As you no doubt heard in that last audiocast, the fellowship dinner thrown for me by Perseus Books Group was terrific. It was a small affair with me, Colleen Kinder (author of the book that inspired the fellowship), Peter (the representative from Perseus who oversees the fellowship), Brian (the web guru who helped me set up the audioblog), Daniela (a previous winner), and Megan McDonell, one of the women featured in the book.
We had Texas barbecue in honor of my present location at Blue Smoke, where the mac and cheese was especially terrific. This is me greedily stealing the fellowship check from Colleen’s miserly clutches:
I had to knock her down and she cried.
It occurred to me that it was a little strange to travel all the way from Texas to New York to… have barbecue… but the spirit of the dinner was, of course, perfect. Everyone involved in Delaying the Real World was truly impressive and fascinating and fun.
I think I put it best when it turned out that Colleen and I have a mutual friend we didn’t know about, and she said that she had run into all kinds of similar coincidences putting the book and the fellowship together. “Why does that always seem to happen?” she asked.
To which I replied, “Well, it’s a small world of awesome people.”
You know, I work just around the corner from Blue Smoke! So close, yet so far away.