I was in the same room with television greatness! After a harrowing towncar ride from LAX to LA (which took me longer than the plane ride from Sacramento -- just to go to one side of town to the other!! How do people live like that?) But I digress. I went to a television comedy writing course at the Director's Guild put on my Act One Programs on the Sunset Strip. (Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup now.) You youngins don't know what I'm talking about, but I had to do that.

Anyway, I learned so much that is essential to comedy and that it can be taught. Fred Rubin (who wrote for Night Court and has taught at USC, and UCLA on television writing) was there, and he was amazing. So was Bud Wiser, who is legendary in his field (wrote for All in the Family). If any of you writers are considering an ACT ONE course, go! The program was so well-run and you really got to be in the same breathing air as these legends who have written for our culture. Amazing!

I left home at 4:15 a.m. and because Southwest Airlines was late, got home at 1 a.m. I did have dinner at the Grove in LA -- which is like another downtown Disney, with a Nordstrom oh and don't let me forget the dancing water -- to Disco every twenty minutes! The food was terrible (Morels), the service worse, but the company was good. My agent Jeana and I had a great time, and hung out in Barnes & Noble, and rearranged the shelf so that "She's All That" was right at eye level and drank a pumpkin spice latte (YUM!). Has anyone had one of those pumpkin spice muffins? If not, do not start, they are totally addictive, and way fattening.

So I'm home now. IN the boring foothills. I'll probably have nothing to report for a good, long time. Kristin