Oh my goodness, that was silly of me -- I completely neglected to update my website before the Jeopardy episode, and now all of a sudden people are looking at it!  Yeep!  Lots of things to run around and fix!  For instance, I have updated my homepage, so now hopefully it's much more informative and current (although still a little messy, I know).  :-)

This Friday this Friday THIS FRIDAY!!!!!!

June 26th!  Extremely imminent!  Set your DVRs!  Check your local listings!  It's on at 7:30pm in Boston, but I hear it's on at 7pm in lots of other places, so make sure you don't miss it!  :-)

Check it out!  That's the Half Dome behind me!  Totally wicked famous and awesome-looking!

First of all, YOU MUST ALL GO SEE UP!  IT IS ONLY THE GREATEST MOVIE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!  Or if you don't entirely agree with that, I think everyone can at least agree that the talking dog is one of the most brilliant character ideas in movie history (along with Dory, the fish with no memory in Finding Nemo, which I love because it's one of the very few movies where a female character gets to be the most hilarious part of the whole movie) . 

Hi hi hi!

I got to meet the COOLEST group of readers today!  I did a school visit in Danvers, where apparently everyone is awesome, because it was SO much fun!  Thank you all for your terrific questions and your fabulous ideas! 

Hi lovely readers,

I am in the middle of a truckload of school visits (YAY!) this week, which means MORNINGS BOO (it's like I'm being tortured for my art!  or, you know, tortured in order to talk about my "art", so OK, I guess it's my own fault really), which means I have to wake up in like six hours, SO: a short blog this week!

I found the WEIRDEST THING in my garden this weekend!

 
Can you see it?  Warning: Close-ups ahead.  This is actually RATHER DISTURBING.

Hi hi hi!  And a particular hello to any Glen Urquhart School students who might be stopping by the blog today -- yay!  I got to visit this thoroughly fabulous school on Monday and talk to lots of brilliant readers who had LOTS of terrific questions.  I hope you guys had as much fun as I did! 

Hi all!

All right, who ordered the blisteringly hot early summer?  What is up with this craziness?  My mom tells me it was A HUNDRED AND NINE DEGREES in New Jersey today, according to her thermostat.  That is INSANE.  I am barely done complaining about winter!  I need a couple of months where I can cheerfully wear my hooded sweatshirts all the time; this direct switch from fluffy coat to tank top overnight is TOO WEIRD.

Sigh.  I hope President Obama fixes global warming soon!  :-)

Oh my GOODNESS!

What?  What is it?  Do I have a name yet?

It's here!  It's here!  It's here!

Sooo, it turns out making a website is COMPLICATED.  I mean, at least for those of us who have no idea what we're doing.  :-)  If it could just be lots of words, I'd be fine.  I've got all the WORDS ready to go.  But apparently it also has to be PRETTY and USER-FRIENDLY, so you guys can find all those words.  Siiiiiiiiiigh.  I have no idea how to make things pretty.  That is why I am a writer and not a cover designer.  But I am paying someone else to make it pretty, and THAT will be done by next week.  Or else you get a not-pretty w

Ruh-roh.  Did I promise a longer, better blog this week?  I did, didn't I?  But...!  I've been very busy building a shiny new Pet Trouble website for you!  Very important!  Shiny and new!  It's not quite ready yet, but hopefully I can unveil it next week...and hopefully you'll like it!  I'm pretty excited about it, and so is Sunshine, since it's fairly unabashedly All About Her.  ;-)  Makes sense to me!

Hi lovely people!

I'm sorry for disappearing!  And I'm sorry this week's blog will be short, too; I'm sitting in a hotel room in California, mere hours away from jumping on a plane, so I won't be able to ramble at length.

But!  Now I can tell you what my top-secret mission to California was about!  Ready?  Here goes:

I flew out here...to be on JEOPARDY!!!!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!