Year's Best ToC

Ellen Datlow just posted the Table of Contents for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant.

Which is a fine list of names, which I am proud and inordinately chuffed to find myself among; but the one that made me go "whoo!"? Out loud?

I never, ever thought I'd find myself in any anthology ever with Billy Collins.

*is just absurdly pleased*

I go, I go, see how I go...

Except that I don't, actually, as I have nowhere to go; but I could if I wanted to. I have a passport. Delivered by hand, no less. It says I mustn't put it in the microwave. No, really? Damn... (Happily, of course, I have no microwave; it can sleep safe.)

Also, this is weird: it struck me suddenly, this one's good for ten years, which means that the next one will see me to my pension and beyond. How's that again? Me, who's still struggling to get out of my adolescence...?