collect 'em all.
From last night's high camp Cleopatra:
"You're now Queen of Egypt. What are you going to do?"
At which point thousands of college students (and me) yelled, "I'm going to Disneyland!"
Running news:None today.
When NATO talks about putting together "peacekeeping troops," do they think they're fooling anyone?
My brother-in-law Mitch introduced me to the terminology "Yuppie fun ticket" as a name for the new twenty dollar bills. Not only do they look totally fake, but evidently at first they were all E-series bills, which led immediately to calling them E-tickets, and from there Yuppie fun ticket.
This led to a discussion of whether the term "E-ticket" has entered the lexicon these days. The E-ticket rides were, of course, the best ones, and parents everywhere found their ticket books denuded of E-tickets within seconds of entering the park. But Disneyland hasn't used the ticketing system for years--twenty years? Do lots of people use the term E-ticket without knowing to what it refers?
The "Stuff you can do at home you can't do at the office" department: Darin got up this morning and started working, non-stop as usual. I went down to ask him a question several hours after he'd gotten started and discovered he still hadn't gotten dressed. In as much as a robe. Yes, folks: he does his work stark naked.
Well, I guess that might actually be the "More information than you wanted" department.
I finally got Darin to read my latest script today, the high school script. And he loved it. He thought it was really good. Asked what happened to one of the characters, who I admit peters out at the end--I just need to put one line in for her wrapping that up.
I am so relieved. I will send this to my manager post-haste.
What have I been doing, besides watching cheesy TV and ambushing Darin with my writing? I've been flailing around, trying to think up the next thing to write is what. I've been thinking about the novel (though I hate working on it when I've handed in pages for critique, so for the past week I haven't been), and on AOL today I came up with the "notion" for the Regency romance novel I'm going to write. I'll have to ask Lucy how many times it's been done before. Well, I guess the trick is to do it well.
Need to come up with a new script, however.
Wow--so Ophelia Z didn't exist. Man, sometimes I think I'm being stupid just being myself here.
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