quilty and i have had a veritable 24 hour adventure. she spent the night. green and flaming liquids were imbibed; several hours of hysterical laughter and sg-perusing followed. sets of venla, charlie, andarete sighed and lusted over. stayed up til 5 am under the hot inquisition lights not talking, keeping secrets locked under collarbones.

i couldn't sleep but lay there shaking with my own racing thoughts. got up at 6:30 to pace the house and mutter to myself.

i slept for two hours before we had to get up for our lion's gate meeting. we dressed in carefully planned professional yet cute outfits (my heels matched my skirt!) and drove over. in the waiting room we were quite giggly and unsophisticatedly dazzled by our surroundings.

the exec was lovely and had AMAZING notes for us on how to lengthen. i am so grateful; she knew exactly what we needed, stuff i hadn't even thought of. so we're gonna lengthen it into a feature, which is what we knew the meeting was about.

the thing is, though, she wants to make our movie.

we walked out of the office and through the parking garage in a dazed way, like alternating between dazed and giggling screaming freakouts with lots of swearing. we drove home on the freeway in this manner for around five hours (terrible traffic) as if we were making the trek across some biblical desert. singing along to "tainted love" and the gaston song and other mix cd awesomeness very loudly. we also had to make stuck-in-traffic cell phone calls to our parents-- my dad was more excited than ever in his life; he said, "i'm happier than if it was me getting a job."

when we got home there was a homemade sign made by my dad on the door. it said:

HOO RAY
welcome home winners!

i'm still reeling.