i hate to say "i told you so" (but i did!):

i only looked at it once this past week. you all should be smiling and shaking my hand, preferrably at the same time.
*author's note(s): sorry for the happier/funnier entries lately. i hope they didn't catch you off guard at all. i promise, to each of you, as my readers, that i'll be back to my usual fashionable despair by sunday (warning: i often break promises).
**if you really want to get down on life in general, browse through my archives.
***julie james is brilliant.
****nicholas writes about me (a lot).