Moving and Stories and Sick Boyfriends

First of all, thanks to everyone who sent me "Rache sucks, you should have won!" e-mails after I lost in my writer's showdown against her the other day. While I vehemently disagree with the whole "Rache sucks" thing, getting angry e-mails from fans who think I was cheated made me smile. I especially loved the conspiracy theory e-mails. I dusted off my tin-foil hat after reading one in particular... (you know who you are... and yes, They are watching us)!

Incidentally, you can see me and Rache's entries for "Bush Fires" over at SOL.net in the Showdown Universe. I turned off voting for my story because I posted the original, no-edit/never proofread version that I submitted. I'll turn on voting for my "author's preferred edition" if and when I post it...

Thanks, also, to those of you who took the time to post your comments and/or send me e-mails regarding my disaster of a Valentine's Day date. Just to clarify a couple of things, he's older than me and owns his own condo. The reason I drove him to his parents' house was because he was *really*, *really* sick. I was the one who suggested he not be alone, actually. As it turns out he ended up staying with his parents until just today when he finally stopped puking his brains out. He told me on the phone today that he wants a redo in regards to our date, so that should be fun!

He also worried that I might have caught his bug. I laughed and said, "No, I'm fine! See, there's this thing called flu-shots...". :P

Oh! One other interesting piece of news. My landlord asked me the other day if I'd be interested in moving into a smaller apartment. It's about $100 a month cheaper than what I'm currently paying and it's in the same house, so I said, "Fuck yeah!". I don't need a lot of space. I start the moving process tomorrow, though, and there is one big hiccup: that apartment doesn't have cable wired to it yet. The cable company said they'll have a guy out here soon to do the installation but until then I'll be without the Internet. Oh noes!!!

Well, I'll let you all get back to doing what you do. Later!

-shannon-