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Saturday, June 12, 2004
Yesterday
Posted by Lis Riba at 3:15 PM
 When I was listing books coming out in September, I forgot a fourth title: The Grand Tour by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, a sequel to The Enchanted Teapot (also published as Sorcery and Cecilia). That's due September 1st, leaving only one weekend in September when I'm not anticipating a new book in a series I'm following, and that's the weekend of Worldcon. Had a lot of fun yesterday. One positive thing about having little money is that you can find all kinds of creative ways to have fun on the cheap. Having money, it's much easier to yield to temptation and do the easy thing of just buying things to cheer onesself up. Without money, one has to work harder but it's somehow much more rewarding for the effort. I had to drop Ian off at work yesterday at 4:30. I was somewhat hungry, but traffic heading home was massively backed up, even before rush hour. I decided that I wanted to spend no more than $5 for lunch, so started thinking where the best options were. After a little consideration, I went to Porter Square, found a parking meter with 20 minutes and went to the Japanese supermarket at Porter Exchange. We had been meaning to take a trip there anyway, because we were out of tofu, and they have a brand that's both cheaper and tastier than what we get at the local supermarkets. [Mori-Nu, 89¢, hekshered and doesn't require refrigeration] And for myself, I found a salmon-rice-ball wrapped in seaweed, a bottled tea drink and a red bean cake, all for $4.70. I got back to my car only about seven minutes after the meter expired (no ticket, fortunately). So I sat on some nearby steps (in case a meter maid showed up) to eat and enjoy the pleasant weather. It was really quite tasty and filling. And I'm pleased with myself for the bargain. After that, I went driving around Harvard Square to make reservations for our anniversary dinner. This was complicated by the fact that I didn't actually have the restaurant's street address. But after a few twists and turns and stopping several times to check my map, I found it and the deed was done. And just on first glance, I think it's going to live up to its reputation. By that time, it was after 6 pm, when parking becomes free at metered spaces. So I headed back to Harvard Square. I needed to circle the square twice beofre I found a spot, and spent the next several hours browsing around. Found several books I'll want to check out from the library. [A new novel in Charlaine Harris' Southern vampire series, Birth of the chess queen and Dissolution were ones I thought to write down.] I checked the latest punny window display from a children's store known for them: Cats-ablanca. Groan! I also saw the niftiest timepiece ever: the Stonehenge pocket watch. It's a fully functional pocket watch, but inside it contains a compass, a little model of stonehenge (with arrow for which direction should point north), and a gnomon, so it can be used as an actual sundial. I thought that was just so cool! I also spent some time watching the street performers. Over at the pit, two kids were making impressive percussion music with a drumset entirely of found objects. At Brattle Square, I caught the last half of an act by somebody named Dave. His big finale was to juggle three knives ("just your average, everyday kitchen machetes!") while upside-down! Impressive trick and he had a great shtick. ["The average donation I receive is fifty dollars. Don't laugh! The tourists might believe it!" Though I didn't have any cash to donate, I did thank him afterwards for a good show.] I left the Square about 9pm, offering a friend who works in one of the stores a ride home after his shift ended. All-in-all, an incredibly pleasant evening with no cost but my meal. And I felt good, not just because I enjoyed myself, but pleased with my ingenuity and frugality. This evening we're spending with Ian's parents and grandparents. Hope you have a fun weekend, too!
British Invasion tomorrow
Posted by Lis Riba at 1:05 PM
Two weeks ago, I mentioned: The Boston Gay Men's Chorus presents British Invasion: the songs of Elton John and Queen. I know this is rather last minute, but Ian and I did get tickets for tomorrow evening's show. 7pm at the Emerson Majestic Theatre, cheap seats are $12 apiece. [I bought them directly at the box office to avoid the additional payoff to Ticketmaster.] The show is supposed to run two hours and ten minutes. We don't yet know what we're going to do tomorrow day before the show (Possibly Boston Pride, possibly the Scooper Bowl, possibly something else entirely), but we have dinner reservations at ten in Harvard Square, so won't be able to socialize after the show. But, since people expressed an interest, I thought I should let you know. Friday, June 11, 2004
One last Reagan tribute
Posted by Lis Riba at 1:00 PM
I've just gotta ask: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Speaking strictly for myself, the answer is an emphatic No. I don't know what your answer is, but it's something to consider this election.
A rant and thought experiment
Posted by Lis Riba at 11:15 AM
Just reading all the Reagan-idolatry that's been going on in the week since his death (and since I don't watch TV, I'm sure I'm only getting a small fraction of the coverage). Lots of rosy revisionism, and less-than-flattering truths are being hushed as disrespectful. Maybe later we can take a more balanced view, but he only just died, he was a President so should be treated with dignity. If Bill Clinton dropped dead, do you think the media would be fawning over him in this manner? Would his legacy be handled with kid gloves? Would the Lewinsky scandal be swept under the rug the way they're doing with Iran-Contra, so they could focus more on his accomplishments? Think of the pundits you've read or heard or seen offering tributes to Reagan this week, and imagine what those same people would write or say if it were Clinton instead. Frankly, I'm getting really sick of how thick they're laying it. I understand that many people liked and loved the man, but come on! he was still human. He put his pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us. I sincerely hope Nancy Reagan will find comfort, but after today's funeral, I really wish everybody would just shut up about him and get on with the important issues of the day.
Rambling about Reagan
Posted by Lis Riba at 10:35 AM
Since everybody else has been posting their reminiscences about Reagan this week, I suppose I should do so today, before it becomes hopelessly outdated. Hopefully the media will find something new and more substantial to report on this weekend. Like, say, new revelations about Abu Ghraib... But I digress. I found Fernwithy's sentiments quite similar to my own feelings this week: You know, with all the reminiscences about Reagan lately, I thought I'd find myself more affected by this than I actually am. I'm not sure why I thought this; it just seemed to be the done thing. The 80s were the time when I became myself--Reagan was elected the year I turned ten, and left office the year I turned eighteen. In our mock presidential elections in fifth grade, I voted for Reagan, so for some paradoxical reason, I feel vaguely responsible for his getting into office, even though objectively I had nothing to do with it. [During the campaign I actually supported John Anderson, because his proposals seemed far more pragmatic than Carter's or Reagan's and I liked that forthrightness. But when push came to shove in the class election, I knew Anderson wasn't electable and went with Reagan to get Carter out of office. (Hey! I was ten!)] One of my few clear memories regarding Reagan's earliest years was when I found out Reagan had been shot. The principal announced it over the loudspeakers while I was in art class. A few kids in the class (not me) applauded, and the teacher spent the rest of the period lecturing us on how inappropriate that behavior was. I don't know when I became disenchanted with Reagan, but it happened pretty early in his first term, while we still lived in Wisconsin. Maybe it was because my father was out of work and I was eating subsidized school lunches. I remember an article about ketchup as a vegetable that I clipped and saved for a long while. [All I can remember of it now was something about how kids also eat paste, so maybe that should be added to school menus.] And I think it's rather sad when a middle school student could poke holes in the President's proposals and see that they didn't reflect what was going on in the real world. At any rate, by the 1984 election, I was firmly anti-Reagan and wanted him out of office. I thought the whole SDI idea was stupid and impractical and very likely impossible. But I also didn't care for the Mondale campaign. I can no longer remember whether it was something about his policies or the way he ran his campaign, but I thought he was unelectable. [Anderson in 1980 and Mondale in 1984 showed that the American public preferred obvious lies to unpleasant truths. "Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."] At any rate, it was at this time that I began to take an interest in politics, and began to daydream about running for president someday. Because, at fourteen years old, I was clearly more intelligent than both the major party candidates. (Hey! I was fourteen!) In the elections held in Social Studies class, I did vote for Mondale, upsetting my friend who was expecting more votes for Bill'n'Opus.
At any rate, Reagan's second term mostly overlapped my highschool years. Formative years for me politically. My first year in college, I became more of an activist and volunteered for Democratic political campaigns in the primary and general elections (actually watched the second presidential debate from the floor of Dukakis' campaign HQ!) In Jerry Cohen's Intro to Amstd class, I read Garry Wills' Reagan's America [I was supposed to write a paper evaluating Reagan in relation to Daniel Boorstin's The Image, an effort that was somewhat hampered by the fact that Reagan's biography took so long to read that I didn't have time to do more than skim the latter book. I've been meaning to read it in full for years, and with all the memories this week has dredged up, I've finally dug it out of the bookshelves and am about three chapters in. I highly recommend it.] At any rate, while I'm sure I'm forgetting things, I think that covers what was important in my memories of and relationship with Ronald Reagan. The Alzheimer's revelation after he retired didn't seem at all surprising, because we had suspected something like that for a while. Ian, four years younger than I, has said that by the 1984 election, all his friends were pretty certain Reagan was senile. He once wrote: I remember being terrified that no adults seemed to notice. It was like the Emperor's New Clothes, but nobody was listening to the kids. And that seems to sum up a lot of what I remember about Reagan. Thursday, June 10, 2004
Who, me?
Posted by Lis Riba at 11:30 PM
Damn! but that's one poorly coded quiz. I think I spent at least fifteen minutes correcting HTML errors before Blogger would let me publish it. But I'm still amused by my results.
Humor is truth -- Victor Borge
Posted by Lis Riba at 9:50 AM
How is it that The Onion and The Daily Show consistently manage to produce the most insightful commentary on current events? From this week's Onion: Reagan To Be Honored With $5,000-A-Head Funeral I just found a Groucho Marx quote: "Humor is reason gone mad." Perhaps in these mad times, only humor is capable of seeing through the spin...
Rights and wrongs
Posted by Lis Riba at 9:35 AM
Remember what I wrote yesterday about impending Supreme Court decisions? According to Newsweek, [There is] a growing sense of gloom within Justice that the Supreme Court is likely to rule decisively against the Bush administration not just in the Padilla case but in two other pivotal cases in the war on terror: one involving the detention of another "enemy combatant," Yasir Hamden, and another involving the treatment of Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The bulk of the article is about Justice Department lawyers scrambling to come up with a viable "conventional criminal case" against Padilla. And they're not having much luck. Most of the charges against him have been flat-out wrong, and since he's been denied access to a lawyer, his own statements under interrogation wouldn't be admissible in court. You see, the Constitutional protections benefit the government as well. As Dahlia Lithwick writes in Slate: The U.S. Constitution didn't simply hatch out of an egg one morning. Like the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights was largely conceived to correct for failures of earlier systems. That's probably why the government has been frantically declassifying information on Padilla that wouldn't hold up in a courtroom, and releasing it to the news media in an effort to discredit him in the court of public opinion. At the same time, "the government has ruled that Padilla's attorneys cannot tell anyone what Padilla would say in answer to any government accusations because everything he told his lawyers is classified." [Nat Hentoff in The Village Voice] As my friend Rosefox recently wrote about the proposed searches of people and property in the MBTA, though it applies to these issues as well: I am sick and fucking tired of government agents and agencies claiming that the only way to protect people is to abrogate the civil liberties that they are also sworn to protect. They're wrong, and what we end up with is a gutted Constitution and dead people. Our soldiers are theoretically in Iraq and Afghanistan (anyone remember Afghanistan?) to give their lives in defense of liberty, justice, and the American way. I personally consider it the responsibility of every adult not in uniform to make sure that all three of those still exist when they come home.
Fanfic title up for grabs
Posted by Lis Riba at 8:54 AM
The Leaky Cauldron has transscribed a recent interview with David Thewlis. He describes Professor Lupin, the character he plays in the films, as: But he's basically the new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher...that's Arts, not arse. (laughter) Defence against the Dark Arse...I feel a sequel coming on(laughter). Defense Against the Dark Arse. Sounds more like a fanfic title to me. Anybody?
Fraud-ian slips
Posted by Lis Riba at 7:30 AM
In the past several days I saw two shocking and underreported stories about government work this administration has privatized. I don't think either story is getting near enough attention, so maybe you kind readers can help spread the word. Halliburton sends empty trucks crisscrossing Iraq, bilking government money and endangering military escorts This story first broke a few weeks ago but no one seems to be paying much attention:WASHINGTON - A dozen current and former truck drivers for a Halliburton Inc. subsidiary said they were directed to drive empty flatbed trucks crisscrossing Iraq more than 100 times this year, putting themselves and military escorts at risk for no apparent purpose. FOIA Requests Outsourced to Contractor in Abu Ghraib Scandal So I was looking through the Washington Post for something juicy to write about and fell upon this article about how the US Government is contracting out Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests because they have such an obscene backlog. They can't catch up with all the people who want to know stuff. Towards the end of the article, I read this:Contractors who have performed FOIA work for federal agencies include CACI International Inc. of Arlington and McNeil Technologies of Springfield.You may remember the name CACI International from the great classic Abu Ghraib torture scandal. They were the guys who had a staff member in charge of interrogation at the prison. So now they are also in charge of FOIA requests, rummaging through top secret government files. What else has this contractor been up to? Supposedly, nothing much. From the Richmond Times Dispatch:A defense contractor supplying civilian interrogators to the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is the subject of five government investigations, the company president said yesterday.continued at Change for America What kind of work are CACI contractors doing? According to the Washington Post: The analysts are involved in nearly every phase of answering a FOIA request -- retrieving documents, reviewing them for relevance, blacking out portions that pose security concerns and composing a response. But it is government officials who make the final decisions on what is released, Ayoub said. Are you outraged yet? Wednesday, June 09, 2004
All wet
Posted by Lis Riba at 9:15 PM
Well, the heat finally broke... into a thunderstorm. It's now pouring out. I hear regular rolls of thunder and the occasional flash of lightning. Thank goodness my current computer is a laptop (even if I no longer trust it to be mobile). The laptop battery means that the machine doesn't shut off when the power goes out, so brownouts don't bother it much at all, and it gives me a chance to save my work and close the machine properly if the outage looks to be a long one. And I still will have to pick Ian up from work sometime this evening. Fortunately he likes the wet t-shirt look.
Counterspin
Posted by Lis Riba at 5:20 PM
By the way, does anybody know what's going on with Counterspin by Hesiod? For a while, I was getting an image of a crying baby intermittenly with his most recent posts, but now it seems like there's no content but for that graphic.
Too darned hot
Posted by Lis Riba at 5:10 PM
I'm sweltering in here. Needless to say, our A/C is still in the basement, Ian's at work, and I can't move it on my own. Oh well, hopefully it will cool off as the sun goes down. And tomorrow is supposed to be much cooler. (Enough so that I'm afraid of catching a cold from the temperature drop, something I can be prone to.) Barely got any work done on the jobhunting front today. Made a couple phone calls, scanned the listings for any new openings, but that was about it. Tonight when it's cooler, I'm going to try writing those job letters, so I can take them to Kinkos for printing and get them in tomorrow's mail. Also meant to blog that I'll have to save money for September. Three new books in series I'm avidly following are coming out then:
And that's all after WorldCon (to which Ian and I bought memberships for several years back). Gd willing, I'll have a job long before then and can enjoy myself without worrying about the cost. For now, I skimmed thru Nancy Pearl's Book Lust yesterday, and took about two pages (in my steno pad) of books that sounded interesting. So I went to the library last night and picked up three or four. I had hoped the library would have Alfonso Cuaron's Little princess. Everybody's been praising it with respect to his work on Harry Potter, so I read the book and now want to see the film. Unfortunately, though the library catalog said the video was on shelf, it was nowhere to be found. And since the last recorded checkout ws four years ago, it's likely long lost. However, they did offer to get me a copy from another library. [I worry about videos from other libraries, since I'm never quite certain of other libraries' "rental" policies.] Anyway, I'm blathering now, so I'll get off the computer for the moment and hope things cool down a bit.
Minor miffs
Posted by Lis Riba at 2:30 PM
Just a few short tidbits I want to get off my chest... Sigh, Reagan isn't even in his grave and the rush to rename things in his honor proceeds apace. Republicans have revived the Reagan Dime Act, although they've generously offered that 50% of dimes can keep Roosevelt's picture. There are also moves for him to replace Hamilton on the $10 bill, or Andrew Jackson on the $20. I'm not sure whether the sponsors of those movements are working together -- do they want Reagan on both bills and the coin, or will the others concede if one of them passes? [Actually, I wouldn't mind the $20 so much, but that's because we really don't like Andrew "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!" Jackson.] If that isn't enough, Frist apparently wants to rename the Pentagon to "Ronald Reagan National Defense Building," and he's attaching a rider to an appropriations bill which would do just that. He also wants to call the Missile Defense Agency "Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Agency." That one, I have no objections to. In many respects, Star Wars/SDI was Reagan's baby, and I have no problem whatsoever with him getting the credit (or blame) for the entire project. For the second weekend in a row, both drive-ins within reasonable distance from our home are pairing movies I really want to see with movies I really don't want to see. I thought Milford might have a tolerable double-feature, Shrek 2 and Stepford Wives, but this weekend is our wedding anniversary, and the latter doesn't quite seem appropriate for the occasion. I don't want Ian getting any ideas. While in San Francisco, I finally got myself a new watch to replace my old pocket watch which finally died. This was a carabiner watch with a little flashlight. Really great until about two weeks ago it died. I'm going to take it to a watch shop and see if it's just a dead battery, but I'm worried by the fact that the flashlight still works. If the battery were dead, wouldn't they both fail? Or do they run on separate circuits? And if the watch is dead, I bought it in San Francisco, so I can't easily take it back to the store. Regardless, I'm really annoyed by it.
Relevant rulings?
Posted by Lis Riba at 2:10 PM
Needless to say, there's been a lot of discussion (nearly a third of the Boston LJ community, for example) about plans by the MBTA (the local public transit system) to conduct random bag & ID checks of people using the system. So many words have been written, many of them (she kvells) by Ian himself, that I don't feel much need to address it further. However, I expect an impending ruling by the Supreme Court, Hiibel v. Nevada, over whether people must show ID when cops demand it, will be very influential on how it shakes out. I also read an interesting article on SCOTUSblog about some of the latest revelations in the news, to wit: In summary, the news accounts have brought out the acknowledged abuse of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. military custody at Abu Ghraib prison, the accusations that torture may have been used on detainees at Guantanamo, the sudden release of previously classified details about the alleged terrorist plans of enemy combatant Jose Padilla, and, most recently, the discovery of a pile of government documents suggesting that Bush administration lawyers had devised arguments that would seem to justify, in a legal sense, the use of torture to obtain information from captured suspects. and whether these would have any effect on the Justices' deliberations on cases they haven't yet released rulings for. After all, as I mentioned previously, the administration deliberately held CBS back until after the oral arguments before the Court. And I realized, there are a number of major Court rulings due between now and the end of the month. There's Hiibel, of course. Padilla's right to a lawyer. The legal status of Guantanamo prisoners (which may be complicated by the recent DOJ memo on torture that makes the exact opposite argument re:Guantanamo's legal status as they argued in the court). There's still the matter of Cheney's energy commission and the extent of executive privilege. According to a list by Medill, the 22 cases remaining include two on Miranda rights, the Pledge of Allegiance, the legality of COPA, and many others... And we should get rulings on all of these within the next 21 days. These are some major bombshells, many of them relating to civil liberties, and besides the precedent and impact upon our daily lives, probably will impact the presidential race. Interesting times, people. Interesting times...
The heat of the moment
Posted by Lis Riba at 7:30 AM
Woke up ungodly early (for me) this morning due to the heat. [It broke 80 yesterday, and weather.com already puts the current temperature at over 70; my goodness! it's supposed to break 90 today!] So let's get an early start by checking this week's Free Will Astrology horoscope: Jean-Dominique Bauby was a 43-year-old editor when he suffered an unusual stroke. Though his brain remained undamaged, his entire body was paralyzed except for his left eye. Slowly he learned to communicate in code by blinking, and over the next two years he dictated a memoir. Feeling as if he were trapped in a diving bell, but with his imagination as free as a butterfly, he called his book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Critics have described it as "inspirational" and "a jewel." Bauby is your role model during this last difficult phase of your yearly cycle, Cancerian. Though you won't suffer from any physical affliction, your psychic turmoil may make you feel imprisoned and inaccessible. And yet I promise you that you can find a way to liberate your mind and convey luminous truths to the people who matter. Is it just me, or does this give you a terribly ominous feeling. In the meantime, I've been steadily applying for jobs. I don't want to say too much about which jobs I'm applying for. Not so much superstition, but in case a potential employer Googles for me, I don't want them discovering they are or are not among my top choices. Today's goal is to write up cover letters for all the postings I've found which don't provide email addresses or electronic forms, and get them printed up and in the mail. Also (well, I'll mention this one listing), the public library directly to our north has an opening for a Young Adult Librarian (that refers to subject matter, not age of applicant). Since I started tracking every book I read in the summer of 2000, about one-third of my reading has been from YA material, so I have a decent idea of what's out there and what to recommend. At any rate, since the library is so close (only 2.5 miles away), rather than impersonally mailing my resume, I want to head up there and chat with them. Anyway, since Ian and I were both up so early, and because I'm reading about all those big Iowa breakfasts in Postville, I've decided we can splurge and get breakfast at the local diner. [We haven't spent money on anything but the barest necessities since I saw the movie on Friday; we can treat ourselves this once.] Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Dewey or don't we?
Posted by Lis Riba at 6:30 PM
Via Justin du Coeur, who provides occasional updates on new and interesting public domain e-books: Recent eBooks from Project Gutenberg: Obviously, these have been superceded by newer versions, but for the curious and the cheap, these should prove interesting.
Culture of death?
Posted by Lis Riba at 2:40 PM
Well, apparently I wasn't the first to comment on viewing Reagan's memorial through the lens of Paul Wellstone's. Dimmy Karras is just one example I found since writing my previous post. For scorecard purposes, Greg Abbott listed some of the most impressive quotes: With a little Google work, I've found a number of eloquent expressions of outrage at the political exploitation of death from leading Republicans (the bolded text below is my emphasis). Also, I found an old post from Seeing the Forest pointing out "Republicans are complaining that Sen. Paul Wellstone's memorial service was broadcast on TV in Minnesota. They say it was giving 'free airtime' to Democrats." Personally, I think there's one major obstacle that may prevent Reagan's funeral from becoming an election tool: Nancy. Say what you will about her, she's very strongwilled when standing up for herself or her husband. She stood up in favor of stem cell research at a time the party leadership opposed it. She singlehandedly blocked attempts by the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project to put Ronnie's likeness on the dime and to name a university after him. [Partisans are now pushing for the ten dollar bill again, as well as suggesting Reagan could get half the dimes, shared with Roosevelt.] We probably don't know how many other such projects she's put the kibosh on, and I worry what will happen when she dies and there's nobody of influence to put that kind of check on Norquist's Reagan idolators. Anyway, as Daily Kos wrote yesterday, "Well, they set the standards. It'll be our job to hold them to those standards."
Things to come
Posted by Lis Riba at 12:10 PM
Considering the way Republicans manufactured outrage over alleged politicizing of Paul Wellstone's memorial, they wouldn't dare use Reagan's funeral as an excuse for any politicking. Right? Right?? Oh, I forgot. The modern Republican party seems to be built on hypocrisy. Well, at the very least, when they do politicize the funeral and memorial services, voices on the left ought to call them on it, pointing out the contrast with their own statements barely two years ago.
Job listing nuisances
Posted by Lis Riba at 9:35 AM
(1) The popularity of phrases like "code libraries" and "script libraries" in the computer industry, or "chemical libraries" and "code libraries" in pharmeceuticals. (2) The fact that every single listing at MIT, including custodian, includes mention of their "educational resources, sophisticated computing environment, rich libraries." Makes keyword searching very annoying... Monday, June 07, 2004
Help wanted
Posted by Lis Riba at 6:25 PM
If you can recommend for or against any contracting or temp agencies or headhunters in the Boston area I would greatly appreciate it. I'm already listed with Wontawk (library-specific), but I would greatly appreciate any other companies you know of. Come on, I know some of you reading this have used contract agencies or temp agencies within the last year; surely you can name for me at least one good (or bad) company!
These are the jokes, folks
Posted by Lis Riba at 6:20 PM
From Seeing the forest: President Bush gets out of his helicopter in front of the White House carrying a baby pig under each arm. From Skippy: the white house - 2005
Morning meditation
Posted by Lis Riba at 9:20 AM
There is no such thing as the job fairy, who will magically gift me with a marvelous new job. It takes a lot of hard work to find a new job, and nobody else can do it for me, no matter how much I wish it were otherwise. <sigh> TOP |
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