I'm so excited!  I just got interviewed by a real reporter for my University's newspaper, The Acorn.  I got asked all sorts of questions about my writing and was majorly inarticulate.  Well, I think I got my point across.  I kept getting asked, why did you pick The Transparent Dinner as a title?  and all I could say was, cause it's like my poems are about a dinner?  That's transparent?  Transparent like glass.  Um, it's a metaphor you can see through.  It's a meal made of glass.  It's... it's... it's about meals whose motivations you can see through, like a person whose motivations are transparent?  
Oh.  God.  
Anyway, I have the photoshoot tomorrow.  Let's hope that goes a little better.

 
 
4 comments:
I love valley-girl speak. I say like ALL OF THE TIME when I get nervous and/or tongue tied.
Congrats on the interview -- how exciting!
Woo-hoo!
Amanda -- thanks! Yes, I grew up quite near the valley. I have been known to say "gag me" more than once.
Michael -- yee-ha!
Resurgere -- nice to meet you. I don't title any of my posts, ever... I like your blog.
Congratulations on the interview!
I sound like such a dumbass the second I talk about my poetry with someone who isn't a poet.
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