- DesiLit publishing dinner in Santa Clara; a good time was had by all as we talked about the path to publication (which is apparently quite a bit longer and more tedious than some of them expected :-)
- my reading at Other Change of Hobbit was much fun -- packed (little) house, mostly with friends, and I read the first chapter of The Arrangement, which people seemed to like. Pictured right, l to r, f to b: Jed, stranger, Thida, Shannon, Liz, Charlie, Alex, Nadya (entirely hidden but I know she's there), Dan, Beth, David). It's good to have friends at your readings!
- following the reading, we went to Viks for chaat, good, and chat, also good. Sherman and Shauna showed up -- nice to see them after a long time! Plus a bunch of DesiLit folks, Alex and Ajna, other friends
- then Shannon and I hanging out with Dan and Nadya, then joined by David, Swati, Jen for dinner at Italian place down the street, stayed up late talking, finally Jed came to pick me up and we toddled off home
- quiet week at Jed's, did a lot of reading, which was v. nice
- potluck dinner at Ian and El's -- the kids are huge! I made chicken biryani, which came out yum. :-)
- lunches with Cliff, writing mornings with Thida, where I mostly chatted, but I did write the first scene of a new play, tentatively titled "Sister, Where Have You Gone?", but title exceedingly subject to change
- eventually, packed up and went up to Seattle, where many kissings of new baby Katie Rose, eating of Adrian's delectable pork and bacon pot pie (so British!), Kirsten's shrimp and pasta in a tomato cream sauce, mmm..., and staying up all night talking to her the last night, which knocked me out pretty thoroughly for the following day