Planet Janet in Orbit Hardcover - 2005

Excerpt

TUESDAY 7 AUGUST

The more I think about it, the more I realize that Ethan choosing Disha is the best thing that could have happened. I'm really v lucky. It's an ENORMOUS relief to have seen the real Ethan before it was too late. (Look how long it took the MC to see the real Sigmund!) I mean, aside from the lack of chemistry (which everyone knows is CRUCIAL to a real relationship), it would never've worked between us. He's not at all artistic or creative, for one thing - which is something that's v important to me. And for another, he doesn't really have an active sense of humor. He laughs at my jokes, of course (only my parents don't), but he never really makes any of his own. And today, instead of being STUNNED by his eat-your-heart-out-Keanu-Reeves good looks, I noticed he has hair on his earlobes (how gross is that?). Gave him Disha's number, and by the time I got home, he'd already rung her and made a date! I reckoned he must've called on his mobe from the gents', since Saduki DOES NOT ALLOW personal phone calls on the Durango phone. I said, "It's not v romantic, ringing someone from a urinal, is it?" Dish said, "Maybe he was standing at the sink."

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PLANET JANET IN ORBIT by Dyan Sheldon. Copyright (c) 2005 by Dyan Sheldon. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.