From: Hilarie Link <hilarie3@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

12:06 AM Hilarie: hi
12:07 AM hi
12:08 AM me: yo yo
  what's shakin'?

11 minutes
12:19 AM Hilarie: lets get married

6 minutes
12:26 AM me: okay
12:28 AM speaking of which, I watched the film version of Fountainhead the other day and thought of our little high school romance
12:30 AM Hilarie: awe
  thats sweet
12:31 AM me: also downloaded a pdf of atlas shrugged since I hadn't read it since I was 15
  man, that's one shitty book
 Hilarie: i still love it
 me: I COULDN'T HELP IT I NEED WIDER POWERS!
12:32 AM DON'T SAY THAT! WHY DO YOU SAY THAT? STOP MAKING ME ACKNOWLEDGE MY TERRIBLE MOTIVATIONS!
  I read pretty much all of it
 Hilarie: haha
12:33 AM what about the sex scenes though? those are hot
 me: they were very influential back in the good old days
  they colored my ideas of what sex is supposed to be
 Hilarie: when brice pretended he was gault and you were some other one?
12:34 AM me: right
  seems as if he'd be wynand
  not sure what he thought I was supposed to be
 Hilarie: i dont know, but it was fucking gay
 me: yep
 Hilarie: you and i should have had children
12:35 AM me: I know
  we'd make a pretty good couple
  too bad you live out in wacky LA land
12:36 AM Hilarie: too bad you cant get super rich and buy a house out here and fly here occasionally
 me: that's your job
  I'm only going to get famous
12:37 AM Hilarie: im only going to be upper middle class
 me: I guess I could potentially get rich
12:38 AM I just signed my third book deal
12:39 AM still enjoying work?
12:42 AM Hilarie: its ok
12:43 AM im encouraged to be a bitch
  and that works for me
 me: still working on the eharmony case?
 Hilarie: si senor
  not as much tho
  got in a fight with the senior associate on the case
 me: very well
12:44 AM Hilarie: still writing?
 me: yep, I'm doing features for the Onion now
  and doing Vanity Fair pieces still
  and working on a book with this Hollywood producer/actor who was in Rambo\
12:46 AM and just today got invited to write for True/Slant, a new property financed by Forbes but not run by it
 Hilarie: sweet
  lets meet some billionaires
 me: and my second book is supposed to be finished in September
  why?
12:48 AM Hilarie: so we can get their money
 me: right
  well, we're very charming
 Hilarie: yes we are
  rambo must be crazy
 me: I mostly hang out here in the slums, though, so don't meet many rich people