I am working on edits and thinking about walking down to the package store for a pepsi.

Working on edits means that I am cleaning my desk and making the bed, not actually writing anything down. I'm grappling with the question, "how did you become one of fandom's biggest gurus?" Everytime I think about it, I laugh at the absurdity.

oh! ita! Have you been able to watch Beautiful Thing yet?

does this mean you got notes back?

I have notes! Three chapters of notes. It's interesting to get notes from someone outside our world.

YAY NOTES!

My next door neighbor read a bit of it, she doesnt even have a net connection and laughed and laughed and asked for more. Quantum Physics Boy, who usually has nothing encouraging to say, said he thought this would make huge buzz in the blog world. I'm afraid to feel encouraged, as much as I want to be.

So I downloaded Whodini's Freaks Come Out at Night and am dancing in my chair, instead.

I am finding Dane Cook's monologue on SNL painful.

Allyson, I know you're afraid to be optimistic, but I think this book is going to be huge. Just try to remember the little people as you rake in those Fandom Guru dollars and do guest spots on The Daily Show.

Very happy for you.

Also very happy for msbelle for her awesome not!shower and for Hil for her new 'puter. And ita, honestly, any time you post that you are able to unwind at all, I'm happy about that, too. Where there are migraines, thou shalt not judge thyself harshly for hiding from the hurty world.

No, Allyson. I have not. I'm accumulating a disturbing pile of DVDs still in their original plastic wrap.

Right now, the exercise my DVD player gets is mostly going through Angel with that guy. Watched Eternity last night, and I was salivating at the bodyguards. Unusually, it was wanting to have my own, instead of to be someone else's.

"I want people like that, people I can tell to stay and sit and stand."
"You already have people like that. They're called 'students'."

Right now I'm watching [spooks]. They're really willing to go for high stakes.

I am home from the not-really-a-shower party in honor of msbelle. The best part? Her parents were surprise guests! That was awesome.

Oh goodness! That's so awesome and I am so glad it happened I'm all teary and shit. Aw, man. Hold your breath, I'm hugging y'all mentally. Best kind of surprise.

My friend's stepson is the biggest hardass defender of his little sister (age dif about 12 years.) He wasn't so sure about it at first, and he's being a normal teenager pain in the ass(thank the gods...y'all have no idea what this boy's life has been, but it's not easy) but when it comes to his new little sister? He throws down. If anything, he spoils her in defiance of his parents. Makes me happy, because of his severly fucked up background. I suspect she's the one person he truly, honestly trusts, even if she can't quite get his name right yet.