supercheesegirl

The Neil Gaiman reading was really cool. As you could possibly tell from Jorn's post, it was an event peopled with a lot of excited goths and nerds. Neil Gaiman = rock star of the nerd world. I was with Jorn, Chelsea, Dan (not Dann), Dan's friend John, and Heathar. We sat up on the balcony (in section 8, if you were there) and we had a pretty good view of the podium. I spotted Kat and Carlos and Honey and Jim and a few other people I knew, and I waved but I was on the balcony so no one saw me. I really liked the passage he read, but it was awfully hard to hear him up on the balcony--between the weakness of the microphone, his accent, and the rustling-type noises crowds of people make, it got tricky to hear him at all. I caught most of it, but Jorn with his hearing problems didn't catch much of anything, and I felt really bad about that. The question-and-answer period was okay--it was cool to hear about some of his upcoming projects, but I also was aware that most of the questions led to answers that were unintelligible to a person just being introduced to Gaiman, like Jorn or Chelsea. But it was a good reading, I thought.

Also, Chelsea just cooked us a terrific dinner of a salmon quiche--yum! And she made herself a birthday cake of the chocolate pound cake she really likes (she wouldn't let us make it because she was so intent on having it *just right*--she even had to go out and buy the appropriate pan). The cake wasn't cooled enough yet when we stuck the candles in, so the ends of the candles got melted off inside the cake a little. Oh well. Tomorrow we're heading to Salem, and I think it'll be really fun.