Had a lovely evening at my friend Rich's home for a quiet, intimate dinner with my new Assemblyman Mark Leno and about 6 others to discuss life, politics, policy, the religious right, our lives, and the cause for the evening-- the Victory Fund. Rich is on the national board of directors and there is a Bay Area chapter which I plan to get more involved in. It was a very nice time. I even was rather social with everyone. I'm much more so when it's a small group like that and it's on topics I am interested in. Put me in a large party and I'm lost, but something small with a few people I feel much better. If only I could be more social in general.