You'd better. Just give me enough lead time to board the cat.

I'm kinda smitten with wee frustrated things. Hell, I'm half in love with yours since they were 7 mm (not that they were frustrated. Just...I enjoy wee frustrations regardless.) My mom too. She wants you & lori to visit with them. I laughed.

(Seriously, I've dealt with classic trauma-inducing babies and kids. But since they aren't mine, I don't panic. But the idea that if they were mine? PANIC-CITY.)

I'd babysit the Katlings.

I have a calming influence on infants. This is the karmic balance for the way I irritate adults, I expect.

Poor ita's noggin, and bottled up fury. Maybe you should watch Kiss, Kiss Bang Bang? It'd distract.

I thought of you during the scene when Gay!Perry talks about why experts prefer five feet of distance when holding a gun on somebody.

We've eaten chicken and quesadilla and raspberries. Now Emmett will have some ice cream with chocolate syrup and it all smushed into a gloriously smooshed up hand-made soft-serve.

Fuck five. I'd pick ten. Seven at least.

I think I'm going to drug myself and fall asleep watching Life On Mars.

The waking world is just making me tense.

ita, i hope the sleeping world treats you better than the waking world has today. I'm sending good, pain-free thoughts your way.

Does anyone want to call Kinkos and get my book postcard thingies produced? Overwhelmed.

Publicity department screwed it all up and now I have to get them done so I'll have something for the wondercon thing.

My head is too full to accomplish much more than washing my face before bed.

Ugh. Today was a rough one - we had one day to not only proof an entire book but also make any digital changes needed and send the files to the printer. And Intermediate Boss, who is far and away our most perfectionist set of eyes, happened to have today free to look for errors. Which she found. Boy did she find them.

In the end it makes for far fewer mistakes, but I really wish her free day to take a look had fallen early last week when we were copyediting the thing in-house, I had plenty of time to make changes, and doing so wouldn't have cost us any money.

On the bright side I'm now home, well fed, and once again driving my own good-as-new car.

Has anyone actually gotten any use out of an insurance nurse/health coach? I'm beginning to think they're rudimentary AIs sitting in front of WebMD.

Does anyone want to call Kinkos and get my book postcard thingies produced? Overwhelmed.

I can do it, Allyson. I'm well-versed in getting postcards published and dealing with Kinko's. Want to e me the details?

I just called and it's so ridiculously expensive I can't afford it, Juliana. I'm so grrrr at the publicity department right now that my teeth are vibrating from the rage.

I just called and it's so ridiculously expensive I can't afford it, Juliana.

Hmmmm. Okay, that sucks.

An (cheap, not as pretty, but better than nothing) alternative would be to print B&W 2- or 4-to-a-page flyer-type things and hand them out. Not as professional, but it would help get the word out?

Tell me if I'm not helping, by the way.