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.

Oh, also -- Kat is someone whose pictures are pleasing. At least to me.

Much like Allyson's pictures are.

However, they both should control dissemination of their pictures as they please.

MWAH! I love Steph.

I don't mind my picture, conceptually. It's the practicality of it all that's overwhleming.

And, you know what, I don't really get paid to be on the advisory board. But I do get a nice expenses paid trip to NY in may.

Allyson should at least come for a visit (free room with me - hint hint nudge nudge).

I am in Waco, TX. I will be here all day tomorrow working. Turns out I am the only vendor here at this meeting thingy (for reference, the last one I was at had maybe 20). Good lord. So today I was sent out to enjoy the day instead of hanging aboot. I went shopping in little local stores(http://www.shopsofriversquarecenter.com). I found a bunch of furntiture that I am in love with, but I didn't buy it.

Sunday I have a family wedding to attend and then hang with my grandmother. Monday is also weekend for me and more grandma time and probably baking cookies.

The fact that King Kong uses music that sounds exactly like the music from The Mission is wigging me out, bug time.

bug time. hee.

I think they have something like that up at Whole Foods, but I'm unwilling to brave Greenville Ave. traffic on a Friday night. I was seriously willing to walk the .7 miles up to Billiard Bar for Rock Star Karaoke rather than drive it with the drunk college kids 2 weeks before finals.