While I was in NY, I met with the lovely ladies of Mixed Breed Films! Mixed Breed (Kyra Sedgwick and Emily Lansbury) holds the rights to turn Story of a Girl into a movie. And you know what? It is on track to really happen. I mean, as much as anything can “really happen” at this stage of the game when it comes to making movies. As they explained, it’s not like they are acquiring a whole bunch of material and hoping something sticks. This is what they’re working on now and things are going forward. The big news I learned is that there is a writer/director on board. I’m not sure if I can talk in public about who it is at the moment, but it’s someone whose last movie I loved, and it was nominated for awards and stuff. So I kind of wanted to fall out of my chair when I found out for sure it was this person. (This is starting to sound like a Post Blind Item…sorry!) The coolest thing was talking about the book with them and answering some questions and talking about the soundtrack of my writing process, and of course, comparing planned Thanksgiving menus. I am unbelievably lucky that these two women have the book and I am just excited to see what happens. When they said, “We hope you’ll be happy,” I said, “I already am.”

I am also happy that I bought my NFL.com Field Pass this season and could listen to the Niners/Cardinals game yesterday. SF had a dramatic and emotional win in overtime and there’s something even more exciting about listening to the home-team radio broadcast than watching it on TV. If you’re a fan of a consistently-losing team and you don’t live in that team’s state, you have to find a way to get the radio broadcast if you want to catch every game. Of course, I enjoyed the webcast even more back when it was free. Anyway, yesterday’s game was great. As was the Utah/BYU game on Saturday. I love a good, close, dramatic game! And since I’m not from or of Utah, I can enjoy the Holy War without sinking into a depression afterwards.

Okay, NY is over and Thanksgiving is over and I’ve got an essay to cut in half and a bunch of reading to do and a house to organize and thank-you notes to write. We had a great and restful holiday weekend. I hope you did, too.