Poetry night

[serene]

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

leback, I'm sorry I didn't say goodnight to you guys. I thought you were walking back with us.

Comments

[leback.livejournal.com]

Sorry I missed saying good night to you, too--we were in the opposite direction, and truthfully, I just spaced a little as we all wandered off. Late night for me. :-)

Also, much as I'd love to take credit for incredible generosity, the extra driving was purely a result of my incredible forgetfulness. And it sounds like none of what I missed lived up to your performance anyway. Seeing you read was a terrific experience--I'm now doubly motivated to make it up to Nomad to see more sometime soon...