Saturday, I had the honor of performing at Bryn Mawr College; for those who don’t know, that’s Katherine Hepburn’s alma mater. But raw I’ma give it to ya, with no trivia. (Can you tell I’m excited for the new Wu-Tang album? Even though Ghostface says it’s “bullshit.”) Let’s move on to the meat.

Got to kick it with old only-meet-up-once-a-year friend Sham-e-Ali and her son little homie Husayn before the show started, and that’s when he told me there was an invisible Harry Potter sitting behind me, who kept tapping me on the shoulder. I swear it was H doing the tapping, but I guess I have to take his word for it. It was really good to see familiar faces in the boonies, so I’m ever grateful that they battled sickness to come out.

But it was also good to meet new people, and meet I did. The crowd was surprisingly live for such a small school, and I met a ton of folks throughout the evening, and that always makes me happy. I get homesick pretty easily when I travel, but seeing so many folks actually responding to my work was very rewarding and helped make it easier. Actually the crowd, and especially the organizers, were extremely hospitable and went out of their way to make sure I was never at want for something. So big thanks to Kelly, Sandra, Helen, Jeanette, and all the event organizers and board members for looking out for me.

It’s been a while since I did a show in which I wasn’t the only act, or one of two or three. This time, my feature closed the show, but there were many students who went on before me, and yes they definitely did their thing. Not only did several Bryn Mawr folks get up on stage, but folks came out from other schools too, specifically Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and Penn in…well you know where Penn is.

I feel like there were too many performers for me to list them out…but I’m gonna try. (more…)