So, I hardly took any pictures at the Glen this year, but my pal Jeffrey Overstreet had it pretty well covered, including Oprah-Beknighted author Bret Lott teaching me how to open a bottle of wine (and boy do I seem happy), just one of the beautiful Santa Fe sunsets we saw nightly, me reading my Bret Anthony Johnston as teenage skater story at the meeting of the Thomas Parker Society, and my favorite—with Jeffrey and his beautiful and talented wife, poet Anne Overstreet. If you dig through his flickr, you can sort of get a feel for the whole experience, but really you have to be there. And you should, by the way, if such things interest you, register for next year and we can have fun together. I’ll alert you at registration time! Speaking of Jeffrey, he recently interviewed Andrew Stanton, the writer/director of WALL*E – it’s very interesting.

And: Me with G. before the St. John’s Graduate Institute brunch. One year ’til graduation!

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Are you a Salt Lake County resident? If so, let the county know how you feel about local arts and culture. Go to SLCO.org and follow the link to the survey. Your input could help decide arts and culture funding for the next couple of years.

Finally, check out the Teen Fiction Cafe where it is anything goes week. I blogged about fan mail, but there are also demon babies and frilly dresses.

Oh, and finally finally, the day has come! I am only two degrees of separation from a Lifetime Movie! True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet debuts Saturday night, 9 p.m. Eastern. And it is based on blog friend Lara Zeises’/Lola Douglas’ novel. Woo! In related news, while I was on my blog-reading hiatus, Lara went and got engaged. Congratulations!

That seems like a happy note on which to go into the weekend. I am now going to rest my poor crippled fingers, which have become unaccustomed to so much web surfing. See you on Monday!