THE MORE THINGS CHANGE

THIS JUST HAPPENED.

 STUDENT: *COMES IN*

ME: HEY, HEY, WHAT ARE YOU READING?

STUDENT:  *LOOKS AT ME LIKE I’M CRAZY* THE BLACK POWDER WAR.

ME:  …………    :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D    I KNOW HER. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

STUDENT: …… NAOMI NOVIK?

ME: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D YES. SHE’S REALLY NICE.  WE’RE BEST FRIENDS.  :D :D :D :D :D

STUDENT:  *EYEBROWFACE*  WHERE DOES SHE LIVE?

 ME: NEW YORK CITY. SHE HAS THIS SUPER-COOL APARTMENT IN MANHATTAN.  SHE HOSTS POLITICAL PARTIES.  THEY’RE COOL. PETER JACKSON IS FILMING HER BOOK.   SHE’S TOTALLY COOL.

STUDENT: ……………………………………………..

ME:  WE’RE BEST FRIENDS.

TODAY IS AWESOME.

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I’ll pull you out through the space between the bars – admit that you’re dirty, the world is all yours.

Epon scolded me last night.  “I feel guilty when I go to your wordpress and see all these comments going ‘AJA WHERE ARE YOU’ when you are right here!”   I was like, But I haven’t gone anywhere! and she was like, but you haven’t updated! and I was like, I have nothing to say!

And I still don’t think I have anything to say.  But it seems Epon has made me her slave, so I suppose I will update.

I made a list of things I wanted to talk about on this post so that I could actually have things to say. Because really, honestly the only time I ever get the urge to update lately is when the only thing, I swear, that I want to say is BUMP OF CHICKEN BUMP OF CHICKEN OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU BUMP OF CHICKEN. So I figured I would get that out of the way first.

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