Singer/Songwriter

Jenny, Carson, and I attended the musical event at Hildegard's. Ooh, the rest of you missed it. I filled over two pages with observations of people. Wes and I ate at Hildegard's before the event, so he delivered Jenny's and Carson's notebooks to them; I feared he would linger and tell them inappropriate stories about me, so I intercepted him as he reached them. Usually, I want Wes to stick around as much as possible, but sometimes he scares me--last night he seemed especially impish.

Hildegard's really is a cool place for college students to hang. Check it out sometime.

Poetry Reading

Jenna, Jess, and I attended the poetry reading Wednesday night. In addition to jotting cool lines from her poetry, I listed any ideas for writing prompts in my notebook, so I'll include those below:

• Foiled Again--it's the title of a poetry collection, but I can remember lots of times my plans failed
• Poop Stories--she talked about stepping in elephant dung
• Cruel Education Rituals--we all have horror stories
• Miniature Histories--she had great ones, some as short as two lines
• Miniature Hysterias--what I actually wrote, but many of us can write about hissy fits, our own or others'
• Ode to a Thing