it should say "whom", but whatever --

-- the time for splitting hairs is, like, next week. :-) because right now, there's things bigger than hairs to split: for instance, how do they reconcile the concept of "protecting the institution of marriage" (itself an idiotic concept -- was it under attack?) with the concept of "a compassionate, welcoming society, where all people are treated with dignity and respect"?

attention, mr. president: the right side of your mouth doesn't appear to know what the left side is saying.



the banner was made by damanique, whom i don't know, but you can get your own here.

oh, and: lambda legal is honoring the week anyway, in ways that the righties certainly didn't quite have in mind. go them. :-)

help!

this is me, asking advice from people who interview better than i do.

background: when last i was up DC-way, waiting in the lobby of jgesteve and datlowen's building for them (and fafou, mearagrrl, and fafou's G-Lurve) to return with the porn and chicken, i was chatting with the very nice lady behind the desk and it came up that the management company is always interested in hiring new people; provides moving assistance for their employees; and also gives a substantial (though she didn't say how substantial) rent discount to employees. so my thought was, get hired by that company full-time, get moved, get the rent break (without which i certainly couldn't afford to live in one of their buildings), cut back to part-time after seven or eight months when (god willing) school begins, and keep the rent break (which the nice lady seemed to think would be no problem). so i applied.

and got a call today! applied yesterday afternoon, got a call at about 9:30 this morning. huzzah!

sadly, it turns out that the website didn't mention that the gig i'd applied for was 11pm-7am wednesday through friday (and 3pm-11pm saturday and sunday). SUCKS! (other listings, for the same position at different properties, did mention the hours. this one didn't. grr.) but the girl who called me said she'd forward my information to other properties who might need someone in the day shifts. so i don't actually have an interview scheduled right now -- the position, by the way, is in this case Resident Relations [Associate/Coordinator] (i've applied for both of these, but not for Manager) -- but when i do, i'll need Good Answers to the following questions:

( clothes )

( hair )

( makeup )

( jewelry )

( the actual interview )

all thoughts welcome. thanks!

my seventh-grade english teacher called this "scylla and charybdis"

because she found this Cleverer than "a rock and a hard place".

i hate cooking -- but i enjoy having cooked.

WHAT IS THIS

why do i have law & order: criminal intent instead of west wing?!

[checks time] it is 9:00. wtf?!

[eta: and i checked the local listings! they list west wing! AUGH!]

[eta, later: but now here's the TV saying "next week, the west wing will return at 9:00 pm. {phew.}]

cate blanchett

i think i'll put ms. cate blanchett on my Damn Shame list.

as some of you know, the Damn Shame File is a file where we (which is often, but not always, to say i) keep track of the boys who are irrecoverably Unavailable (or, less often, Unacceptable -- and sorry about the alliteration), i.e. gay, married (especially with kids), etc.

the Damn Shame list, which i've just created, is not unrelated to the DSF -- in this case, it's a damn shame she's a woman (or, a damn shame my tastes don't run toward women; ymtc), because (elizabeth, bandits, LotR, the gift, and the upcoming veronica guerin and the missing, almost certainly among others) ... damn.

to the announcer:

do. not. talk about Game Seven of the '97 series. the marlins didn't win that game -- the indians lost it.

bottom of the 9th

why are they swinging? why are they swinging?

[eta: big hugs to darththalia and the rest of the cubs fans. i assure you that i know almost exactly how you feel. the important thing? shake it off, and next season will be better -- i'm noticing that a lot of your guys used to be cleveland indians, in fact (ramirez and lofton are the ones that spring to mind, but i know there are others), so there's no question they can get it done. let these marlins win the world series, and then they'll all be sold off again, and everybody else can start over without them.

[i'm about ready to name the marlins the NL antichrist ...]