Well, it's finally happened.

I'm thirty! It's going to be a good decade. I can tell.

Still hard at work on my new novel, though I've been in a scramble to come up with money this month. My goodness, but this economy sucks.

Today I got an affectionate snoofle from a beautiful seventeen-foot-tall, four-year-old giraffe, and got to spend the early morning watching a bunch of gazelle, oryx, and zebra kick up their heels and enjoy the new day. Those experiences by themselves were more than enough of a great birthday gift for me...but I also got to talk to many of my wonderful friends and have dinner with my super-cool mom. I'm a lucky, lucky person, even if I'm broke.