Alicia Silverstone

While taking a shower just now Alicia Silverstone crossed my mind for some reason... I was about to say 'randomly,' but it's really not that random.

Why is it that she fell off the planet after Clueless? Was it Batgirl that killed what should have been her rise to super-amazing-rule-the-world stardom? It's arguable, since that movie was just awful. So what exactly is she doing anyway? Yes yes, I imdb'd her. Yes, I know she's been on tv a little and yes, she was the lovable shampoo girl in Beauty Shop. But what the heck?

Clueless was a super mega hit, right? An instant classic! And she's gorgeous to boot! She should have been riding that fame train! So what happened?

I'm probably missing something since I don't pay attention to celebrity "news" ever. Did she sabotage her career with some ridiculous publicity stunt or with awesome Tara-Reid-like drunken antics? Or was it just all those slutty Maxim photos?

Well whatever I missed, whatever happened, I loved Alicia in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. And I think she's still pretty damn gorgeous.

When it rains it pours!

Day 8...a little hung over from drinking red wine at 1 in the morning last night. Heh.

Two things:

Thursday I got a call from Miss Moped, who runs a startup production company and creates videos for lots of things, mostly the web and TV. She's interested in using me as an office PA to do research and some editing...but can't pay me very much (of course). We spent half an hour on the phone developing ideas about what I'd be doing, since she is basically developing a new position for me.

She had to talk it over with her business associates, and was going to get back to me on Friday. While waiting for her to get back to me, the temp agency called.

They have a job for me...helping a new Vice President set up her office...at a women's health provider and advocacy NGO! How very cool...it pays a living wage AND it's something I believe in! It's also an indefinite assignment, which is great. I'm going to work that job for all it's worth and try to get hired on. That way if I need to leave, I leave. Nobody tells me to leave. I start on Monday, which will, instead of Day 10, be Day 1.

Ahhhhhhh.... I feel like I can breathe again. It's great.

PDF and I went to the movies last night to celebrate and saw There Will Be Blood. I am baffled over that movie and how good it was. Baffled. It's been a long time since a movie left me feeling that way....

Then we drank red wine, and somehow never ate dinner. Thus, the mild hangover... Off to brunch!