Consider it a gift

Ho Ho Haiku

"Shopping-mall Santa"
Seems resume-worthy, but
I am a short girl.

It's a girl!!

The Journal of Unemployment Studies is proud to announce that it is now a book. More importantly, it has an ISBN: 978-0-557-53508-8. For a person who spent 30 years working in a book company, there is perhaps no greater thrill than to have purchased an ISBN. An ISBN of one's own! Unbelievable!

This ISBN does not, however, do anything yet. Well, maybe it does, but since it doesn't do anything on Amazon, it is a bit of an ISBN-falling-in-the-forest.

Ostensibly, in 6 to 8 weeks, it WILL be on Amazon. For now, it is on Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/).

I loved having the blog, but it seems somehow foolish to have the blog displaying the entire contents of the book. So I've left the Ionic Hairdryer Study, some pictures, and a few favorites. (I left Myth for Paul, because he liked it.) Also, the book has an honor roll in the back, listing way over 200 people who helped me out. If you think you are on the honor roll - and chances are, if you ever read the blog, you ARE on the honor roll - drop me a line, and I'll send you a book. It's the least I can do. No, really. (If you aren't on the honor roll, buy a copy, and give it to an unemployed friend. It would be a great kindness.)

Thanks!