I want dessert. Despite having had a decadent chocolate cupcake (tangible payoff for hanging around chatting this afternoon), I still want dessert. I want something hot and sweet. Like apple rhubarb crumble.

This is pretty useless.

Why can't I have cravings with more likely payoffs?

Heist totally blew up one of the emo kids from North Shore. I like the pilot. I'ma stick around.

Sophia, stop thinking of yourself as old. Prefer instead to think of yourself as valuable.

Imagine calling me Bluebelle. You see my problem?

Yeah. The shit-scaring thing would be much harder then.

plop. me. bed. sleep.

TWW: Poor Donna. Next campaign, she should make someone else be the Bearer of Bad News to Josh.

Sophia, stop thinking of yourself as old. Prefer instead to think of yourself as valuable.

good advice form ita... In theatre yearsm 32 seems impossable for starting out. but this is not necessarily true, as my boss at the opera got tapped to be the costume supervisor for General Hospital at 42 (and she won an emmy!)

Dougray Scott's accent in Heist is really cool. Surely wouldn't peg him as a foreigner.

You wouldn't? I've never heard him speak his natural accent, and yet I said to myself, Self, this guy is as Scottish a Scotsman as ever failed to wear underwear on a blowy day. His vowels wandered from Edinburgh to the Hebrides, with occasional detours to stereotypical Brooklynese.

I didn't read the Strega Nona books when I was little, either. But I did grow up under the vague impression that "strega" was Italian for "grandma."

Woof. Where did my weekend go? Baseball, bicycle fenders, and fanfic.

Okay, there have been worse weekends.

Also, have just discovered that baaaing at kitty like a lamb causes him to stop biting my ankles.

but this is not necessarily true, as my boss at the opera got tapped to be the costume supervisor for General Hospital at 42 (and she won an emmy!)

Does she have a staff there? I'm just saying. You already have Connections!

Crap -- I accidentally got into the OMG-I-should-be-asleep-already place, so now I'm nervous, and even less likely to sleep. Bah. Will lie in bed anyway.

Dougray sounds like a mess of stuff right now, but no, I'd not have pegged him as Scottish.

I loved the Steve McQueen lookalike moment--I'm assuming that was a Thomas Crowne shoutout.

Sophia that is great! And you are NOT old.

Bradley Whitford is not only married, they are friends of a friend.

You must be as untemptable as a 38th-level sage. Water water all around and not a drop to drink...

I am mad at myself because I eventually had a nap. I don't have little naps. A nap lasts a sleep cycle for me which means 3 hours. I really needed to do more telecommute work today and I don't have enough hours left to do it in plus I'd rather be doing other stuff. This "work at home" stuff might be hard to manage.