Mundane secrets of the YA-YA authorhood

Here is a troll for my kid-lit friends: What defines a young-adult (or even childrens') novel? I mean, what makes a given work of fiction YA versus, er, "grown-up"? Is it just a matter of PG-13-or-lower content with (usually) young central characters?

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Someone else would have to go and rent the cool apartment nobody wanted the day after I looked at it and really liked it. I wish I hadn't asked about the parking now, which prompted the realtor to say he'd get back to me Monday, which would end up being a day too late. Grr grr grr.

OTOH this frees me up to widen my search. I feel I should make a little effort to look at apartments available near my workplace. This would put me some distance apart my friends again -- but no longer than a subway ride, and the sad truth is that I do spend more time at work than I do with friends. Deedle dee. We'll see. I like pie. Today is also the day when I'll ask my boss about the voracity (yumma yum yum) of the rumors about our group's relocation north of the river. Cuz if I moved south and my job moved north, do you suppose I'd ever stop crying?


Update: Boss says "anything's possible", but it has no chance of happening over the next year. After that, the decision is up to our tyrannical overlords whether or not to geographically consolidate all the informatics-flavored groups under one roof at Kendall. At any rate, it's too vague to rule out the possibility of moving to Boston proper. So.

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Boss has instructed me to spend a couple of afternoons poring over recent issues of a certain journal. I have located the Harvard library that holds them, but it closes daily at five, except on weekends, when it closes forever!!! until Monday. My afternoons begin at, like, 7 p.m., so how lame is that? Meh meh meh. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow "morning" instead.

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The Escherian header image of the Chemistry & Chemical Biology webiste is pretty cool.