Boston, MA reading

The majority of the people in the audience are family, friends of family, and people from my publishing house, but it was a good experience for me. Since I knew almost everyone, I wasn't nervous, which is saying something, since I once had to literally jump up and down before a poetry reading I had in NY. At the podium. Yes! I'm a crazy poet girl! In a flowered dress even!

Anyway. I read the chapter, "Playing the Dumb Blonde," because it had the most narrative flow and the least lingo, then I took questions. All in all, it was over in an hour.

The radio show was fine too -- I hate the sound of my own voice, but my pops did a good job of making me appear like less of a moron than I am.

The hardest for me to deal with was the TV show -- I haven't been on TV since I was 8 years old, and I didn't have a speaking role then. Since all the Divas who Dine show no evidence of actually dining, I looked fat in comparison. I know I'm not fat, but I felt relatively fat. I don't know. It was weird. I haven't watched it again, but undoubtably once I get my hands on the DVD copy my parents have burned for me, I will watch it repeatedly and focus on every flaw and stutter and so on. My favorite personal moment that they kept in was a showdown where I declared one woman had "nothing" and the other woman won with a pair of sixes, like I can hardly believe it. It was funny.

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