I'm coming to you from our basement apartment in Chicago. It's very dark in here, on account of how I refuse to turn on the lights because I just saw An Inconvenient Truth (which I highly recommend). And then I logged on to climatecrisis.net to see how much I am personally destroying the world. It turns out that even though I don't own a car, I am destroying the world slightly more than the average American. This is a pretty depressing thought. So no more electricity!

So the main difference between now and the last time I wrote in this blog--other than the fact that I used to be exposed to sunlight on a near-daily basis--is that I got married, and then I went to the British Virgin Islands, and then I fed an iguana:
Feeding the iguana was pretty fun, as was the rest of our honeymoon, but the highlight of the week was definitely the actual wedding. It was beautiful, and Alabama was beautiful, and Sarah was outlandishly and unfairly and indescribably beautiful, and we just had an absolute blast. At any rate, having now been married for a little more than three weeks, I think I can safely recommend marriage to my single friends.

In other news, here is the cover of my new book, An Abundance of Katherines.
I hope you like the cover. But even more than that, I hope you like the book. Advanced Readers' Copies (or ARCs, which are like regular books, only paperback and riddled with errors) of Katherines have started to leak out into the world, and the response so far has been wonderful. But then again, everyone could be lying. You can never tell. Incidentally, there will be ARC giveaways on my myspace (do you say my myspace or just myspace or my space? Only God knows for sure) in the next month.

Tomorrow, I promise to post some thoughts about great German words and a brief summary of Katherines.