(no subject)

Just to show they can still mess with me, they submitted 3 hours of raw tape yesterday. Only three dictators. One of whom was responsible for only 20-25 minutes. So yeah, just sending them away is not sufficient to keep them from rattling on for hours.

Just to say why I'm not writing today.

Now I know it must be a recession.

From a movie review:

"...[R]eal estate must be incredibly cheap, because virtually everyone in the movie seems to be living in fabulous, spacious lofts, even though they have seemingly average jobs (when their jobs are defined at all). Goodwin's Gigi, Jennifer Connelly's Janine and Jennifer Aniston's Beth all have cubicles at some sort of spice or tea company. Hard to say what it is because they never, ever work. They just stand around trying to figure out men, and nobody ever emerges from an office to say, 'All right ladies, you're all tremendously attractive, but you're going to have to do SOMETHING at some point to justify those paychecks.'"

I've noticed this for years in movies and dramas and sitcoms--I'll leave the listing of favorite pet-peeve, above-their-means characters to the comment thread--but this is the first time I have ever seen someone mention it.

Sauce here.