{"id":2345,"date":"2007-09-19T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:22","slug":"checking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Checking In…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found out that I’m slow and apparently I missed the deadline to register for Teen Read Week<\/a> (this year’s theme is Laugh Out Loud – LOL – and don’t miss the awesome-looking website). Via Jen Robinson’s Book Page<\/a> comes all the info.<\/p>\n

In Cybils news, the 2007 website<\/a> is taking shape, and for the next couple of weeks on the Cybils blog<\/a> you can read introductions to all the category organizers, including yours truly (as if you didn’t get enough of me already! Hee!). And, on a side note (but a relevant one, since I’m organizing the Graphic Novels category), a friend forwarded me a link to boldtype<\/a>, whose current issue #47<\/a> is all about comics, though not YA-specific (in fact, several of them are most definitely NOT YA…). <\/p>\n

Okay…last but not least, I have a highly amusing Most Egregious Misuse to entertain you all. I was driving around town running errands, when I drove past a jewelry pawnshop I’ve driven past probably a million times; but I’d never closely read the sign in the window before, which said (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

WE BUY SCRAP GOLD TOO. YES, EVEN YOUR MOTHER-N-LAW’S GOLD TEETH.<\/p>\n

Okay, so it could have been an unintentional spelling error. But still. It was those sticky letters that you stick onto glass windows. You’d think they would double-check first.<\/p>\n

And I feel compelled to point out that, NO, I was not running errands at the pawnshop. This particular strip mall is located at a busy downtown corner and contains a pawnshop, a notary, a palm reader, and a Chinese restaurant. And I was not going to any of them. I was driving past. I swear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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