Sympathetic Magic Works, Yes?
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caitriSo today at work we had a special event commemorating the Muniz Gift--an endowment to the library to purchase historic material relating to the history of south Texas. What we bought and subsequently put together a mini-exhibit for is a set of post-Civil War letters written by a member/surgeon of a black US Army troop that was sent to the area in the 1860s to help the Mexican Army fight the French.
...I kind of want to read them and write a story about them now.
Anyhow, Lionel Garcia, a professor, novelist, and PEN award winner, did a reading of his poem "My Horse." To celebrate we bought letterpress chapbooks published by Arion Press in San Francisco. (For my ST peeps, this is the sort of stuff that Printer!Jim and crew would work with.)
Afterwards I asked him to sign my copy, which he very kindly did (and he even spelled my name right!!!!!!!!). And then because I am me I held it tightly throughout with my writing notebook for good luck.
Me: Sympathetic magic works, right?
Todd: Sure. But it would be nice if you wrote something that wasn't fanfic.
Me: DUDE. This has my original fic project in it.
Todd: Really? Awesome!
Mary: She writes in it all the time. She had it at the meeting this morning.
Cassie: Well will you do a reading now?
Tina: Do it! Do it! Do it!
Me: Um, okay. (flips through book looking for something readable)
Cassie: Is that poetry?
Mary: It's definitely columns.
Me: Well I went through an Anglo Saxon dictionary and wrote down all the words I liked the sounds of.
Mary: ...
Cassie: ...
Tina: ...
Me: ... THIS IS HOW I WORK, OKAY??
So I read them a couple paragraphs from my WIP. And felt foolish. But they seemed entertained.
~
In other news, Starbucks has brought back their salted caramel hot chocolate which I LOOOOOOVE.
And IT still has my laptop, even though they said they'd bring it back in half an hour. SIGH.
I should have my grad school packet out in the mail next week. Then I can stop obsessing about it. I hope. Steve and David were asking about it and seemed positive, so fingers crossed!
...I kind of want to read them and write a story about them now.
Anyhow, Lionel Garcia, a professor, novelist, and PEN award winner, did a reading of his poem "My Horse." To celebrate we bought letterpress chapbooks published by Arion Press in San Francisco. (For my ST peeps, this is the sort of stuff that Printer!Jim and crew would work with.)
Afterwards I asked him to sign my copy, which he very kindly did (and he even spelled my name right!!!!!!!!). And then because I am me I held it tightly throughout with my writing notebook for good luck.
Me: Sympathetic magic works, right?
Todd: Sure. But it would be nice if you wrote something that wasn't fanfic.
Me: DUDE. This has my original fic project in it.
Todd: Really? Awesome!
Mary: She writes in it all the time. She had it at the meeting this morning.
Cassie: Well will you do a reading now?
Tina: Do it! Do it! Do it!
Me: Um, okay. (flips through book looking for something readable)
Cassie: Is that poetry?
Mary: It's definitely columns.
Me: Well I went through an Anglo Saxon dictionary and wrote down all the words I liked the sounds of.
Mary: ...
Cassie: ...
Tina: ...
Me: ... THIS IS HOW I WORK, OKAY??
So I read them a couple paragraphs from my WIP. And felt foolish. But they seemed entertained.
~
In other news, Starbucks has brought back their salted caramel hot chocolate which I LOOOOOOVE.
And IT still has my laptop, even though they said they'd bring it back in half an hour. SIGH.
I should have my grad school packet out in the mail next week. Then I can stop obsessing about it. I hope. Steve and David were asking about it and seemed positive, so fingers crossed!
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Date: 2010-10-23 02:20 am (UTC)IGNORE HIM.
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Date: 2010-10-24 02:35 am (UTC)*looks curious*
I have one of those too. We should talk. We could compare notes and provide feedback and stuff.
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Date: 2010-10-24 02:41 am (UTC)Talk tomorrow?
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Date: 2010-10-24 02:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-24 05:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-24 07:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-24 06:33 am (UTC)Oh yeah, because I rarely step foot in Starbucks because their tea is terrible. Still. This requires a special trip. Plus pumpkin spice lattes. Mmmmm.
May I also add "GOD DAMMIT YOU IT BASTARDS! GIVE THE WOMAN HER LAPTOP! DON'T YOU NOW SHE NEEDS IT TO LIVE HER FANNISH LIFE!"
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Date: 2010-10-24 12:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-24 05:33 pm (UTC)