It's a little overwhelming for her, ... but she's picking up phrases very easily.

I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.

Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.

We actually have a lot of landscaping to do. But we figured we're picking up trash that's upwind from our own home. It's a good neighborhood cause and, ultimately, it would end up in our yard anyway, so it's a good thing to do.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

You have an earnings penalty and a cash benefit, neither of which is overwhelming.