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I Am So Popular: I Yam What I Yam
So, I had a job interview this week. I have no idea how I did. Maybe I was impressively assertive, just the right amount of I-am-so-fabulous-yet-appropriately-humble proclamations emitting from my piehole. Or perhaps I fool myself. Maybe I was way too Jersey, and that what I hope came across as confidence instead sounded like Yo, you give me the job or I breaka you face. Either way, it was an interesting exercise and gave me a chance to reflect on a few things while I wait to hear back if I got the gig.
Do you remember that scene in Bladerunner where the investigator is sitting across from a replicant but he’s not sure if the guy is a replicant so he asks a question designed to prompt a certain response that will reveal the truth? I believe the question was, Tell me about your mother. And the replicant says, My mother? I’ll tell you about my mother. And then he blows the guys to smithereens laying the groundwork for Harrison Ford to, among other things, spend the rest of the flick lusting after Sean Young while the rest of us drool over Daryl Hannah. (I mean, really, was she hot or what?)
News Bits
Jobless numbers up, again. Unemployed get access to free Viagra. What better to do with all that free time? We're so broke, we're eating roadkill. Clinton (Bill) makes snarky comment at Cheney. Even Sony feels the recession. Awful: motorcyclist killed in Buda yesterday when a dump truck ran over him. Westheimer Apartments' fire report released.
C'mon, Austin [News Bits]
10 good reasons why you should vote on Saturday. New unemployment claims drop. Prejean keeping it classy. Now, someone take away her title. Kthxbai. Santa Barbara still on fire. Infuriating story on dumped dogs in Malaysia. Do you read your news online? (Ahem!) Get ready to pay for it. Texas smoking ban bill about to die.
I Am So Popular: Relax (Don't Do It)
I watched the inauguration with a large group of very enthusiastic people. We stood and cheered the new president on the TV, knowing that at long last the war criminals were gone and that finally—finally—everything was going to be alright. Sure enough, that evening I arrived home to discover the immediate personal impact of Obama on my life. The dogs had learned algebra and French over the course of the day, my bank account was bursting at the seams, there were fresh cut flowers in hand-blown vases in every room of the house, and, in fact, the house itself had doubled in size.
Wow. And that was just Day One.
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