I met a celebrity tonight. Well a celebrity in Emily-land. I went and listened to Douglas Coupland speak this evening, and all I can say is it propelled my obsession for this guy even more. He was awesome and damn funny. There were times I had to restrain myself for getting stuck in a continuous giggle. The randomness that is "doug" as he calls himself was great. The first thing he talked about was how he thought drugs, especially codeine, were great. What a way to start. Ha ha. On one of his random rants he thought that computers needed a few extra keys, firstly, the 'fuck' key where you pressed it when the computer was really messing with you and you were getting mad at it, just to let it know who was boss. Shift-'fuck' - would be fuck off and also die. And the final one would be 'imdrunk', where the computer would not let you send out any emails for the next 12 hours. Ha ha. He also read a bit of his new book - which I've already read so it was nice to hear him do it, and some hilarious excerpts from his new book, which is going to be sort of a follow up to Microserfs. The parts from this he read were about, basically, Ronald McDonald, and his sexuality/or lack thereof and 6 employees at a computer programming company who decide to write letters trying to seduce Ronald McD. Good stuff. Especially his intro into the whole Ronald McDonald section by him saying "when I was seven Ronald McDonald came to by birthday party... all I can remember is my mom saying he was a god because he could fix the orange drink machine with nothing but a paper clip and his own unwavering witt". Tee hee. I promise I'll stop ranting now. It was just great. And I got 2 of my books signed. I was trying to think of something really witty and original to say when I met him, since he signs so many people's books. But when I actually met him I was so excited I froze up. ha ha. I think I shook his hand like 3 times though. Oh and he asked if my name was really Emily Dickinson. So maybe that's something. All in all - Douglas Coupland = superfantastic and a great way to end a not-so-good day.

In other news, over the past 24 hours or so it's dropped 30 degrees. How crazy is that. It was 15 yesterday and oh so gorgeous. Today, crap for brains cold. Ok. Futurama to watch and chocolate to eat!

* song of the moment: The Killers - Mr. Brightside *