Please welcome my first "Dating With the (Literary) Stars" guest blogger, my friend and "Seeker Sister," Camy Tang!
How We Met
By Camy Tang
(names have been changed to protect the guilty--er, innocent)
I was ready to smack the next person who said, "The only thing that feels worse than sunscreen lotion is a sunburn!"
I had gone sailing for the first time on Saturday. Glorious day. The brisk wind tangled in my hair and the sun warmed my skin like a blanket.
Except the sun never left my skin. I dragged myself into church on Sunday, looking like a neon red devil and feeling like I had already drowned in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
After service, I lounged in the empty pew, trying to motivate myself to move despite the pain shrieking on every nerve ending.
"Hey, Camy!" My friend Mr. Cupid bustled up with a heartiness that set off alarms in my head. "Let me introduce my friend Captain Caffeine."
This was not happening. This was a nightmare and I would wake up screaming any moment. Please, God, let Captain Caffeine be old, married and ugly.
No such luck. Captain Caffeine towered above me with a boyishly appealing face, yet having the maturity not to snicker at my skin's radioactive glow. We shook hands, but he handled mine gingerly, as if he felt my pain.
"So, Captain Caffeine, what do you do?"
"I'm an engineer."
Whoa, he must be smart. "I'm a biologist."
"I play volleyball with a friend who's a biologist."
"You play volleyball, too?" Oooh, I love volleyball players. "I just started learning. I love it."
He also played guitar, which bumped him up a notch in my eyes. It was just my luck that he would meet me in this Miss Lobster guise!
Then Captain Caffeine smiled, opened his mouth, and ruined it all. "The only thing that feels worse than sunscreen lotion..."
No, I didn't slug him. Instead, I married him!
Camy Tang is the loud Asian chick who writes loud Asian chick lit. Her debut novel, Sushi for One?, 
released in September 2007, and she runs the Story Sensei critique service. In her spare time, she is a staff worker for her church youth group, and she leads one of the worship teams for Sunday service. On her blog, she gives away Christian novels every Monday and Thursday, and she ponders frivolous things like dumb dogs (namely, hers), coffee-geek husbands (no resemblance to her own...), the writing journey, Asiana, and anything else that comes to mind. Visit her website at http://www.camytang.com/.
Thanks so much for sharing your story with us today, Camy!
Camy, What a wonderful, fun story. Thanks for sharing on Myra's blog. And Captain Caffeine sounds like a terrific catch!
Posted by: Carla | October 13, 2007 at 11:15 AM