Happy Birthday, Tom!

Happiest of Birthdays, Tom!

I keep (arrogantly) thinking that I may want to switch to a pseud for a little while when the book first comes out. To avoid crazies coming here to take a hit in case I used some wrong word choice about BtVS or Firefly.

I wanted children because I'm selfish. And because there was too much sleep and not enough bodily fluids in my life. I mean those are the cocktail party answer.

Where is erinaceous when you need her? The today show is doing a segment on how it's all about dresses for spring!

Haven't most of our crazies sort of found their way here randomly rather than being drawn by media?

Now I want a Zamboni

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It's not drunken driving in New Jersey if it involves a Zamboni.

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!

I know! I was thinking this the first time I opened my mouth to pimp the book. But then after that I was all, book! book! you're going to love this book!

Yeah, answering the question "Why do you want children" is almost as bad as "Why don't you want children." In the end, the answer is because I do/n't.

Excellent. I love wearing dresses.

My wanting children can only be blamed on temporary insanity. Speaking of which, I need to run and drag my son into the office to do some boring work during Spring Break. Yesterday he was on Warcraft all day. Today he is my child laborer.

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?"

Having had to answer that more than once...but, my answers come from someone who was adopting as a first choice, so there is that aspect to my answers. here are main bullet points I have used.

- I want to be a mother and having biological children was not important to me.
- I am touched by the large numbers of orphaned and neglected children in the world and adoption is one way to address the needs of one child.
- I support negative population growth and see adoption as a positive step in that direction.
- I have a medical condition, that may not prevent me from carrying a child to term, but very likely would make a pregnancy difficult and possibly dibilitating for several months.

Sorry, but I will not be pimping Allyson's book at my office. My immediate superior and another co-worker are both Whedonverse fans and people I'd have gladly invited to become Buffistas long ago if not for the fact that this is where I vent about work.