“Let’s get straight to business”
PrevNode LinkNextSGlau: Anyway, why did you schedule meeting me here?
SMG: OK, let’s get straight to business. Summer: I’d like to hire you to star in my latest production: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Summerschool at the NSA where you will help finish off an old and pesky nemesis of mine.
SGlau: NSA as in the National Security Agency?
SMG: Yes, these very ones.
SGlau: Sounds really crazy, Sarah. Are you sure you’re OK?
SMG: No, I’m not. My secret for success was that I was never completely sane, heh.
SGlau: [Uses her smartphone] Hmmm… I see that the DuckDuckGo search engine has some hits for “Summerschool at the NSA” and your name, hmm… and some NSA factoids. Hah! “The NSA does not publish, they perish”, “The NSA knows what you did last summer, but no one, inside the NSA or outside it, knows why they should”.
SMG: These factoids would have been funnier, if they had not been so true.
SGlau: Yes, I see.
SGlau: So? Assuming it is something sane enough, which I doubt, why do you need me to do it?
SMG: Well, see, if I were still single and without children, then I would do it myself, but now…
SGlau: You are married and have children.
SMG: Exactly, I cannot really tell my daughter: “Hey sweetie, mummy is going to enter the Lion’s den.”…
SGlau: Or what the Bajoran scholars positively identified as “The Dungeon”.
SMG: Exactly. She would kill me if I did that.
SGlau: Hah, hah. I can imagine the headline: “Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy the vampire slayer, murdered in cold blood by child daughter.”
SMG: [Giggles] Indeed, the apple did not fall too far from the tree.
SGlau: The apple completely supplanted the tree. The Golem has risen upon its master.
SMG: [Thoughtfully] Yes.
SGlau: Well, I don’t suppose she will murder you literally. You know, the old xkcd number 725 distinction between "literally" and "figuratively".
SMG: Well, one thing I can tell you about parenthood is that such things can progress from figurative to literal, extremely quickly.
[ SGlau laughs. ]