So! It's you who stole all the time-speed-up stuff!

So when faced with our least favorite Scandinavian delicacies, my sibs and I always felt free to say “kaka, this is definitely kaka.” It can be a wonderful thing to be eight years old.

That's funny.

When I work away from home, my hours are usually 10-6 or 10:30-6:30. As a result, consider a 10am meeting an early one. Sadly, due to having to match daycare hours, this will have to change next job. Paul works 8 to 5.

My whole family are night owls. I can call my mother at 11:45 and know she'll be awake. I can also call at 10am and be pretty certain of waking her up.

I'd rather never have an image or likeness of Karl Rove in my house, no matter what the form. He or Cheny. scary, ugly things.

I'd be fine with either, though they'd necessitate me buying rum and live chickens for the voodoo ceremony.

My workday is supposed to be 9-6 with an hour for lunch. Getting in by 9 is more theoretical than practice, but the people around me know I'm not currently leaving til 10:30 or 11 pm and don't care to bring up the tardiness. When things get back to normal hours they'll be paying me to come in and sit drinking coffee in a daze for an hour, while allowing me to go home at 6 and miss the fairly productive next hour that I could be working. All so all the start times line up evenly with no odd numbers on an executive's report somewhere.

Hey, so I've got kind of a weird question. Did Rosa Parks's arrest show up on background checks when she went to apply for jobs? I mean, obviously, if you're hiring Rosa Parks you probably already know, but still.

Officials in Detroit and Montgomery, Ala., meanwhile, said the first seats of their buses would be reserved as a tribute to Parks' legacy until her funeral next week.

Uh... okay. I mean, I get it, but there is a part of me that thinks, "So in honor of Rosa Parks, you're making sure nobody sits in the front? Interesting technique."

So! It's you who stole all the time-speed-up stuff!

I'm on Atlantic time! My day started before yours.

I'm on Atlantic time! My day started before yours.

...likely story....

Imagine what trying to apply for a job is like when your name is Eldridge Cleaver. Somehow I think a lot of famous arrested people -- MLK himself -- are by dint of being arrested somewhat freed from the 9-5 job cycle, since they can go on lecture tours for thousands of dollars per speech. This is how disgraced apparatchiks in politics seem to make it all back, and they aren't even always arrested.

Hey, so I've got kind of a weird question. Did Rosa Parks's arrest show up on background checks when she went to apply for jobs?

I believe she did lose her job as did her husband and they eventually had to move.

One of the radical UW-Madison students who bombed the Army Math Research Center (during the Vietnam war) worked for years as a self-employed street vendor (selling juice and what-not). The bombing resulted in the death of a graduate student who was working in the wee hours of the morning.

After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement and suffered hardship as a result. She lost her job at the department store and her husband quit his after his boss forbade him from talking about Rosa or the legal case. Mrs Parks traveled and spoke extensively to raise money for her legal fees. In 1957, the Raymond and Rosa Parks left Montgomery for Hampton, Virginia, mostly because Mrs. Parks was unable to find work, but also due to disagreements with Dr. King and other leaders of Montgomery's struggling civil rights movement. In Hampton, she found a job as a hostess in an inn at Hampton Institute. Later that year, at the urging of her younger brother, Sylvester, Mrs. Parks, Raymond Parks and her mother, Leona McCauley, moved to Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Parks worked as a seamstress until 1965 when U. S. Representative John Conyers (D-Michigan) hired her as a secretary and receptionist for his Congressional office in Detroit. She held this position until she retired in 1988.