everything but the girl

1. LOVED Supernatural last night. Solid, good episode that worked for me. May post something spoilery later but for now, just looking forward to the final pre-hellatus episode so I can finalize my gift for spn_j2_xmas (SQUEE).

2. Went to the Miami Book Fair today - hung out briefly with Lev Grossman, who some of you may remember from Azkatraz or Comic Con & who's coming back for Ascendio (and probably bringing some other writers along, too). Also managed to snag a 1st printing Book Club edition of Sorcerer's Stone for ten bucks - it's supposedly worth anything form fifty to five hundred dollars, depending on the mood of the buyer. Still! More than ten!

3. My grandma - the one who works as my bookkeeper, who's 93 and still drives to work every day - fainted in the office yesterday, and within seven hours, they had put in a pacemaker and she was sent home (well, to my parents') today. Amazing woman, amazing medicine.

4. Of the four things I requested for Yuletide (Twin Peaks, Soapdish, Pumped Up Kicks (the Foster the People song) and The Eight - I am the only person requesting three of them. No points to anyone who knows which one has more than one request. ;)

5. DH is back with groceries - off to unpack and cook!

Oh, show!
( wheee, stories! )

ETA: Earlier this week, a friend of mine who's a YA librarian posted on her work-related blog with a Project to do something Nifty - I'm sure you've seen those American Library Association READ! posters featuring people like Orlando Bloom, various Buffy-sters, Neil Gaiman, etc.

She thinks that it would be absolutely brilliant and perfect if Jensen and Jared were featured on one, because Show showcases the Importance of Libraries and Reading, especially in episodes like tonight's.

Click here to learn more - or if you're too overcome by tonight's episode, you can just send an email to Rachel Johnson at rjohnson @ ala.org (without the spaces) and suggest that Jared and Jensen would make great READ spokesmen. She's the one who has the power to make that decision - or at least to ask them to do it. It would be a great promotion for the power of libraries and reading, and also, a terrific way to promote the show!

Oh, and speaking of Reading, did anyone get a copy of the new issue of SPN Origins? It's the last issue of the set, and I haven't read it yet but I hope it's good. Hope. The fact that it says "hit CW show" on the top is probably a good sign, isn't it?

Okay, so, earlier today, I posted my wishlist with a wish for a release date and/or title for Book Seven of HP. And I included that because my longtime wish? Well, I'd basically given up on it.

What was that wish, you ask...

For a movie of or sequel to The Eight.

But three minutes ago, laughingirl YMed me to say:

Katherine Neville's sequel to her debut novel, The Eight, ranging from the
dawn of the war of Greek Independence in 1822 to the outbreak of the Iraq
War in 2003, this novel begins when the heroine of The Eight mysteriously
vanishes, and her daughter must follow a set of cryptic clues on a
dangerous quest to discover who murdered her father... for publication in
fall 2008...

Seriously? That's almost better than a release date and/or title for Book Seven, because we *know* book seven will eventually come out, and I had completely stopped dreaming and hoping that a sequel to The Eight would ever *ever* happen.

: is beyond ecstatic

: begins camping out now for a copy