Oh!  My LIFE is really overwhelming, dudes.  Things aren't going so great over here... But, I'm like, hanging in there, I guess.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Big picture and on paper all is good.  But up close, behind the velvet curtain, one section at a time, things are not so rosy.

The book is coming along, it its dysfunctional way.  It is hard hard work.  Not that fun. When it's going great it is going GREAT.   But that is not often.


We are getting ready to leave as in MOVE OUT OF the city for a place where they have houses and also the kind of restaurants that give you crayons and connect the dots placemats for the kids.  I can't wait and I don't want to. Both. Equally.

We are having trouble deciding on a house.

We are stressed out about schools and money and deadlines and professional futures.

I miss my family in Chicago.

Sephora went Medieval on my face.

And the book is coming along s l o w l y and it's entirely frustrating.

All in all, I'm deathly depressed and it's not going away.  Oh it will, eventually.  I haven't been this sad for this long since the  post partum madness that followed the last baby.

For reals.


S I G H.

!!

So... bear with me.

Do you know what would cheer me up (besides winning this stupid CB2 room makeover I enter every day)?

MOAR TWITTER FOLLOWERS!

I somehow reached 500!  And now I'm on a quest.  I'm into twitter, so.  I'll make it worth your while!

Meanwhile, enjoy these snaps of the ever lovely One Story Debutante Ball 2012!  So happy to be a part of it!

This last one in my favorite.  My darling and amazing escort, Tara McCarthy and Andrew McCarthy.  I do believe I wept while thanking him for Pretty in Pink and assuring him of its great cultural significance for a generation of creative types (aka: me and Tara).

xoxo.

One Story Debutante Ball 2012

So you guys know about the One Story Debutante Ball that I'm taking part in on Friday, April 20, 2012 in beautiful "Paris on the Gowanus" Brooklyn?  

I am wearing a dress exactly like this one....

I know what you are saying.  "Didn't you do that already?  How many times are you going to be a debutante, you egomaniac?"  

As many times as they ask.  

See, the first time I did it, TECHNICALLY my book wasn't even out yet. So TECHNICALLY I was not yet a DEBUT author so... And I love it so.

Also, I just had a baby and was all hormonal and insane and this year that is not the case.  I think I'm wearing a cute punk rock kind of outfit and I'm getting my hair cut at Dickson Hair Salon that afternoon so hopefully I will look cool too.

The amazing and wonderful Tara Altebrando is going to be my mentor-escort and she is both a mentor and escort- and not in the dirty way.  She is also a parent and a serious writer and she is funny and interesting and I adored Dreamland Social Club and the more I hang out with her the more I love her.  We are going to have so much fun! 

No hat this year.

No heaving breasts full of milk for a newborn.

No fake title for a yet-to-be-published book.

No glasses just lots and lots of black eyeliner and black eyeshadow (my new favorite thing).

I love One Story, I love that they do this. And this year, they interviewed me! If you think of it, send some $$ their way, and find out more about One Teen Story here.

I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and let you know all about it.  In the meantime, I'm supposed to be working on a keynote address for the National English Honor Society at a school in Long Island and it's going great!  Any suggestions much appreciated though.  And I'm doing laundry.  And I'm OBSESSED with this tumblr.

Love ya lots and I love comments too.  xoxo