California Dreaming

I'm sorry to say that today is my last post for Dinner: A Love Story. This is because I visited Pixar Studios yesterday (the whole family did, actually) and if you were me, and got to see where and how these people work, you would drop everything to figure out a way that you could become a Pixar employee right exactly now. So I'm outta here -- blogs and books and readings and this crazy nice review be damned! There will be a lot more on why we were at Pixar later (it's pretty cool) but for now, I'd just like you to take in the lobby of building, where, yes, we saw staffers on scooters, ate from the legendary free cereal bar ("The idea is that we're all just grown-up kids," explained one staffer), and around every corner, ran into a familiar friendly face like Woody, Buzz, Mike, Sully, Remi, Merida, and Wall-E . We didn't doubt they were real for one second. We never have, actually.

If you are in San Francisco this weekend, please stop by my reading at Omnivore Books at 3:00 on Saturday, July 28. I'd love to say hello.

Have a great weekend.

P.S. You know I'm kidding about quitting, right?