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iluvroadrunner6) wrote2007-03-31 02:47 pm
iluvroadrunner6) wrote2007-03-31 02:47 pm
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to anyone who's got my on their author alert list for ff.net--sorry about the inbox clutter. i was just rearranging some things.
anyway--i'm still feeling a bit fangirly at the moment from last night's David Sedaris reading. and i'll put the rest of it under a cut because i don't know that everyone wants to read that so--
OK, so--last week I decided to take the F bus back to my dorm from class instead of the EE. (The F has to fight it's way back through George St. before it gets back to Douglass, while the EE just hops onto Route 18, and swings back around to campus.) The only really major difference in the routes other than the fact that they go backwards to each other, is that the F happens to roll by the State Theater, in downtown New Brunswick, and makes a stop at Mason Gross which happens to be right next door. Anyway, we were sitting at Mason Gross waiting for the light to change and then I happened to be looking at the marquee to see what was going coming up at the theater, and low and behold, guess who's name scrolls by?
David Sedaris.
He was doing one engagement there, on the 30th (last night), and I knew I just had to be there. For those of you who don't know, I absolutely adore his work, and although everything he writes is non-fiction--it doesn't read that way. And it's absolutely hysterical. So I go back to my dorm, and call my dad (he's a fan of when he does correspondences on NPR) and he says to buy him a ticket and we'll go together. I talked to the lady who was in charge of handling the Rutgers students (I needed to get tickets switched for a class, and she's in charge of that) and she managed to get me orchestra seats for $20. Granted, they were in the back of the orchestra, but hey, for $20, I wasn't really complaining.
The entire show was hysterical. He started off with this kid coming out to introduce him.
Kid: Hello, my name is [insert name here], I'm from Edison, and Mr. Sedaris paid me $10 to come out and introduce him. I'm here representing the Edison High School [insert club here]. Our football record is 0-65.
He then went into a reading about the truth, and went into this whole bit about how his wife, Gail, was so impacted by someone lying to her (I believe he was referring to the Bush administration at the time, but I don't exactly remember), that her uterus just fell out one night. He went into detail about it, and it was pretty gross, but it was hysterical. Why?
He's gay.
And he also mentioned that he quit smoking. But he didn't do it for health reasons. In fact, when he quit he said that he went out to find another smoker to replace him. He did it because all the really nice hotels, like the Ritz Carlton, were going completely non-smoking, and he didn't want to stay in a Motel Six. He also said that in one of the hotels he stayed at frequently, they gave him a smoking room, and he went down and got it fixed so that he wasn't taking up another smoker's space. The way he quit smoking was interesting too. He moved to Japan, because in Japan, they don't even allow you to smoke on the street. He then read to us essays he wrote about his pet spiders in Normandy, and his escapades buying weed in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, and other stuff that was equally interesting.
And then there was a book signing afterwards. The reading itself was about an hour and a half, and then I proceeded to wait on line for two hours for him to sign my book, talking to various other fans on the line as he went, and constantly spewing my crack!fic ideas to my father (I have so many crossover ideas running around in my head, you have no idea). We eventually got to the front of the line, and as he was signing my book, he asked me about what I did, and school, and my major and all that. But the major point of this is...
...he signed my book. *glee*
WIPs I Must Finish/Work On:
The Wolf and the Fish
Good People
Hitchhikers
All Hallow's Eve
WIPs I Want to Start:
Nick/Stella, Danny/Sofia --> the case where they first met.
Flack/Calleigh, Ryan/Lindsay --> the case where Ryan meets Lindsay.
Dean/Angell, Sam/Madison --> aftermath of "Heart" (SPN 217), Angell gets dragged into the mix.
oy.
anyway--i'm still feeling a bit fangirly at the moment from last night's David Sedaris reading. and i'll put the rest of it under a cut because i don't know that everyone wants to read that so--
OK, so--last week I decided to take the F bus back to my dorm from class instead of the EE. (The F has to fight it's way back through George St. before it gets back to Douglass, while the EE just hops onto Route 18, and swings back around to campus.) The only really major difference in the routes other than the fact that they go backwards to each other, is that the F happens to roll by the State Theater, in downtown New Brunswick, and makes a stop at Mason Gross which happens to be right next door. Anyway, we were sitting at Mason Gross waiting for the light to change and then I happened to be looking at the marquee to see what was going coming up at the theater, and low and behold, guess who's name scrolls by?
David Sedaris.
He was doing one engagement there, on the 30th (last night), and I knew I just had to be there. For those of you who don't know, I absolutely adore his work, and although everything he writes is non-fiction--it doesn't read that way. And it's absolutely hysterical. So I go back to my dorm, and call my dad (he's a fan of when he does correspondences on NPR) and he says to buy him a ticket and we'll go together. I talked to the lady who was in charge of handling the Rutgers students (I needed to get tickets switched for a class, and she's in charge of that) and she managed to get me orchestra seats for $20. Granted, they were in the back of the orchestra, but hey, for $20, I wasn't really complaining.
The entire show was hysterical. He started off with this kid coming out to introduce him.
Kid: Hello, my name is [insert name here], I'm from Edison, and Mr. Sedaris paid me $10 to come out and introduce him. I'm here representing the Edison High School [insert club here]. Our football record is 0-65.
He then went into a reading about the truth, and went into this whole bit about how his wife, Gail, was so impacted by someone lying to her (I believe he was referring to the Bush administration at the time, but I don't exactly remember), that her uterus just fell out one night. He went into detail about it, and it was pretty gross, but it was hysterical. Why?
He's gay.
And he also mentioned that he quit smoking. But he didn't do it for health reasons. In fact, when he quit he said that he went out to find another smoker to replace him. He did it because all the really nice hotels, like the Ritz Carlton, were going completely non-smoking, and he didn't want to stay in a Motel Six. He also said that in one of the hotels he stayed at frequently, they gave him a smoking room, and he went down and got it fixed so that he wasn't taking up another smoker's space. The way he quit smoking was interesting too. He moved to Japan, because in Japan, they don't even allow you to smoke on the street. He then read to us essays he wrote about his pet spiders in Normandy, and his escapades buying weed in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, and other stuff that was equally interesting.
And then there was a book signing afterwards. The reading itself was about an hour and a half, and then I proceeded to wait on line for two hours for him to sign my book, talking to various other fans on the line as he went, and constantly spewing my crack!fic ideas to my father (I have so many crossover ideas running around in my head, you have no idea). We eventually got to the front of the line, and as he was signing my book, he asked me about what I did, and school, and my major and all that. But the major point of this is...
...he signed my book. *glee*
WIPs I Must Finish/Work On:
The Wolf and the Fish
Good People
WIPs I Want to Start:
Nick/Stella, Danny/Sofia --> the case where they first met.
Flack/Calleigh, Ryan/Lindsay --> the case where Ryan meets Lindsay.
Dean/Angell, Sam/Madison --> aftermath of "Heart" (SPN 217), Angell gets dragged into the mix.
oy.