---
title: 'In Which I Lose My Cool, and Succumb to a Fit of Pique'
date: '2004-07-02T12:43:13-04:00'
permalink: /in-which-i-lose-my-cool-and-succumb-to-a-fit-of-pique/
tags:
    - publishing
---

Ogged finds the country we live in [mighty funny indeed](http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2004_06_27.html#002075), but I’ve just got to say: a world in which one person can slap together a tell-all blog documenting her *way* more tawdry than titillating inside-the-beltway sexual shenanigans, proceed to get fired from her Capitol Hill job, and wind up with [a $300,000 book deal based on a 25-page proposal](http://www.wonkette.com/archives/washingtonienne-done-deal-017090.php), while, hypothetically, another person works two jobs to get through grad school, spends six years first on a dissertation and then on the book drawn therefrom, and spends another two years begging somebody, *anybody*, to please please take pity on her and print a few measly copies of the damn thing — that’s one seriously fucked-up world. Indeed.

(Note to self: More sex. Less theory. It’s the American way.)