The Launch

Although our main job as protégés is to learn, I like to be helpful and am always looking for ways to do so. To date, the only thing I have really helped with has been the Twenty-second Taddle Creek Happening, a.k.a. the summer launch party, which was held at Jet Fuel Coffee Shop on June 12, 2009. I helped in the following ways:

• I employed my advanced X-acto-knife skills to cut out tags for the art show.

• I transported the barbeque that was used to prepare and serve free burgers.

• I sat at the door and handed people magazines or subscription cards in exchange for money. When we ran out of subscription cards, I tore up some brown paper bags, which worked just as well.

• I assisted Nathaniel G. Moore at the barbeque (this would be its whole own topic, so I will abstain), and I got Evan Munday a glass of water.

Despite the challenging nature of this work, I was also able to find the time to enjoy myself. In fact, in a moment of mild euphoria, I may have told the editor that it was the best night of my life. This won me some points until I said the same thing a few weeks later about my birthday.