HUGE grateful shoutout to Diane, web designer extraordinaire, who has given the site a wonderful makeover. Compliments now being accepted at the checkout counter!
Please note that the new “author photos” took place in an intense 10 minute session with James behind the new digital camera. I wore all my new fall clothes (and a token summer outfit, the pillowcase skirt I mentioned in an earlier post, which I’ve put back up below). Don’t be surprised if I show up at an event wearing one of these ensembles.
I tried to make the shoot as much like America’s Next Top Model as I could. I burst into tears 3 times and at the 5 minute mark confessed a serious health problem. Then I had a thirty seconds of “being a bitch”, a 1 minute dalliance with a suspected eating disorder and then I had a meltdown on the phone with my mom: “It’s sooooo hard! I don’t think I can do it.” To which my mom said, “Susan, I really don’t have time for this.”
Then the 10 minutes were up and James said he’d had enough (in a disgusted tone similar to J. Alexander’s). Tyra didn’t show up. I guess she was at a shoot or something. I’m a little worried about Janice Dickinson’s comments, but I’ve always dreamed of being a model and fashion is my life and these other girls don’t understand me and this won’t be the last you see of me….
Oops. Got a little carried away there. Thanks again to Diane and to Andrew, who laid some technical wizardry on the site and fixed the rogue sidebar.