i shake furiously with nervosa as i read bad poetry to my professor in front of several of my fellow undergrads and grad students...poetry meant to be bad, created only to make people laugh, two years ago, with my lovely platonic undie-creatin' buddy, e.b. zinn (not estro-gen, kids).
at any rate, i nearly died from shaking so much and it was a joke. yeah i think that seals my fate as far as further potential readings of actual *serious* work goes. i say it once and i say it again: i should have dressed in drag...wish i had a tie.
NOTE: reasons i stayed at this university after all the GUANO it has given me are evident in these photos. cool friends, cool professors.
me, esther, and yes, the great professor and author: steinberg. how lucky can one girl be?
me and ediggity reading the bad poetry dedicated to steiny. you can't see how badly i'm shaking. what a freaking nerd i am. esther=grace under pressure.
no more for you!
we went out afterward to my fave local 'default' pub, esther and me(i)i(me), we were also joined by my friend erin (who read as well and really was hilarious and fabulous!), julia, and our new friend joe, a grad student, who has always read really well and is too funny/clever for his own good. he also went to sarah lawrence=jealous me. then maria joined us after her class on female machiavellian characters in shakespeare! (she's smert).
it really was a good night, and i was glad cause, despite my not caring for the holiday of valentines day (relationship or not-i'm big on love everyday)...but i've been missing my jack as a general mood lately and i've not been feeling very well so i've been a bit more anti social than usual, and that seems to be increasing. but tonight, it was good to be with friends.