Why does it always come back to Sandra Bullock?

Candy here:

It's no secret that if they were to make a movie of my life, I think Sandra Bullock is the only person who can play a charmingly clumsy character convincingly enough to represent me.  I'm not saying I'm nearly as attractive as she is-- but the silver screen paints everyone as more attractive than they really are.  As long as they'd be going in that direction, why not pick the very best?  Ah, Sandra does make me swoon a bit.

Without further ado, here is the momentous third conversation about the book, in which much is decided...

Babs: I feel like telling you that you have a book to be working on...
 :)
Candy: lol I know!
 I even dreamed about it!
Babs: I had several flu fueled dreams about it yesterday

though it was getting conflated with other bizarro flu fueled dreams

Candy: hey, the weirder the better for this book
Babs: if you wanted to write an incredibly odd, makes no sense, sexy, and hilarious novel, I could make that happen based purely on yesterday

 though we would have to change the names to protect some people

Candy: I can't wait to put our smart people in these stupid situations and watch them try to --
 lol
hey, I don't think we should be turning down any inspiration at this point
 we can always save some ideas for the next book, you know

Babs: oh! speaking of the next book, I think that it should be the exact inverse of the james bond movies and the like

Candy: the tough part is going to be deciding if this is a series with a larger story arc-- which would be nice, because I expect people will really like our characters
Babs: so rather than the guy getting to move from chick to chick, the woman gets to
Candy: after all, we're pretty likeable
 OH!
 I love it!
Babs: we are delightfully likeable
Candy: maybe that should be the first one!
but let's not make her a spy-- that's too... Lara Croft
 you know?
Babs: yeah

 nothing too predictable, I just like the model of inverting the male role

Candy: What if she were a traveling salesperson

Babs: oo

 I like that

Candy: Or like a trainer of some kind-- for a retail chain, or a corporation or something
that way she gets to travel a lot and is always meeting new people, and it would be easy to create tension from her timelines and her trying to keep from confusing her beaus
 and trying to do her job well
 she could be a motivational speaker
 or a political speechwriter
 who has to travel with her candidate

Babs: it would just be a matter of deciding which one makes the most sense for what we want to do

Candy: true
Babs: I like that they're all more "male" professions

 and the traveling thing is important I think

 because it gives more range

 and more people
Candy: yeah-- without having been glorified for male gratification like the female spy or adventurer
Babs: do we want her to be in a position of authority where people would admire her, or do we want her to be more common?
Candy: middle management?
Not CEO level authority, but I think it would serve our purposes for her to have a lot of responsibilities
 I'd like to see her handling her job with expertise and grace, but be personally clumsy
oh crap-- I'm picturing sandra bullock from that movie with Hugh grant
Babs: what about one of those people that does ethics training or something
Candy: I always come back to her!
Babs: because she's lovely
Candy: she is!
Babs: someone who does some kind of corporate training
Candy: I like ethics because she's going to be doing something many would consider unethical, but only unethical for women
and it gives her authority, but takes her out of the chain of command of all the people she'll be interacting with-- so there won't be any worries about getting involved with them

Babs: right

and, she could be more interested in doing the things that she's instructing them against

 for instance, we could show her preparing her presentation and thinking about how interesting it would be do some of those un-ethical things
Candy: ooo!
 that sounds hawt
Babs: oh, good

 :)

I like your making out idea

 which out of context, could be awkward

Candy: exactly!
yet make for super hot contact with someone that she thinks is attractive, but doens't know at all
 hm
we need a reason for her to be wanted by the kinds of bad people who would make her do such a thing
 what if she witnessed a robbery?
 Just before she leaves the state
Babs: or!
Candy: and the robbers want to find her because she's the only eye witness?

Babs: what if at a ethics training session she accidentally used the names of people who had actually commited the crime she was talking about

 so they think she knows, but she doesn't

 and because she leaves to go to the next one

 they think she's running

Candy: Oooh!
 That's good!

Babs: hilarity ensues

Candy: I like!  Babs, this article might actually help us: http://www.cracked.com/article_18866_5-reasons-women-are-as-shallow-as-men-according-to-science.html