A big thank you to everyone who came out for our giant fun reading last night! I am proud to report that the house was packed although it was a VERY rainy Monday night. Holiday and Kathleen were luminous, the actors David Costibile, Robin Morse, James Urbaniak, and Kathryn Meisle riveted our attention reading from BIG CATS and from Kathleen's new novel in the works (such a treat--I had hoped for such a sneak preview). Elegant piano accompaniment was kindly provided by Kathleen and Holiday's fellow Iowa alum Jonathan Blum.
I'm so not hungover, but it was such a fun and energetic night that I'm acting like it, sipping vegetable juice and being very quiet here today at my day job (which is a Tuesday-only thang for me). Everything is a little surreal, an effect seriously aided by the strange slide show of New York images they have going in the new fancy-schmancy lobby here. I went down to get a coffee and the first image I caught was people running from the smoke on 9/11--by the time I was pouring my soy milk there was a giant Joan Crawford in a girdle onscreen. I'm hiding now. Hiding and blogging, possibly regressing.