Sunday, April 20, 2008

Shameless Plug--Freshly Squeezed Now on Sale

The Write Here Write Now Anthology is out. For those of you who did not attend the CityLit Festival and receive your discounted copy, you MUST come to the release party on May 28, 7:30 pm at the Creative Alliance.

Buy your copy at the release party or in advance from the link I've provided. See how much of the intensive labor I've already done for you. Now show your gratitude by buying a copy.

If you're good, I'll sign your copy.


http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Freshly-Squeezed/Christine-Stewart/e/9781934074329/?itm=4
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Water People

I've never waited a table. You wouldn't want me to. But I imagine that waiters have their own lingo and codes. My boyfriend and I were on the receiving end of what could only be the unfavorable type of customer at an expensive restaurant, the--we'll just be having water customer. It's not that one meal at M&S was out of our league, especially since it was lunch. It wasn't that soup and salad was all we could afford. If anything, the waiter could have had a bigger tip because we weren't spending as much as we're used to on dining out. Needless to say after being ignored--Nobel Prize winner Weisel says indifference is worse than being treated with anger--and complimentary bread deprived, we did not leave a tip.

So here it is now--if people order water on a Saturday afternoon it might just be because they're hung over and saving room for a friend's pasta bolognese later.