Disaster-- pestilence has struck the AtAT compound! Well, okay, actually it's just a cheesy little cold. But given the extremely delicate production schedule dictated by our current circumstances, trust us when we tell you that even the mildest case of the sniffles can completely derail our chewing-gum-and-chicken-wire writing process. Heck, these days something as simple as an usually lumpy bowl of oatmeal could probably blindside us for a week. AtAT: proudly redefining the phrase "half-assed" for the new millennium!

So, given the fact that the whole compound is in a state of mucusy higgledy-piggledy and our intern and resident goddess-in-training is stubbornly refusing to act even vaguely sleepy at the unholy hour of five o'clock in the morning, we figure, hey, what the heck-- she's been here for over six months and she's demonstrated on numerous occasions that she knows how to kick the living bejeezus out of a keyboard, so why not let her write a scene for once? So without further ado, we give you (insert trumpet fanfare here) Anya's First Scene™:

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Uh... yyyyyeah. Well, there you have it, folks; at least one person (small and inexperienced though she may be) appears still to be expecting actual SuperDrives in the upcoming PowerBooks rumored to surface tomorrow, despite the fact that the entire Mac rumor community thinks otherwise. Ah, the wide-eyed naïveté of youth, yeah? Anya's apparent prediction of speeds of 800 MHz and 1 GHz are also slightly on the high side of the watercooler consensus, but it's the SuperDrive prediction that's so darned precious; it's almost like she's asking Santa to bring her one for Christmas. Awwwwww.

Of course, if she actually turns out to be right and the new PowerBooks do come with SuperDrives, well, we're going to have to set up a side business renting her out to the cops as a crime scene psychic or something. And let her at the keyboard more often.