note to self

[rkt]

dear self:

when you ask the particularly great (and never mind fine)
author whose book reading you just attended to sign _your)_ book, and said author asks you if you two have met before, the answer is not "um, i don't think so?".
goddamnit girl. i'm just saying.... for fuck's sake, you can do SO much better than that.

k?
thx.

with all my love,
me

Comments

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Hey, "Don't you remember the twins?" is probably worse.

[rkt.livejournal.com]

hrmm.....
good point.

[brienf.livejournal.com]

Your post made me squeal, which we won't examine too much just now. Do you remember what he read from the book? (I'm reading Asphalt right now. Well, not right now. But earlier today and probably tomorrow.)

And I told you so!

[brienf.livejournal.com]

You aren't online!

[rkt.livejournal.com]

i'm at work now, silly.

p.s. the man also tried to steal my pen.....

[rkt.livejournal.com]

it was all from asphalt... different sections.


that was the _only_ book by him that the bookstore was selling.
which was one more book than they had for the black woman author.

(the other authors had more books available for sale.)

[brienf.livejournal.com]

which was one more book than they had for the black woman author.

No shit? That's distressing.

His next reading in your area is from Talk (http://www.carlhancockrux.com/literature/talk), which is his play that I (a) haven't found yet and (b) really, really want to read.

And you both live in the same area. Maybe he really has seen you before.

[rkt.livejournal.com]

No shit? That's distressing.
shit.

i have no idea of the statuses of the kids' book authors, as i left before that reading started. there were lots of options for the kids' books...

i'm reading talk right now. courtesy of bk public library. you should try an interlibrary loan, maybe? (perhaps i should have asked him to sign it as well...)

if he'd asked if he'd seen me, the answer would have been ::shrug:: "probably... i get around".

p.s. he had a female, er, companion with him.

[brienf.livejournal.com]

p.s. he had a female, er, companion with him.

Does this mean that my plans to set you two up have been foiled?

I should ILL the play, but first I need to make nice to a library or two. I think I owe them money.

[rkt.livejournal.com]

Does this mean that my plans to set you two up have been foiled?

the juries not yet out on that one.

I should ILL the play, but first I need to make nice to a library or two. I think I owe them money.

oh poo.