David Sedaris is one of my favorite authors & he did a speaking/book signing event at
on Friday night. I've since learned that none of my friends knew about this event, so take a minute & head over to Parnassus' site & sign up to receive their email updates. Their events are small & usually fill up fast, but being on their email list ensures you find out first.
This was actually my first Parnassus event & it was totally awesome. I RSVP-ed late, so I sat outside as opposed to being in-store, but it was fine. I brought a chair & they provided everything else, including free catering from Chinatown, Donut Den & Harvest Breads. Oh, & a photobooth. I had a lot of fun. David read a chapter from his new book, read a couple hilarious dog poems & then read about 15-20 minutes of diary entries from his own diaries. A lot of the entries were written recently after his other book signing events, so it was funny & mildly uncomfortable to know that he would go to his hotel room & write about what some of us said &/or wore. He's amazing & I'm so glad he keeps coming back to Nashville.
This was a weird weekend in that I didn't have a lot to do. Because of scheduling & weather, I didn't have any work-outs lined up, which usually take up the majority of my weekend. In addition, John was out of the house all day Saturday, so Linda & I sat downstairs & read the first half of my new David Sedaris book. What? Linda can totally read.
I took a break from reading & watching
Freaks & Geeks
on Netflix to get the mail & found my birthday Birchbox had arrived. I'll explain. I received two Birchbox gift cards as birthday presents (thanks, April & Claudia!), so I ordered a bunch of stuff I typically wouldn't have bought for myself. You know, like $18 body wash that will be gone in two weeks.
John's friend Michael is leaving us for NYC this week & Saturday was his going-away party. For what was actually kind of a sad event, the party was the most fun we've had in a long time, venturing on ever. Everyone in the world we know was there, plus there was tons of really good food. And by food, I mean cupcakes, of which I had 1,000. Oh, & John wore is bolo tie. I just felt like that needed to be pointed out. If you look carefully, his shirt is pointing at it.
After Michael's party, we went to see our friends,
, play at The High Watt. Let the record show that not only did I got to a party & a rock show, I did them on the same night & didn't get home until almost 2am. Who am I?!
Needless to say, yesterday was kind of a throw-away day. I slept until 9am, which is the latest I've slept since my twenties, then woke John up to take me to ML Rose for a heaping basket of ranchero fries. I think the only other thing I did yesterday was lay on the couch digesting cheese & watching more *
Freaks & Geeks
.
*I keep getting pulled into conversations involving
Freaks & Geeks
lately & not remembering any of the references. Turns out, I never watched
Freaks & Geeks
. I don't what I think I watched, but it wasn't it. So this weekend, I dug in & watched the first 6 of the 18 episodes. It may be the best show I've ever (never?) watched.