Dude, PJ should totally get the Shelob out of digital storage for that.

I'm guessing not that many people love their faces (and can we really trust those who do? I mean, c'mon)

I love my face, but you still shouldn't trust me.

I'm guessing not that many people love their faces (and can we really trust those who do? I mean, c'mon)

Truer words have never been spoken.

ETA: Heh. Clearly Allyson cannot be trusted.

Allyson, you're totally within reason to want to keep your picture off the 'net. I think the stor is a great idea, too.

Total x-post with connie. Should that be whitefonted?

OK, first of all, Daisy should have a MUCH BETTER DAY tomorrow. Which should be started ASAP. Want a cookie?

Second, Kat has a lovely face, and I feel like I've even seen good pictures of her in the classroom. I would suggest letting someone else pick.

Third, totally move to New York, Allyson! It's fun here. See how wild-n-crazy my life is?!?

DJ, that really sucks. Better days tomorrow.

I'm being pressured to give a picture of myself to the webmaster of the site for a group I belong to at work.

I do not want a photo of me on the web next to my work address and phone. This makes me extraordinarily uncomfortable. When I say I would prefer not to, I get coaxed and prodded and such. But i mean it. I don't like it, I don't feel safe doing it, and I prefer to keep my work life and web life separate.

I know I'm being perceived as belligerent.

The people who are badgering you to produce a picture are the ones who are being belligerent. And I seriously think that if they keep bugging you about it you should tell them exactly what you posted here. Which, for the record (and just so I can quote it twice in the same post) is:

I do not want a photo of me on the web next to my work address and phone. This makes me extraordinarily uncomfortable... I mean it. I don't like it, I don't feel safe doing it, and I prefer to keep my work life and web life separate.

Because, seriously. If you don't feel *safe* -- WTF does it matter if your picture is on the Web site? Is the lack of your pretty face and gorgeous hair going to impact the bottom line? Will profits dramatically decrease b/c your picture isn't on the site of a group you belong to at work? Will Mars explode b/c your picture is just a Stor?

If no one can produce actual facts and figures and 8 x 10 glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one to prove that your desire for privacy will cause work-related problems, then they need to leave it the fuck alone.

Ahem.

I feel very strongly about this, as you may have guessed. I just get irritated when someone's personal preferences are steamrolled over, especially when the issue at hand isn't a matter of life, death, money, or the World Series. Yes, it's at the bottom of the No Means No scale, but it still pisses me off when people don't take a woman's No seriously.

I have no idea where my righteous avenging fury has come from, so I think I'm going to go take a bath with yummy Lush stuff and Invader Zim DVDs in the laptop.

I'm guessing not that many people love their faces (and can we really trust those who do? I mean, c'mon) but I don't see what your reluctance is, Kat.

I think the reluctance is around the incredibly broken out skin and my otherwise baggy eyed face.

My other ish is conning a kid to be invovled in the picture.

OH! My computer! The one that had all the classroom pictures? Being sent back to the mothership cause of a crappy CD drive. sarameg, I wasn't on CRACK about it not working because I was the fourth person in the past week who took the computer to our IT guy (who's name is Bruce Lee, I shit you not), with a complaint. I'm thinking we got a bad batch.

They were going to give me a replacement laptop, but instead, I convinced them to load my gradebook onto the powerbook, which I love more than is healthy. AND I had already backed up all my docs on this one before I took it up there.

Ahem. Anyhow, the laptop that is being sent away has all my classroom photos on it. Oops.

I should, but since I have to be at work at 8:15 at the latest, it's unlikely.

See, my big project today was to call hurricane victims today, see what's up and whether the things that are supposed to happen are happening. We're only supposed to ask the questions on our scripts etc. I am so the wrong person for this job, in between being pissed off at people who are being taken advantage of, hearing people say they don't think there's a place for them anymore, and that they think people have just forgotten about them, I'm thinking (selfish person that I am) there but for a block and a half go my friends and family. I got through about 20 of the 50 or so on my list before I had to be alone for a bit.

Also, DJ, I think you should go have a nice giant warm Belgian Brownie that's all melty in the middle. I'm sorry for the suckass day.