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It's been a big week for me. Really big. So much so that I've passed out from the sheer emotional overwhelm the past two nights.

(Couldn't be the Champagne. Nope).

First off I am thrilled to report that as of Friday evening, my very last sock has crossed the threshold of 60 Leroy. I am officially living in sin! Thank goodness my parents are cool with turning the other cheek.

N and I have been redecorating and cleaning like mad, and our goal is to have all of our boxes unpacked in time for a quiet brunch with friends in two weeks. Which seriously means I need to get on the de-boxing thing. Whereas I only just recently learned to run the dishwasher. Trial by fire. And duct tape.

In other huge and exciting news, I've just received confirmation that I will be doing a three-book series (or technically, I should say, the first three books in a series. Clearly it will be an enormo success and will run in perpetuity) with the fine folks at Simon Pulse, via the powerhouse packaging company (and the geniuses behind the NYTimes bestselling Cathy's Book, back in their former lives as editors) FlirtyGirl Productions. It will be a YA private school series with a big old web component, which is what those flirty girls do so well. Interactive is where it's at!

Series title and other fun info are still being hammered out, so watch this space for updates! The first book is set to release in spring '09, so my upcoming dance card is looking full: POPULAR VOTE in fall '08, TRIBE and the new series in spring '09, and the SASS super-special (co-written with N) out sometime in summer '09.

Hmm...suddenly my exhaustion is making so much more sense....

That's ok--that's what coffee is for!

Well I’m not the annoyed librarian. When I’m annoyed here I’ll just, you know, say something. However, some of my friends and close associates are likely or unlikely candidates maybe, or maybe not. [thanks twitter!]

The gig is up. I could tell people were getting close to the truth; last week I received email from unsuspecting friends saying they were tracing Annoyed Librarian, I have a friend who’s an investigative reporter who was poking around, and I didn’t want some Oprah-James-Frey-Nan-Talese-Britney-Paris “Oops, yeah that WAS really me” blowout appearing in American Libraries Direct while I was in Atlanta struggling to stay awake during meetings about some zombie standard.

Yes, I’m the Annoyed Librarian. The clues were right under your nose, if you were looking:

• I’m often unnecessarily negative, particularly about projects and issues that are more complex than may be apparent at first blush… or concepts I didn’t invent. I’m not above cooking up a cutie-pie neologism for my blog faithful to latch on to (e.g, biblioblogosphere/twopointopian… I’ve used “twopointopian” twenty-seven times in my AL blog… and “biblioblogosphere” shows up in 40 posts on this site).
• I beat issues to death with a stick. Library Five-Oh — ha, ha, get it? And poor Michael Gorman: almost two years later and I can’t resist stirring the pot. We have people dying overseas, politicians are lying to us, the polar ice caps are melting, and I ride the same miniature hobbyhorses so hard their poor little shoes fall off.
• I don’t always own my responsibility, like when I said I could post about public libraries without speaking as a librarian, or when I ranted at NASIG for requiring me to submit a paper as well as give a talk.
• It really is about me. All me, all the time. Do, re, me, me, me, me, me. Why else would I blog?

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Ryan Deschamps has an interesting and thoughful post about his impressions of people’s tendency to shift “from a rational criticism of the so-called Library 2.0 movement/manifesto follow[ed by] an irrational trashing of anything having to do with Web 2.0 services and user-centered library services” The dilemma, simply stated, is when you see someone who has a critique of something you care about and are knowledgeable about — could be Library 2.0, could be tech support, could be apple pies — how do you inform or correct their misunderstandings without seeming like a prostyletizer or part of the Apple Pie Bandwagon? Or should you? Anyhow, the original posts that spawned Ryan’s post was over at the Annoyed Librarian. I left a comment.