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May 29, 2005

A Bit About Stuff

From Michelle, thoughtful in Rotterdam

I sometimes wish I was a bit more organized. Actually, more than sometimes and more than just a bit, so while I was thinking about how I could achieve a bit more organzation, I realized that I was having a lot of other thoughts, too, and mebbe that was why I would never be as organized as I'd like.

Here are a few of them...

1. Paris Hilton. Isn't it a strange coincidence that Paris's new boyrfriend is also named Paris? I mean, what are the odds of that? And then I thought of something else to do with Paris--when Paris first began to hit the headlines, and I started to hear about her, I really thought that people were talking about THE Paris Hilton. You know, the actual hotel in Paris...

2. Gladys Knight and Rudy Giuliani were both born in the same year on the same day. I don't know why I thought about that, but there we go...

3. The Catholic church is planning a recruitment campaign in the United Kingdom because apparently their priest numbers are down to 1940 levels. The campaign will include posters on the Underground, and also on...beer mats in pubs!

4. Crazy Frog, a cell-phone ringtone, just made the #1 position in the UK singles charts. How bizarre (yet in a hilarious kind of way) that a crazy frog ringtone is top of the popular music charts.

5. The Home Office, a government department in the UK, is being asked to pardon Anne Boleyn, because even though it is 500 years too late, she was obviously innocent and shouldn't have been beheaded.

6. Chick Lit bashing. This happens to me sometimes. In fact, it happens to a lot of women genre writers in the Romance and Chick Lit fields. You know--people will make a thoughtless, disrespectful remark about the kind of book you write. And it can be irritating and red-face, steam-coming-out-of-ears making. But when this happens, which it has recently, instead of stressing over it or getting worked up, because it's not as bad as someone chopping off my head and then realizing 500 years later that it was a mistake, I think of ... Thought #7...

7. A while ago I received a lovely letter from a high school teacher. When she introduced herself to her new students at the beginning of the last school year, she told them that she loved Chick Lit, and then something really wonderful happened...her students began to ask her to recommend books. Well, the teacher lent out 32AA to one student after another, and then she wrote me to let me know that (a) some of her students hadn't been interested in reading before reading 32AA and had never finished a whole book before, and that (b) because they had loved my book, they had tried even more Chick Lit books and were forming a Chick Lit club! They are planning a T-shirt featuring....Ionic Bonding. This made me cry (but in a good kind of way).

Well, I'd better go think about how to become more organized--or mebbe I'll just think about the 68-year-old grandma in China who keeps fit by breakdancing...

Michelle :-)

Posted by Michelle at 1:33 PM