A few weeks ago I posted about an orientation event that the Capitol Letters Writing Center planned for incoming volunteers that was postponed at the last minute. Well, its on again, this time in a new location at a new time: Tuesday, September 9 at 5:00 p.m. above Kramerbooks in Dupont. I recently had the pleasure of talking with Kira Wisniewski and Holly Jones (who both have officer-level rankings I can’t remember) about a very cool upcoming project I’ll be working on with CLWC, and I was excited at the level of wit, enthusiasm and commitment these guys have. In short: volunteer.
On the Bread Loaf front, I’m still a little too weary to give a coherent, sober rundown of the thing. Judging from the nonplussed, stereotypically snippy reactions I’ve gotten from some folks lately, I’m guessing no one’s exactly holding their breath for one, either. So this will be the last I mention it, at least for a few months. Evan Roskos, who was my roommate for a very, very short time there, pretty much summed up the mood of the conference for the Hayden’s Ferry Review Blog. My very own MFA program–who I proudly/loudly represented the entire time I was there–wondered what it might be like if “perhaps, one day, a student or two from our very own MFA program may have the privilege of saying they left the program to serve….”
Nice.
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Boo. I want the rundown. I was just off-kilter when I saw you last.
Anyway, thank goodness for a new post here! How else am I supposed to make it through the afternoon?
P.S. The Mason post was a very bad call, but a correction comment was posted almost immediately. This humble reader thinks you should post to the Mason blog a picture of you at Breadloaf in your MFA Writer t-shirt. (If you don’t have the password, I’ll do it.)
Sadly, no one caught a pic of me for the two straight days I wore that thing. If they did it would be all over this blog, believe me.
Pfffwwaaa. Ah! See, I _was_ holding my breath, darn it.
That’s it, I’m downloading the “hey” image on your site and using it as wallpaper over there.
OK, now, I’m taking another breath . . .
Yes: it should be noted that David Heath was quick to correct the oversight in the comments. David Heath kind of rocks the party that rocks your body, a little bit.
Er, well. Methinks the blogger doth compliment too much.
I bet you can’t tell Bread Loaf stories before Rion tells Ghana stories.
Gauntlet thrown.
(I dare you to post an “Oh yeah??? Well, let me tell you . . .” that I can link to.) (And I hope you’re reading this, Rion.)
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