I only take advice from 80s songs.

I've been watching Hoarding: Buried Alive to help me downsize my belongings. It's surprisingly effective.

( Soon you will be so tired of hearing about this! [Or perhaps you already are.] )

So I might be obsessing a little at the moment. It's what I do. Soon I will reach the end of the internet, research-wise, and then I'll get serious about finishing my novel. I know I can't rely on making a living as a writer any time soon, but it would be a good supplemental income and help defray my costs when I move. Plus I have a feeling I'm going to have to be in the city before I land a job. Luckily my car is still worth quite a bit, so when I sell it I'll have around a $10,000 cushion.

I'm wondering if I could crash with my mom's cousin in NJ for a while while I job hunt. Or possibly my sister's friend on Long Island. She's always badgering me to come visit. I'm considering another trip next year to pre-shop various neighborhoods so apartment hunting isn't quite so overwhelming when I do finally move.

On the other hand, I have no idea what I'm going to do about getting my cats to the city. It's a problem. I have already begun shopping for hats.

SO. EXCITED. 'The Fansies'. Oh, Jess, you ridiculous creature. To me you will always be Puck and Kurt's Broadway lovechild. IJS. (Also, I love how excited they get about the fire escape. And I love Evan. And Alex Freaking Wong. And basically everything this video chooses to be.)

In marginally related news, we get Dance Magazine here at the library, and Mark from SYTYCD is on the cover of last month's issue. There's an article talking about how participating in the show has brought him mixed success (though he appears to be doing well, which is great, because he's so talented. You non-SYTYCD fans saw him in the background of the Brittany numbers during the Brittany episode of Glee.) Anyway, in light of that, it's nice to see four SYTYCD alums having success in Newsies.

In less than six weeks I will be hitting the road to meet up with jengeorge and wonderlandchick, and then we will be embarking on a fabulous weekend in NYC. I can't wait to see NEWSIES ON BROADWAY, BITCHES and also to see yabamena and mysticshell! And possibly egret? Egret, I know you're not going to the show with us, but if you were free on Saturday, May 12th and wanted to meet us for dinner, I personally would love to see you.

Speaking of dinner, do any of you local ladies have restaurant suggestions? I have a few well-rated (according to Yelp, anyway) places in mind in Hell's Kitchen, but the three of us tourists are down with traveling to meet wherever if you don't want to dine right in Tourist Central (and who could blame you, really.)

Also on the agenda is a drag brunch at Lips NYC. We're going on Sunday the 14th, which is Mother's Day, so I realize a lot of people are booked that day, but anyone local who wants to join us for that should let me know. Though you need to let me know in the next couple days, because I need to start making reservations for stuff.

We will be in the city from Friday at dinnertime through Monday morning, so if you are dying to see any of us in person and you can make it into the city, let me know. I have pretty much planned our agenda for every minute of the trip, but we can still fit you in! Sunday afternoon we're mostly going to be drinking anyway. What? That's what everybody does with their Sunday afternoons, isn't it?

Guys I am super excited. Have I mentioned how I'm very, very excited?