One thing I learned today is to never, ever let your friends use your computer. Of course, I learn and re-learn this all the time as they tend to have very sweet eyes and beguiling smiles and ways of saying "Pwease?!" that are very hard to overcome.
The second thing I learned is that if you have a parade, someone will come by and rain on it.
The third thing I learned is that while Helium is a great site in some respects, it has certain drawbacks. Like, if your friend uses your computer and manages to save his article that he's writing about you over your article that you are saving about someone else, for instance; and then he goes on to assume you left him logged in and he reposts the same thing you just accidentally posted: there is no deleting articles on Helium, no matter what!
I tried to fix my mistake by pressing the "leapfrog" action. But so far no one has decided that my review of the other author's poetry fits better in the category than my friends review (the accident I posted) of my poetry does! This is strange as the category is Assessing poet Millery Polyne
Since no one has decided that, fortunately, that means my friends mistake has been rejected as duplicate article, it appears. But that also means that he cannot log in and post it on his account.
The fourth thing that I learned is that my friend is a twonk who is all pissy now at Helium and me. lol But, since he did write me a killer review for my book, I can't stay too mad at him, even if it was embarrasing and sort of 'Twlight Zone'ish this morning when the first mistake was pointed out to me by someone on here who thought I had reviewed my own book.
Very embarrasing: 
I am glad she caught the mistake before it became part of a press release or something, though lol
So the fifth thing that I learned is that someone who says they will never read or respond to my posts, really does.. and sometimes she does it in a way that I'm very grateful for, in the long run.
Since nothing else could be done to fix the problem, until I get help from the Helium Help peoples, we decided on the simple solution so people wouldn't think I wrote my own review: we changed the pen name to his name.
So now it, very rightly, says that Thomas wrote the review of my book. Unfortunatley that also means it says he wrote two of my poems and, hopefully by tomorrow, will say he wrote an article that assessed the poet Millery Polyne. 
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