i only really know of you from The Central Review reading last fall (i looked up your name just now through that), but it seems like i see you everywhere. but reading your entries in here makes me wonder how on earth it is that we have not already been friends for some time (although i'm not sure you would be able to tell this from the smattering of entries in this, my newest lj...sadly, many previous, more revealing attempts, including myspace blogs, have undergone deletion or privatization at some point or another due to a number of extenuating circumstances.)