I'm! Going! To! Read! At! This! Function in New York, offa the Writers House at Penn. NYCistas, maaaaybe we could meet.....

The official email:

As most of you know, the writers, critics, students, faculty, and contemporary artists who form the Writers House community, and who gather at 3805 Locust Walk on Penn's campus in Philadelphia, each year create more than 300 programs - readings, spoken-word performances, lectures, seminars, workshops, manuscript exchanges, exhibits, radio programs, and live worldwide webcasts. Now it is our great pleasure to announce a Kelly Writers House program in New York, and we wish to invite you to join us. "WRITERS HOUSE NEW YORK" will take place on Thursday, November 7, 2002, beginning at 7 PM, at the Meisel Gallery in Soho, 141 Prince Street.

Join us for a reception, followed by readings by, and conversations with, a wide range of Writers House-affiliated writers. The writers you will meet are eminent and emerging, all innovative and exciting, working in various genres. We know you will enjoy the program. Please RSVP before October 20, by sending an email message to whnov7@english.upenn.edu or by leaving a voicemail message at (215) 573-9479.

I finally got a new, working email address. It's sa (at) bluezfire.org, for future notice. Profile addy will be changed accordingly.

I quit my job. Yesterday.

Do I have a new one? No.

Am I crazy? Quite possibly.

So, either (a) I will be even more dark than usually till Oct. 18th (my Jopacalypse) or (b) I'll be on all the time until Oct. 18th.

Time will tell.

LAistas, I'm putting this here so all of you can see it cause I'm not convinced that it will go through to you all otherwise.

Fancy dress night: THIS FRIDAY Cafe Bizou on Ventura in Sherman Oaks Around 8:30?

Who is coming so I can make a reservation...

e-mail me at kat@teachergirl.org by tomorrow at 5:00 PM to let me know and I'll e-mail back with info if we can get a reservation.

I'm going dark for the weekend; going to a writers' conference. Back Monday.

My mail at greenchick.net has been wonky and bouncy in the extreme lately, so I've changed my profile addy until I get things straightened out. If you've tried to reach me and failed in the last few days, try again at the new address -- and accept my apologies.

Quick request for vibes--I just had an impromptu phone interview with one of the group of five I interviewed with on Tuesday. She seemed to want to make sure that a person as well-organized as myself would work well in a somewhat chaotic environment, and gave a specific example of a time where a previous occupant of a similar position hadn't been. The previous person sounded pretty damn unprofessional, IMO. I didn't say that exactly, but made it clear that I would've handled it differently.

I have to rush off to an afternoon class. Vibe me. Vibe me hard.

Brother appears to have decided to break things off with his FF/daughter's mother. I've no idea when or why or how this decision was reached. As is typical, I learn these things after the fact.

She (FFF) gets to keep my parents, I think. If I understood his email correctly.

I get the joy of being the one who gets to hear all my brother's confessions/venting/etc.

In the event that I am cranky, or weirder than normal, I apologize. I'm just sick of people splitting up, and worried that my niece will end up living in North Dakota, far from me. She means the world to me, that little girl, and I don't want to lose her.