It's usually dry.
Too cool, Allyson. That's awesome. I love when that fills up.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lori - Jan 10, 2005 1:36:20 pm PST #4481 of 10002
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 10, 2005 1:45:54 pm PST #4482 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Matt, what is it with these folks. Last year was the year they tried to work you to death. This year is the year they're trying to annoy you to death. You poor guy.
Ugh. If not for the fact that I'm being reassured that I do good work at every step, I'd be seriously concerned about my future here. It seems like the new policy is to require employees to justify and second-guess every decision they make and ask permission before doing anything, no matter how routine or insignificant. And in this particular case, I was sending a weekly accounting of hours billed to the person now questioning everything—there was no question raised at the time it was going on or in the several months following.
If I hear one word about the possibility of random drug testing, I will take it as a sign to update my resume and start casting feelers about.
Astarte - Jan 10, 2005 1:46:56 pm PST #4483 of 10002
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
While I've not been terribly impressed by Ms. Barton in any way, I have to say I'm with Robin in feeling that I'd have been a wee bit nonplussed in the same circumstances.
Definitely her loss, but not particularly bitchy, imo.
Jesse - Jan 10, 2005 1:50:15 pm PST #4484 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Woah, Allyson, those pictures are amazing.
As an aside, I am ALWAYS coming back on Saturday after a vacation. None of this straight to work crap. Lazing around yesterday was so incredibly wonderful.
That is awesome. It just calls for taking enough time off at once. It doesn't really work with, say, a long weekend....
shrift - Jan 10, 2005 1:53:54 pm PST #4485 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I had no celebrity sightings over Christmas, but then again, I didn't exactly leave Michigan.
I did find out one of my cousins was taking up modeling professionally, though.
Stephanie - Jan 10, 2005 2:03:23 pm PST #4486 of 10002
Trust my rage
But if you are a famous person, you should expect slightly unusual reactions from strangers. 15 seconds of friendliness can go a long way - especially when you are a sort of B-list star and not Angelina Jolie or something.
DXMachina - Jan 10, 2005 2:06:18 pm PST #4487 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Maybe she was having a bad day.
Scrappy - Jan 10, 2005 2:07:03 pm PST #4488 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think Ms. Barton would have enjoy talking to P-C, so it's her loss. I would also guess that P-C, being a nice fellow, has no idea how much stalky stuff most women deal with on a regular basis and how gunshy it makes us. When I used to teach sex-ed, I would ask how many of the students (this was 8th graders) had been followed or propositioned in a creepy way. Every time ALL the girls raised their hands, while none of the boys did. And this was 13-year-olds. By the time most women get to be 21, they have a long list of events like guys following them through malls or rubbing against them in movie theaters or staring at them across a library or other creepy stuff. Makes us hyperaware.
Allyson - Jan 10, 2005 2:10:07 pm PST #4489 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
By the time I was 13, so many men had pulled their penises out of their pants when I was doing my paper route, that it didn't mean anything anymore. It wasn't scary or weird after awhile. It wasn't until I was much older that I realized how sick it was.
I was just always like, "ew."
P.M. Marc - Jan 10, 2005 2:13:14 pm PST #4490 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
By the time most women get to be 21, they have a long list of events like guys following them through malls or rubbing against them in movie theaters or staring at them across a library or other creepy stuff. Makes us hyperaware.
Oh, hell yeah.
Damn it, I had something else to say, but now I forgot.