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.

I think what I will do is tell a very popular former coworker who is opening a new bookshop up the road in about a month about it. Then she can pimp it to coworkers.

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

Everyone will want you to make cookies for them, now.

I'm waiting for the talk show hosts to get hold of Vampire People and start requesting interviews.

I'm still in a place where I can't believe anyone wants to buy my crap at all, you know? Well, my mom. My mom is beside herself.

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 always find the analogous, "Why did you want children?" to be nearly impossible to answer. I don't know that I ever knew why I wanted to be a parent, to have children, to have a family. The desire is inherent in an awful lot of people. And when it is inherent in someone, it isn't going to disappear, just because a person isn't going to become a parent in the usual way, for whatever reason (sexuality; medical issues; population/environmental concerns).

You must have put a lot of thought into deciding to try to conceive. Did you ever come up with a satisfying answer to the "why" question, for yourself?

This is a 'wtf' story: Lawsuit over 'negligent dancing'

A Chicago woman is suing a man she claims flipped her into the air and dropped her on her head in a jitterbug-style dance move at a company event.

Lacey Hindman, 22, seeks damages for medical bills and lost wages for time missed from work in a suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.

In the suit, Hindman claims that in April 2006, David Prange grabbed her by the forearms and tossed her in the air before she crashed into the wood floor at Stanley's Kitchen and Tap on the city's North Side. The incident allegedly took place at a mandatory work event.

"I was in the air, over him," Hindman said. "I fell hard enough you could hear the impact of me hitting the floor over the sound from the jukebox."

Hindman said she suffered a fractured skull and brain injuries.

Her attorney, David M. Baum, said Prange should be accountable for the alleged injuries caused by "negligent dancing."

Hindman worked at Shop Girl, a women's boutique owned by Prange's wife Kate Prange.

So it was the owner's husband who tossed the woman. I wonder what the story behind this is....

I'm betting there was alcohol involved.

"Why do you want to adopt?"

"Why do you need to know?"

Happy, happy birthday, Tom! (It is the big day, right?) I'm following you into forty on Friday myself.

I always find the analogous, "Why did you want children?" to be nearly impossible to answer.

Joe asks me this sometimes because my desire for more children is definitely stronger than his, but I can't ever provide a really satisfying answer. I just do. A blog I follow dealt with this question a while back and it was very interesting to me how many people felt the same way.

Happy Birthday Tom!