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Fail

Do you have that thing where once you start a book, you can't not finish it? Even when I read The Bell Jar in high school and was totally too young to understand what the crap was going on, I still read the whole thing.

It still kind of pains me to give up on a book. It feels like I'm getting an "incomplete" on my report card. But these days there are just too many books on my to-read list to waste time on something if I've lost the thread, or I can't keep the characters straight, or if I basically just fall out of the book--so I do just stop.

The Golden Notebook and The Savage Detectives are both behemoths, and I made it a good chunk of the way into both of them before giving up. I wanted to like them, but I gave myself permission to stick them back on the shelf.

Currently freelancing

I get to Americanize! Bye bye to kerbs, double Ls, and "ou"s.

Attention Everyone!

Aaron Carter is going to be on Dancing with the Stars. I just don't know what other announcement could put that kind of smirk on my face on a Monday afternoon. Some of you who know me might know that one of my first forays into the Interwebs back in the day was a snarky (for a fourteen-year-old) webpage in which I made fun of Aaron Carter (and got hate mail for about!), so something about the potential awesome trainwreck quality of all of this earns a special place in my heart.

(Also: Melissa Joan Hart and Mya! This may be the first time I ever tune in to this show.)

Inspiration...

...to tall girls everywhere:


It's Cat Deeley from So You Think You Can Dance, and she is all kinds of bubbly awesome in her minis and four-inch heels all the time. And not scared to stand next to tiny dancers who barely reach her shoulder.