I always need people to interpret blind items for me. I'm celebrity-gossip-impaired unless it involves a dude in eyeliner.
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
shrift - Jul 24, 2007 5:44:42 am PDT #9659 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Sue - Jul 24, 2007 5:45:41 am PDT #9660 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Is there an office or meeting room you could borrow for bits of time, Allyson?
shrift - Jul 24, 2007 5:46:21 am PDT #9661 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I don't have a landline.
Can you borrow one from a friend?
Jesse - Jul 24, 2007 5:46:51 am PDT #9662 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do you know anyone with a landline that you could use, Allyson?
Theodosia - Jul 24, 2007 5:49:34 am PDT #9663 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Allyson, could you arrange to borrow a neighbor's? Since they'd be in-calls, it wouldn't cost the neighbor much, and since the call is scheduled, it would be easy to arrange in advance.
FWIW, Interview Guru Guy strongly advised against cellphone-interviews for the same reason as your publicist.
Ailleann - Jul 24, 2007 5:51:12 am PDT #9664 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Can you borrow one from a friend?
Use your lifeline, paperdol!
Allyson - Jul 24, 2007 5:52:08 am PDT #9665 of 10001
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
I'd have to leave work to do that, though. The HR person suggested that I could use the server room phone, and just lock it.
But I'd have to be extra stealthy, even with a sign on the door they'd knock and go, "oh, there's a sign, let me read it out loud and yell inside and ask when she'll be done."
Or, I could be exaggerating. Unsure.
Probably not. DAMN YOU, SCIENTISTS!
Sophia Brooks - Jul 24, 2007 5:53:08 am PDT #9666 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Maybe you could use the humor of the interruptions to publicize your next book about the humor of herding scientists?
Allyson - Jul 24, 2007 5:53:46 am PDT #9667 of 10001
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
Okay. I'm going to stop freaking about it, because it's possible that no one will want to interview me, and so I'm not going to have a heart attack about unhatched chickens.
sarameg - Jul 24, 2007 5:54:00 am PDT #9668 of 10001
I'm glad your work people are on board, even if some of them might barge in cluelessly anyway.