Nerd Girl - The Jonathan Carroll episode
To clarify, Nerd Girl is not the same as She Geek. Although in the Trivial Pursuit foxhole, you’d want one or both of them with you.
Today I am nerding out on all the authors who have e-mailed me this last week. Bill Scheft, Jonathan Carroll and Kevin Sampsell have all given me their attention this week and I cannot tell how darling this makes me feel.
Mr. Carroll was a huge surprise. I loved The Ghost in Love. Loved it the way I love Adien Brody and Chris Robinson and Keith Olbermann. I didn’t think the brief review I gave it here and on Minnesota Reads quite did it justice, since in reality I could talk about that book for hours. Mr. Carroll’s comment floored me. IT FLOORED ME! And here is what is so… ethereal…about it; I was awake at the time. It seems like it was meant to be. Mr. Carroll resides in Vienna, so there is an eight hour time difference. It was damn near three in the morning here. The Buns staged a coup around 12:30 AM that night and didn’t calm down until well after 2AM. I was so overly tired and jazzed from the whole ordeal that I clicked into Netflix’s free streaming and watched an episode of Lost. So while I’m swooning over Sawyer I get the little blip of a new e-mail. And I just couldn’t believe it!
Jonathan Carroll’s writing resonated with me on so many inexplicable levels. I only wish that everyone, everyone! connects with such an author. I wish for everyone that there is some author or musician out there that “gets” you. Not that you get them, but that they speak to your heart and soul on such a level that it practically makes you weep. That is what Mr. Carroll means to me.
Needless to say that his comment meant to world to me and being the Nerd Girl that I am, I set to constructing a Thank You e-mail at once.
Basically, I thanked Mr. Carroll and then said something to the effect of I wish I’d discovered him sooner, but that I had another one of his books on my night stand. And then I thought about how I was going to frame the e-mail and display it next to my college diploma. Mr. Carroll was kind enough to e-mail me again and suggest a different title with a quick explanation of why I should read the books in the order he suggested. Congratulations Mr. Carroll, you are my new internet boyfriend!
And here is the last thing. The title he suggested is White Apples. So, I click over to B&N.com and type in “White Apples”. And what comes up? Fucking Golden Girls DVD. How funny is that?! I mean, I totally get it - white apples, who WOULDN’T think of The Golden Girls, right?
Yesterday was an amazing day. I told three people who I thought would get what this means to me and they all got it. So I feel really blessed with great friends and family. And I cannot thank Mr. Carroll enough for his kind words and suggestions and for taking the time.
Nerd out!
