Ah, this warms the cockles of my black little heart...

Because I'm a geek like that, I've been following this story for a while. This article makes me a happy Bunneh.

I mean, really.  People bust their fucking asses to write something original, and a plagiarist gets a $500,000 two-novel book deal?  I don't think so.

I think the thing that bugs me most about plagiarists is that they seem to think everyone around them is dumber than a box of rocks.  They insult the intelligence of everyone around them.  I mean, all the way from my students (kids who could barely string together a coherent sentence for in-class writings suddenly compose papers worthy of publication -- riiiiiiiiight) to fanfic plagiarists (copying off other ficcers AND published works -- and they think no one will notice), and now this.

How in the HELL did she think no one would pick up on this?!?!

For that matter -- why hadn't anyone noticed SOONER?

(And, dude, if I were one of her professors, I'd be going through her assignments with a fine-toothed comb.  If you've got balls enough to plagiarize something like The Princess Diaries for a $500,000 book deal, you've got more than enough balls to plagiarize essays and research papers.)

I am so over this.

Right.  Anyone get congested in such a way that you can hear your pulse in your ear?   Because I've got that going on right now, and I've had it for a couple of days now, and it's driving me bugfuck insane.  It's slightly less annoying after taking a decongestant (or blowing my nose), but NOTHING SEEMS TO BE GETTING RID OF IT.

Okay, holding down the artery in my neck does the trick, but somehow I don't see that as a long-term fix.

Help?