JENNCHANTAL

August 17, 2006

"There's so much proprietary information for me to download!"

- Ernest, around 3pm on his last day working for THE MAN, after I asked him why he was still at work

May 12, 2006

"You can't beet them!"

- Ernest, on beets (he's really lucky I didn't talk to anyone else all day)

April 28, 2006

"More power to you."

- Ernest, after I thanked him for letting me borrow his laptop power cord for the day

April 18, 2006

Ernest: "The Big Guy Upstairs had a sense of humor."
Me: "The Big Alien Scientologist Upstairs you mean."

- On the "coincidence" that TomKat and Brooke Shields gave birth on the same day, in the same hospital

March 31, 2006

"I felt like I was the one decomposing."

- Ernest, after attending the symphony. Before he went to the performance he told me an awesome joke that I tried to retell this weekend and butchered it (it helps to remember more than the punchline). Do you know what happens when composers die? They decompose.

March 3, 2006

"What the hail's going on?"

- Ernest, when it started hailing in Sunnyvale

February 28, 2006

"ok, meeting. (matinee pricing)"

- Ernest, on IM - who was running off to my favorite type of mid-day "meeting"

January 27, 2006

"Can you look out your window and tell me if you see pigs with wings darting around the sky?"

- Ernest, after I posed the possibility that something totally unreasonable might actually happen

January 20, 2006

"The first thing that happened was this wiseass in class turned to me and asked, so you STILL want to be an astronaut now?"

- Ernest, recalling his memories of watching the Challenger Shuttle explosion in class some 20 years ago

January 9, 2006

"I'd do anything to fit in."

- Ernest, who claims to have made Star Wars costumes for other nerds in elementary school