Things I love:

Fans and fan mail. Oh my gosh! Thanks you guys. I’ve gotten so many letters from so many potential Gallagher Girls. I love you all, and I’m trying to write back to everyone. If you haven’t gotten a reply yet, sit tight. One’s coming. I promise.

Manual labor. Yep—I know I’m weird. But being a farm girl and all, sometimes you’ve got to step away from the laptop and do some honest work—which I did this weekend. There’s nothing like it to get the juices and the ideas flowing.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban—just because it’s the best Harry Potter book—and one of the best books period—ever!

Getting foreign language copies of my book in the mail! This is even better than getting English versions because when the book’s in Dutch I totally can’t see the typos!

Getting a big box of HyperionTeens.com Frisbees with my book cover on them in the mail. Wow. I’m seriously thinking about coming up with some kind of Frisbee-spinning circus act just so I can use them all.

The X-Men and X-Men movies (even though rabid fans of the comics are supposedly disappointed in this new one, I don’t know any better.)

TiVo. Yeah, it even rocks my world in the summer.

And finally: Sonic Diet Cherry Limeaids--the official drink of summer!

Be good, everybody!

--Ally