And then this happened

So there I was, sitting next to my good friend Weerd Beard at the GRPC awards luncheon. I recognized a lot of the names that were being called, and I with a mild case of envy I typed this:




Literally the next moment after I hit "enter", my name was called.

Weerd can attest that my head snapped up at I said "what.". Not "What?" or "What!" but a flat "what" of disbelief. Not surprise or excitement, but "This can't possibly be happening. Can it?"

It could.

Erin Palette, Defender of Liberty 2018. 

My gob, it is smacked.

Erin babbles incoherently, surrounded by friends