Stuff That Rocked My World This Week
1. my students. It's the end of the semester and they turned in their final stories and they were so wonderful, I have to get to work so nobody shows me up.
2. three-day weekends to lay around with Christopher and not read or think or do much of anything besides the aforementioned much-needed laying around with Christopher.
3. Our Sleepwalk reading: all the great, encouraging people who showed up. Having Scotty Karate play a punk-rock version of "Doe a Deer" for me 'cause we met years ago during a production of The Sound of Music in which he was a Von Trapp child and I was a nun.
4. Our Sleepwalk reading: all the great, encouraging people who showed up and actually paid, which meant that ALL OUR PRODUCTION COSTS ENDED UP COVERED and, for the first time after eight issues, we actually made a profit. Off a free magazine. Our profit was three dollars. Suggestions of how to SPEND that three dollars?
5. I saw the movie Crash. Go see it now.
6. I saw the movie Hotel Rwanda. Rent it now.
7. Lunch with my cousin Aaron, whom I adore, who has just moved to Chicago from Alaska via LA, and it's comforting to know (part of) my family is now here, as opposed to on the other side of the world (trapped with many Republicans. Of which some of them are. But we're working on that)
8. Strap-lines on my shoulders FROM THE SUN!
9. Antiquing on Sunday, running into John Malkovich, being too star-struck to say anything ("D'uh, I really like your movies, John Malkovich") and then, later, checking out a rack of vinatge dresses and reaching for a pink dress at the same time someone else reached for the pink dress and looking up and it was John Malkovich.
10. Antiquing on Sunday and having to say, about a hundred times, "Lab and pit bull." "Petfinder.com." "Thank you, I think so, too."
11. An invitation to read for The Dollar Store Reading Series at the Hideout on Friday, July 1st. One of the hosts, Jonathon Messinger of This is Grand, will go to a dollar store, pick out an item and send it to me in the mail. I am to write something about said item that will entertain the pants off of everyone. I do not, as of yet, know what this item will be. I DO know that somehow there will be music incorporated. Genre will depend upon said item, but I'm hoping to use a little Beastie Boys. We shall see!
Comments
Rock on, Megan, it was a great Sleepwalk reading! I was talking to Ben about it afterward because I feel so lucky to be included in such fun stuff. Your story was awesome and fuck, I think I can't come to the dollar store cuz it's the 4th of July and we're going away! But you should come to mine this Friday! Jonathan's story was hilarious I thought.
So who got the dress? John Malkovich or you?
Posted by: Elizabeth Crane | June 1, 2005 7:35 AM
But you're my HERO! Of course you're a part of Sleepwalk readings! You ARE Sleepwalk readings! Who else does such good things with the word "foxy"?
I think neither of us got the dress ... it buttoned up the BACK, which is fine, but these were really big buttons witth a great deal of space between each, so there's no way you could wear the thing without flashing everybody.
Yes, yes, Friday! I'm planning on it--what time? Eight?
Posted by: Megan | June 1, 2005 9:43 AM
Wait, no fair...I wanna be part of the fun stuff! PLEASE?
P.S. I have sunglasses lines on my face...that's how you know summer is here!
Posted by: Byron | June 1, 2005 10:24 AM
Hey, 5647 Orange Road
Seminole, FL 33772
I need Sleepwalk (I'm homesick!!!!)
Posted by: Siouxsietsu | June 4, 2005 7:57 PM