I just registered a domain by accident. I went in to renew a few of mine, and apparently domaindiscover doesn't empty your shopping basket, even if you haven't been back this calendar year. And I didn't check the math.

So that domain I was looking into getting for a friend for Christmas last year? Got. This is weird.

Dear Jon,

If you have me on your show, I can get a free trip to New York and hang out with Jesse and msbelle.

Um. I don't think there's much in it for you, aside from you being the tallest person on the stage, and usually that's such a crap shoot.

For reals,

Allyson

Hrmmm... Maybe:

My publicist thinks you ought to have me come on your show to babble about the people clogging up the series of tubes with their dork dumptrucks.

It may be that she thinks you and your audience will enjoy my book. It may also be that she owes you a favor and feels that my remarkable shortness will make you appear tall and Clooneyesque, and even a wee New York political satirist deserves to feel like Clooney once in his life. Or it may have something to do with the fact that some folks have compared me to Sarah Vowell, and you and Sarah always seem to have a raucous good time when she drops by.

Please do not let Sarah Vowell see the above paragraph or she will totally kick my ass.

Actually, the only reason I'm writing is to get your awesome rejection letter...can you sign it personally? Ira Glass didn't sign the TAL one, and I was totally bummed.

Drat, the guy I was going out on a date with tonight had to cancel due to later-running meeting. On the plus side, he let me know he'd need to cancel well in advance, and was apologetic. Either of which by itself would put him WAY ahead of most of the available guys in Memphis. I think he's gonna be a keeper.

I vote for JZ's letter.

I vote for JZ's letter, too. Attached to a copy of the Actual Book which can then be riffled through to prove that you're not just an awesome letter-writer should be a slam-dunk then.

In random news, I bought some of that Greek yogurt that people are always on about, and I wasn't that psyched with the yogurt, but I got the one with the side of honey, and I forgot how awesome honey is! So now I need to go get regular old yogurt and a thing of honey.

Dear Jon,

You give me bees.

Love,
Allyson

I think the dork dumptrucks sentence is hard to understand. The rest of the letter is rocking.

I did finally hear back from Mom. Glen's going to be in the ICU for a few days, and then they'll be coming back here a few weeks earlier than planned so he can recuperate. Mom's worried about him, as am I. The appendix completely ruptured, so all sorts of nasty stuff wound up in the abdominal cavity and so they're trying to get the infection under control.

Pretty much what I assumed from the (brief) earlier conversation.