- School's out.

- Christmas list: Career, Car, and somebody to pick up my script that I haven't finished. I've got my fingers crossed.

- My boss kept telling me he was going to call me in today. He didn't, and I'm glad. In all my free time, I slept and did other boring things. I swear, this town is like Walnut Grove on tranquilizers. It's got a bar, and... and, um, yeah...

- I'm thinking of starting one of those online businesses where you write people's college papers for them. Unfortunately, I have no amibition. I'm like Mycroft Holmes without the deduction skills.

- Seeing the movie doesn't make you a fan. You're not a LotRs fan if you've seen the movies but haven't read the books. You have to read the trilogy, the Silmarillion, and the Hobbit, at least. Reading Tolkien's letters and the History of Middle Earth are bonus fan stuff. Watching Hitchhiker' Guide doesn't make you a fan. Watching the travesty that was The Spirits Within does not make you a fan.

- A.A. Milne was a great writer. If I were ever going to write a children's book, his stuff would probably be the only works I'd study.

- "Good writers borrow from other writers, great ones steal from them out-right." Hmmm..

- Look for my new book to hit store shevles soon: "Now We Are Sick."