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.

msbelle, is this your parents' first grandchild?

yes and will probably be their only.

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

My best friend just called and I had the lamest low-energy conversation ever with her. It's not like she doesn't understand the migraine thing--quite the reverse. I just feel like I'm letting the side down.

But perhaps tonight is a night to be self-centred. I'll work more on that and get back to [spooks].

Be prepared to see a side of your parents you've never seen! (And I mean that in the nicest way. Freaks me out to see my mom turn into Grandma, but also tickles me something silly.)