To be fair, I was working for a company that did work for Kellogg's, so it isn't as surreal as all that. But it was kind of randomly hilarious.

Sweetie, you have every right in the world to be thrilled, proud, and anything else. You've accomplished something that not everyone can - just writing the book is an accomplishment; getting it published means someone else thought it was worth their time and effort. The fact that you've got the internets heating up with the buzz means you've produced something that speaks to us - all the invisible people on the board plus the lurkers. Yay for you!

Hee! Not the readership I was going for, but I'll take it!

What, you think I'm not a knitter?

OK, I'm not, but still....

I have to admit that I've done the "but there was no bill!" thing.

There wasn't.

Also I'm a flake.

But mostly there wasn't.

These days I'm pathetic enough that I can only hold 1 recurring bill that's not sent through my bank. Water and Power wins, which means that cable keeps almost falling through the cracks. Hopefully my upcoming account number change will make it compatible with the autopay stuff.

Because my student mailroom was staffed by the particularly inept students doing work study, I ended up being hyperaware over when to expect bills (so I could go yell at them and make them sort the buckets of weekold mail and put them in the PO boxes.) I do wonder how many people's credit got fucked up by those jerks.

We're having The FLOOD right now with sheets of rain, lots of wind, thunder, lightning and hail.

Why does it always start monsooning five minutes before I'm supposed to leave the office?

And the temperature has dropped to 68!

I have to admit that I've done the "but there was no bill!" thing.

Oh, it wasn't that. I mean, yes, if you've gone two months without a bill, you should maybe go looking, since probably it doesn't mean it's free. What bugged me was that they hadn't worked out that not getting a bill -- and therefore never paying anything -- and having their service cut off might possibly be connected. Let me put it this way: I would expect the conversation to go, "I see you never paid your bill." "I never got a bill." "Okay, let's fix your address, and then you're going to have to pay some to reactivate it." "Okay." Rather than, you know, repeated iterations of "I never got a bill!" "Er, yes, but you're still going to have to pay for the calls you made. So let's fix that now--" "I never got a bill!"

Man, I love afternoon out-of-office meetings! We were done at about 4:15, my boss asked me if I was planning on going back to the office, I looked over to the Big Boss, and she was like, "Oh, hell no." Not in those exact words.

And in migraine news, my poor boss was on Percoset for the meeting, so I kind of held my breath every time she started talking. She actually did OK, if a little spacy.