I *heart* WDSCA

What I eat/drink to survive my hectic life on a daily basis (in no particular order): Wheat, Dairy, Sugar, Coffee, Alcohol.

What the new detox I'm going to do requires that I NOT eat/drink at ALL for two weeks:
Wheat, Dairy, Sugar, Coffee, Alcohol.

I.
Am.
Screwed.

Coffee, Cheese, and Web Design

Because Emily and I are classy business type folk, we met with our amazing web designer/branding consultant at one of those Starbucks/Barnes & Noble combo's last night. In a rare show of extreme punctuality (it's ok, I made up for it this morning by driving in circles and getting to work 1.5 hours after I left my house, which is normally about 40 mins away with bad traffic), I showed up to the meeting early, and decided to treat myself with a yummy fruity white tea and a cheese and fruit plate. Here's what happened right after, while I was pouring my 12 packets of sugar into the tea:

Creepy Starbucks Dude to me: Uh. Uhhhhh. Nice cheese.

Me: too involved with trying to rip the sugar packets open without spilling on me (didn't work) to hear him. grabbed more sugar.

Creepy Starbucks Dude to me, louder: UH. NICE CHEESE.

Me: Oh, what? I'm sorry, were you speaking to me? Am I in your way? (thinking I was blocking him from the sugar since I'd been there wrestling with the packets for a couple of minutes now)

Creepy Starbucks Dude to me: No, I just said that that's some nice cheese you've got there.

Me: Oh. Uh. Than...(I can't really thank him for cheese I had nothing to do with making, right?)...yeah, it does look like nice cheese.

Creepy Starbucks Dude to me: I buy those cheese and fruit plates every morning. I always said to myself that if I found someone who liked them too, I'd know we were destined to be together.

Me (trying to laugh it off, be jokey sorta without being mean at all): Haha, oh..well...I don't know about that. (I smiled here to try and not be mean)

Creepy Starbucks Dude to me (a bit angrily, I might add): It doesn't matter if YOU know, because I know. I. Know.

And then he stormed off.

So....yeah. By this time, the Starbucks was PACKED so as soon as Emily and Cory got there, we went inside the bookstore to find a place to sit/talk/meet. Luckily, we found a nice large open space, with kiddy benches, in the middle of the children's section. We popped ourselves down on the floor, and amidst a flurry of Little Golden Books (does anyone remember these? They were around when I was a kid. I LOVED LOVED LOVED them), we talked about our Vixen Kitty.

Good times.

There's no business like show business...

Sometimes I forget that I'm not working in politics. I've been dealing with a particularly fragile situation with one of my movies, and have repeatedly asked the people involved for Person XXXXXXX's approval before I will proceed. Here was my answer (all names have been masked to protect the BigWigs...and also my ass):

Person A to Person B: "Who will discuss with XXXXXXX?"

Person B to Person A: "Yes"

Person A to ME: "Here you go" (meaning, here is the approval you needed/wanted/wouldn't work without)

ME to Person A: "So who is telling XXXXXXX? I don't understand the way this question was answered"

Person A to ME: "Yes"

I bet right now you're all super jealous of my job. It's ok, we can't all be this lucky. I'm stamping this RETARDED (see nifty stamp below.)

Retarded!

Apparently, things have gotten so ridiculously

here at the studio, that a friend of mine needed to order this stamp. I will shortly be placing an order for the same stamp in a variety of different languages, so that we can easily deal with the foreign shows without fear of miscommunication.

it's the end of the world as we know it

this...because we can all learn something...because there's a 1 in 50 million chance that the world could end tonight (i wonder what the chances are on any given day, as opposed to due to the Large Hadron Collider?)...and because i like the word "sparticle"

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/the-bosons-that.html

and this, just because it goes with it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqroT1FZ5Y

girl list

for my first blog, i wanted to write about something intellectually stimulating. so, of course, i'm going to "borrow" from my friend al's blog and list my top 5 (as of now) girl crushes...because i'm sure you're all curious.

(in no particular order)

• laetitia casta (not only is she a gorgeous, NOT gross stick thin model, but once when asked in an interview how she kept her figure, she pointed to her boobs and said "lot's of cheeseburgers!" now that's a girl I like)...admittedly, this particular pic does not really show her as too "not stick thin"...but if you google her, you'll see what i mean. or if you've picked up a victoria's secret catalogue anytime in the past 10 years.

• Scarlett johansson (those lips!! 'nuff said)

• jennifer aniston (she just seems so sweet, like you could totally hang out with her, ya know?)







• yamila diaz rahi (ok, she's just hot)






• sara watkins (i know, you're thinking...WHO?...well she is an EXTREMELY gifted violinist/fiddler who plays with nickel creek [who's music I don't care for because her brother sean watkin's is NOT talented but somehow gets more cred than her] and also plays her own stuff at LARGO in west hollywood. she's got a nerdy look, she's so funny and sweet on stage, and when she plays music and sings, i get completely lost in it)