"I think I'll go for a walk outside now, the summer sun is calling my name..."

Something about nice days just make me think of the Brady Bunch Kids and all the cool music they produced. Some of you will have no idea what I am talking about, but there is a group of you who know exactly what I am getting at. Those of you not in the loop, I recommend a trip to your local Music store (and I think you know the one I have in mind) for some remedial music training.

Right. On to workish things. I am trying out a new format to the blog for a couple weeks to see if it helps and or changes things. I have talked to the Higher ups here at Olsson's and in their heads, my blog should talk more about events and less about what I ate for lunch or was thinking about while I was in the shower making a shampoo Mohawk. (You know you do it too and if you don't you should try it.)

On the other end of the spectrum are the people who read my blog for the sole purpose of having a bit of a laugh or to see what I was thinking while I was sporting the shampoo Mohawk. In an effort to please both sides of the issue, I am going to write about events in the first part of the blog and then if you click through to my link, you can find out more of the inner workings of my head.

Some event news if you are interested. My Garden Fresh Voices Series was picked up by the Book section of the Washington Post and got a special box of its own. If you haven't been paying attention, you will have to go back to see what the heck the Garden Fresh Voices Series is. In short it is a series of talks in the Dupont store with hand picked authors. We kicked off the the series last Monday night with Annie Choi and her new book Happy Birthday or Whatever. She was a very charming lady who read a small section of her memoir and stuck around to sign all the copies of the book I could dredge up. Annie is a Korean American and the first generation in her family to speak more English than Korean. She grew up in California and has a very American outlook on things. I imagine her parents are still a little "Old Country" as a friend of mine would say, and I can only imagine how hard that would be at family get-togethers. I struggle to get my parents to understand me and we speak the same language. We had a good turnout, I brought donuts and everyone had a good time. For proof, you will have to go to Annie's blog and see her thoughts.

Along with my normal duties, I have been tasked with inventing a pitch document to hand out at BEA (Book Expo America) at the end of the month in New York. It has to tell the story of Olsson's in four pages pointing out all the cool things we have ever done and will ever do. It has to be in to my editor on Wednesday so I can hand it off to Production on Thursday. I will also be inventing a time machine to enable me to get the thing finished on time. BEA is a big deal, so I should take it very seriously. All I am looking forward to is putting faces with all the names and voices I deal with every day.

Well, that is all the interesting bits for this week. I am now going to put the cap on this 11+ hour Tuesday, go home and eat some veggies and perhaps get an hour on the treadmill so my butt doesn't get any bigger.

"I got to keep on, keep on, keep on keep on, dancing all through the night. I got to keep on, keep on, keep on doing it right..."

Ah those rascally Bradys.