THE AWL: When you recognize people do you approach them, or have you?

MCALEER: When I worked at Defamer I carried a camera in my purse, and I would always stop and say hi to people if I recognized them. But 9 times out of 10 I don't, because I've just learned that people don't want to hear it, it's better just to let them eat their lunch. I certainly am not going to go bother Sarah Silverman when she's eating her lunch. That's not worth it to her. But I take into account who the person is. If I see another blogger out on the street, I always say hi, because they're never going to get tired of it, and it is kind of a thankless job.

THE AWL: Do people recognize you on the street?

MCALEER: Oh yeah, definitely. I was home at a restaurant in Boston over Christmas and I overheard a guy say to his girlfriend, hey, that's Molly McAleer. I was like wow! Yeah it is Molly McAleer! And I'm so uncool about it. I'm like, oh my gosh, you're my fan! Want to hang out? I always invite people to hang out when they recognize me. I don't think Julia Roberts does that. I'm like, come meet my friend! Come over to my house! Come meet my dog!

THE AWL: Are you caught up with all the movies that are out?

MCALEER: I don't watch movies really. I do see some of them. I kind of had to watch Julie and Julia-I don't know if you can hear the tone of regret in my voice or not-because you know, she's a blogger, so I had to do that. I always want to see documentaries; that's my kind of movie. I don't like to get lost in a world of fantasy. I space out after two minutes and then spend the rest of the time sitting in the dark freaking out about my life. Plus if you want to go to the Arclight or something it's $14! Who can afford that? It's kind of a miracle that I worked at Defamer and didn't see a movie that entire year.

THE AWL: Do you read?

MCALEER: Yeah, I read everyday, not necessarily novels, though I have a bunch lying around. I read the news for sure and blogs, and I do read books, but I'm not a super avid reader. I would say my interests really lie with the internet, sadly enough.

THE AWL: What are the first sites you read everyday?

MCALEER: The first thing I do is I check my Tumblr, to see who is saying what on Tumblr, which is pathetic. I like Tumblr, but I kind of hate it, too. I hate the social networking aspect of it. And then I usually head to MovieLine, and I still check Gawker because it is what it is; it's a site that I read before I worked there and that I will continue to read. And then I don't know, let me check my RSS. I usually just thumb through and see what pops up. I always check CNN of course so I'm not totally out of the loop if another 9/11 has happened. And then, oh, I love Dooce, too. Is it totally lame to say that I have a catalogue of mommy blogs that I read? And some of them aren't even at all popular. There's one that I read all the time of this woman, I think she might be in Oregon, and she just writes about her adopted kid and for some reason it kind of compels me. And I guess that comes back to the documentary thing for me; I just love reading about other people and their lives, which I guess is how I have the presumption of assuming people will give a shit about what I have to say. Because I care about what other people have to say.

THE AWL: I see that you're in the Twitter Book.

MCALEER: Yeah, when they asked me they could use this one they picked out, I was like, uh, okay, that's far from the funniest thing I've ever written on Twitter. But I'd rather be in the book than not in the book.

THE AWL: Has anything you've done been what you'd consider a big break yet, or are you still waiting for that?

MCALEER: I'll know when it happens. I've had a couple kind of surreal experiences that have come from work that I've done. It was a pretty big deal when Justine Bateman emailed me and told me that she wanted to meet with me. I didn't think it was the actual Justine Bateman, I just thought it was some person with the same name. I really didn't think the actual Justine Bateman would show up for lunch that day. But it was her. I've had a couple moments that have been like wow, if I'm not there yet, I'm on the track to being here. And I do believe that I'm about to blow up. In my own head, secretly, I'm constantly on the verge of having something huge happen. But I haven't landed a pilot yet or been cast in a movie yet or gotten to be on The View yet, which is the height of fame in my mind.

THE AWL: Do you have a preference on which direction it would go? TV personality or actress or something else? Or do you just want to do anything and everything?

MCALEER: I'm very careful not to refer to myself as anything, because I don't want to box myself in like that. The second I call myself a writer or an actress or a comedian or an online personality or whatever else, the second I call myself that, I am going to be that. So I just say that I'm myself, and I'm figuring it out. And that's the truth. There could be the most perfect talk show ever that comes along for me to host, or I could land the pilot of my dreams, and I work for all of it. So it's not even like there's a lack of direction. There's just a lot of tunnels with a little bit of light at the end of each one of them in my life right now, and I'm kind of striving for all of them at the same time.

Previously: Greg Karais, Yukon Enthusiast and Publisher of Four Profitable Magazines with Wily Business Models and a 20-Hour Workweek

Logan Sachon is a writer in Portland (Oregon).