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Last night was sublime. First of all, Wendy is in town promoting her new hilarious book, The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan which you should promptly purchase. Go on, go buy it. I'll wait for you. Done? OK, good. Anyway so Wendy is town and she was staying with me last night so she came with me to the reading which was in the most insanely gorgeous room at the NYPL, all the hard wood and leather and long tables and majestic chairs and whatever you think the NYPL looks like? It was this room. And all of the other readers were very serene and brilliant and literary and during the poetry portion of the night I passed a note to Wendy that said, "I can't believe I'm going to say the word 'blowjob' in this room," and she wrote back, "It's about time." And so time it was.

And then Whitney gave me the sweetest and most hilarious introduction - seriously, I was not worthy of this introduction - and she was boisterous and energetic and gregarious and just so kind to me and then I got up there, looked out at this beautiful, majestic room, and of course all I could utter was, "Holy shit." And then I read and it seemed like people liked it and there were so many friends there, so many people I love, and new friends, and it was just a brilliant, brilliant time.

Then we went and got drunk and everyone was just so happy, because Whitney's back in town and because summer is almost here, and we were all just so excited, everyone, exuberant with life. Later on Wendy and Kristin and I went to APT for a party for Grub (Which you could also buy. Seriously it helped me to change the way I eat and I feel like a million times better these days.) and I saw the authors Bryant Terry and Anna Lappe, who I had interviewed for Plenty a while back, and they had that fresh author glow, and then I spent way too much for drinks, and met lots of people, but the best part was the cast of Top Chef was there! If you don't watch the show ignore the next two sentences: Leanne said that Tiffany was a total bitch and that she's in for some trouble (I guess on the show). And I talked to Dave, who is much cuter in real life and has sparkling amazing eyes, and now I am in love with a gay man who cooks. Sue me.

So: cursing in a microphone at the New York Public Library, getting drunk with my girlfriends, and hanging out with reality tv stars. Seriously I don't know if a better night could possibly exist. (05/10/06)