I just realized -- Vampire People will probably mean the end of hiding my fannishness from my co-workers.

I've had that realization too. Plus, snot. Eek.

Allyson better make enough money as a famous writer to keep us all once we've lost our jobs due to being on line all day!

And this!

Heh.

sara! D sounds like a cutiehead!

if a new mother is home before her newborns, she should be unable to avoid sleeping like a log.

I wish this were true.

Hey, poor non-sleepihead!

The entire time I was talking to my brother, D was going on and on at a million miles an hour in the background. J was trying to organize the garage (gajillions of car parts) and D was, um, helping. Which means he was being a chaos demon, basically. The tyrannosaurus rex was also killing the chocks, also referred to as frogs. But they didn't have to go to jail.

What the... ? You know, it's a relatively interesting little thing, but adding the bits at the top and bottom to say, "Hey, aren't you cool and above-average for being able to read it" kind of contradict the point made within the text, doesn't it?

I'm sure that part was added later: [link]

if a new mother is home before her newborns, she should be unable to avoid sleeping like a log.

I wish this were true.

Seems like it's impossible, really. But it sucks.

Yeah, there's no way I can mention that book to anyone without being immediately and dramatically busted, is it?

Yeah, there's no way I can mention that book to anyone without being immediately and dramatically busted, is it?

You could say, "Um, hypothetically, if I was part of an online community of fans, it might be a lot like the one described in this book. Which coincidentally describes a person with the same name as me."

nope, ita. Especially since you are featured in an essay!

Oh goody! pumping then a nap. My life, she is glamorous.

Okay, help needed. I'm looking for a non-beauty pagent answer to this question. I have a friend who is starting the adoption process and needs a sincere but not schmaltzy answer to "Why do you want to adopt?"

I'm waiting for the talk show hosts to get hold of Vampire People and start requesting interviews. Honestly. It's the kind of thing Letterman would love.

Also, I didn't have any trouble reading the jumbled word thing. It reminded me of a psych test I took as a freshman in college, the grad student had scrambled words and he was timing how long it took people to read them. He didn't have time to click his stop watch before I'd gone through half the list. He was very angry with me for throwing off his data. I have a good gestalt brain.

This whole thing is so surreal. It also means my realease date has been pushed up to mid-July. Meep.

I'm selfishly excited that I get to read it sooner!

I will pimp it to people at krav and dare them to talk smack about it to me. My new co-workers really don't need to know.

One of them included me in an identification of geeks as we were leaving for lunch, and I denied it. "Please. We've seen your website."

That's so a statement you leave alone in case you out yourself digging deeper into what turns out to be nothing.