When I started to write this, there were almost 450 comments, and 20 trackbacks to my last entry. I also saw that some Trek news places picked up O’Reilly’s press release.
I’m really overwhelmed with the outpouring of joy and congratulations that are on this site, and in my Inbox. All I can really do is say thank you. I am incredibly touched and incredibly lucky to be the focus of so much positive energy and happiness.
I haven’t even had time to sit back and absorb the impact, though, because Anne and I had our house appraised today, and we spent about 12 hours a day for 6 days getting out shit together. All that landscaping we’d been putting off got done, and all the piles and piles of junk that had accumulated around my office finally got cleaned up. I hear that it’s easier to write in a clean and uncluttered space . . . but I’ve done it in chaos for so long, I wonder if this serenity will have any noticeable effect.
Heh. Serenity. There’s a pornstar joke there, but I don’t know what it is. Maybe I’ll just use it as an excuse to link Jenna Jameson’s website. Maybe she’ll see the fives of hits she gets, and then we can trade action figures!
Okay, I don’t know how I ended up on some pornstar rant there . . . must be the exhaustion and relief I feel now that the appraisal is over. And, to be honest, I feel a little lost in this insanely clean house we now have. I realized this morning that I’ve lived here for five years, and today was the second time I’d actually taken the screens off and done hardcore cleaning on the windows. Turns out the sky out my office window isn’t always as grey as I thought it was.
So what happens next?
I get to spend much more time working on the Just A Geek rewrites, because O’Reilly wants the book out in Spring of 2004. I’ll also do some media junk for the national release of Dancing Barefoot, probably in January.
A lot of people wanted to know what animal will be on my Website book. The answer is, I don’t know. I hear that rookie ORA authors (like me) don’t get to choose their own animal . . . but wouldn’t a monkey at a typewriter just be the coolest?
Some VH-1 news, too! The network is still committed to the show, and I think we found a guy to interview. I probably shouldn’t say exactly what it is, but it’s fucking hilarious. I have to go out the the East coast to film it, probably in January, and I’ll see if I can get some sort of book signing while I’m up there. As always, I’ll blather on about it right here if / when it happens.
I’m going to go fall onto the couch for about an hour now.