It's official

I have now conquered three mediums...or four, maybe.  The written/printed word, television, the internet sensation of blogging, and just now the radio waves.  I suppose I have the big screen left.  That's on the list to be checked off before I die. I have no doubt I'll pull it off.  Well, a little doubt.  Or maybe more that I won't be in front of the camera, but perhaps will have written the screenplay.  All this aside, I had a radio interview today for a book I published in May (called When Heaven Calls).  Radio has yet to grow on me...it's weird speaking to people I can't see.  I suppose an in-studio interview would be more organic.

And so goes the fast.  Sigh.  Iowa City was spectacular!  The class I took was amazing and I came back here with a lot of ideas and starts for stories.  But there were so many adorably smart people, and a person I can't even quite describe except he was probably the prettiest man I have ever spoken to for an extended period of time.  Wow.  I feel like maybe the world's playing a gigantic trick on me.

In other news, a woman I work with told me she has a crush on me.  I'm not entirely sure how to feel about that.  When I'm at work my emotion-meter is set to off, so it kind of fell on deaf ears and a blank face.  She felt like it was something indefinable that drew her in...I wonder if it's my aloof nature right now.  Lot's of guys are also coming up to me more now that I have zero interest.  *Gasp!*  Did I just discover the crazy secret to attraction?  Apparently it's universal (gentlemen).

I've had a very busy month, and I'm looking forward to another one like this.  I feel like my life may settle by the end of September, maybe October.  But what's settling, really?  Settling's just a slow way of dying!  Shake it up, America!

As I have not gotten into any new books lately, I'm linking my OWN book to this entry.  Yikes.

Also, just to bring down the jerk-factor, I'm also throwing in Dan Chaon's book Await Your Reply.  It kept me so entertained...for about two days.  I just bombed through it and was sad to finish it.  Dan Chaon, your brain is a thing of beauty.  I am honored to have taken a class with you in undergrad.

Wake up!

Good mornin' world!  Or evening?  It's been a little while, but a busy, busy while.  I went to visit my family and see my sister's brand new baby, and I'm off to the Iowa Writer's Workshop in a couple days.  That is going to most exciting, as I'm not workshopping anything, but going to create 29 new ideas for stories.  It's going to be grueling and challenging, but it'll be fun too.

Tomorrow evening is going to be pretty much tapped out as I have my single's thereapy to go to.  Ah  yes!  That started last week!  Everyone's so open about their feelings...I'm a very closed person when sharing with strangers, so it's going to take me a little bit before I say everything aloud.  I feel like it's going to help me, though.  I need to be more in touch with my feelings.

This was just a quick check-in America.  I'm on the run!!