Hey all!

AB - did you get a wintry mix?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Answers

Please tell me SOMEone watched Buffy. Naked Spike! Yum.

Oh, and Mike? Looks like Meloonsa might be moving back to D.C. She's got an interview there. All to be closer to you my dear.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Boo!

I was flying around, it's true. It was the PhRMA annual big meeitng thing. They had us at this compound - seriously, it was a compound - near Dulles. But I'm back! Yay! I overslept this morning, but that's okay.

Thanksgivings were good? We had a great time in NoLA - we actually stayed out past 11 one night. At the Columns, of course. We ate so much food. And it was a week ago, so I'm way out of date. But I should be here all week, and then next week, it's Vegas time. Woo woo! Except, not really. Because I'm taaaaaahhhred.

Y'all. Here's the saddest thing you'll hear today:

Chicken has come up missing.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Okay, I just read the past few threads.

Al! Poor Kelly! Is he doing better? Thank heavens it wasn't worse. Poor dear boy. How is your mother?

AB! Was your birthday completely fabulous? Digital camera! You gots a good husband.

H! I only get you for one night? Lame! But I understand that you cannot extricate the MOC and Eric once they have entered into their platonic love tangle.

M! We'll be in the VA from 12/21 to 12/27. Will you be around?

Oh, and I forgot this one big thing - we bought our wedding bands this weekend! Yay! So beautiful. I'll find images and post the link.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Yay for wedding bands! Yes, my birthday was fabulous. I took pictures of the wintry mix this morning on my way to work. It took approximately eight years to drive here. Yuck.

I want to be home! Watching Katie and Matt, damnit!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

T! You have returned. Praises. We're planning to go see Alejandro Escovedo at the Star Bar Friday night, if y'all would be interested.

Y'all, I am so sick of not having the Internet at my desk. I can't DO anything without it. I have to look stuff up 200 times a day and I always turn to my computer out of habit and then get this sad feeling of helplessness. Then I have to come in here to this saaaad computer and dial up and it takes five years for any page to load.

They're supposedly getting us all hooked up by the end of this month... but we'll see. Won't y'all be glad when I am communicating once again in typical MATH style?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

T - did you get the sapphire and diamond one?

AB - glad you got in safely. How weird - wintry mix in Dallas and just rain here. Global warming!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Here is Chris' band:

http://www.symmetry-jewelers.com/weddingring_w-p3-2.htm

He picked it out all on his self. I like it muchly.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I will Al. And think, end of the month is in a mere 2 days.

I'm excited for 2002. I have a feeling it's going to be good for everyone. I see weddings and babies.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I cannot find a picture of my band. It has sapphires and diamonds that go halfway around the ring - the rest is platinum. It is the loveliest of lovely rings. We also bought a narrow platinum band that matches my engagement setting. That way, I can wear just my engagement ring and the sapphire/diamond band, or the s/d band and the platinum band, or all three. (Hush up! My mother had FIVE rings when she married my father!)

I think that "wintry mix" would be a really good name for a techno band.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Sigh.

Jealous.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I'm jealous of Al and the MOC, as they'll have you for two nights!

Again, the platonic salt-crusted love tangle. How could I ever interfere with that?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I think I could stay with you and Eric with the MOC and ep wouldn't even notice. They'll be too busy eating cheese and listening to Slobberbone and brushing each other's hair while they prank call cute girls from class.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Ugh. I just read some of that Squishettes stuff. Merciful heavens, y'all.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I think Mike hit it on the head when he said that they got the worst parts.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

They got the PigFatt part. So nasty, that part. It's like the gristle on a roast beef.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

T - tell me one more time where you're registered. Williams-Sonoma, and I thougth Kaufmann's, but I checked and couldn't find you. Or did you say Macy's?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Adler's in New Orleans (they're low-tech - 800-925-7512), Williams- Sonoma, Macy's/Rich's/all Federated stores. Adler's has all our patterns, and Macy's has everything except the china and the stainless (they don't carry Haviland or Couzon, but Ross-Simons does).

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

That's right. Rich's.

What are you people up to?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Originally posted by Jessifer: i'd be happy to share. d is too big for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

hey you. don't be going and giving away my toys without asking permission first. :P My EYES!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I just are a burrito. It was very good for myself.

Is she talking about PigFatt's penis??

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

No, that got messed up. She was saying that her D boobs are too big and HE said.. well. You read it. Gross.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Ew. Ew, ew, ew.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Why so slow this afternoon?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Mike's off. Al is in the land of no internet STILL. And AB must be working or something crazy like that.

How long will you be in Vegas? Do you know where you're staying?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I'll be in Vegas from Tuesday until Thursday. We're staying at the Mirage, and our meetings are at Ceasar's. I think we're going to a show and a goat ranch. I'm not sure were we'll be eating.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

MATH! What are you doing? I go away for hours and come back to slowness.

I just found out that one of my new friends in the office is pregnant. So exciting.

I don't imagine, H, that in your wildest 2002 EightBall dreams you see a wedding for me and The MOC. I think we'll all be holding our breath on that for a while. I'd bet all of you five dollars we won't even get engaged for another year. And you know, that's fine. I am not complaining, though I'd like it to be sooner. I can't even figure out why I want to go ahead and get engaged, anyway. I mean, I want to marry him, but it's not a big deal to me right now. I don't mean to be a huge downer, but with Bill Lowe gone, none of that stuff seems to matter much at the moment.

The thing about it is, Chris brings it up every.freaking.day. He's always like "At OUR wedding," or "YOUR ring..." I told him the other day to shut up about it until it was time. I couldn't take the speculation anymore. And I have AB on the job telling him what rings NOT to get me. I have to train the rest of MATH on the specifics of that as well, just in case he calls one of you in a panic for fear that I will not like the heart-shaped 14k pink-gold ring with pear- shaped baguettes he picks out.

Why am I even talking about this?

Anyway. Back to New Year's. Hannah, I propose that you and I stay at Teri's so that Chris and Eric can have The Mayflower all to themselves. Heeee.

Actually, I haven't mentioned this yet, but I may have some friends in town for the festivities as well. Exciting! My badass high school friends who are so very fun and brilliant. The Cobras. (Hey, every group of people with whom I am associated has a group name. For the Cobras and MATH to intertwine will be a wonderful thing.)

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Oh. Wait. So you don't want the heart-shaped diamond in the gold-silver band?

Fuck.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Nice. Man, can you even imagine? And I'd have to wear it, too, because... well... how could I say no to the cheesy dimples? How? I'd just have to wear it.

By the way, T... I just read where Chicken has come up missing. She has, undoubtedly, gone off somewhere. I am so upset. I can only be assuaged if you take my suggestion and Turtle is used as a centerpiece on one of the buffet tables at the reception.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I know. You'd have to wear it. And then for your 5 year anniversary you could have it changed, since, as you'd tell him, "that's what you do on anniversaries!" He'd have no idea.

You're not suggesting that turtle be KILLED, are you? You mean, his habitat as a centerpiece, right?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Apparently, a neighbor spotted Chicken a few blocks away about a week ago. Chicken is friendly, and sometimes she'll follow people down the street. She knows where her home is, though! Chicken, come home!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Girl. Turtle will outlive us all.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I still can't believe Chicken Lippincott has turned up missing. She's not laying eggs across the street again, is she?

T - do realize it's been almost TWO years since I've seen your mother? That just ain't right.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Lord, no, I'm not saying to kill Turtle. I'm saying he should be displayed. Perhaps in a special crystal salad bowl.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I was gonna say. Blasphemy like that can get you 5 to 10 in some states.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

None of y'all read Uncle Bob, do you? Because I just don't get that shit.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

Ugh. I was just looking at DHAK and thinking how much Uncle Bob gets on my nerves. Does he update like a million times a day?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

He must. Because every other entry on there is his. I wonder if Wing is like - aGAIN?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I think he updates every morning at 5 a.m. I bet he's a big dork in real life, though.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

He's a big dork in my mind. His writing is all rambly, too. How did he get on there?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001

I think when everyone found out he was Brad F'n Pitt he became every dork's hero.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2001