Mindy K Book Event

I love Mindy. I emailed my friend in NYC a notice that you better be there or be square over a week ago. 

I didn't have the best book event experience. I hate to write a bitchy post, but I'll never go to something super early and save seats for slacker friends who show up later. I went alone tonight and I've saved seats in the past and the experience of the disheartenment of getting there early and being deprived a seat stung me deeply. 

I was an hour early. I was loud and found a seat, but it was terrible- directly behind column. I didn't even see her but I listened and that made me happy. 

I had every intention of staying and getting my book signed but the Barnes & Noble at 82nd & B'way didn't seem that organized. I like a fucking tight ship. This was a loose aluminum fishing boat. People could have easily cheated and cut that line, doubly undermining my early arrival. 

Sidenote of misery- the seat I found was next to a woman compulsively eating cough drops. Bad sign - I'm going to get her flu?! 

I even made her a weird little thing that I was totally going to give Mindy, but I had such a bad vibe about how things were being operated and then at the very end a weird club-promoter older lady got up in her chair, topless, with a painted-on mustache and started announcing some lame event and she didn't even give a date or time. Security escorted her out. How are you going to get up topless and gray-haired in a chair in public and not even have a political message?! You're promoting some show?! 

Sitting there waiting, I kept reading Mindy's book WHICH IS AWESOME and I read a sentence that gave me a sign that I should flee the scene- It was something about how handing your parents something you've knitted is like handing them a backlog of your idleness. 

That's when I decided I needed to take myself home and spend time with my dog and fix myself dinner, rather than wait god knows how long at this cramped, hot, dis-organized event to get her to sign my book.  

I went to the Tina Fey signing 4 hours early, saw it through and the whole thing was tight as hell. No regrets. 

I didn't get my book signed by Mindy, but I heard her speak, which was lovely, and I hope she was thrilled that it was a super-packed house. I'm still a fan of hers and will continue to devour her new website: The Concerns of Mindy Kaling I'm thrilled she has a website again after her shopping blog got abandoned. 

She said in her remarks that she was happy it was the Barnes & Noble (82nd & Broadway) and 'hood from "You've Got Mail"

Another bad-sign-realization I had came early into the Q&A when I realized a bunch of the people there were hardcore The Office fans. I'm a lukewarm at best fan of that show. I love Mindy and her writings about her life and career and shopping times. 

To bitch more about this evening - Central Park is basically closed for tree pick-up operations in preparation of The NYC Marathon being run this weekend so my ride home was disorderly as hell and I accidentally went the wrong way down a scary little street. Not pretty, but I made it home just fine and cooked myself breakfast for dinner. 

It was still a totally good day and I am going to LOVE reading her book. I actually want to stop myself from sitting down and reading the whole thing tonight because I could do it.