5 october 1998		step up and be counted hi there.
The quote of the day: "We're not judgemental, just nosy." -- moi Running news: 3.5 miles. Yay for me.		So, if you're peeking in from USC, and your name is not Jesec, say hi. I want to say hi to my constituents. And I'd like to know if any fellow Screenwriters (or Film students) are cruising in. (And if that's you, Jesec, drop me a line, wouldja? Let's do coffee.) Ruth wrote me today and added a few things to my journal entries about Austin. (I, with my snarkiest demeanor, replied, "YOU READ MY DIARY?") She reminded me how on Thursday night, when Ruth, Pooks, Derek, and I were in the bar, I was evidently competing with myself for funniest line. I kept asking Derek the rudest, most personal questions and then following them up with, "We're not judgemental, just nosy." (This is, as you might recognize, ripped off from two sources: Monty Python's "We don't morally censure, we just want the money" and a Peanuts cartoon where Linus--I think--says he wants to know people's innermost secrets...not to help them, just because he's nosy.) But her favorite was when we were all sitting around the table, glasses of beer and liquor everywhere in front of us, and Derek is sitting there with three beautiful chicks who have been completely done in by about one beer each. I looked at us sadly and said, "You've heard of the pussy posse? This is the wussy posse."
		Copyright 1998 Diane Patterson Send comments and questions to diane@spies.com