Happy Birthday Emmett!

Sounds like a great birthday.

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What did you end up wearing, Allyson?

Dark blue jeans, a black poet blouse and satin chinese slippers with little pink flowers stitched on them.

And an orange sparkly flower in my hair.

I felt okay. Some of the fans dressed up in, er, costume, and I think maybe that was silly. It was silly. I'm not going to waffle about it.

Cutest moment was when a fellow fan whispered in my ear, "Allyson, you've been to these sorts of Hollywood things before, right?"

I said yes.

She said, "Are there always a group of half naked blond women giggling and flirting and trying to get attention from anyone in the business?"

I said yes.

She said, "I saw two men holding hands. That's the way it should be, like no one should care about it, but I've never seen it happen."

I smiled and said yes.

I would have sat with her the whole time. She was just sort of quietly watching everything and taking it all in, and had the best things to say.

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Aww, Nutty, I went to that article thinking I was going to read about baseball players actually throwing each other under buses. Now I will mope.

Dear Hec, while Emmett is undoubtedly the best 9 near old evah, aren't you worried about spoiling him? Signed, didn't get a shuffle and a bike for MY birthday, damn it.

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and I'm not sure if something was wrong with the pill, since it seemed smaller than usual (blister pack you basically have to lick the quick-dissolving pill out of)

I took that one once. Maxalt? Orange thingy?

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Some of the fans dressed up in, er, costume, and I think maybe that was silly.

FTR, my coat was RED, not brown.

"Are there always a group of half naked blond women giggling and flirting and trying to get attention from anyone in the business?"

Welcome to LA...

FTR, I was neither half-naked nor giggling.

I took that one once. Maxalt? Orange thingy?

Mine's white, but yeah, Maxalt. It works more often than Imitrex, though less thoroughly.

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thinking I was going to read about baseball players actually throwing each other under buses.

No, that would be Carl Everett. t /insider Red Sox joke circa 2001

I tend to buy myself presents for my birthday. Like, a computer! Which, in the process of stockign with software, I discovered that I could download iTunes for free. In fact, I had to, because it was bundled in with Quicktime.

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It is to whoa. Rafael Palmeiro attempted to throw his teammate Miguel Tejada under the bus. And failed.

Oh. A metaphorical bus. Maybe I can get my jaw off the floor now, if not completely closed.

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No, that would be Carl Everett.

*snerk*

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Polish typists must be the most nimble in the world. Typing names like Rodziewiczowna and Przybysz all the time could only make you very dexterous.

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You would really really be surprised. I'm no nimble typist -- as anyone who has been on AIM with me can attest -- but, given the motivation, I can spell Yastrzemski corerctly nine times out of ten.

Coach K from Duke, NSM, but I'm not a basketball fan.

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