If you've been following my reviews a little too closely, you'll note that I rated Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me? a star higher than Bossypants. Obviously I deeply love and admire both women and I know that they're not the same person (despite some pretty blatant similarities--they each talk about the childhood practice of making lists to keep in their wallets), but there's always been this elusiveness to Tina Fey. When I was in New York, I followed my mom into a vintage clothing store that I thought was too fancy for us, so I was hesitant about going in. Turns out the shop owner was super friendly and asked me what was in my huge NBC Experience bag that I had carted around all day. We got talking about 30 Rock. She's good friends with the girlfiend of Keith Powell (who plays Toofer on the show) and that led to her mentioning that she heard that Tina Fey kind of hated people. This wasn't exactly, like, a shock to me or anything, but it's weird to hear somebody say that about one of your idols. I told the owner that she really needed to read Bossypants and then we left the shop, but not before I traded business cards with Christine (that was the shop owner's name) because it seemed like the right thing to do. 
 ANYHOW. Mindy Kaling is a lot more accessible than Tina Fey and it shows in this book. In the end, I want to be like Tina Fey, but I want to be friends with Mindy Kaling. She's hysterical and kind of self-absorbed AND she's also wise and an insanely hard worker. For being a comedy writer, she takes her work very seriously. She has lots of strong opinions, most of which are correct. I'm pretty introverted and she's very extroverted, so I don't think we could hang out all the time, but I like to think that we'd call or text each other whenever we saw something funny or when a boy did something stupid. (Note: One of the best chapters in the book is the difference between men and boys. So is the chapter titled "Guys Need To Do Almost Nothing To Be Great," a detailed list of what we can expect from guys. You can find it online and I want to show it to all my guy friends that don't really meet the minimum requirements that she sets forth.) 
 I guess what I'm saying is...Mindy, call me! I promise not to talk about the time that I asked you a question during an OfficeTally chat under my Office-related online moniker and you totally answered. Because that was the SHIZ.