If I were wearing my journalist's hat

I would write that my reading in San Antonio was an "intimate" affair, which is code for "not a lot of people showed up."

But that didn't mean that I didn't have fun and that I didn't make a connection. I love the magic that happens when you share your work but especially when you can look out into the eyes of those people there and take the time. So intimate is sometimes nicer.

Vincent and Grisel are awesome people. They are from NY and are gonna give me some names of reading series/people I might contact there. Did I mention how much I love reading in New York??????

Also Grisel is Black and Cuban and might prove a resource for a story I'm working on about Afro-Cubans. A wonderful poet to boot.

Vincent did a performance poetry piece called Metaorgasm and it was mind blowing! Such energy. Made me want to explore if I've got that kind of poetry in me.

The other feature was a musician and a dj and when he was doing his thing, some images were coming to me and so I got his number because he might be a musician I can use for background music when I get back to filmmaking (and remind me to tell you why I'm not in school like I was gonna be). Anyway, he and his girlfriend want to buy a book when I have one. Two guaranteed sales--YAY!!

And I got my name in the San Antonio paper. I like that:)