Various bits

[valarltd]

1) I got a new t-shirt. Dollface sounded out the words on it (Nocturnal Urges) and came out with "Nocturnal Organs" and asked if they were like internal organs at night.

2) The moment every parent dreads: an "i'll be in my bunk" look on the face of their teen. My fault. Bun was griping about The Old Man and the Sea which is Hemingway and literature and boring by definition. She saw the film for extra credit. "Mom, it was an hour and a half of a guy talking to a big fish. That never talked back!"
So I dug out Deuce Bigelow for better fish-talking. She died laughing at the "Fishy fishy fishy" bit but then, when the big fish ate the little one and the line "Women enjoy that. They find it..erotic", she got That Look and fled with a "Guh!"

3) 15 hour work days can bite me.

4) EC is a bunch of cheapskates who make us print our own contracts. I had to pick up 2 at Kinko's.

5) I am the evil opposite of fashion. I got a new coat. Full length, black leather. ($52, choke!) It looks like a bathrobe on me.

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[djinanna.livejournal.com]

re 5) Um. But ... at least it's a black leather bathrobe?

I know, that was weak.

On the other hand, I've always cherished a line from an old British series (can't remember name off top of my head, it was on PBS when I was in high school, a longlonglong time ago). The young couple who were our main characters/protagonists were newly-weds. He was very suave and sophisticated, mid- to lower class, and (I think) an actor or something of the sort. She was upper class and rather innocent and naive, maybe an artist/children's story illustrator? (The basic set-up was rather reminiscent of the dynamic of Burns & Allen, which was a rerun on PBS during the same period.) And he took her out shopping for clothes, to update and spice up her wardrobe, and convinced her to try on a leather ... dress or skirt?

And she looked at herself in the mirror, then came out of the changing room and looked at him for a moment, then said in the most horrified manner "I look like a pregnant handbag!!!!!"

For some odd reason, that's always stayed with me. One of my all time favorite lines. Of course, at my size (5'10" and about twice what I "should" weigh), I'd look more like a pregnant steamer trunk! *g*

ps ... the show was called No, Honestly and starred married (then and still) actors John Alderton and Pauline Collins who were the troubled "downstairs" sweethearts in/on Upstairs, Downstairs at around the same time. Just remember they were both also in UD made it amazingly easy to figure out the actors' and series names. Whee!

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Bun tried it on and I heard "The Mission Impossible" theme.
I wore it, and all I got was the "Rosanne" theme song, with creaking chains and leather behind it...

But that's a great line. I'm just afraid if I stand still too long, someone will try to milk me.