Yeah, that's real.
It's so funny because I forgot all about most of that stuff.
I mean like, I remembered the stuff that mattered.
Like I remember meeting you, and I remember seeing you actually
in line at that like taco spot.
And you had a mean tattoo, and I'd
been thinking about getting a tattoo.
And I was like, I should say something to dude.
And I was like, I'm not about to start
talking to strange white men in taco joints about tattoos.
And so it blew my mind when like,
literally, this was right before lunch,
because we met first at lunch.
And it blew my mind when just like, a short time later,
you walked in and sat down.
I was like, man, I think I just saw-- let me see your arm.
And that's cool because--
It was that tattoo, right there.
Yeah, and since then, I got a huge joint
on my back, that took like 26 hours to get.
And I got one on my arm that took another nine hours.
And so yeah, I mean, I think it's a pleasure.
But one of the things you highlighted
is that the commitment to this work and a commitment
to each other has very little to do, I think,
with being thanked.
We make the decisions that we make
in a moment to encourage each other, and it was easy.
I mean, you were a good writer before you went in,
and you were a good writer while you went in,
and they were supposed to accept you.
But the trick of it all is a lot of times,
we don't know that MacDowell exists.
So I'm glad that you applied, I'm glad that you got in.
And I had very little to do with it for real,
besides pushing you to apply.
So that's great.