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As a sometime internet pornographer, allow me to present you this fine Friday morning with statistics on internet pornography and, let's face it, ads for White Collar that are so good they just feel like pornography.

Neal's hypertailored waistcoat! Gus's girly drink! Grenades!

Today is the one day a year I have to work overtime, so I'm missing out on Casual Friday in order to impress the donors tonight. I don't have a fancy official nametag like everyone else, since every department thinks it's some other department's job to get me one, so I may just introduce myself around as Ianto Jones.

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TODAY IS THE SLOWEST DAY EVER and it's going to last until ten o'clock tonight because I'm working our one-night-a-year-sam-has-to-work event. It is giving me time to think, whether or not that's a good thing...

I can't really say I'm on the horns of a dilemma, because it's not a dilemma, but I am...in a...jar of contemplation. Or something.

This morning I got an email soliciting me as an author to pitch a Young Adult novel to a professional publisher (reputable; they linked, I checked). It's not something I was looking into -- I simply came to the attention of the publisher and they asked if I'd consider making a pitch. Which, even if it goes nowhere, is pretty flattering.

There's a lot involved in considering this. I never really read YA lit when I was the age it was aimed at; I went pretty much straight from children's lit to "grownup" books, though I encountered a few on occasion. I've read many more as an adult, but as an adult I'm not reading them for the same reasons I would as a young person -- Harry Potter, for example, was something I read to get a brain-break from my undergrad thesis.

I do want to make a pitch, but it all comes down to whether I can create a story that a) I want to write and b) someone else wants to publish. That's not a self-esteem thing, it's merely a consideration of the fact that writing for the YA age-group is REALLY HARD. Also, making up plots can be troublesome. Most of mine whap me in the back of the head, it's not like I go panning for them in the Secret Book Ideas Mine.

You know what I'd really like to write? I'd like to write some enjoyable trashy scifi that kids will have fun reading. Something with robots. I'm not in it for a Newbery. I'm in it for the robots. :D