I'm up for the 'Best British or Irish Weblog in the Entire World' Award 2006. Which is just as well, because I don't live in any of the other places which are having awards, like 'latin america', 'teen' or 'craft'. Woo! Please vote for me.
I'm up against four other top 'British or Irish' bloggers, none of whom are actually Irish. Some of them even write proper posts about their lives and what they do and stuff. There's a blog by an international collective who write even more about London than I do, and a blog packed with cartoons which must one day become a successful range of greetings cards, and a really chatty blog with a dead clever nautical background but which isn't actually about sailing, and a blog from an eloquent high-heeled sex fiend who isn't the one the Guardian launched, and they're all GREAT. But please vote for me.
And the prizes are great too, because I might possibly win a guide to punctuation and a painting and a book which was recently for sale on ebay for 1p. But it's not the prizes which matter, it's the acclaim of being voted for by thousands of random Americans who've never read my page before. Hello Wyoming!!! I'm sure all of my new transatlantic visitors will come back and become regular readers, even if I don't write about President Bush and kittens all the time, because I'm a finalist I am. And I hope you'll vote for me too. (Damn and curses, I can't believe I wasted all of last week writing about obscure London backstreets. How could I have been so selfless?)
The Bloggies are fab because you get to discover lots of other global blogs which you might never have spotted before. I mean, there's one in America called Slashdot which is all techy and geeky and looks pretty up and coming. And there's one in America called Dooce which is written by a caring mother who only has ten adverts on her front page. And there's one in America called Stuff On My Cat which is full of heavily-laden kittens, but then you've probably had that one blogrolled for years.
There must be thousands of blogs in Britain, so it's well great to get into the absolute genuine certificated Top 5. So thanks to everyone who nominated me in the first place without being asked. Like, thanks. And thanks to the random anonymous selection of worldwide balloteers who picked out my blog from the shortlist. I'm well chuffed. And thanks to you if you've been over to 2006.bloggies.com and found my blog in the big long list and clicked in the little circle next to it and entered your email address and voted for me. I feel so validated!!
Except, hmm, it turns out that Bloggie voting has been open since Monday of last week! So hurry up and get over there and vote-for-me vote-for-me vote-for-me before the closing deadline. Which is... <checks> DAMN! Which was yesterday. Bugger.
Oh. My. God.
Oh. My. God.