Ok, so while entries may be sparse over the next week, there’s hours and hours of reading for you to do in the archives. See over there in the right hand column where it says “Archives”? It’s about half way down. You can select a month from that list and read away! Monthly archives are in chronological order, which means that unlike this front page, the posts are listed oldest the newest, top to bottom. Makes for easier reading.

To encourage you to go have some fun in that deep well of entertainment that is the archives, I’ve got a little scavenger hunt for y’all. Some of these questions are easy. Some are hard. If you answer all these correctly, you are definitely a stalker. But in a good way.

1. What were the names of the first two pet rodents Andreas and I had together?

2. What day of the week was my least favorite as a child?

3. In what city did I tail two men at a bar, lurking behind them and trying to freak them out? How did I justify this reprehensible behavior?

4. What was the name of the rave magazine I used to work for?

5. During what 1988 movie did my parents dance in the back row of the theater?

6. What tacky reality television show did I watch obsessively and write about constantly in 2001?

7. Andreas’ father was arriving for dinner at 6:30. What did start Andreas and I start doing at 6:15?

8. What former magazine editor gave me an astrology reading?

9. What weak metaphor did I use to describe my feelings in my final letter from the editor for the magazine I worked for?

10. Near my old house in Olympia, there was a tree that looked like an animal’s head. What kind of animal was it?

11. When was I first spotted in public as a blogger? Who spotted me?

12. As a child, what did my mother tell me caviar was made of?

13. How do you know you’re on a flight to NYC?

14. Which very famous gay book editor was my favorite speaker at Columbia Publishing Course? Which editor was my least favorite?

15. At Columbia University, what beverage was served at “Sherry Hour”?

16. What CPC book idea of mine was actually pitched to a real live publishing house?

17. What was my theory about why people would want to work for a magazine? What was my CPC classmates’ response to this?

18. What was the drug of choice among the 18+ club crowd in 2001?

19. In what building did I squat with two other people in NYC?

20. What important item did my pet chinchilla destroy?

21. What advice columnist printed the story of Andreas’ and my first kiss?

22. When did I get rid of my dreads?

23. What was the title of my high school commencement speech?

24. What did I name the alley I lived on in Seattle?

25. In 2001, I had to pay a late fine for a book checked out in 1992. What was the name of the book?

26. What are the names of my dead exboyfriend’s two children?

27. Who got offended when I directed them to the third door on the right?

28. What’s the downside of being a post-feminist liberal left-coast gender-fuck dating an equally liberal raised-by-lesbians Euro-weirdo?

29. Who is the hottest Monkee?

30. What did a hippie on the street want me to sit on?

31. What two things feel like an admission of defeat?

32. What comedian went to my high school? What grunge singer did?

33. What article I wrote for the Seattle Weekly stirred up huge outrage?

34. When did I start hooping?

35. What body part was the meanest child I ever met missing?

36. What website inspired me to start a blog?

37. What did I do the first night I lived in Los Angeles?

38. Who did I write an epic rhyming poem for, as thanks for letting me steal their HTML?

39. What violent physical reaction did I used to have on dates?

40. What would I sell if I were an Avon lady?