One of my coworker's called the number and some guy named Adrian answered.

At Bell Labs, there was one G. R. Emlin who had an office (actually a common area), a mail drop, and who did made it into the company directory. I'm not sure if he had any papers published, though.

I think that there is no way to make Edward more attractive than Col. Brandon. The Col. Brandon character is just more attractive.

I really don't like either of the matrimonial choices from S&S. Edward is so passive, and Col. Brandon apparently falls in love with Marianne, who's almost young enough to be his daughter, because she's so much like his childhood sweetheart. Ick. If I were to marry an Austen man, Capt. Wentworth would be my first choice, then Henry Tilney, then Mr. Darcy. The S&S men would be just behind Mr. Knightley, but preferable to Edmund Bertram.

And I always loathed the sensibility side of Sense and Sensibility, because it seemed like the whole mess could have been avoided if only Young Miss Dashwood had read any other Jane Austen novel evar.

Well, S&S was the first one Austen wrote....

Well, S&S was the first one Austen wrote....

P&P was the first one she wrote according to Flirting with Pride & Prejudice. It was just one of the later to be published.

If I were to marry an Austen man, Capt. Wentworth would be my first choice

Colour me shocked.

Captain Wentworth is pretty awesome, and breaks the trend of "bad guys whose names start with W."

Captain Wentworth is pretty awesome, and breaks the trend of "bad guys whose names start with W."

Maybe that's why her family was so against him! "You must not marry him, or any other man whose name starts with "W". It always turns out badly. Trust us, we've seen it before."

I had a dream last night that was like watching a movie unfold: Sean Maher in police custody trying to explain to Samuel Jackson why he'd left his girlfriend stranded in South Carolina and driven cross-country to Vegas in a stolen car with a trunk full of drugs.

Work vent: I sent you the chemical inventory when you asked for it. A month later, I had a box of chemicals no longer needed taken for recycling. You asked for our recycling record. So I sent it to you, with an updated inventory, clearly showing that chemicals have been removed, per the recycling record attached.

So do not email me something that sounds mildly accusatory asking why the chemical inventory is missing chemicals. Check against the recycling list, jackhole. It clearly shows that those chemicals have been removed in accordance with CalEpa standards.

Please do not to be making my job any more complex. I have abstract submissions to log for my symposium. I have to research County chemical laws. I have to fill out a 15 page "short form" to be in compliance with LA County's unified program for hazardous chemical storage. I have to make flight arrangments for a conference in May. YOU ARE MAKING MY JOB HARDER THAN IT ALREADY IS.

I had a dream last night that I was sitting next to Ellen Degeneres (I forget where and why). She was amazingly witty in her conversation, sorta' like how I imagine Oscar Wilde was.

Afterwards, I was thinking how awesome that was.

The dream was probably inspired by seeing Ellen on the cover of EW....

Oh, and I wish I could remember some of the witty things she said. (Odds are my waking self would find them less witty.)