In the media and sort of related:

I made the local paper, but they misspelled my name. Despite that, a good article – sign your high-school writer up today! Fresh air, sunshine, the ocean, and comic book/mythology creative writing exercises…
http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=101&SubSectionID=329&ArticleID=21140&TM=56653.35

This warms my heart. The rise of girl geeks AND the article name-checks Buffy:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/140457?GT1=43002

(Update: Also in the media, poet Aimee Nez has a post up at the Book Critics Circle blog you should check out:
http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/06/small-press-spotlight-aimee.html)

And congrats to my Mom, who just graduated with her Phd!