That is exactly what I am in and it is the best. A very nice thing happened to me this week, a thing I did not see coming in the slightest, and I am so rattled by it. I’m actually scared of what the bad thing that is coming will be. Because something bad is always coming, and I am trying to will one into arriving early so I don’t have to feel happy about being nominated for a Daytime Emmy for outstanding writing on a kids’ show (the category is very weird).

Hold on, let me check my spectacularly ugly Instagram post, that I fucked up while posting. The Emmy is for “Outstanding Writing for a Live Action Preschool or Children’s Program.” That sounds so important!

I wrote two bits for Sesame. The first was an Elmo’s World about machines. I don’t remember it at all but I wrote it at my mother’s house in the basement. The second I really liked. It was an Abby animated segment about rescuing turtles. Here’s what’s fun about rescuing turtles: when you pull them off the beach where they are frozen and slow-moving and trapped because they get lost and can’t get to the warm waters and, as turtles are cold-blooded folks, they can’t take it when winter comes. I think we forget that about turtles because we see the shell and we think (I think), “you’ve got a sweater on, you’ll be fine.”

But no! They are cold blooded and there is no sweater! So when you pull these dudes in, you have to put them in a cold pool first, so they warm up to a… medium pool.. and they warm up to a.. Florida-temperature pool, and then you drive them to Florida in your car and let them go. I would watch an animated sequence about that road trip.

So that’s what happened in my Abby sequence, and I made like two jokes. I was proud of that one. Calvin just came in and suggested I watch the sequence on YouTube, and I one-upped him and declared I was going to find it on the gosh-darn YouTube and post it here. Like a boss!

I can’t find the clips but I think they exist

Tomorrow I’ll explain why I put the Sesame segments out of my mind. I just cannot tonight.