Shrift, Brenda, are we doing the dinner thing? Where?

I'm fucking Matt Damon.

If it weren't for students of mine of Facebook I would put this in my status bar.

Who is the minor celeb on the IE video?

Maybe I could pass for early 30's, but that's not too young to have a child Annabel's age by any standard.

That does seem a bit odd. I mean, even women in their mid 20s with nursery school age kids aren't all that unusual.

Who is the minor celeb on the IE video?

I believe it was Rich Sommer from Mad Men, apparently just randomly in GCT. (If I'm wrong, I'll be embarassed!)

Yeah, I just discovered on Facebook that college friends of mine, a couple that dated all four years and got married a year or so after graduation, have four kids with a fifth on the way. They're fairly conservative religiously, so I had a moment of wondering if they were QuiverFull types, then I realized that they'd been married 15 years or so, so if they'd been breeding nonstop since their wedding, their family would be taking on Duggar proportions by now. And then I just felt old, because I remember that wedding like it was yesterday.

Are you sure that's a better plan than yours?

YES! That sounds fun, if not a little cold. What am I doing tomorrow? snot sucking a reluctant baby and making soup. I can't believe two years ago I had a grown up life with real things to do that included travel and going out and exercise. I'm sure my life will get there again. But it just hasn't yet.

If you marry right out of high school and start having kids right away, you'll have a school-age child by the time you're 25.

Not unusual where I grew up.

Who is the minor celeb on the IE video?

I believe it was Rich Sommer from Mad Men, apparently just randomly in GCT. (If I'm wrong, I'll be embarassed!)

It was, though I have no doubt that he was in on the stunt, even if he was supposed to appear as random.

Well, I think the "too young to have a 4-year-old" thing was a combination of the fact that, gray hairs notwithstanding, I can pass for 5-10 years younger than my actual age, and that I can't think of anyone I know in Seattle who had their first kid before their late 20's. So, if you look at me and think 28 or 29 instead of 37 (and I'm fine with that!), I would be young for a college-educated Seattle woman to have a kid who's older than a baby.

The thing that I just can't wrap my brain around is why people still join. There's the crazy tom cruise shit and the xenu and the clams. Scientology is a laughing stock, isn't it?

Well, yeah, just like intelligent design and spoon-bending and effortless weight-loss and Ponzi schemes. Poor Allyson, you keep expecting people to be rational. Which is a good demonstration of how irrational people are!

I'm more interested in the way Anon groups are forming and sharing tactics and issuing statements and getting permits. It's sort of inspirational. And also sort of scary.

That sounds fun, if not a little cold.

Well, I think my riding buddy may be pussying out. SO I may just be doing a spin class tomorrow instead.

And your plans are totally grown up! In that, responsible for other human lives way.