I’ve got two events coming up, both of which I’m beyond excited about, and one of which will require me to actually leave my house, and we all know what a major deal that is.

First, I’m about three hundred degrees past TOTALLY THRILLED to be part of a live-tweeting event this Sunday:

OMG OMG OBELISK

You can read more about the event on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog here.  NOTE: I’m directing you to this site because I’m so excited about this that were I to try to write about it, it’d just come out as a series of consonants, Wingdings, and curse words.  I haven’t watched the entirety of 2001 since I was seventeen years old and terribly sick and hopped up on Comtrex in a way that makes me understand why you can’t so much buy Comtrex any more.  I can’t guarantee that I’ll be particularly funny, but I can guarantee that Sommer Browning and Elisa Gabbert are going to be incredibly funny, and that I’m going to say a lot of things about chimpanzees and computers and obelisks and probably mention this a few thousand million times:

Actually, I can’t guarantee that I’m not going to go buy a ton of Legos and try to replicate this.

I’m going to try not to wear myself out with Kubrickoid Excitement, though, because the very next day I’m headed to Charleston, South Carolina to read in the Monday Night Poetry & Music series.  There’s a Facebook page for the event here, featuring one of my Glamor Shots (which is unfortunately not a real Glamor Shot — I’ve really got to take more pictures of myself wearing a cowboy hat and a feathered boa and crazy blue eyeshadow).  It’s at 8 at the East Bay Meeting House, and there’s an open mic (not, sadly, a Magic Mike) beforehand, so if you’re in or near the general Charleston area, come on out for a night of poems and tunes!

Phew — I’ve totally worn myself out with excitement, guys, and I need to rest up because it’s nearly Dateline time.  I hope to see you in the next few days either in cyberspace or in Charleston!