Beauty Not Beheld

New theory: she's a character in her own real-life movie -- it's a badly scripted movie, and she's one of those characters who's vacant in one scene, but possess key information in another, depending on the needs of the plot. (The plot, in such movies, is never heading anywhere truly satisfying, unless you're satisfied by big explosions.)

Scene 1 (interior, office cubicle)

(we join a conversation already in progress)

GALFRIDAY: Oh, so, um, I have to do a Final Doc for this job --

GEEKGAL: -- No, that's already done, that's what you're holding in your hands....

GALFRIDAY (stares at document she's holding, as if it's someone else's parking ticket).

(Fade to Black.)

Scene 2 (interior, office cubicle)

GEEKGAL sits typing at computer (or, alternatively, reading political news on the internets).

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....okay, this pseudo script format isn't doing justice to my annoyance, because your full embrace of my irritation requires too much specific knowledge on your part to appreciate just how frustrating the conversation was, that I overheard, that I was going to somehow capture in script form here.

Here, let me teach you something specific about my job, and now that you understand, get a load of this what I heard her saying yesterday! Can you believe that?!

Suffice to say that she went from damsel-in-confusion to authority-on-what-should-be-done in the space of a couple of minutes, and both of these states were Highly Inappropriate -- the damsel should know how to do her job by now, and the authority shouldn't be telling her superior what to do.

But then, lately, I've been noticing that she doesn't actually treat people all that well, a lot of the time. I previously characterized her as being Nice without Doing Anything, but often, I'm beginning to see, she isn't even that Nice.

Shrug.