OMG footnotes!

[trinityofone]

I'm feeling very McSweeney's today. I'm writing a section of Chambers that's all e-mails and I thought, "You know what would be better than e-mails? E-mails with footnotes!" Here's my favorite bit, which also illustrates my mad art skillz:

[DATE: Thu, 28 Nov 1997 11:22:22 EST
[FROM: brighttragicthing@yahoo.com
[TO: jafreedman@ffhb.com
[SUBJECT: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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James--

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

ETA: Okay, LJ ate my turkey. Does anyone know how to make it adhere to my spacing?

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Look, I drew you a turkey!

I hope you eat lots of nice food and that your computer gets better!

--Emily


[DATE: Fri, 29 Nov 1997 10:18:47 PST
[FROM: jafreedman@ffhb.com
[TO: brighttragicthing@yahoo.com
[SUBJECT: Don’t quit your day job
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Emily--

You may be a fabulous artist, worshipped in the house of Fields, but your graphic design skills suck. However, if you stand on your head, it looks like a slug vomiting. That’s cool.

We had a pretty good Thanksgiving. Nice and low-key. {2} How was yours?

You can tell Megan and Tess that I miss their cooking.

--James

{2}“Welcome to Denny’s! My name is Sadie and I’ll be your server this evening. Would you like me to tell you about our Thanksgiving specials?”

Well, I amuse myself, and that's what's important, right?

I'm up to 99,821 words, 386 pages. ETA2: 100,763 words. Fuck, yeah. On the one hand, yay. On the other hand...OH MY GOD, THIS BOOK IS NEVER GOING TO END!

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wow. go you!!
It will end! It WILL!