My Squirrel Days: Tales from the Star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Office

by Ellie Kemper

Stephen King say that ideas flitter and flutter about, and he just hopes to be at his typewriter when one passes over.

might be able to do something like that? Because I did. I guess that sometimes it just takes a year of having no real direction or consistent sunlight for the fiery heart to let its passions be known. As it turned

our communication a tad more difficult? Well, yeah. As someone who is frightened of anyone else not being positively delighted at all times, I live in a near-constant state of fear that I have accidentally offended the person with whom I am communicating. Why did she only use a period when advising me to have a good day?

Hmph, I think to myself, sounding out the words of your email. Michelle wrote “lol”—she must be laughing really, REALLY hard right now. The intensity of this laughter is just LEAPING off the page. I get it! I really get it!! “Lol,” man—“lol” forever!

extensive and my verb tenses pristine. Furthermore, while I understood from Footloose that the only true universal language was dance, being able to make myself understood in a foreign language using words in addition to dance moves was a thrilling notion to me.