...for not blowing my last five dollars of the month on cheap beer. I thoroughly enjoyed the "poetry slam" and even moreso its featured poet, and my head is teeming with ideas for the next one that will feature two weeks from now at the same time and place. This is really creating a stir among Manchester, NH locals, this "big art movement," especially for long-time natives like me, according to conversations that were going on around me. Long have locals and especially native locals (myself included) lamented the lack of any real "art scene" in Manchester, for which Manchester increasingly runs out of excuses as the state's major art school thrives in it more and more. And fuck, I've been writing poems and winning awards for them since before I could draw a stick figure (which I never really got the hang of), so I think this is definitely a calling to return to my artistic roots. If only momentarily.