Thanks for all the virtual high-fives regarding the National Book Award stuff. I’m excited.

I also want to give a shout-out to Bullitt Central High in Shepherdsville, KY, who had me visit the Spring Reading Fling via Skype to talk to a group that read Story of a Girl. Thanks so much for all your great questions and thoughts!

Around the o’sphere…

- Team Babymouse at Provo Children’s Book Festival tomorrow (plus Ann Dee Ellis and me on blogging panel, many other great local authors).

- Caroline Langston writes a beautiful post at the Image blog about her adolescent crush on a teacher that was both truly sexy and truly innocent.

- The schedule for the Summer Blog Blast Tour is up at Chasing Ray. Looks like a good one, as usual.

- The Quo Vadis blog comments on Virginia Heffernan’s Demise of Datebooks column (I have a Quo Vadis planner – a Minister – love it. I also use Google calendar synced to my iPhone. Are you a paper calendar person, or strictly high-tech?)

- 21 Jump Street, the awesomely, awesomely bad series from the late 80s, is now available on Netflix Watch Instantly. You are so welcome! I have to say that before I re-watched the pilot, I would have only called the series “awesome” without the “bad,” but…wow. TV has come a long way since 1987.

(Note Johnny's headpiece - a forerunner to Captain Jack Sparrow's 'do?)

- Man am I glad I got out of Facebook when I did. Though Twitter attempted to explain Diaspora to me, I’m not quite there yet.

Have a great weekend!