INTERSTELLAR.

[haileyleisha]

They're saying Pluto's not a planet anymore. I heard about this in the grocery store. My stock of hohos was swiftly dwindling and my supply of hot pockets needed replenishing, which explains why I was shopping at all; unless Kate or someone comes over with bags of processed food and cheap wine, my cupboards and refrigerator stay fairly bare save

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[jerpiven]

My biggest regret?

A little blonde pixie I dated in high school. I believed the wrong people when they told me she'd been cheating on me. Crushed her under my heel like I was Rommel, and found out years later at our reunion that it just wasn't true at all.

[haileyleisha]

Ugh, heinous. Still, though, you can't really regret decisions like that if you look at them from an alternate perspective. Like, if you had believed her, stayed with her, who's to say that she wouldn't have ended up pregnant and you'd be back in your hometown working as a mechanic or something to feed your accidental baby. It'd difficult to gauge, though, because who says you wouldn't have been perfectly happy in that kind of life, too?

[jerpiven]

It's the what if's that kill a person's spirit, I think. There are too many talented people, too many people whose hearts are the biggest, grandest things about them, that never do anything, because before they even try, they've what-if'ed something to death, instinctively. It's sad, really. Makes me cry. Admittedly, not as much as the Cubs losing in the 8th makes me cry, but you know, it's a thing that bothers me sometimes, in the depths of the night when I got nothing else going on.

[haileyleisha]

This is why people take up drinking, Piven. I really try not to what-if things. Because I know that whatever decision I make, I made it in the moment and at the time, it was right for me. Maybe you needed that incident to teach you about trust, you know? Because in the grand scheme of things, this whole thing could have set you up for something better. I like to believe that old adage, everything happens for a reason. I have to, I guess, because if the world and life aren't all intricately connected, then we're all alone. This comment makes me sound as if I have spent all night smoking pot.

[jerpiven]

Puff, puff, pass, Hailey. Puff, puff, pass.

I don't know. All I know is, there are times when I reflect back, even though my life is pretty damned cool, and when I'm alone, I get a little wandering imagination, and I try to picture how things would've gone, and sometimes, when I'm on my seventeenth interview of the day, and they're asking the same tired shit, I wonder if it might not have been so bad to have gone the other direction. But then, I wouldn't have this motherfucking Emmy right here, so. You know.

Little balances.

[haileyleisha]

Shit, I know sharing is caring, but hoarding isn't boring.

People are perfectly happy living the life of monogamy and domesticity. Conceivably, you'll never have a lasting relationship in the public eye, because the press goes around and screws with people and everything inevitably gets fucked up. If you weren't, you know, you, at least you'd have a small fraction of a chance. I guess it all relies on what you consider brings happiness, you know? Are you going to sleep with your Emmy? You should. Buy it a little negligee and everything.

[jerpiven]

I don't know. Some people get ten years or so out of a relationship wherein both partners are in the industry. I think the more lasting ones tend to be those where you're (generic you, not Leisha-you) are dating someone whose job is outside the industry.

Shh, don't you talk about my little golden girl like she's some kind of whore, Leisha.

She didn't say a word honey. No, not a word. What's that, you want to go to In-And-Out Burger?

[haileyleisha]

Right, by staying out of the spotlight, which in turn, hurts your career. People want names and they want current names, you know? So, yeah, maybe Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Junior will live happily ever after, but the risk they take when making foward moves in their career is their relationship. The more exposure, the more people will circulate around them, trying to stir up drama. There's nothing that sells like a relationship gone bad.

You're pretty sick, Piven. At least take her for hummus or something.