I’m getting paid, folks! Week one of the dual internships, and the less organized, much more crazy office decided that they needed someone full-time to produce a failing book tour. I put in a phone call to internship no. 1, and told them, “Hey, I’m being offered very little pay, no real glory, the chance to travel all over the U.S. is slim, and this whole deal might fail – do you have a counter offer?” And they said, “Heck no! We don’t have enough money in our several hundred thousand dollar coffers to pay our slaves to do what they should be thanking us to do! But you’ll be sorry you left us!!!” So I’ve now spent one and a half weeks of a 3-month paid internship at Animal Fair, trying to put together a 15-city book tour that begins in the second week of February, and I just finished writing a thank-you note to One Entertainment for their truly inspiring disappointment in me.

The other good news in my life? I made it to round 2 of the interview process with William Morris, one of the premier talent agencies in the country (and, might I add, the world). Of course, I am still wondering why I need to take a typing test to be hired for a two-year agent-training program (see details at William Morris' Agent Training Program Site), but hey, you do what you gotta do, right? I’m only locked into this Animal Fair gig until March, by which time I will either have fallen flat on my face with this whole book tour extravaganza, or I will be enjoying margaritas by the pool of some Atlanta/Chicago/Cleveland/Dallas/Denver/Los Angeles/San Diego hotel (just to name a few of the places we expect to take by storm in March). And I’m telling you, whether this works out or not, I WILL be sipping some alcoholic beverage by the side of a pool in March, no matter the weather!! (Even if the pool is a puddle of my own tears and I am sitting in my New York apartment!)