Albion

Clarion West starts in one month.

We're all a little nervous at my house. Rice is nervous because he's going to have to cut it without me for six weeks, and I'm going to go have the most amazing, freakishly intense, wild experience in Seattle.

Am I ready?

Is he ready?

Thank goodness we still have four weeks.

The really cool thing is that pretty much everyone who has been told I'm going is incredibly excited for me and is being wonderfully supportive. The mother of one of Avadore's best school friends has offered to help out where she can, purely because our sons adore each other.

Also, they live nearby. I suspect they're also just kind people.

I was in the local bookstore the other day and they had a Chuck Palahniuk display. I about lost my cheese. I wanted to yell, "Do you see this? Chuck Palahniuk, people. Chuck Palahniuk. I'm going to learn from Chuck Palahniuk!" And then I got to the Cory Doctorow display...

I have no idea how I'm going to refrain from being a total idiot in front of the other seventeen Clarionites1 and our instructors.

1 I can't take credit for this term; all the credit goes to CM3, who will also be attending.