my life is probably not as cool as yours

i'm in this MFA program where i'm supposed to be writing all this great stuff, right? well a couple of weeks ago, i decided to put that theory to the test and read some fiction at a reading series called The Mock Turtle. my friends were there, people bought me drinks, everybody loved me, i felt like a rock star, i was on top of the world, no one could touch me blah blah blah and then this happened:

and the highlight of my mfa program became being the girl responsible for recording this man's poems. i'm a little bit kidding, but i am shaun gannon is and always will be cooler than you.