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Thank you for your interest in [Literary Agency]. Our agency has changed direction. For the foreseeable future, [Agency] will consider for representation only manuscripts comprising adult fiction and nonfiction about animals, including companion animals/pets, feral animals, working and service animals, domestic and farm animals, laboratory animals, caged animals and wild animals.

It's -- well, it's not so much that the rejection stings, mind you, since the manuscript I sent them was not about animals and I've had far worse. It's more the surreality of the thing. What makes a literary agent decide that all she wants to handle are animal stories? Especially since within the animal niche they're apparently accepting for consideration anything and everything to do with animals? What kind of life-changing epiphany causes that? Conversion to PETA? Saved from a burning house by the family hamster? Saved from conversion to PETA by a burning family hamster?

These are the questions that torment me. :D

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I'm home! I have superior library books! I had a craving for Sayers so I got Murder Must Advertise from the library, along with a book about Labyrinths.

Seriously, most libraries don't keep a permanent record of what you check out, but if they did, mine would baffle the wisest of government agents. Last time it was gay artists and Tolstoy; this time it's mazes and murder.

I got my W2 form today. I've never filed taxes before. This is all so exciting. Only not.

But it was an otherwise good day!

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ALSO.

I was walking from the theatre to the El tonight when I heard a rustling noise. I thought it might be a squirrel, but when I turned around to investigate, something significantly larger peered out at me. For a second it looked like a stray cat, but no:

FERAL URBAN BUNNY.

I have no idea what a bunny was doing in downtown Chicago. I tried to take some photos -- we'll see if they come out -- but he was quick. Like, you might say, a bunny.

Bunnies are good omens though, right? Fertility, chocolate eggs, et cetera?