I had dinner the other night at Pho Pasteur, a Vietnamese restaurant, and had pho – noodly goodness! with Robin Brenner. If you haven’t seen Robin’s amazing graphic novel website No Flying No Tights, check it out, it is a great reader’s advisory resource.

Today I met William Sleator, who I remember reading avidly as a teen – House of Stairs was one of my favorite books. Also met Bill Barnes and now own an autographed edition of Unshelved. I have this library comic set as my homepage, and decided that $15 is a great price to pay for 365 laughs a year. I gushed to a vendor about my favorite author MT Anderson and scored an ARC of his new book, and then the distributor said he’d SEEN him earlier -that he was around. I immediately started skulking around trying to find him, but it was getting close to 5 PM, and I never caught up with him.

Today I also met Cathi Dunn McCrae, esteemed editor of VOYA and witnessed a miracle when library professor and writer Mark K. Chelton dropped by to deliver some information Cathi had requested that morning. Mary K. claimed it was serendipity (the librarian’s best friend, remember?) but Cathi said it was a miracle.

Friday night I met Walt Crawford, and I think he seemed more delighted that I hadn’t heard of him than if I had gushed. After checking out his site, Cites and Insights, I am a new devotee. It’s a mix of technology and library issues, and although I seem to recall Walt saying he’d been told he wasn’t a humorist, his writing does have a wit and slyness to it.