Look at me. Always starting threads. Bitches.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Answers

Hos.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Six pack of beer.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I haven't started my novel yet, have any of y'all?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I wrote 400 words last night, but it's a big sack of shit. So I don't know if that counts.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Y'all, please. What's with the WG, "Nyahh, I wrote two billion words last night, haha, ha!" She is on my very last nerve.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I didn't want to stay up late. I was sleepy.

Besides, I'm sure her novel is pretentious and talks about Communist China.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I don't even KNOW what I talked about. I was so tired, and I was just typing things. I'm scared to read it.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I never had an annoying little sister, but I imagine dealing with WG is pretty similar.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

If not worse.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I just do not know what her deal is. She is a brat, is what, which is a shame, because she has so much potential.

It makes me think that she's only dating that guy to piss off her parents, and from what I understand, she's actually pretty spoiled by her parents. Whatevuh.

I went to bed too late last night. When Chris is out of town, I never go to bed. I don't know why, because I'll be exhausted, but I'll end up awake, watching crap like "Change of Heart."

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

But that's one of those shows you can't not watch when it's on. Llike a trainwreck, it is.

Listening to Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack. It's pretty good. 2 Shelby Lynne songs.

And I just wrote 300 craptastic words and I'm already stuck. This doesn't bode well.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Craptastic! I love that word.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

That show is just the saddest thing, y'all. And what is that "5th Wheel" show?

I love my job, y'all. It makes me happy.

Mike, I'll be in your 'hood on the 12 - I'll fly right by your office, in fact.

Must. Reach. Medallion. For. Skymiles. That is my goal for the year, y'all, for real.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Really? I'm off on the 12th. Give me a buzz if you're free for lunch or something.

And please don't fly right over my building. Makes us all jittery.

BTW, I got my pictures back yesterday, and the shot from the side of the road on Sept. 11 came out really well. I wish I had a scanner. Maybe I'll try and swipe the one by graphics at some point.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

And while you're there scan a picutre of your girl. We're all dying to see what she looks like!!

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I didn't realize you had your camera with you that day! Holy cow.

I know that I have a dinner with PhRMA on Monday night, and I'll be in meetings on Tuesday until 6. If possible, I'd love to get together with you and Sima on Monday night, maybe after the dinner? I'll probably fly into National on Monday afternoon and leave Tuesday aroung 8. And Lord knows, after 7 days on the road, I'll be ready to get back to Atlanta.

Mercy. I'm looking at my calendar and with the next week of travelling, a trip to Missouri in there somewhere, and Thanksgiving, this month is already finished. So sad. But so many Skymiles!

(Again, so sad.)

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

T - I can't believe you're flying so much. And you used to hate to fly!

I only have one flight in my near future which is odd since I spent the first 6 months of 2001 flying like crazy. Between Vegas and Spain and Austin and L.A., I racked up a lot of travel.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Mike, for real. Tell us something about Sima, for heaven's sake!

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

What do you want to know?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Well, where is she from? Who's her mama? Where'd she go to school?

Really, though, what does she like to do? Would she like us? Siblings? I don't know - I'm just curious.

Oh - and can she tell me why freaking Delta doesn't fly into Springfield, Missouri, but TWA does, but TWA miles don't count for Delta? Damn it all!

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

She's from Maryland -- in fact, she went to our high school's arch- rival. (Churchill. We Wootton folk hate Churchill.)

She has one younger sister, living in New York, where her parents are also moving in the next month or so. She also has a cousin she's very close to and lives with.

She went to Ithica, where all Jewish people besides me go. Heh. I'm only kidding. Some go to Brandeis instead.

And of course she would love y'all. Her middle name is Beth, after all.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Her middle name is Beth, after all.

Haha! Brilliant.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Are her parents moving to New York to be near her sister? WHat grade does she teach? What do y'all do on weekends?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Oh - does she plan on staying in Maryland?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

And I guess the "would she like us" was a rather silly question : )

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Her parents are moving to New York because her dad got a job offer that's based there, and her mom's from there anyway. Having their younger daughter there is a nice bonus.

But they plan on settling back here in a few years, so Sima isn't planning on moving up there. She talked about that for a little while, but I think everyone else talked her out of it.

Right now, she teaches Reading Recovery, which basically means she's a Special Ed recource teacher who pulls kids out of class to help them learn to read.

What do we do on weekends? Nothing too extraordinary (I'm not that creative with the things to do lately). Grab dinner, see a movie, hang out. Last week we went to a wedding, which was fun.

She caught the bouquet, FWIW.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Hee! how long have y'all been together, now?

Thanks for telling us more about her. You've found this person who makes you so happy, so of course we want to know about her!

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Six months, believe it or not.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

You'd better be nice to her, Berman. I'm sure you are, actually.

You know... people kill me. I mean, seriously.

Y'all, last night my Grandmutha called 400 times. And she never left a message. So, even though I didn't want to, I picked up the phone and talked to her for a minute and she was extremely sweet and so was I. She called my uncle crying after that and told him that I said I was "so depressed I might just have to go off somewhere."

Now, "go off somewhere" is Southern for "disappear forever," so of course, the alert was sounded and my whole family has called today to tell me not to "go off somewhere." My mother, who didn't believe it, of course, called me to laugh about it and when she couldn't get me at work, got worried that maybe I had actually done it, and called Chris.

He was like "well... I think she would have mentioned it if she planned to 'go off somewhere.'"

Anyway, Mother finally got me this morning and told me and I laughed for an hour.

THEN, my friend Sonya just called me and she was all crying and sounding like she was about to fall apart and asked me if I knew any good psychologists from THR. I told her "yes" and asked why and she said "I'm just depressed about life, lately."

I was sorry to hear that, but I thought to myself, "You know... call someone ELSE about that right now. LORD."

I mustered up as much sympathy as I could, but didn't really know what to say other than to give her the number of the Dallas mental health people I know.

I know this post is like, eight miles long, but I only get to check in a few times a day.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Wait. Does "go off somewhere" mean commit suicide or like they're going to ship you off somewhere? Cause at first it sounded like your grandmother wanted to ship you off somewhere forevah.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

No, H...you "go off somewhere" because you're "nervous." That's how I've always heard it, at least.

It always cracks me up when people say they're nervous, because I always associate that with being crazy.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Yeah, that's what I meant. Like, go off somewhere to the nut house.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Lunchtime?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Yuo. I'm all about the Chipotle.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I had a burrito with balck beans, cilantro, potato, brown rice, light sour cream, and salsa. It was the tastiest burrito, ever.

Allison, don't make me have to take you to Milledgeville. You know it would break Chris' heart.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I love, love, love Chipotle. That is so mighty fine stuff. Maybe I'll have that for dinner tonight. Thanks Mike!

Are any of y'all writing at work?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I can't -- it's too hard to focus for that long.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I've actually written 1,000 words. I'm shocked. Of course, it's all still crap.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I'm a non-Nanowrimo gal. Does that mean I'm a loser?

Joh, I was about to tell you a recipe for sweet potatoes gratin with chipolte peppers, but then I realized that y'all were talking about a restaurant, and not a yummy Mexican pepper.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

So ... does that mean no recipe?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

It's at home - I'll bring it in. But it's gooood.

You thinly slice sweet potatoes (a food processor or a mandoline is helpful) and layer them in a glass dish that's been coated in butter and sprinkled with minced garlic. Mix together milk, white pepper, salt, and chopped caned chipolte peppers in adobo sauce and pour over the layered potatoes. Then you bake it until it's bubbly.

That's the gist of the recipe - it's a really good side dish for grilled chicken or a meaty fish.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Yes, you "go off somewhere" because you're "nervous" and, if no one can find you, you've "come up missing."

I have got a new phrase for y'all that will knock your socks off. My brother says it all the time. I can't wait to hear AB say it. It's "go on about your rat killin'."

It just means "go on about your business," or "get back to what you were doing."

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Hee!

Can we change it to: "go on about your ferret killin'?"

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Al - do you still have taht up on your geocities site? I could use a good ferret laugh.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I know I shouldn't laugh at this, but come on!

The Jazzy Ferrets respect America.

http://www.geocities.com/mekada/america.html

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

These events have changed our country and our people forever. I am confident that we are a strong enough nation to accept these changes as positive things. We need to continue living our lives as always -- this is why I brought Jazzy Ferrets back online...

Oh my god. How can I even come up with something to say here?

Thank you, Johanna, for making my day.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

What's the point of view when you have an omniscent narrator?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Third-Person Omniscient.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

That's what I thought. And it's okay for the narrator to know what all the characters are thinking, right? Because its omniscient?

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Yep. TPO is different from regular TP, where the writer only lets the reader know what one character, usually the protagonist, is thinking. TPO lets you into to everyone's head - I'm reading Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty right now - it's TPO and it took me by surprise because I hadn't read anything with TPO in a while.

Huh. My English minor paid off.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I normally don't like it, but it's easier. And I almost always write regular TP.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

I just cannot write fictin to save my life. I took a some great nonfiction writing classes in college, but I fear that if I had tried a fictin writing class, it would be a debacle.

Chris has written some good fiction, but his fiction is about torts. No lie.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Hee. Chris is funny.

I'm off to the gym.

Mike, Al and AB - write like the wind tonight!

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

Y'all. I am dying, I'm laughing so hard. Chris has this nasty, 500 pound Gilbert Grape's mama client with a mouth that would make the most worldly sailor blush. He was deposing her today and when asked a question about a specific point in time, she answered, "Well, you know, I don't remember much from that week because it was right about then that my colon exploded."

Y'all.

She went on to say that life is rough without a colon, and that sometimes, she just stays inside the house and shits all day. Other times, when she thinks she's got to fart, she worries because she just doesn't know where the fart will come out.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001

You know... I have been so down lately, of course, and I know I'll never be the same again, and all that...

but....

I just looked at Meg's American ferrets page and... I swear to God...

It cheered me up

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2001