Internets, hi! I am thrilled that you seem to love the cover of When We Wake as much as I do, for lo, it is beauteous and involves a lady looking like she wants to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and bubblegum was outlawed in the Clean Streets Act of 2103.

(The cover revelation post is here, if you're scratching your head. You can enter to win an ARC!)

At the beginning of the Awesome Week of Goodness, I promised to let you decide how it would conclude, and you collectively picked me writing an Teen Movie Times essay on Easy A. Excellent taste, Internets, but also a lengthy undertaking. I had planned to delay the week's end by one day and provide that essay tomorrow, on my day off from retail job, when it would be still Friday somewhere.

But alas, my day off was usurped, thus:

MY SPEECH AND DRAMA TEACHER WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER: "Mary, can you be the chair for the senior rounds of the debate competition for our annual four-school exchange?"
MY MOTHER: "Of course!"
MY MOTHER: "Wait. Due to a huge and frankly gross build up of wax in my ears as an allergic reaction to some damn thing, I can't really hear at the moment. I imagine that's a problem?"
MSADTWIWAT: "It certainly is if you can't read lips."
MY MOTHER: "I can't. But I can offer up my daughter as a substitute! Would the students be okay with an award-winning author for young adults chairing the debates?"
MSADTWIWAT: "I suppose so. Oh, the junior rounds need a judge, too. Can she do that?"
MY MOTHER: "Sure!"
MSADTWIWAT: "Excellent!"
ME: "I should probably resist people setting me up for things like this, but I am a gigantic debating nerd. And also, apart from the waxy buildup, the conversation above is a complete fabrication. I totally volunteered. Gigantic. Debating. Nerd.

Anyway, I intend to spend tomorrow enjoying smart, articulate teenagers argue about stuff. And I shall therefore not be writing the "Easy A" essay, which will have to wait until my next day off on Tuesday. Just think of it as the Awesome Week of Goodness: Extended!