Like funny ha-ha?

Isn’t it strange?

What?

How people think I’m funny now.

Peculiar? Is that bad? You’re always making fun of “normal people.”

No, not funny strange. Funny like a comedian.

You *are* funny. You’ve always been funny.

But nobody used to think so.

Nobody?

Only a few people. The ones I wasn’t afraid to talk to. They always thought I was funny.

Because you are.

Yeah, but why does everyone notice now? They didn’t used to.

I did.

But hardly anyone else did. I have fans now. People I don’t even know think I am funny.

How do strangers even hear what you say?

Twitter. Facebook.

Strangers see you on Facebook?

Well, not total strangers. But they do on Twitter. And people I don’t know very well. Friends of friends. Someone told me I missed my calling.

Writing things on Facebook that people laugh at isn’t exactly a calling.

Not a very good one, anyway. Maybe they are trying to say that I have a small talent in a very small niche area. That knocks a bit of the good feeling out of it. It’s like I’m the patron saint of knick-knacks instead of mercy or something really awesome.

What’s wrong with knick-knacks?

Can we go back and try this conversation again? I really don’t like the way it’s going.

Sure.

Isn’t it strange how many people think I’m funny now?

Not at all. They are all just realizing how wonderful you are! I have always known.

Better. Thanks for humoring me.

What? It’s pure truth. Cross my heart.

I hope you don’t die.

Happy birthday, Charlotte Brönte

Happy birthday to Charlotte Brönte.

If you were still with us, I would thank you for Jane Eyre. She will always be my favorite little, plain heroine. I will always be grateful for her quiet strength, and a little annoyed that St. John was so mean to her.

I wish you had stayed around longer to write more for us, but none of you Brönte sisters were with us for long.

Thanks for all the lovely words!

PS The US Google doesn’t have the Doodle. Only UK Google.

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Going..going..gone

Come and get me
You are letting me get away
Where you won’t be able to reach me
And pull me back to your side

You say I’m always in you
I can’t ever be lost, not really
You don’t have to search for me
You always know where I am.

But come and get me
I’m getting too far from you
If you don’t catch me again
I might slip between your fingers.

You say that there’s no need to
You think I worry too much.
I’m not going anywhere
Maybe you’re too sure of that.

Because there’s only so much
Not talking that I can do
Because there’s only so much silence
One heart and mind can understand.

Please come and get me
I’m getting too far from you
If you don’t catch me again
I might slip between your fingers.

Once it gets to a certain point
I don’t know if I’ll turn around.
I’ll float, I’ll drift, I’ll fly
Going, going, gone away.