Friday - 1/12/07

1:52 PM Paul: great interview
Michael: i know, i can't believe he responded so quickly
Paul: must not have much going on?
Michael: that or he must have enjoyed being the authority
1:53 PM Paul: yeah
Michael: questions 6 and 8 were the same but phrased differently and he gave 2 dif answers
1:54 PM Paul: i think he made a distinction between the two
Michael: possibly
1:55 PM i think you need to write a short post
Paul: maybe this weekend, yeah
1:56 PM i'm just kind of not feeling so amusing
Michael: no need to over think it
understandable

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2:00 PM Michael: how're you doing today?
2:01 PM Paul: fucking shitty. yesterday i was ok for most of the day, but today i'm just a fucking mess. holding it together at work, but i'm just going to fall apart when i get home.
2:02 PM Michael: that's rough, do you have weekend plans?
2:03 PM Paul: wallowing
Michael: ha, i hear ya
you've got mlk day so 50% more wallowing than on a normal weekend

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Michael: not to feed into your guilt here, but from what you've told me it seems possible
Paul: i'm fucking dying over here

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2:15 PM Paul: and of course that's fucking scary. but i'm the one who's fucked.
2:16 PM Michael: yeah i think that may have been what happened

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2:19 PM Michael: you're right

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2:23 PM Michael: true.

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2:26 PM Michael: that's what i would say
Paul: which is soooo difficult

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2:32 PM Michael: well done

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2:33 PM Michael: but that's an excellent decision

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2:39 PM Michael: right, well if you come to chicago i'll give you all the commiserating you can handle
Paul: yeah. i appreciate it
2:41 PM Michael: look, there's no way that this weekend is going to be bearable, regardless of whom you're with. if you're alone, take the time to think things over, see where you are, have a nice, refreshing wallow, and in the end the private introspection will do you good, and you'll vent with friends later in the week. you call me anytime as well if you so desire
2:42 PM Paul: yeah, that's good advice. i'm also going to drink the flask of whiskey i bought.
2:43 PM Michael: whiskey will cool the pain to sooth it, then warm it to relax it away
of course, that could have been icyhot
2:44 PM Paul: and put me in a sour, sour mood, i'm sure. or at least accentuate my sour mood that i already have. but whatever. just gotta keep my phone away from me.
Michael: hell yes you do
2:46 PM lock your phone a box which can only be opened by passing a breathalyzer
Paul: that's a genius idea
Michael: don't be snide, regicide.
Paul: i think they created a phone that can only be dialed if you're sober, so you can't drunk dial. or dui - dial under the influence
2:47 PM regicate
regication
i like yours, actually. well played.
Michael: thanks, i spent all week on it
Paul: hahaha
2:48 PM Michael: the most productive week of the year so far
i start my new job on jan. 29
2:49 PM Paul: you get the one you wanted?
Michael: yup
Paul: congrats
make us both filthy stinking rich
2:50 PM Michael: thanks, i will
certainly filthy and stinking at least
Paul: yes, that's the easiest part of that equation
you might even be able to make us itch, but no "r"
Michael: haha
2:51 PM terrible
you should take off work and come to dc
2:52 PM OR
go on a weekend
Paul: ooooo
a "weekend"
one of thoooose
Michael: it's a new device i invented
2:53 PM it has great taste and is less filling
2:54 PM Paul: yeah, i'll probably make my way down there soonish. i'm getting busy with film stuff, but i'll make the time. maybe the last weekend of january.
unless it's fucking freezing
Michael: that would be a good choice actually
what film stuff are you up to?
2:56 PM Paul: location scouting and casting for the first 15 pages of purpler rain. alex and connor and jon might want me to play the lead, a 13 year old girl who think she's a 50 year old man. because, they say, it would be even funnier that everybody thinks i'm 13, which i am clearly not. i don't know how i feel about it.
2:57 PM Michael: yeah, i don't know about that either
Paul: yeah. that's what i'm saying.
2:58 PM Michael: i feel what you're saying
and you hear what i'm feeling
Paul: and we're both blind as bats
2:59 PM Michael: let the world see our blind example and shine upon it the light of a billion listening eyes
3:00 PM Paul: that is so frightening, and i don't even know why
Michael: because it haunts the memories of our forgotten dreams
3:02 PM Paul: you're creepy
3:03 PM Michael: not as creepy as this one kid i know, creepy mary chom-choms
"chom" means creepy in russian
3:04 PM Paul: does it? cause that would be so ridiculous. tchoms.
Michael: the translation is "creepy mary creepy, creepy"
3:05 PM Paul: right, i'm gonna get some lunch
an apple
or something
Michael: you're greedy
3:07 PM alright, take it easy
Paul: is that what "my last name means in gaelic?
Michael: hahaha
Paul: greedy paul, greedy greedy
Michael: i think so
Paul: have a safe trip to chicago. maybe i'll catch you later on here
Michael: thanks, maybe