fox | two things.

1. A true conversation that happened via Office Messenger at work today, but with names altered:

me: So ellen_fremedon gave me a CD the other day when the scanner was down. I understand it's back up now, so I'm off to scan it in a moment, but assuming it's clean, what happens next?

(We have to run CDs and DVDs through a virus scanner that's not connected to our network before we can put them in our networked computers at work. The scanner was on the blink for a few days for reasons I don't recall.)

boss: Fox, you are wonderful! I looked for that CD on Ellen's desk yesterday, and had given up on it until Tuesday!
me: Well - we are both wonderful! Because she cleverly gave it to me before leaving town so I could scan it if they fixed the scanner.
boss: Yes!

And when I scanned the thing and brought it to her, as she'd asked me to, she was seriously happier than I've ever seen her. The woman's face lit up the way people don't normally get at work unless you ask them about their kids (and they're the sort of people whose face lights up when they talk about their kids). It was kind of odd that something so simple - push a button, sign a log, bring her the disc - got such a positive reaction, but hey. And I was glad I'd shared the credit with

ellen_fremedon.

2. Oh, dear. It seems there's to be a Meg Ryan film festival on Lifetime on Monday. Poor Meg. I'd have thought she's still too young to be a has-been.