Reply All

Hollywood Assistants like Reply All. Sometimes our days can be pretty lackluster. There’s only so many times you can refresh Perez Hilton or look at people you went to high school’s wedding photos on Facebook (um, yeah that’s depressing). However, on these days there’s always something you can do to make your day go a lot faster: start an email chain and Reply All.

Nothing gets me more energized than when I see an e-mail in my inbox addressed to a group of people. I know this can only lead to one thing: Reply All. Whether it be “Who Wants to See the Sex and the City Movie on Opening Night?” with everyone on the chain Replying All with an “Obviously! I’m so Carrie!” Or the e-mail with the subject “Dinner Party!!” and everyone Replies All with an “I’ll bring the pasta” or an “I can’t cook! Count me in for lots of wine!” I know the fun will last for hours. Even though at that moment I’m Gchatting and IMing with probably everyone on that chain, I cannot wait to see what they have to say. It’s not only amusing but it’s also time consuming. Even if it’s just a “Let’s all go to Barney’s to watch the Lakers game on Saturday,” I can pontificate like no other. I’m a woman of opinions on e-mail chains and like Evites, it’s always nice to have your voice heard.

Sure, it sucks if the day your friends decide to start an e-mail chain is the day your boss is sending out a spec to all the studios or it’s the day you have to track down some obscure Norweigan film for your boss who is meeting with the director of said Norweigan film in three hours. That truly sucks because the last thing you want is your inbox being flooded with email upon email with the subject line of: “Where Should We Get Crunked Tonight?” Though it is fun to be able to come back to it when the chaos has ended and see how ridiculous all your friends are. Who knew there could be 75 exchanges about whether or not to see Indiana Jones at the Grove or at the Arclight?

The worst is dead silence. Occasionally a friend will send out an e-mail and it’s just cricket, cricket. That’s when you know none of your friends are into what you just sent. It’s the e-mail equivalent of a “no, thank you.” No one ever mentions it again and it’s like it never even happened. But really, don’t take offense that none of your friends want to see Cabaret on the big screen or are interested in going to a street fair in Pasadena. They probably just want to see the Sex and the City movie on opening night and drink pitchers at Barney’s.

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