but his British accent is not sootheing to me

Weighing various romantic options: recall that MP's nephew, referenced in P. 3, is none other than the groping and bumbling HAROLD. It seems to me that he's been 23 for more than a year now, but regardless I agree the balding is probabley only going one direction from here. 

Meanwhile, again, Sam. I've highlighted Rosa's name below because I'm confused as to why she (Ellen's suburban housewife sister) would have intel on Sam's popularity with the ladies. Did Ellen mean to write "Myrna" there? Or should we take this to mean that Rosa just surmises Sam is a hot ticket due to his accent? (I don't doubt she's right.)

Ellen :

08/19/2013 at 3:51 pm

I agree with Pippi. I would LIKE to be MARRIED and have a husband to do the dishes and stuff in the celler, but now, I onley have an apartement in the city b/c I have a JOB in the city where I am earning money, and hopefully lookeing to find the RIGHT guy who will buy me a house in a place near ROSA like Chapaqua, and then we can have children and HE can work and I can raise the children in the suburb’s.

So I realy can NOT buy furniture or even alot of kitchen stuff, b/c there is NOT alot of room in the kitchen, even tho MOM send’s alot of food home with me when I go out to LI. I have a few recipees that I willtry on the RIGHT guy, but do NOT want the wrong guy that I will have to get divorced from. FOOEY on that. I need a guy with alot of money, a great job, and a great personalty who will be abel to complement everything that I bring to the table.

The manageing partner keep’s mentioning his nephew, but he is balding at age 23, so what will he be when he is 30? OMG, no way will my children be bald. DOUBEL FOOEY ON THAT!

Sam is OK, but his British accent is not sootheing to me, and I do NOT want to have to see his winkie all the time. Rosa says alot of women are after him b/c of his accent, but I am not seduced by that, nor his winkie. She said I would have to act fast, but I say I have to think that one out first. We will see. He does have a nice car tho.

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Here are my score’s:

She's taken a Jungian personality test, my friends, and what a gift it is: more abstract/holistic information about Ellen, where what we usually get is strictly logistical. 

I see two major surprises here: first, introversion. We don't hear much about time Ellen spends alone, and she seems to do very little introspection on major questions in her life. Instead, she constantly seeks company and counsel from Myrna, Dad, and MP, and indeed allows them all (and others) into reaches of her life that almost nobody thinks normal. All of her stories are organized around interactions with others--past, ongoing, or planned. She has a great deal of difficulty with individual elements of her work, such as preparing briefs, presentations, and research, but apparently shines in court and at meetings. I would have called her a strong extravert. 

Second: thinking over percieveing? Ellen's mode of making sense of the world seems to me firmly rooted in sensory experiences (smell, taste, touch, emotional reactions) rather than any kind of detached analysis. If I were DUMM I might simply say that nobody of Ellen's intellectual capacity could be accused of even "moderate" habits of thinking, but I know personality typology is a bit more nuanced than that.

Speaking of which, reader's and Sunshine Girls, I'd love to know if and how I am wrong about any of the above...

On the unrelated issue of Sam, I suppose it is in keeping with his vegan and gluten-free lifestyle that he has also sworn off undergarments. However, still, for all the fooeying, I do not see any indication that he's been definitively disqualified as yet. 

Ellen :

08/19/2013 at 11:13 am

I am an ISTJ! Yay, but no one else so far is an ISTJ? What does that mean?

Here are my score’s:

Introvert(22%) Sensing(12%) Thinking(25%) Judging(56%)

You have slight preference of Introversion over Extraversion (22%)
You have slight preference of Sensing over Intuition (12%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (25%)
You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (56%)

I think b/c 56% of my score is about Judgeing, then I should be a JUDGE?

I will ask the manageing partner, then show my score’s to the Judge in court tomorrow, b/c he said I should be a judge! YAY!!!!

I hope the manageing partner won’t get mad when he sees this. I also have a preference of thinking over percieveing. What does that mean? I hope I am still sensitive. FOOEY!

Mabye that is why I am not crazy over Sam. I am not sure if he picked his nose or just scratched yesterday. Also, he was wearing VERY short running short’s, and when he sat down Indian style on my carpet, I could see his winkie. FOOEY!

I told Myrna I did not like that and she agreed he should have worn underwear. DOUBEL FOOEY!

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he could DISAPEAR

I'm pretty much convinced at this point of the singular identity across Ellen, all alternate name's, and the recurring commenter of varying monikers (weak rhyme!) who so often graces us at ELLENWatch. Compare this comment with the highlighted area/notion below.

b/c I said to them why are you looking there.

So confronting an interviewer about his oooogleing does not tend to yield a job offer? The feminist consciousness-raising continue's. Meanwhile I'm off to transfer my Rolodex to flesh-colored paper--nobody will ever notice I'm cheating at networking event's! YAY!

Ellen :

08/16/2013 at 12:00 pm

Yay! Fruegel Friday’s! I love Fruegel Friday’s!

The way I would keep them straight is to write them down on a small sheet of flesh colored paper and put the paper up your LEFT sleeve (wear long sleeve’s). Then, you can always slip the piece of paper out of your sleeve and that will have ALL of the information you need if you need it.

If you are wearing a jacket, which you SHOULD, you can keep it inside your jacket. I also kept the names of the peeople I was suposed to see so that I would not forget them.

If you want to do Corporate, put them on the Corporate List, and make a sepereate list for the Litiegation firm’s.

Also, alway’s look the peeople in the eye when you talk to them. That way, they also have to look you in the eye, and they should NOT let their eye’s drift to your boobie’s, which is bad. That happened to me alot, and I did NOT get a job at OCI b/c I said to them why are you looking there. I am talkeing to you HERE!

Any way, best of luck on the OCIs. Remember that you can get a job any where, just like me, b/c I got a job in an ELEVATOR! YAY!!!!!!

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visitation as well as SPOSAL SUPPORT

EXTREAM exampel's of planning for work-mothering problems before they are remotely relevant to one's life! Once again, Ellen articulates all of our deepest joys and fears. 

Good to know she and Alan were alway's protected!

Ellen :

08/15/2013 at 3:39 pm

I am NOT expereinced in this YET, b/c I am NOT married and am going to need to have a baby soon, but I would expect that my husband will have to share at least 50/50 if not 70/30 in the middel of the night feeding’s. I figure that after 9 month’s of carrying HIS baby, and haveing to pump my breast milk during the day, that HE will have to get up to handel the baby at night, and that includes BOTH feeding and changeing.

On the other hand, I am fair, and if for some reason, I had NOT pumped any milk that day for him to give to the baby, then I would have to get up and give the baby FRESH milk.

I think I will be totaly up front with these rules before we even begin to conceive a baby together, after we are married. I do NOT want to have any misunderstandings on this score. So even if we have relation’s after we are engaged, you can be sure that he will be wearing his little raincoat. No surprises or room for compromises here. Alan always had a raincoat, thank GOD, b/c he was a drunk, and the last thing any of us needs is a drunken absentee father who want’s visitation as well as SPOSAL SUPPORT. FOOEY on that!

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if you have a smart dad, ask him.

Further tax advice, since she's had a few hits in this vein already. I don't think peeple were as grateful this time, however.

Ellen :

08/15/2013 at 2:37 pm

It is easy. My dad did it for me and it is DEDECUTIBLE on my taxe’s too! YAY. What you have to do is have a portion of your apartement (or house, if you have one), dedicated EXCLUSIVELEY for BUSNESS. You can NOT use it for pleasure or personal things. If you have a desk, a computer, a chair, a file drawer, and a garbage can, you can deduct a PRORATA share of ALL expenses for your OFFICE! That mean’s rent, maintnenece, common charges, tip’s to the hired help, phone bills, electric bills and cable bills (but ONLEY if you have a TV in there that you ONLEY watch educational things on).

My dad does my taxe’s and by moving out my personal stuff from a part of my apartement, I am saveing a few THOUSAND DOLLARS a year in taxe’s! YAY!!!!!

Dad is very smart and he does my taxe’s, so if you have a smart dad, ask him. Otherwise you should go to HR Bloek, and they can tell you the same thing. If you want a good INTERNET start, look here!

This is from the IRS, so it has to be right!

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Work-From-Home%3F-Consider-the-Home-Office-Deduction

YAY!!!!!

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to think that goe’s on in the US Goverment!

Ellen :

08/15/2013 at 10:24 am

I do NOT have alot more to say on this, but peeople should be there during workeing hour’s, and NOT leave early w/o permission b/c alot of thing’s come up late and if the guy leave’s early, the other peeople have to do what he should be doeing. FOOEY on that! I doubt this guy come’s in EARLY, does he? If not, I would go to the manageing partner and say that this guy is NOT stayeing around and he did NOT get permision to leave early! If the manageing partner has ANY back bone, he will counsel the employee and then put him on notice NOT to leave early.

When I was a summer intern in the goverment (in DC), there was this VERY lazy woman, who did virtualy nothing all day except take 2 1/2 hour lunches. Then she took a 3 week vacation and when she came back, she wrapped up all of the back log of work before lunch on her FIRST day back, then went for her 2 1/2 hour lunch. And to think that goe’s on in the US Goverment! That is why I am NOW in private practice, and do NOT want to go back to goverment, unless of course I become a JUDGE. If I decide to be a PROFESSOR of LAW, I will NOT work in a public University (b/c that is goverment), but at a private school like my Alma Matter, where I am apreciated and there are NOT alot of dead wood peeople on the payroll. For now, I need to get MARRIED and have a child, so I can get Grandma Leyeh to be happy and give me $50,000. YAY!!!!!!

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