oh what a political morning

CNN carries the odd news that pundits scored Bush only a little below Kerry, while the CNN clicking audience scored Kerry as a much clearer winner. (At least as of when I looked at it first thing this morning. It may have changed by the time you look at it. I think the Quick Vote poll, here has changed since 6AM.)

( derien's ramblings regarding the debate )

I was not impressed with Ms. Magazine. They sent out a spam this morning asking people to respond to a poll on the debate, but in order to get the results of the poll you apparently have to donate money to Ms. As if. And when I chose to give them no personal information or money they shuttled me to a page where all the links were broken.

I need to go think about something useful, to clear my head of all this politics. Something edifying and pure. Like Jeeves/Wooster slash. There, I can feel my brain mellowing out already. :) I think I'll go read LJ for a while.

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*wills indeedsir to have new posts!*

what is all that racket?

thump-BUMP! Yyyyyyaaaaaaoooooo! Yyyyyyaaaaaooooo!

The neighbors probably think I torture this cat, but as far as I can tell she's playing.

edited to add: On the other hand, maybe eor is right and she likes the bed made. I made the bed and now she's curled up asleep on it. Perhaps she was just complaining that I needed to do some housework.

BTW, anyone else been having LJ repeatedly log them out for no particular reason? I can't tell what I'm doing to cause me to have to keep logging in.

le sigh

I want to write Jeeves/Wooster smut, but I'm intimidated. I don't actually know the original fandom well enough, and all the fanfic I've read has been so very good. Not to mention I really should finish some of the WIPs I have started in many other fandoms. Am I ADD?

performance review at work

I had my yearly performance review day before yesterday. Glowing would be the word, I think. The Supervisor who reviewed me is encouraging me to become a trainer or lead, and then asked if there were any other goals I'd like to set. I said no, that was fine by me. I actually did start getting a little excited about it while I was talking with her, but now I think sanity has returned. I don't think I want the garbage that goes with that. Casper the Ghostman directed my attention to an article, today, on how one gets ahead faster in your job if you don't care about your co-workers or your quality of work. I can't find it right now, but the basic gist was if you're concentrating on your work and your co-workers you forget to brownnose your superiors enough. I quite offendedly proclaimed to him that this society is completely backward.

While I was searching for the article which Ghostman pointed out I found this article on CNN about receivers of the Ig Nobel Prize. I was interested by the following...

The medicine prize went to Steven Stack of Wayne State University and James Gundlach of Auburn University, for their 1992 report, "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide." The research of 49 metropolitan areas concluded "that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate."

Now that's useful research, I think. Now that we know that we can bring the suicide rate down by funding efforts to stamp out country music.