Beginnings and endings
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kangeikoHmmmm. Not a single woman on that list.
Last day of work has been interesting. Leaving drinks were sedate but lovely, with much tequila and gossip taking place. People have been so sweet today, with lots of random people I once worked with ages ago coming up to chat. And the Starbucks guys gave me free caramel macchiattos today, in honour of me being apparently fantastic. So that was nice.
Also nice has been my former boss/supervisor, who I always liked anyway (she's the one in charge of my largest client, rather than the supervisor who does my appraisals). She offered her services in signing off all of my forms because she noticed that my actual supervisor is off having meetings all day today (no skin off *my* nose, it saves awkward conversations) and wanted to make sure that I wasn't panicking. And has also agreed to be my reference. And she's lovely and bubbly and sweet and took me to meet Alan Rickman so, really, there's no bad here.
Also had my first Arabic lesson yesterday, and learnt more than I thought was possible in two hours. Entirety of the alphabet (individual letters and cursive (joined up) letters, and did you know that they look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT depending on where they are in the word? And bear no resemblance to the printed letters? Yup. Good times.), greetings and small-talk, introductions, vocatives, and how to fend off an overly-amorous former State Department employee over here doing his Masters and about one overly-friendly comment away from getting my boot in his face. Why is it always me??
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Giving up internets for a while while broadband is reconnected. Should hopefully have a phoneline this evening, so internets to follow soon.
Last day of work has been interesting. Leaving drinks were sedate but lovely, with much tequila and gossip taking place. People have been so sweet today, with lots of random people I once worked with ages ago coming up to chat. And the Starbucks guys gave me free caramel macchiattos today, in honour of me being apparently fantastic. So that was nice.
Also nice has been my former boss/supervisor, who I always liked anyway (she's the one in charge of my largest client, rather than the supervisor who does my appraisals). She offered her services in signing off all of my forms because she noticed that my actual supervisor is off having meetings all day today (no skin off *my* nose, it saves awkward conversations) and wanted to make sure that I wasn't panicking. And has also agreed to be my reference. And she's lovely and bubbly and sweet and took me to meet Alan Rickman so, really, there's no bad here.
Also had my first Arabic lesson yesterday, and learnt more than I thought was possible in two hours. Entirety of the alphabet (individual letters and cursive (joined up) letters, and did you know that they look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT depending on where they are in the word? And bear no resemblance to the printed letters? Yup. Good times.), greetings and small-talk, introductions, vocatives, and how to fend off an overly-amorous former State Department employee over here doing his Masters and about one overly-friendly comment away from getting my boot in his face. Why is it always me??
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Giving up internets for a while while broadband is reconnected. Should hopefully have a phoneline this evening, so internets to follow soon.
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:43 pm (UTC)A agree it is quite disappointing, but I never had him pegged for a feminist candidate anyhow, and my cynical hat says that he might be trying to fill the place with Acceptable White Males because surely to gosh America can't cope with too much change at once?
See you tonight?
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Date: 2008-11-07 02:25 pm (UTC)I appear to have had too many caramel macchiattos. Awesomefantasticsauce seems to be a perfectly reasonable word at this point. Help. Quick.
A agree it is quite disappointing, but I never had him pegged for a feminist candidate anyhow, and my cynical hat says that he might be trying to fill the place with Acceptable White Males because surely to gosh America can't cope with too much change at once?
They better be liberal AWMs, is all I'm saying (well, American liberal, which makes them, hmmm, a little more conservative than the Conservatives?).
1. Global Warming, 2. Development & Debt, 3. Gender issues. He better get moving on at least 2 out of 3 of the above. I care not for this thing you call 'global economic crisis' and the ten million wars America's waging. The above 3 matter a great deal more to me.
Plus a few awesomefantasticsauce female appointees. Like, say one or two Supreme Court Justices.
See you tonight?
Yes. For food, definitely, but will possibly pass on the drinks, as I appear to require naps like most 3-year olds. Or 93-year-olds. I'm either regressing or going senile, I don't know which. We meeting up on Weds to do Erica-style glitter and pasting?
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Date: 2008-11-07 04:13 pm (UTC)We should probably arrange time/place continuum in which to do this. Let us bump diaries tonight.
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Date: 2008-11-07 04:15 pm (UTC)I noticed a few women...
Date: 2008-11-11 03:10 pm (UTC)Susan Rice for UN ambassador...
A possible role for Samantha Power, although she had to resign from the campaign...
Janet Napolitano for Dept Justice...
and Kathleen Sebelius for Human Health and Services.
Admittedly there are a *lot* more guys on the list, but five women is not *no* women (and interestingly, the writeup on Pritzker does not mention her gender; it calls her a "billionaire tycoon". yay! Women get to be billionaire tycoons without someone having to call them the modern equivalent of tycoonesses! I saw that her first name was Penny and thought she might be a woman, so I googled her and she is.)