I'm sure you still look like a movie star

[sovay]

For dinner, spatch and I made a sort of black bean chili with steak sliced into it and belated grits on the side, after which we watched Mae West get away with anything she felt like in I'm No Angel (1933). Every one of the famous lines sounds even better in the original. Some of those entendres weren't even trying to double.

Before dinner, I had the pleasure of reading a poem I had written earlier in the day as part of radiantfracture's birthday Zoom, whose other contributions included an opening meditation, poems of trees, yizkor books, fish teeth, 'zine titles, and vultures, and a Hittite incantation of the underworld. It was like a concentrated mini-shot of a convention. It was great.

In the afternoon, I wrote my first poem since the demise of Bertie Owen, meaning the first poem on this new machine, which I somewhat had to wrestle it for.

For a day in which I didn't sleep and ran around to a bunch of appointments, it worked out pretty all right.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I love the bit where Mae West flips through the records with different city names to find the pertinent one.

The birthday Zoom sounds wonderful.

[sovay]

I love the bit where Mae West flips through the records with different city names to find the pertinent one.

Yes! And then later on, involved with Cary Grant, crooning about her New York man.

The birthday Zoom sounds wonderful.

I'm so glad radiantfracture organized it. He knows extremely neat people. I had about zero social capacity and I regret nothing.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, good. May tomorrow (today, I suppose) hopefully involve more sleep but at least, I trust, less appointments. ♥

[sovay]

Aw, good. May tomorrow (today, I suppose) hopefully involve more sleep but at least, I trust, less appointments.

Thank you! Not as much more sleep as I would have hoped, but definitely fewer appointments.

[umadoshi]

For a day in which I didn't sleep and ran around to a bunch of appointments, it worked out pretty all right.

<3 <3 <3

[sovay]

<3 <3 <3

*hugs*

[jesse_the_k]

Oooo, a concentrated convention event sounds so lovely -- all the goodness, and you don't have to worry about tomorrow. Or well, inasmuch as we all worry about ... never mind.

[sovay]

Oooo, a concentrated convention event sounds so lovely -- all the goodness, and you don't have to worry about tomorrow.

Not having to run around a hotel ranks highly with me at the moment!

[pameladean]

I love the idea of a recipe called belated grits, though I suppose it's grits made at the last minute or even after.

*major hugs*

P.

[sovay]

I love the idea of a recipe called belated grits, though I suppose it's grits made at the last minute or even after.

They took much longer to cook than we thought they were going to!

*hugs*

[nineweaving]

How can we get you more mini-shot conventions? Conversation is vital to creative health, and clearly, this one did you good.

Nine

[sovay]

How can we get you more mini-shot conventions? Conversation is vital to creative health, and clearly, this one did you good.

It's a lovely question; I don't know. I am still operating on the ability to do about one thing a day and I am still frequently out of commission for the day afterward. At some point I assume I will have something approaching normal stamina again, but it hasn't flipped back yet.