How much am I hating that I'm back in Washington? Very much.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Answers

So, give us your side of the skinny. Keep me entertained today.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Yes, Mike, the skinny. And thank you again for writing all those nice things.

Allison, I have to tell you what I heard this morning. I was listening to the college radio station, and they played David Allan Coe's "Long-Haired Redneck." When the song was over, the DJ girl identified the song, and said, "...And I want to dedicate that one to my Daddy, who is my favorite long-haired redneck. I love you, Daddy!"

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh, I'll be writing an entry. Don't you be worrying.

AB and Allison have now seen me look my absolute worst, what with the showerless-ness, unshaved, hat-wearing action on Sunday.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

From the Dear Squishites thread ... where people are trying to talk rg into moving to their city. Insert your own joke here.

Dear Squishites,

I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but rudergirl is coming to Austin. That's it. End of discussion. We're going to live in a van down by the river and hang out with Leslie, the homeless transvestite that lives down near 6th Street.

Leslie for mayor,

Leigha

(and on the Leslie tip: I'm not kidding. The guy exsists, and he ran for mayor last year. He was on one of the Community Access Channels in a hot-pink sequined skirt.)

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

The thing I hate most about Ruder is the way she bitches about Atlanta. Maybe if you didn't live in oh, SMYRNA, you'd realize what a kick ass city you're in. But if you eat at the Fat Boy and spend all your time renting movies from the Ghettowood Video, then of course you'll think there's nothing to do in your city. Stupid.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I KNOW! I mean, yes, I live in Vinings now. But for four years, I lived in kick-ass Decatur, and for two years, I lived in even more kick-ass Virginia-Highlands. Ruder, however, lives behind the video store where Chris doesn't like me to go if I'm alone. In Smyrna. God, she'd be better off in a van down by the river.

By the way, Chris' firm is currently suing the City of Smyrna to keep them from annexing the part of Cobb County where we live into their crappy town. See, the zip code may be Smyrna, but we're Unincorporated Cobb, baby. And most importantly, we're 404. No OTPeople here.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh, sweet, sweet Teri. So in denial.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

We'll just let the law decide, thank you very much.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

But you're physically OUTside the perimeter and I don't think y'all will be 404 much longer. Eric and Mark were telling me about people from the valley who drive to Hollywood or Santa Moncia to get their cell phones so they'll have "good" area codes.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh, no, we are very physically INside the perimeter. 404 Forever.

I'm actually surprised we didn't get 678 - that's the code that nearly all new subdivisions, in and out, get these days.

We made a vow not to leave the perimeter unless we move to DC or Athens.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I love web fares.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I do, too. I just booked one.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

To the San Antone?

Is HYD back?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

HYD! Back up! Now you have to upload the Survivor entry, Al.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I didn't even know!

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Where are all y'all going with these web fares?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh, I booked one for Chris to come up here the first weekend of June. He sent me this frantic e-mail this morning before he had a meeting, telling me to look at them and decide which one of us should use it and when, and, if I wanted to, just go ahead and book one for any weekend in June.

So I did.

For the first weekend.

Which is not on the Two Week Rotation.

Call me a rebel, if you like.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Rebel!

Very exciting stuff.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

oh, so you'll see him like 3 weeks in a row? Very nice. Southwest?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh, no.

I'll see him this weekend, and then two weeks later on Memorial Day weekend. Then the next weekend, which is the first weekend in June.

Then he will probably make me wait like, two months or something and I will kill him.

At some point in the next few weeks, we need to go to Atlanta. As a matter of fact, I wish we could go Memorial Day weekend. There's a web fare right now from Dallas for $159. We'd have to book it by Friday.

Y'all, I just don't know how to find a job in a city I don't live in. I am so stressed out, you wouldn't believe it.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

MATHletes? Ello?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I know everyone's probably already told you this, but people do it all.the.time. It's the beauty of the internet. I see people move in and out of here all the time, going to cities they don't live in and coming from places other than Columbus. My brother just found a job in Chicago through Monster.

What's the longest you and Chris have gone without seeing each other?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Five weeks.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I know people do it, but I think they're all cooler than me, or something. I mean, my resume sucks and I don't know how to make it better and I hate everybody.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Not counting his jag phase, though, right?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Your resume could not possibly suck. I'm a good resume writer builder proofer person. I made both Mo and Sara's much better.

Guess what?! Lucinda. Columbus. June 25. I've been redeemed. And 5 days before my bday. Ah. I am blessed.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

No, the jag phase was longer.

Well, I'll send all of y'all my resume and you can make it excellent.

AB, I'm going to Whole Foods for lunch. Do you want to meet me?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

You are blessed, for sure. Buy your tickets now.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Not on sale yet. But you know I'll be all over it when they are. Ah. So excited.

I just like to say "jag phase."

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Y'all, I'm a mo-ron and just killed my links page.

Just so you know.

But I'm loving my redesign. Anna Beth rocks.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Are you going to change all your pages?

Where you been all day. Did you update?!

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I hope to. I'm catching up on work, but I'm trying.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Seriously. No lie. This girl scares me to death.

"Dear rudergirl,

HOw ab out Washington DC metro area? There's some fine technie goodness out here. Lots of free stuff and MIKE of the Mathletes.

MElissa

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ah. Ah. Whooo. Okay.

Oh, Mike, baby, you need to run far, far away. I take it she didn't get that job in Florida.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

That shite is crazy. CLAZY.

I updated. Don't miss my rhymes at DHAK, either.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Also don't miss that pamie ganked the "what had happened was!" What the hell is she even doing UP this early? Mayn!

Of course, I ripped it off from AB... so... uh, well...

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I know y'all better recognize and not make me the L_L...

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Do you write your own blurbs for DHAK?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Yeah, when I update the site.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I'm here. I just had a terrible lunch. On many levels.

Mike, watch out for Melissa. She's a whack one, indeed.

Allison, I won the best resume award my senior year in college. They gave me a pen.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Ahh, no wonder yours was so good.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

That's a great update.

What's got you so sad, you?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

What? My magic pen? Duncan lost it. I just re-updated my resume to send to Mirant. I really, really want a new job with a nice big company and lots of benefits. Either that, or it's grad school for sure.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Yeah, I helped Sara and Mo, but T helped me, so really you should just go to the source.

Damn, my link to the Sassinator entry is wrong.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Who has Chris talked to in Atlanta? Does he have any good leads?

What about your other friends who live here - what do they have to say?

I don't know what our plans are for Memorial Day weekend, but y'all can definitely use the house if for some reason, we're not here.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I just hastened through the quickest entry ever. Take a look at it and let me know if it sucks before I send out the notify.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

He has a couple of leads - he finds new stuff every day.

My friend Shaun is looking around for us. He knows the director of HR for Emory (the guy who hires all non-academic positions) and he's working that angle for us. Chris applied to two jobs there.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Dear Melissa,

*whispering* Not a big fan of DC, although I am a fan of Mike. Not sure if that balances out, though. Thanks for thinking of me, chickie!

rudergirl

It's the Cult of Mike, y'all.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Lucky me.

Y'all, I got an e-mail from that crushlink site saying someone filled out that they had a crush on me. You can't really find out who it is unless you make a list of your own.

I would write about it, except that I'm sure it's Meloonsa and I don't want to go anywhere near that deserted road far from the highway.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

The whole WORLD is the Cult of Mike.

Berman, it's a good entry. Thanks for not mentioning that I was late picking your ass up at DFW. See, y'all, what had happened, was that his plane was way early and uh, he had been at the airport all alone, and what I had did was not know about it. But I found him.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh, I have ten bucks that says it's Meloonsa.

Or, maybe it's a very nice young lady. But I doubt it. Nice young ladies don't tell someone they like them anonymously through the internet. We're a little more forthright.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Hee. No, Mike, it was me. Someone sent me one and I was just entering every email address I knew, because if you enter like 5, they tell you who it was. But I thought I removed everyone. Oops.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Ha! That's hysterical. And poor Mike thinking that Meloonsa was all lurking behing the USA Today building.

Who is your crush, then, Joh?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Why Hannah! I never knew you cared.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Eric sent it to me because someone sent it to him. That's what we couldn't figure out. All we know is that whoever has the crush on him has 4 or less letters in his or her name.

I told him it was Cal.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Or Huff.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

But wait a sec ... I've gotten one twice. One message Friday, and one Monday.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh reeeeeeeeaaaaally?

Maybe it is Melpoopsa, after all. She totally seems like the kind of freak who would do something like that.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

oh, Mike, weird.

Liked the entry.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Why must I be all L_L today?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I updated. And, I correctly predicted my L_L-ness. I'm an updating L_L, y'all. And I'm so, so tired.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Good God. The mothers over at ParentSoup are arguing about my fried spaghetti recipe. Fuh-reaks.

Al, sorry I missed Whole Foods! Sadness.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

What? That's crazy. Crazy Parent Soup muthas.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

They're "Mothers of October Babies." They're all, "Well, annachao.com's recipe must be DRY! I have one that's WET, and, you know, good! She's "wacky!" How much do I love it that I'm wacky, y'all?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Wacky in a Lucy Ricardo way? That's a fun kind of wacky.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I totally hope it's in a Lucy way, but I think the Ninnies over there were thinking more "weird" than "wacky." They're a little strange they own selves.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

You're wacky in a good way, AB. I swear.

Y'all... is it obnoxious that I can't stop laughing at my Destiny's Child rhymes?

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

You're asking me if it's obnoxious to laugh at one's own jokes?!

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

No. Allison, you no anweer question - why you so down? And if Destiny's Child is what it takes to make you happy, than get down with the bootylicious happiness.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

A'ight, y'all. Out for softball. Hasta manana.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Oh no, you know I laugh at myself every day. Speaking of wacky, here are my search engine hits for today:
prada shoes
meredith pardue
beat up cowboy boots
shit ass
lin chao
shit ass

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

I love it, AB.

T, I am just overwhelmed with fear of screwing up things with Chris and flubbing the move to ATL and not being able to do any of it. It's irrational fear, and I know it.

What bothers me, is that I am normally not like that. I'm prone to depression, yeah, but not this scary, I-can't-move thing. Last night, I literally started crying for no reason. I was just thinking about Chris and started sobbing.

I know y'all haven't known me very long, but that is unprecedented. I'm not that sort of girl at all. Even if I'm sad, that doesn't happen. And I'm not really even sad right now. It's more like worry that's making me do it.

What sucks is, I can't seem to express this when it's happening. Like, before that happened last night, I had talked to Chris for 30 minutes. I was fine. I didn't even have much to say.

I'm afraid I'm going to have a nervous breakdown this weekend, or something, when I'm in SA.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Aw, Al.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Of course it's overwhelming - you're making a major life change, here. You're leaving a place that you've grown to really like and moving to a new place, and while it may be closer to home, it's still new, and there are a lot of things that you need to do to get there.

But you've done this before. You made it to Dallas, and you made it in Dallas. You've got a cute apartment in Park Cities, and all that.

You ca do this. It's big, but you can. And I have no doubt that you'll do it well, and then we can all go see Francine Reed every week.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

And with that, I'm off to learn how to make a Scotch smoked salmon tart, avacado coulis, roasted ribeye with an anchovy olive crust, balsamic roasted potatoes, and rapini with roasted shallot and garlic.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001

Damn. Save me some.

I know I can do it. I'm just sort of losing my shit. I need to get on drugs, I'm afraid, and I don't look forward to the side-effects.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001