last night it came to my attention, during a dramatic rereading of this blog entry by matt, that many people had interpreted the burning balcony story to be a situation where i was the helpless damsel and tommy was the savior of the day. one person even went so far as to praise tommy for being the one who came up with "the idea to put the fire out with water." at this point my head exploded, so i need to make it clear: i was the FIRST ONE to start putting the fire out with a glass of water, so that revolutionary solution to that particular problem was mine. i was not standing around, shrieking to the high heavens as tommy valiantly ran back and forth with his heroic bowl of water and saved us all from certain balcony death. let's just be clear here. catherine=brave, resolute putter outer of fires, tommy=catherine's sidekick in this venture.

thus ends my contribution to the promotion of women in the sexist blogosphere.