Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Thursday, Jan. 04, 2007 - 11:40 p.m.

So, the car is going into the shop tomorrow to have a new master cylinder put in (I hope that's all it is) and either a tune-up or new spark plugs, or whatever needs to be done to keep it from dying the very second it starts or at the first intersection I stop at after I first start driving. ::sigh:: A tune-up is going to cost at least $250. I can only wait to see what the brakes will cost. I have a feeling I'm looking at a $700 repair job. That hurts me more than I can tell you.

Luckily, the new job called today and starts a week early, next Thursday. Yay!!! Jonny-C will not be there for another week, on accounta going home to Chicag-ee to see the family peeps and then coming back to shoot an independent film, but he assures me all the story editors are laid-back, mellow types. This makes me very happy.

Now if I could get my stomach to stop overproducing acid and working that ulcer into being, I will be really glad.

Pete's website is coming along very slowly, thanks in part to a good deal of procrastination on my part, and an obstinate scanner on my office's part. After a great deal of hair pulling the last 2 days, I finally managed to uninstall and re-install everything so that the damn thing works again. I can not tell you what a happy relief that is. I finally got to scan in the image I drew up for Pete's index page and sent it off to Elodie so she can work her watercolor magic and come up with something completely whimsical, nostalgic and adorable, all while still being hip and up-to-date. I don't know how she manages to do that, but she does, and it rocks. I love her. She totally understands the magic of Pete and gets him. She probably gets Pete as much as I do. I really feel that from her. I hope that translates to kids as well. If half the kids that come across him love him as much as Reader's son Joe does, I will be a lucky, lucky woman. And frankly, instilling a love of Pete in kids across the country and maybe the world is way far from the worst thing I could do in my life.

I got nothin' else, really. I need to go put some time in on the website. There's a lot more to it than I ever dreamed, and it's a serious amount of work.

Peace out,
Katie

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