So if any of you are up on Sunday morning and find yourself wishing that instead of nursing that hangover, readying yourselves for your church or simply going another moment without hearing the sound of my sweet, sweet voice - you're in luck.

At 8 a.m. this Sunday I'm going to be on WGN-AM as a guest on Rick Kogan's Sunday Papers show. Tune your radios or Internet streams accordingly.

I'm excited about this for several reasons:

1) It's WGN. For a kid from Joliet, being a guest on a WGN program is as close as it gets to nirvana. We all grew up, in some fashion, listening to this station. I would listen to it every day when I was working in podunk Illinois as a reporter, driving from small town-to-small town.

2) It's another opportunity to talk about Tales From The Scale. The sole purpose for me going on the show is the book, which leads me to the next point ...

3) The host is Rick Kogan and here in Chicago he's one of the city's most respected journalists. I've known who he was since I was a kid. I get teased for my knowledge of the city's reporters but I knew reporters the way other kids knew baseball players. When I got an email from him back in December, saying he loved the book and asked me to be on his show, I thought I was going to plotz.

If this doesn't sell a single copy of Tales, it will still have been worth it to me to have met this guy.

I know 8 a.m. (central standard time, of course) is awfully early but you could always just set your alarm to go off to WGN and start your final day of your weekend with me and Rick and talk about how ridiculous dieting is and whatever else strikes our fancy.

I am going to try and not sound like a freak but there is a chance that I will. And you totally don't want to miss that now, do you?

Posted by Erin at 09:11 PM | filed under: Chicago , Odds and ends

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