Oct. 11, RICHMOND, VA. First
reading. Very nervous. While waiting to start, make conversation with
sweet, socially inept man. Twenty of my sisters' friends and neighbors
trickle in. Yay for friends and neighbors! During reading, am too dazed
and nervous to notice sweet-socially-inept man annoys friends and
neighbors by loudly crinkling paper bag. During Q&A,
sweet-socially-inept man asks long, rambling questions that require
delicate intervention. Afterward he asks if maybe he might have met my
husband in Iraq, because he -- sweet, socially inept, and apparently also
delusional -- was the liaison between the Iraqi Empire and the Sultan of
Brunei, in addition to other top secret assignments. All in all, an event
worth toasting because neither Rosie nor I peed on anything. (Thanks
to my friend, photographer Jenifer Morris, for graciously using my idiot
camera to take this and the next few photos.)
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