angry-cat

So April Fool’s Day has come and gone. At my house, we are a fam­ily of pranksters (albeit not very good ones). This year my mother told my father she quit her job. The only thing her hus­band said in reply to that was, why? She also told my brother (who is inhab­it­ing their home at the moment) that she got him a job at McDonald’s and that he was to start tomor­row morn­ing early, 8:00 am sharp (the look I’m told on his face was priceless).

My best friend got me good one year. While I was at work, she had some­one else call me in some type of offi­cial capac­ity to tell me that I owed like $50 in library fines. I was a starv­ing col­lege stu­dent at the time. Also, that lit­tle joke hit too close for com­fort because I actu­ally did have a book that was over­due. So here I am at work, fight­ing with this guy about my so called library fines and was com­pletely ignor­ing my cus­tomers while my so called best friend was on the other end of the tele­phone line laugh­ing her ass off. I was not a happy camper (hence my pic).

Neil Gaiman Gets His New­bery Medal Stripped?

I was read­ing Neil Gaiman’s blog (the inspi­ra­tion for this entry today) and ran across this arti­cle about the ALA strip­ping him of his New­bery Medal for The Grave­yard Book! Did any of you read it? I mean this would have been unprece­dented but then I read the arti­cle and had to laugh. Of course I didn’t believe this _cough_ but this was good! Also, hat tip to Dear Author for their April Fools joke this year. It was fun but, no, I wasn’t fooled. No.

Have a good day (oh and that title is sup­posed to be ironic)