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This past week has been kind of surprisingly busy for me, in a good way. Some things I have done, not necessarily in order:

- got adopted by a roving band of geekboys in my hometown
- planned a tea party with some of my best friends from high school
- taught another friend how to bake
- went bar-hopping with my mother in New York City
- saw Ratatouille (so very good! People clapped in the theater! Admittedly, in Small Town That I Come From, I don't think this is unusual, but still. It was awesome.)
- played an intense all-night game of Apples to Apples
- agreed to help write a wacky X-Men/Carmen Sandiego crossover graphic novel
- retrieved my missing pants from batyatoon while kidnapping her for a lunch hour
- totally hooked a friend on Heroes
- resolutely vowed to return to New York to see the Mythic Creatures exhibit at the Natural History Museum that we missed this time around]
- dealt with a magically flammable, spontaneously recombusting pile o'wax during a blackout
- accidentally ended up in the Poconos while trying to get to an amusement park
- went on more roller coasters in a row than I have ever been on
- saw fireworks over the amusement park on the way back, while stalled at a roadside Pizza Hut when my poor friend who was driving us came down with a case of food poisoning as we drove out. We sat around for a couple hours waiting for him to feel better - if he hadn't we would have gotten a room at the roadside motel for the night, which at one point we were seriously considering - but in the meantime the fireworks came on, which we would not have gotten to see if we had left as planned, so, silver lining! And we did get home all right.
- in the midst of all this traveling, reread a lot of my favorite YA books from when I was younger, several of which will be the subject of my next post when I have time to sit down and write it out

So tell me: while this has been going on, what have I missed? Tell me something exciting you did over the past week!