Date:         Sat, 7 Dec 1996 12:20:46 -0500
From: Pat Fish <patbell@EROLS.COM>
Subject:      Filler: The Emjays and Fried Chicken

             The Emjay awards from hell have finally been announced.  Not
that the awards were from hell, but finally getting the results was a real
trip.  First, the writers list went kerplooey, then recovered slowly as if
from cancer.  Then there was the problem of the list skirmish with Anthony
Dauer (who I miss, btw, but am convinced he has not left).  Then there were
the tie-breakers.  Finally, the night the results were to be posted, my
buddies at Erols let the POP server go down and I didn't know the results
until THIS MORNING!
       And what interesting results, I must comment.  I had nominated myself
for several categories, in none of which I got one more vote than the one I
cast for my own self.  First, I thought all-around best list member.  I got
at least one vote (mine) in that category.  The winner of the category, I
must add, was undoubtedly the correct one.  I love that Austrailian wolf who
causes me to giggle aloud upon reading each slang missive.
     Then I nominated myself most like to be published, and only because,
bear with me here, that I had, in fact been published, and not because I
necessarily thought I was actually the most likely candidate.  Again, I
received one vote (mine).
     But the categories in which I did place or receive nominations were
ones in which I had not campaigned for or even considered.  I came in second
place for best essayist!  Go figger this!  I announced the results to my
husband who, also surprisingly, nodded his head in agreement.  I didn't even
know I wrote essays!
     And some kind soul (or souls?) nominated me for favorite short story
writer, cause I didn't cast a vote for myself.   One more time, I gotta
say......go figger.

     Now about this fried chicken.  I will tell my buddies at the IRS, when
they undoubtedly audit my 1996 tax return which will claim the cost of my
ISP as business expense, that my writers list is most valuable to me in my
development as a writer, and not to mention the flood of fried chicken
recipies.  They have all been printed out, and as a valuable service to this
list, I will personally test the techniques and report the results.
     I am still waiting for the cornbread recipie.


Pat Fish/Merryland