So this is an awesome, exciting, incredible day, and I want to say something to this year's first-time nominees:

It's okay to be sad.

You have just received a huge honor, and whether or not you're ever nominated again, you only get nominated for the first time ONCE. And it may feel petty to complain that you're not going to get a big party with canapes and champagne and pretty dresses.

And hell, it IS petty, when the other choice is killing people by gathering in a large group. But something has been stolen from you by circumstance, and it's totally okay and understandable and NORMAL to be sad about that.

This is your year. It's my year too, but it's not my first time, and I'm still a little sad that I'll be wearing my pretty dress alone in the swamp and not in a big fancy ballroom with all of you. (Only a little sad. I like swamps better than soirees.)

So if you feel sad, or angry, or conflicted, you can tell me, and I won't judge you or say that people are dying and you're being petty, because you're not. You're being a person who got robbed, and did nothing to deserve it.