And after five (maybe seven) years of regular computer use, it's no surprise that I'm growing--if not bored, restless--sitting at my computer, trying to market this book all the damn time. So, I've decided that I'm embarking on my computer-cation (computer vacation). Wish me luck, I'll need it. I already feel the withdrawal, the looming email collecting in folders, important things that I have to respond to right away... Scarier than Halloween.
So, I'll post Monday or Tuesday, to report on my attempts to follow in the footsteps of King Ludd, and all those who have rebelled against technological change.
In closing, here's a list of helpful Halloween Hints, lessons I've learned over the last week that might make Halloween itself a little less scary.
1. If your ice cream man comes around at 6AM, he's selling drugs. Don't take his free ice cream, even on Trick or Treat night.
2. Don't eat any candy with warning labels. (i.e. - "this might remove a filling")
3. If you're going to dress up, zombiefy your costume, it only helps.
4. Too much candy corn is truly sickening. Even if it's the chocolate kind.
5. Don't dress up like Michael Jackson, unless your going to do a damn-good job on the costume--that rule goes for kids, too.
6. Apples do not count as cady, unless they're candied apples.
7. You're never too old to dress up, only too cranky.
8. If you're going to do like me and be Rosie the Riveter, make sure you don't go into neighborhood with high gang activity, unless you happen to know they're all Bloods.
OK. Signing off here... I'm already shaking. I might have to take up drinking and smoking again without the comfort of these one-sided conversations (I mean "blog entries")
jen
(buy Musical Chairs, if you haven't yet...) Or go here, they're giving them away.
[picture courtesy of last year's "Zombie Walk" in San Antonio]
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