Terrifying Myself into Action

So you know in my last post how I showed you this poster I made? Well, I've made a whole series of them that I've been posting onto a tumblog to count down the days until The Fault in Our Stars is published.

That's been going on for two or three weeks, but it was pretty scattered at first; I missed several days.

This past week, though, I started posting them more regularly, and by Wednesday I think I had around 30 or 40 followers, which, really, isn't that much in tumblr terms.

That day, in honor of Doctor Who's 48th anniversary, I posted this one:

see on tumblr here

Thursday (Thanksgiving) morning, I checked the site. I suddenly had nearly 300 followers, and that post had quite a lot of love. I was pretty psyched, but I thought it only got the extra attention because of Doctor Who.

SATURDAY MORNING, I checked it again. By now I've gained nearly a hundred more followers, and I, curious, innocently-minded, nonchalantly started looking through the notes on Wednesday's post to see who'd been showing their nerdy pride.

I saw that some people had been reblogging it with new comments suspiciously directed towards John Green, the author of the book (who, for the record, is flippin' amazing.) So I decided to look through John's blog, which I hadn't done in a few weeks, and is always good fun.

Lo and behold, there, still on the very first page, I saw that he had reblogged my post from Wednesday, and seemed to approve. :)

And this is what he said:

This tumblr counts down the days left until the publication of 

The Fault in Our Stars. 

I follow it to TERRIFY MYSELF INTO ACTION.

And so then I started hyperventilating, jumping up and down, and telling my tale to anyone who would listen. 

He (John Green) also seemed to vaguely mention that post in his last video, during which he reads out loud the second chapter of TFiOS, which I am growing more and more excited about every waking second.

And now we're here. And life is good. And I'll have yet another curious story to tell John Green if we ever meet. :)

If you want to count down the days until The Fault in Our Stars is published, you should check out my tumblr!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! One thing, among a great deal of other much more important things, which I am very thankful for is that, with all the modern day technology, it's so easy to interact with people. There are so many things that are available to us that make us more relatable to each other. Like the internet. So many people have access to it, and it's a bond. True, it's not so cool for people to be exactly alike. Clones and droids are only cool in Star Wars. And if we all had access to the exact same set of things and ONLY those things, well, I'd imagine it would be a bit boring. But it is important for us to have things in common, things that make it easier to communicate with each other (things that somehow, radically, keep bringing John Green and me together!?)

The universe is a straaaaange place, but I must say, I grow fonder of it every day.

-rosie:)