Toddler logic cracks me up. My more-preschool-than-toddler nephew decided my mom had to go home because she said he should be a writer after listening to his stories. He was mortally offended because he's going to be a paleantologist. When informed they too have to write, he told her his daddy would write for him. Luckily, he's reversed his position on her banishment.

Those grooves might be makeup, since she's playing a mom.

Emmett's mom ran into her on the street here in SF many years ago. She stopped to coo over the then-babiefied Emmett, so his mom got a look at very close range, and the report on her real-life street face even back then was pretty depressingly awful.

I"M ALMOST ON VACATION.

WOOT.

Sharon Stone=scary, but what the hell is "menopause red"

I HOPE those grooves are makeup, because that is one heinously awful picture. Damn.

So I'm looking at job openings at various places. And of course, no pharma company is in the DOWNTOWN of any place. But other than DC, I have no earthly idea how uncool the suburb would be, or how much of a pain it would be to commute from some place cooler...I mean, here in DC, they're all up north of the city, but some are farther (Germantown) than others (Bethesda, which is actually a pretty cool place), and my commute from the city to the burbs isn't so bad. But like, Woburn? I know Cambridge is cool. Irvine, clearly not. South San Francisco? Lake Oswego (wait, I KNOW that's cool, Cass lives there!)

Edit: Note to certain company: if I can't load your website, I start to wonder how long you'll be in business...this is a volatile industry...

she's playing a mom.

Better more than just a mom. Like, a harried mother of a serial killer who's on the run.

Either the mother or the killer can be running.

meara, I can tell you that if you're working in Jersey, most NYC-ish places you'd want to live would be a huge PITA commute, but there are apparely places for The Young People to live in New Jersey. I hear. My friend who works for some pharma company only had a decent commute from NYC when he lived in the West Village, right by the tunnel, but it's pricey.

Yeah, I'm kinda ruling out New Jersey, because I think I'd just be bitter to be living NEAR New York, and having to pay New York prices, but not having the cool bits *right there*.

Good luck on the job hunting, meara! Unfortunately, I don't nothing about no pharma companies, especially not in DC.

I meant to post my exercise update, since I finally got my ass into the center for the first time in two months. I was still able to swim a mile, but it did take me almost 90 minutes instead of the 70 I was down to before I went on exercise-vacation.

I'm going back tomorrow afternoon to break in my new swimsuit that I just realized is three sizes smaller than the first one I got back in February, not two!

Yeah, I'm kinda ruling out New Jersey, because I think I'd just be bitter to be living NEAR New York, and having to pay New York prices, but not having the cool bits *right there*.

I dunno. I work with some people who live in Jersey. It's pretty accessible via PATH but YMMV. It's also not NY prices, and the taxes are enviously low. (I'd get a 12% raise just by moving!)

OTOH, a friend (in no way related to work) works at Merck and is trying to get out. Says it's not happy there.

What about the research triangle?