all chats lead to jerry's.
The quote of the day:
What part of "sovereign nation" don't you understand?
Running news:
4.1 really awful miles. Toward the end, I would run for a minute, walk for a minute. That's bad.
There were a few faces from the one last year, plus new writers: turns out Christine Roum is a Stanford grad. She's a personal heroine of mine: she writes action-adventure movies and does quite well at it--she had a big sale with a spec called Dead Reckoning, which is a political thriller with a woman as the central character--at one point, she had to rewrite it for...Steven Seagal!
I don't learn a lot at these things, although I did hear one or two things I hadn't heard before. Mostly I like the reassurance that you can make it in this business and you can persevere and make it past the obstacles.
I sat down next to one guy, Bob, who was a featured writer, and asked him what he was working on. He mentioned a project and I said, "Are you (AOL screen name)?" He looked at me like I'd just walked out of Stalker Central. We had met on AOL before because Bob is also a USC graduate and I had asked him a bit about that. So now we have two things in common: Stanford and USC.
And we weren't the only ones: the moderator of the Roundtable, Adam, was a 1996 graduate of the GSP program. So we chatted a bit about who we knew there and what's happening (or not) with the program.
Every time a group gets together in the LA area--be it some online chums, or the Stanford group, or what have you--it's always at Jerry's. The only possible explanation for this is that Jerry's has large tables. It's not the food, and it's not the ambience (which consists of large tables, large rooms, and one-sheets for Broadway theater productions). It's usually too loud and too bright--although I was quite pleased that our group had a room that was in the back and quasi-outside (covered by a cloth).
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