert/greek food with leback and her sweetie and badgerbag and my sweeties and loracs (lowlight: two restaurants that had no interest in making room for our party, which was 6 + person in wheelchair) -- If you're in Palo Alto, Cafe 220 is a really great spot. You should go there.
Stumbling upon, and then participating in, a Capoeira circle. Exhilarating!
salty yogurt drink
yummy sex
sleeping until 1