I skipped just to call Drew Mr. Freak. How's that for respect?

I'm making a new tag.

~ma to Fiona and beth's MIL.

Still at work but I do have yellow pear tomatoes and a huge cucumber from my co-worker's garden. YUM!

Crush!girl wants advice. I have no advice to give her. Hence, I come to the Bitches for advice, mixed with commentary on my own situation.

She stupidly agreed to go on a date with a friend of a friend of a friend (yes, literally) after he saw her at a party and pursued her with gusto (now why don't I have that kind of balls?). However, the first time they spoke on the phone, pre-date, he apparently was so incredibly boring that she wanted nothing more than to get OFF said phone.

Now she wishes to know how to escape from a first date that she senses will be a disaster with a minimum of hurt feelings on her part, while also making it clear that it's not a date that should be rescheduled and poor smitten random boy should just drop it and move on.

She suggested the possibility of lying, saying "I'm dating somebody else." I have considered that this may have been a hint to me to get off my ass and ask her out, but must discard it based on body language. Thus, I was forced to suggest that making up an outright lie was probably a dangerous route.

Any other suggestions? Make me look smart, people! Make me look resourceful! While you're at it, make me look like James Dean!

I don't know what an AD is

Me neither. Or at least - I read it as Sean being Alexis Denisof for a bit, but I suspect that this may not be what he meant.

Is it maybe Assistant Director?

Yes. AD in this case meant Assistant Director, which is the guy who has to herd cats wrangle the movie shoot day to day. Keeping everybody focused, on track, and moving. It's surprising how quickly even people who want to make a movie will succumb to inertia, which brings the whole production grinding to a halt.

The AD also makes up the schedules and call sheets, and reports to production about how the shoot is progressing each day.

Any other suggestions? Make me look smart, people! Make me look resourceful! While you're at it, make me look like James Dean!

Ask her out on a date, and add that if she accepts, then it will be technically true that she is dating someone.

The first AD on a film is very similar to a Stage Manager in theatre in my experience.

Ask her out on a date, and add that if she accepts, then it will be technically true that she is dating someone.

I'm enjoying this conversation far too much to risk it at this juncture. Your idea is noted, however.

Fortune favors the brave, David.

The first AD on a film is very similar to a Stage Manager in theatre in my experience.

Oh yeah. There's lots of similarities.

So how's the weekend been going Sean? I'm just trying to say ahead of the heat.