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Y'all, I think I'm going to cry. We've been having awful thunderstorms the last couple of weeks, and of course I have to sit around and twiddle my thumbs with the major appliances off when that happens, because (as you will recall), I just lost a DVD player to a power surge (and yes, it was plugged into a surge protector. That was the one where 10,000 people in town lost power, if you're local and remember the headlines), and we have previously lost a TV and another DVD player to lightning strikes as well.

So today it's wet but sunny, and I'm working on the book and all, and--the power goes out. For an hour. I lose my work (not much), and my monitor starts fritzing out. It takes me another half hour to coax it back to life. It's like I can't win, no matter what.

P.S. For some reason, the last line of this article really did make me start crying.

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I looked up the Elle interview and— Mon Dieu! What a piece of work.

"But my parents taught me to be a very kind person, to be compassionate. That's something that I have in common with Christine, something I could tap into. At Spence, one of my friends was a girl who was handicapped. And I have a friend who had a craniofacial deformity [like the Phantom]. That's not something that frightens me, So I'm sassy," Rossum adds, "but I'm kind."

Oh. My. God.

Please, that's the least of it. Even the interviewer calls her on her "talking points" and her inability to say anything nice about people she previously worked with. She comes off as a very ambitious, high-maintenance twit, and it breaks my heart. I just keep hoping that she'll grow up and mellow out.

P.S. Gwyneth also went to Spence. That may give you an idea of the kind of things that come out of her mouth.

P.S. Gwyneth also went to Spence. That may give you an idea of the kind of things that come out of her mouth.

Eep. I went to boarding school too (of the sort that is always described by the press as, "an elite boarding school in Connecticut"). If I ever start to sound like that, call me on it, ok?

Hee. I will. I went to a very nice suburban public school, but I hope you'll call me on stuff like that, too.

(Actually, I'm willing to believe that Spence is just a hotbed for asshattery.)

I hope you'll call me on stuff like that, too.
I will, but I don't think I'll have to. You're very modest, and if your head were any smaller we would have to apply a bicycle pump to your rear for purposes of re-inflation. Emmy, on the other hand, has to leave her mouth open or she would pop.

Oh dear. That doesn't sound pleasant.

(So that's why her mouth's always hanging open...!)

Of course. The airflow keeps her hair puffed.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

So that's why she does it!

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