Essential Interview?

This story was on my newsfeed this evening.

If you don't want to click on the link, allow me to condense the story for you.

An Orem, Utah woman applied for a job selling essential oils. (And today isn't a good day to get me started on that particular topic, but I will say that anyone who's willing to just start splashing oils around without researching isn't the most thoughtful individual out there...)

The guy told her that his office was being remodeled, so she'd have to come to his house for the interview.

Then, at some point during the interview, he told her that she was going to have to test out the oils. Told her she needed to take a bath.

She GOT NAKED and TOOK A BATH at this guy's house.
Am I the only person who would think it's odd for the guy to expect that?
And am I the only person who'd say, "Hell no!" to the interview conditions?

I mean, look at the guy.
Really.

While she was in the tub, she 'saw a recording device' under the bathroom door.
Apparently waited until the device went away, then got out of the tub, dressed, and left.

Mr. Peterson isn't too bright, I guess. *If* I were planning to record someone like that, I think I'd hide the camera somewhere in the bathroom beforehand.
But I'm new to the essential oils business.

Good grief.

Yep, seems about right...

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I am confused, though. If they gave a copy of the draft to Nastie... no, Yastie, then why do they need me?

Silly spammers.

In that same batch of spam was a letter from "Angela" who 'heard I have large male pakage'. Yes, that's how it was spelled.

I don't have a male package, although I do have access to one...

I'm no masterdebater.

The whole discussion started because F was so discouraged that two Colorado legislators had been recalled for screwing the electorate. The responses I didn't make and sort of wish I had are in blue.
F: Well, to be honest, nearly everyone had a gun before; this is the the West.The measures passed weren't restrictive at all. Now politicians will be afraid to vote for even mild restrictions on guns.

Isn't it about time for politicians to start listening to the people who (pretend with me, won't you?) ELECTED them?? Not restrictive? Of course that's your opinion.

B: No guns allowed in this Texas home. But, we are definitely a minority household. Eww! Guns are all.. icky and stuff!! She later commented about having had to take a gun from one of the people she counseled and how horrid it was to ::shudder::: touch one!

F: We have a shotgun somewhere, that my husband has used once to go skeet shooting. I grew up in rural Idaho. Everyone had guns, but they also had common sense.

A: I live in the country and we have guns - I don't even pay attention to what we have. A shotgun and rifle maybe? I know there's a little pistol somewhere. They're for snake and harmful critters only - but I hope I never am here by myself and have to use one because it'd be like Barney Fife! I hope I'm providing a good visual for ya'll!!

F: The shakiest gun in the West?

A: let's just say it would probably be entertaining to anyone watching! Including the rattlesnake!

T: We have one, home protection only. We don't carry it anywhere and since we don't have kids we don't worry too much about it. When the niece and nephew (3 years old) come to visit we lock it up!

A: ^^ absolutely. We never have kids out here anymore, they're all grown up. I know, F. There's just no getting the right wing out of their delusional bubble....and we have to live with them. I just about have a stroke every time I hear their silly screams about "outlawing guns" "taking our guns away"....Jeez - if they could get a passionate about an issue that IS true and that DOES hurt our people...too much to ask of them.
How stupid do you have to be to think that this issue is a 'right wing' thing? I believe in our rights, but I'm not a right winger. Dork.
Mental: I know I'm in the minority regarding this group at least, but I don't care. It is not the business of any branch of the government to regulate what firearms I do or do not have. It is personal business. When a legislator oversteps his or her bounds by voting however the fuck they want instead of doing what the majority of their constituents want, they are not doing their job and need to get the hell out.

F: The government regulates all sorts of industries and products in the interest of public safety. Guns should be no different.

Mental: When they get guns away from criminals with their 'common sense' laws, you might get some agreement from me. But did you know that people who have had depression or have had any anxiety medication are precluded from owning guns in several states, and that in California those are grounds for confiscation? That's not 'in the interest of public safety'. And I really don't care to argue gun control, my point is that when a legislator no longer votes the way his or her constituents want, they're not representing them. They need to be recalled and get their arrogant asses handed to them.

F: There will always be legislators that vote in a way that some of their constituents don't like in a two more party system. Recalls are meant to deal with fraud or corruption, not general dissatisfaction.
Oh, you're the arbiter of why people should or should not recall an elected slimeball! If they're not doing the fucking job, they shouldn't be collecting the salary or having the perks that go along with it. Dumbass.

Mental: I disagree. When I have an asshole working for me (or in this case against me) he or she needs to find a new job. Abridgement of my constitutional rights, however, is fraud. As they swore to uphold that same Constitution. You know, that pesky 'shall not be infringed' part.

F: So no one that disagrees with you is allowed to hold office? Dafuq??? What? Huh?????
Mental: I just scanned everything I've said. This, "So no one that disagrees with you is allowed to hold office?" was not there. When the majority of a legislator's constituents say 'here is how I want you to vote' and that legislator doesn't represent the majority, he or she is not doing the job. The legislators in many states who have decided to go with the current fashion statement of wiping their asses with the Constitution of the United States should not be allowed to hold office. This applies to the euphemistically labeled 'gun control' as well as many other examples. They're not representing anyone but themselves in many cases, they're being paid to do a job they're failing to do. Whether they disagree with me has no bearing on what they've sworn to do.

F: In the case of the Colorado legislators, they were representing the majority that elected them. Sure they were. That's why they were recalled. Because the majority liked them. Uh huh. They were doing everything just right. They were GOLDILOCKS legislators!
Mental: Well, if they're being recalled, evidently they were mistaken about what the majority wanted.

F:How is representing those who voted for you in any way fraud?
Or not doing what they were elected to do?

Mental: The fraud is voting to infringe the Constitutional rights of the Americans they were elected to represent. They weren't elected to take away people's rights.

And here's the funny thing. I don't even HAVE a gun. Don't have a need for or want one. But when they take an oath to uphold the Constitution, they probably should do exactly that.

A: I just have never seen anything in any legislation that makes me in any way whatsoever concerned that anyone is even trying to pass a law that would outlaw or collect my guns. I just haven't. Even assault rifles - yes, limiting access to those, but not even trying to collect the ones out there. I know very well someone who has one of those, and even though he's a good friend of ours, I do have to say when he gets drunk and his real feelings come out - he scares the crap out of me. Mental- I hear what you're saying, but a question I wrestle with is the issue of where one's rights end because they infringe on someone else's rights. For example, I do not, capital do not, want to have people walking down the isle at the grocery store, movie theater, any public place with a rifle strapped over their shoulder. I will leave that area immediately and that infringes on my right to buy groceries, go to a movie, whatever. I don't know that this guntoter is sane and just has to feel macho and carry his gun around ( small dick ) or if it's a crazy person about to go off and start shooting people. If they are all over the place, no one will know. No one will know when to run and hide. Texas just passed a new law that lowers the hours of training requirement for getting a concealed carry license from something in the high teens to only 4, so I'm getting a little concerned about all of the concealed guns out there, too, which I never was before. They are making it easier and easier for any nutcase out there to buy and carry guns. I do find this trend disturbing. I'm not rabid about it - yet -but disturbed.
The argument that the lawful types who carry guns want to be able to protect us if some crazy opens up. Right. That's what I want - crossfire from people with 4 hrs of gun training and cops showing up and having no idea who the bad guys are and who the good guys are. Huge ass recipe for disaster here. And further limits my right to come and go in public because I will not be able to recognize if a threat is there. It will always look like a threat is there.
And my understanding is that there are no qualifications whatsoever for rifles and such, not even 4 hours of training.
Granted, Texas has turned into one big open-door insane asylum, so some paranoia is a good thing. New law: a gun license counts as voter id, but not a university student ( or I'm sure faculty) id. Now that's seriously screaming red fucked up!

T: I agree with the constitution. Anyone that wants to own a musket or join the military should be allowed to!
Oh and don't forget, even blind people are getting guns! Nothing can possibly go wrong here, right?
http://www.cnn.com/.../09/08/us/gun-permits-blind/index.html

Mental: As I said, I am not interested in debating gun ownership. Don't want one? Don't get one. It's none of your (generic you) business what other people are doing. The Constitution says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Period. I don't give a rat's ass what kind of guns they had then or what kind they have now.

A: got no problem with them either.....as long as they are members of- the very first words- "A well regulated militia"...... I wonder, would a well regulated militia in today's world be like the Texas National Guard? I wonder if police forces are considered militias? Kind of a different subject, but I'm curious! I don't consider those "Patriot" militias to be "well ordered", but maybe they would count. Don't know.

Mental: And since we're splitting hairs, the well regulated militia were people who were standing up against a tyrannical government that no longer represented them. Get a bunch of people together who are tired of being shit on and they'll regulate themselves pretty well. Become that militia. Which they have every right to do.

A: Oh, I was referring to assault type weapons. I guess if I was a fly on the wall it'd be pretty amusing ( in a sick way ) to watch a bunch of people calling themselves a militia take on the American marines, special forces, seals, Navy,Army, Air Force....that'd be about a 5 minute fight, at best. I just don't see that argument at all - as a reality, instead of theory/principal....

T: Mental, if you are talking about people rising up against our government there's a lot easier and safer way to do that. No guns even involved. The wonderful democratic process. If you need guns to do it, like in Syria, Somalia, etc. Because you surely won't be "free" if that's your plan. Folks thinking they can take out our government with an AR15 are smoking something serious. 'Err one knows what AR15's are for......mowing down citizens in theatres and 6 year olds in school.

This is where I should have just stopped trying. Anyone who really thinks this way doesn't respond to reason and logic. And I fucking know that!! WHY did I keep going? The wonderful democratic process. Jesus wept.
Mental: The 'wonderful' democratic process where only the wealthy can run or ever have a chance to be elected? Where not one of those rich people has ever had to choose between buying a box of tampons or a gallon of milk or trying to pay for the medicine for the baby's ear infection two days before payday?

The 'wonderful' democratic process where the results of the election have been announced before the people in my state have had their votes counted?

Yeah, fuck that.

T: So your answer is to form a militia and shoot them all?
Look, no one said it was perfect by any means but if we fall to the point of killing people we disagree with we are literally (and I do mean literally) another Syria.
FUCK! Jesus fuck!! NO! Did you study to become this stupid? Where do you even come up with a twisted dumb fucking thing like that??
But no. I kept trying to reason with this person. I suppose at this point we could start considering that I'm the idiot here. ::sigh::
Mental: No, that's not my answer. That is the reason a militia could be formed. I don't plan to shoot anyone. I look at the fucks running this country and wish things upon them like penile erosion and hope they end up looking like the picture they hide in the attic ala Dorian Gray. I don't wish violence on any of them. Mostly I try to dismiss them from my universe, sort of the same way I've been dismissed from them.

T: OK, good because for every citizen killed by assault weapons there have been 0 politicians killed by them (horribly inefficient). A militia for any other reason than national defense is a fairy tale, won't legitimately happen. But meanwhile civilians dying everyday. Back to square 1 on this topic.

J: I wish there were no guns, no war, no fighting...that is the vision I hold for the world I want to live in....maybe not in this lifetime, but I believe...
Aww, isn't that cute! If you just wish/believe hard enough... And lollipops! And unicorns! And let's be all hopey changey!!

Mental: Civilians are dying in huge numbers from medical errors, car wrecks, cirrhosis, heart attacks, cancer, electrocution, falling... whatever. (People DIE... ALL. THE. TIME. It's sort of inevitable.) Of course you're conveniently leaving out the fact that most upper level politicians are protected by layers of armed guards.

My favorite example of "Look at what a fucking moron *I* am" is the fairly recent bullshit from Joe 'buy a shotgun and fire two blasts' Biden.
Mental: I love the way ol' folksy Joe's handler is nearly shitting a brick at his remarks.

Buy a shotgun!

T: "Of course you're conveniently leaving out the fact that most upper level politicians are protected by layers of armed guards. "
Actually Mental, I am not leaving that out at all. That is EXACTLY what I was referring to above when I said militias serve no purpose for taking out our government. Won't happen. The only purpose for assault rifles is to kill innocent civilians.

Yes, that's what happens ALL. THE. TIME. I wonder if this person has ever considered how many guns are out there vs how many are used to commit any sort of crime. And hey, doofus, the AR-15 is quite often found in the hands of law enforcement. They need them to use in their continuing quest to kill innocent civilians.
Mental: The purpose of what you're calling an assault rifle (consult teh google to learn about what's out there, the nomenclature, and the purposes of the different varieties) is self protection. I doubt seriously that waving a piece of paper at a criminal bent on destruction "You can't shoot me!! Your gun is ILLEGAL!!!" is going to stop him. Or them. But you can sure as hell take them out in your own defense if you're armed. Remember, when seconds count, law enforcement is only minutes away.

T: Uh, Mental I never said you have to wave a piece of paper.....where did you get that? I even acknowledged above we have a gun here at the house for defense. You can bet someone breaking in here won't be getting paper.

Mental: " The only purpose for assault rifles is to kill innocent civilians." I'm assuming you mean AK-47. (And I deliberately made that error. I know what an AR-15 is, and that's the one that scares the hell out of people. I made the error on purpose to see if the people I was talking to actually had a clue. They did not.) Which does not fit the definition of 'assault rifle'. And I'm glad you're prepared to defend yourself, everyone should be. But if it's more than one person and they're hopped up on something, good luck stopping them with only a few shots. (That's theoretical, of course, I have no idea what you're packin' )

But the current crop of gun control legislators has NO clue about guns, they don't know what they're defining, they base their knee-jerk reactions on the fact that some guns LOOK scarier than others, and it's still NOT THEIR BUSINESS what I have or do not have.

T: I'm not into the technical definition of what an assault rifle is and isn't. Yet you are willing to infringe upon the Constitutional rights of the citizens of the United States when you don't even know what the fuck you're talking about? I could probably side the the President Bill Clinton definition when he signed the last assault weapon ban. I really agreed with that! (I really agreed with something I have NO FUCKING IDEA about! But it was like, really awesome and stuff!! And Bill Clinton had a BUDGET SURPLUS and he was like, dreamy!!)

An aside about that budget surplus thing that has always just bugged the shit out of me. Some people actually believe that it means that the government was running in the black! Out of debt! When you point out to these folks that 'budget surplus' simply means that for one golden moment in time they spent less than they stole from us, they stubbornly and obtusely deny it. Still T talking here: I have a S&W .38 revolver. It would put anyone except Superman on his ass. No worries at my house! My concern is for innocent civilians in movie theaters and children in schools. I mean why draw the like at assault weapons? The constitution doesn't say anything about machine guns either....machine guns ok? Where is the line?

Mental: Why aren't we PROTECTING our children? Instead of making schools into shooting galleries?

T: I agree! Protect them by banning assault weapons? Have a better idea?

Mental: Yes. I do. Since it's already illegal to SHOOT CHILDREN and other defenseless humans and the fucking criminals and insane pieces of shit who've done it DID IT ANYWAY. Had someone fired back, those cowardly turds would have STOPPED SHOOTING CHILDREN. Yes. Arm people and let them defend those they're charged to protect.

T: So.....after he fires off a couple rounds (which on an assault rifle can be done in less than 1 second) someone pull their own gun and shoot the person with the assault rifle? Ok so between the bad guy shooting, the crossfire, the chaos, the cops possibly getting confused on the actual bad guy, how many dead? SMH.

Mental: Oh, I'm sorry. By all means, let the shooter continue his rampage through the school building, shooting at everything that moves as long as he has ammo. Silly to try to stop him.In fact, let's just put the weaker children in his path. Save him the trouble.

T: Or just ban his gun.

Mental: Sure. Let's ban it. Like drinking and driving. Let's make a law about that, too. Oh, and the cowardly piece of shit responsible for Connecticut did not even use his "assault rifle". While we're at it, let's make laws against robbery. And stealing stuff from people's houses. And rape. I think for sure we shouldn't have that anymore. Let's make it illegal to use a blowtorch on your neighbor or his house. Let's make a ton of new laws. Utopia!! It's coming soon!! All due to the magic of democracy!!!

T: Anything that can take out 20 kids in minutes with no reloading should be banned. There are already laws against those other crimes. Maybe I was referring to assault rifle too generically.

Mental: It's against the law to shoot children, too. At least where I live.

T: It is everywhere

Mental: And I would like to point out that you can take as long as you like to reload when the people you're shooting at are unarmed and cowering.

T: Or they could run.

Mental: uh huh.

Let's have a race. You hand me an unloaded gun and the bullets, then you take off running away from me. I bet when I fire at you, the bullet is faster than you are. Okay. While I am shooting at the guy who's killing kids, I'll stop when he's about to shoot your child. "I'm sorry, but your mommy wants you to run away, she doesn't want me to protect you this way."

A: From what I've seen, I haven't seen anyone banning anything at this particular time. Tightening purchasing background checks and such, yes. But I could be real wrong - it varies from state to state, right? And no - I'm not deluded - banning any weapon that's made is not going to keep every single lunatic from getting his hands on one. I really think a whole lot of this whole "banning " debate is propagated by the NRA for gun manufacturers - like the bullet scare - makes people run out and buy them so guess who makes lots of money. Mental - please believe I'd be right with you if they were actually every going to try to confiscate guns. You and I are a little apart in our view on this, but not as far as our rhetoric makes it sound.They ARE confiscating guns! They're taking them from law abiding citizens in a lot of places. California has some pretty amazing shit going on right now. Ever been on an anti depressant or anti anxiety medication? They have funded a task force to come and forcibly take your guns from you!

Mental: I'd like to say, however, that I appreciate the civil conversation.
I don't agree that the debate is manufactured since many of our elected officials, they themselves protected literally by an army, have said that is their goal. I'm trying to recall where the article was, but it was a breakdown of which horrendous mass killings were perpetuated by "people" who would have passed a background check.

And making something illegal will not make people stop doing it. Never has, anyway.

There are a lot of people in charge who believe that all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
I think I'd add to that that everyone is a target, but some are easier targets than others. And I'm really, really tired of the shit that happens because people are literally not allowed to defend themselves by fighting fire with fire.

T: where are people not allowed to defend themselves??? Like A said I'd be standing up against that! The NRA has so many people convinced this administration is out to confiscate guns.....I haven't actually seen anyone even broach the topic but that hasn't slowed the rhetoric. FYI making something illegal does in fact make people stop doing it. Drunk driving laws are a perfect example. The rates of drunk driving has dropped dramatically.

Mental: People in schools aren't allowed to defend themselves against a gunman. In the county I live in, they've decided that no one can carry a loaded weapon. Not that it's stopping the gangs and other criminal assholes. But law abiding citizens aren't allowed by this new law to be able to carry a loaded weapon. I know several people personally who are ignoring that, of course. As they should, since county government doesn't get to trump federal law. Drunk driving laws are a joke. There are people who've been caught 20 times who are out driving again... suspended license, no license... whatever. The sister of one of my friends was killed a few years back at 10 in the morning the day before Thanksgiving by a guy who'd been caught and convicted for drunk driving eleven times.
Rape is illegal. Theft is illegal. Murder is generally illegal, unless you ask Jesse Jackson, then it's just 'frowned upon.' Those crimes happen with regularity every day. Making something illegal does not make people stop doing it. At least on my planet.

Lurkypants: "At least on my planet"? What the HELL, Mental? Is this what you consider a civil tone? Because it just sounds shitty and nihilistic to me.
Lurky, you may want to look up 'nihilist'.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Mental: Making something illegal does NOT make people stop doing it. Asserting that 'making something illegal does in fact make people stop doing it' isn't factual, and although I knew better, I attempted a dialog. I don't really care if you like my tone, that's more your problem than mine.

Lurkypants: I only mentioned a civil tone because you thanked everyone upthread for keeping a civil tone. So I figured that it was something of a priority for you. No worries. Carry on.

We interrupt this thread to show how reasonable we're being and how you're not. Nanny nanny boo boo.

Perky: I'm reading this discussion and getting more than a little uncomfortable. I have a question for Mental, whom I know personally and understand her sarcasm, if not her cynicism. Mental, let's look at the logical conclusion of your argument: I want to buy a rocket launcher. I want to set it up at a 90% angle, with a trajectory that goes directly through my neighbor's bedroom window. I like the way it looks in my back yard, and if I want to can switch it around to face.... oh, how about that elementary school directly adjacent to your house. I can stockpile shells for it. i promise, officer, I will never use those shells. I can't imagine why my neighbors and the school children's parents are so upset. After all, it's my Constitutional Right to own this weapon, the corresponding shells, and to aim it wherever i damn well please.

Mental: What? Rocket launcher, huh? Okay, I am officially done.

Rocket. Launcher.
Jesus H. Christ.
I did give up. When I said I was done, I stopped responding. And then I left the group because I was stupid to allow myself to be added in the first place. The person who added me to the group stumped for John Kerry and his smarmy smirking sidekick in the 2004 election. She got all starstruck and giddy. I think she had the screaming thigh sweats, personally. And he lost. And she was so devastated that she did not leave her house for a week. Of course she's not going to be logical. And she will surround herself with other illogical people. It makes her feel more...normal? I really have no idea why she invited me to join the group, really. I am not one of them.

I just don't have the patience or pain tolerance required to continue banging my head against the bricks.
It gets me nowhere.

Although parts of the discussion were temporarily amusing, it mostly left me feeling hopeless.

These people and their clones are running the country right now.

Perky:  Im not being an ass. I'm asking -- just how far does this go? What if YOUR house was the one adjacent to the guy with the rocket launcher, and it was aimed at Alyssa's window. Would you not be freaking upset?
 why "done"? It's a serious question. I'm not being a jerk. I'm trying to understand the perameters of your argument. I think instilling fear in other citizens needs to be addressed. Because seeing these guys walking around with machine-gun capability, just because they darn well aren't gonna let the gubmint tell them what to do... that (I believe, understandably) frightens the shit out of me. What's the difference between a rocket launcher and an assault weapon? Because you're suggesting that a right to bear arms shall not be infringed.

Suggesting? Are you fucking kidding me?? The Constitution of the United States of America is NOT a suggestion. 

But clearly, at least to me, there are most certainly instances when it's in the citizens' best interest to be protected from someone who believes they can own any weapon they want, and can do with it what they want (including, apparently, scare the heck out of other law-abiding citizens) without being held accountable for the fear he's instilling. Here's my take on this. All straw arguments aside, when the Constitution was written, the intent was to allow citizens to keep weapons (18th century weapons) and assemble to fight whatever tyranny might come their way. Throughout our country's history, ordinary citizens have owned and used firearms to protect, to defend, to shoot threatening critters. There was no overreaching fear in the masses of those weapons nor their uses. But in the past, oh..... 5 years, the fear has become whipped into a frenzy. It's ridiculous. And it's scary, far-scarier than the threat of a lone gunman going berserk. It's overkill (no pun intended).
And have you given any thought to exactly WHO is whipping up that frenzy? Who's spouting the rhetoric and taking advantage of every crime that fits your standards to push your bullshit agenda?
T: I noticed the tone too. Thank you. I kept it nice anyway because, well, that's who I am. Oh yes. You're just a peach. You're so sweet that I bet you don't even eat sugar. Perky, I specifically asked Mental about machine guns and didn't get a reply. I specifically did not reply. Because it was a stupid fucking question and had nothing to do with what I was talking about. I mean, rocket launchers and machine guns were about as common as nukes back in the days the Constitution was written. Should we all be allowed those too? I still stick with my first comment, anyone that wants a musket should be able to have one. Two even! Mental, making something illegal does in fact make people stop doing things. Otherwise why have ANY laws at all? No drunk driving laws, no murder laws, no laws at all. I mean what's the difference?

Perky: I understand Mental's comment, in that those of us who are law-respecting citizens will follow the laws, but those who aren't law-respecting citizens won't, necessarily.

T: But is that not in fact the way it is with ALL laws?

WTF, over??

::transmission coming in garbled:::

I had a telephone conference with my attorney on Tuesday morning. And first she said we're going to end up reopening the claim... followed by legal language I don't have a fucking clue about.

Then she said the doctor who did the medical evaluation said I had 50% injury/50% fat and arthritic like a decrepit old beagle. Although perhaps the technical term for me, with my sad face would be Basset hound. (She didn't actually say that, she used legal language that made me even more clueless. Never mentioned dogs once.)

At the end of the phone call I don't know a whole lot more than I did at the beginning, but do have a couple people to talk to about it to help me clarify.

I am a lot confused, aggravated, knees are sore but better, and I'm tired of all the stupid that just comes spewing out from unexpected sources all the time. I'm also stressed out and taking Imodium because of the stress.
Stress does weird things to me.
Even when I'm on drugs to derail the crazy train.
It causes that wait I talked about before.

On the good side.
It's a four day work week. (school district budget reduction day on Friday) followed by a four day weekend.
And not that I'm counting, but after that, there are 12 more 5 AM mornings until school is OUT for the summer.

I've been doing this job for two school years now.

I had a hard time making the decision to move from my old school. It was a lot of pressure for me at first, but I'm very glad now that I made the move. I have mentioned once or twice here that I love my job, right? I do miss working with Sunshine, but am still pretty grateful that I had the opportunity to learn so much from her.

Also. When I was going to sleep on Monday night, I happened to discover a long whisker growing on the left front of my neck. And I promised myself that I'd pull it out first thing in the morning. And damned if I didn't check for it every time I rolled over all night long. Obsess much?

Yes. I pulled it out before I even peed on Tuesday morning. Before you cheer, realize that another one will be along to take its place in a week or two.

And what the hell is the deal with the adolescent skin? I swear, between the whiskers, the moley growths and the goddamn zits I don't know if I am a man, woman, something other, or nothing at all.

I'm going with 'tired woman' for now.