I Don't Know How She Does It Page #5

insurance wrapper on the fund

- for the low-income retirees.

- Exactly.

- Jack, I just wanna say...

- If you're gonna thank me again,

- please don't.

- No.

I wasn't going to.

I wouldn't thank someone

for giving me a big break,

I mean, possibly the biggest

break of my career.

I mean, what kind of person

would that make me?

Fine. Precisely.

But thank you.

This is the one

we'd better get done.

Yep, all right.

All right, I gotta hit the ladies.

I'm sorry I won't be there to kiss you

good night, but I'll see you tomorrow.

OK?

OK.

# I love you

# A bushel and a peck

# A bushel and a peck

and a hug around the neck

# A hug around the neck

# And a barrel and a heap

# A barrel and a heap

and I'm talking in my sleep

# About you #

For the high-yield set,

I thought we could do a time series

showing the higher yield

on the MSCI index...

- Bup, bup, bup! No more work.

- Sorry.

And can I have my martini back?

You keep on moving it away

from the edge of the table.

I'm sorry.

Sorry, it's horrible. I'm surprised

I'm not cutting your steak for you.

It's force of habit, I guess.

- That's OK.

- Do you... do you have kids?

No.

Um... I did, um...

I was married, once.

She was a great girl.

Very special.

And then...

...two years into the marriage,

she got sick and...

Even though she put up

an incredible fight...

- I'm very sorry.

- It's OK.

I'm OK. You know,

something like that

happens in your life,

and it changes the way,

well, you... see everything.

So, since then, I try to keep

things as simple as possible.

I love my job,

I love my work.

It has its ups and downs, but at least

it doesn't break your heart.

So, what about you?

You like what you do?

- I love my job.

- Mm-hm.

They market doesn't know what sex I am,

it only knows

whether I'm right or wrong.

- I like the fairness of that.

- Mm-hm.

Although, sometimes I wish

I didn't love my job so much

- because then...

- Then you could be home with your kids.

You're allowed to miss your children.

Here's the thing.

I have two beautiful kids.

And I love them.

But life changes.

There's no question about that.

There's no spur

of the moment activities,

you're not meeting people

for dinner at the last minute,

or seeing a movie

whenever you want.

Or, you know, going bowling.

- Bowling?

- Yeah.

My sister and I

used to bowl all the time.

But now we're both mothers and...

So, you know,

where is the time?

Bowling.

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have told

you all that about my children.

- Not professional.

- Uh-huh.

I'll tell you what.

From now on,

don't think of me

as Kate the working mom.

Think of me as Bill,

your trusted

financial analyst.

Well, the fact is studies show

women make better investors.

- Hm!

- But if you want,

I'll just forget you're a woman.

OK, oh...

Here you go.

All right.

Thanks. I mean, not thanks.

Well...

- Good night, Jack.

- Good night, Bill.

Oh! Bye-bye! Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

From that moment on,

life got busier and busier.

And the funny thing is it really looked

like I was making everything work.

I read once that the key to juggling

is not catching, but throwing.

So I just kept throwing,

and throwing, and throwing.

It doesn't smell.

It's got no stains.

My God!

I have something to wear!

# You gotta move with the traffic

and go with the flow

# Hop on one foot

while you touch your nose

# Juggle ten things

# With your other hand

I have never seen Kate

work so hard,

but she's always been there

for Ben and Emily.

I mean, she spreads

some serious love on those kids.

# Ah, suck it up and leave me

# Can't do it all

Baby, if you're asking

# You're looking at the queen

of multitasking

I drop my kids off

for school at 7:
15,

so I'm here about,

what, 7:
45? Eight-ish?

- That's about right.

- Yeah.

And then I leave around... two?

# I know it's hard

You try to make it look easy

# Try to stay in charge

I know you want to, but you

can't quit the newspaper business.

Why not?

I know you, Hildy,

I know what winning would mean.

- What would it mean?

- It would kill you.

- You can't sell me that.

- Who says I can't?

- You're a newspaperman!

- That's why I'm quitting.

I want to go someplace

where I can be a woman.

Suddenly,

it was as if our lives

were on fast forward.

I just had to keep my eye on everything,

all at the same time.

Look out! Coming through!

See, the other

basic rule ofjuggling

is that what goes up...

...must come down.

Hello, baby.

- Watch out for dog doo, honey.

- Bye-bye.

At the same time, Jack and I had

this insane deadline looming,

so our emails went

from daily to hourly.

But I promise you,

I was careful to maintain

the proper, professional distance

at all times.

"Dear Jack, here's the final

version of the PowerPoint.

Should you have any desire... "

"Dear Jack, I will be putting

the finishing touches to bed. "

Oh...

"You know I would

bend over backwards... "

"I'll see you soon. Kate. "

Hey, why are you still up?

Working.

Enough, we're good.

Go to bed.

Ah, too much to do.

Bed's a waste of time.

Not always, I hope.

- Hm!

- Good night, Kate.

X O, Jack.

Good night. X O...

Good night, Kate.

No. If you're gonna sign "XO,"

you might as well sign,

"Please enter me. "

- OK, Ben. Say one...

- Hi.

Hi, Daddy. Two, three.

Hey, you remember that Paula's

gotta leave today at five.

- So can you...

- Oh, no, I got that meeting at 4:00.

- Oh, sh*t.

- Then I got the dinner afterwards.

- Yeah, I forgot.

- So you think maybe you can...

Yeah, that's not a problem.

I'll do that.

- I love you, gotta go.

- Oh. I love you, too. Bye.

- Where in the hell is Paula?

- Oh, I don't know. Don't...

I'll take, um, I'll take

Ben to Allison's nanny,

and then I'll take Emily

to school, OK?

- Oh, good.

- Bye, Daddy.

- Bye.

- Bye!

Em, honey?

Can you come get your lunch box?

Great series

of meetings this week.

The T note yields for the

third quarter look good.

All right, then.

Let's go make some money.

Bunce, you wanna go get a steak?

You know I do.

It'd be an honor if you let me buy.

What'd you think

about that game last night?

I'm gonna be in late tomorrow.

- Doctor's appointment.

- Oh, OK.

Because I'm pregnant.

- You're what?!

- I know, I know.

Some kind of systems failure

on the birth control.

Don't worry,

I'm dealing with it.

I'm not having kids,

remember?

Wait, wait, wait! Wait, wait.

I know you look at me

and you see a mess,

a hurry, a giant un-tweezed eyebrow,

I am walking birth control.

I get it.

But it's not all that.

There is so much joy.

And if, for some reason,

you wanted to go through

the madness of having a baby,

I could help you.

I've been doing it for a while.

I could teach you some useful tricks

to help you manage

both work and home

so that neither side gets...

Oh, my God! What time is it?!

Oh, sh*t!

Sh*t! Sh*t, sh*t.

Oh, sh*t! Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!

Sh*t.

Hey, Richard, it's me.

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