Storytelling

Last night I went with Rebeccah to a storytelling event sponsored by Heeb magazine at this bar called Felix. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but it wasn't what happened, and I'm pretty sure Rebeccah was surprised as well.

Felix is a bar right near my house, but I've only been there once before, because I think it's pretentious and I don't like it. Rebeccah had never been there before, but she said she was never going back. The storytelling event was set up on a small stage at the front of the room. There was no place to sit. People were scheduled to perform. They would go to the microphone, and tell their story. The stories, however, were just not what I thought they were going to be. I kind of thought they'd be either reading or reciting something they'd written from a book or an essay. Instead, they were just kind of extemporaneously speaking, and the stories were really no better than stories I could tell about my travels or my life.

Although it wasn't something that I'd go to again, and it turned out to be not really what I thought, it was still fun to go -- I like doing new things.