Just home from Teen Angst Poetry Night at the Annex. I'd been meaning to go for ages but hadn't gotten around to it and then stopped hearing about it. Today Rachel invited me out to it and it seemed like the best thing to do. Plus, it's always fun to hang out with Rachel.
Admitedly, I have never been an especially good writer of poetry. It was always my weakest writing in school and I couldn't interpret a poem to save my life. Even in university I sucked royally at writing/interpreting poetry. Yet I can safely say that the poetry we heard tonight was worse than anything I've ever written, though I don't have any proof of that because I burned everything after I finished high school.
Actually, I burned a lot of stuff after a certain point in my life. Didn't want evidence. Now I kind of wish I'd kept some of the smutty letters from boyfriends and the song written by the asshole I wish were dead. Memories... like the corners of my mind.
At the reading, we sat at a table with a couple other people because the place was close to being full. During a break, I started talking to the couple and discovered that the one has been living in Vancouver for one week. She's from Edmonton and we discovered that we know common people and had all volunteered at CJSR. It's just so strange how many people from Alberta I meet/know. They're everywhere.
Additional, unrelated info:
One of my classmates/friends was meant to come to my party but got a cold. He informed me that he had intended to bring me some Belgian beer because it comes in 33cc bottles, so he was going to give me one and then drink a third of another and give me 33 1/3cc of the beer. I thought it was especially rad of him to tell me after not coming to the party.
During a recent lunch date with my friend, we were talking about how I am very often mean and I said something about being full of vitriol. And then it turned into my new personal slogan: "I'm keepin' it vitriol."
There is another sale on at Threadless and I think, after my liquid lunch yesterday after class (we started drinking at 11:30am and I'm not sure I should admit that because it might not be legal to start serving pre-noon, so... shhhhhhh), I might have bought a bunch of $10 t-shirts. I know I didn't order the one I really wanted because it sold out. Sigh. I also think I've seen pictures of my dream boyfriend, who has 65 Threadless t-shirts and likes talking about buildings.
Tomorrow I'm meant to go on a drunken bike ride at night, so I'm hoping the weather is fine, or at least not rainy. Regardless, beer is going in my bloodstream tomorrow. And I have to fill my tires with air because they're a little soft with this cold weather.
Off to bed.
Currently listening :
Last Secrets
By The Like Young
Release date: 09 May, 2006
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