Jesse is wise with the ways of the wings.

shrift I see what you are doing... porn that you would appreciate will be burned, that is the only way it makes sense.

FYI, The Jackhole awards are up for voting: [link]

Curses! Then for the sake of porn, msbelle, I shall try to place more value on my professional skills.

Although I may have just implied that I'm a pro.

shrift, this might sound really stupid, but a thing the career lady at my school does is make us make a list of PARS -- I'm pretty sure it's Problem, Action, Result, Skill. So you think about specific things you've done and what skills they show. (I'm pretty sure the "problem" can also just be an opportunity.) Having to think of a lot of them (she wants 20) is really helpful, because even when you think you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, it helps to be really concrete about your skills. In the workshop I was in, there were people who had little or no work experience, and they could still come up with things that deomonstrated skills. And that's what you really need to have on tap to feel comfortable in a job interview.

See, I'm ok with the concept of job interviews (had more of them than dates, but still not a lot) because for them, it's ok to act. Ok, shouldn't act like you know what you do not, but in some ways it is a role. A spill-your-skillset role, but still. Being a professional whatever is a role to me. I'm going to try not to do that with people I'm trying to build some kind of personal relationship with. Stakes are higher, I guess.

That said, many of my funny holy-hell-how-did-I-end-up-here situations have been initiated by me consciously putting on an act at the getgo. But they were going nowhere anyway.

Hey, Buffistas, um , I need dog help. My friend Mel just dropped off her dog at my place for the night because of some business to take care of in Orlando. It's not the first time that Daisy, the dog, has been here. However, this is the first time she's started a non stop fest of whine. Any one know a trick to help her with her abandonment issues?

I don't know anything about dogs, sorry.

I do have a nomination for Comeback of the Year: Fresca! Love it.

Damn. For the first time in a long time, I wish i had a scarf.

Bah.

I missed most of the "dating sucks, and what the heck is it anyway?" discussion. I even went to a cafe that had WiFi after work and got dinner, but their WiFi wasn't working.

Once there was a woman I had a big crush on, but she didn't feel the same way about me. We hung out together as friends for a while. Once she told me that she admired my approach to dating - that I didn't follow all the dating norms. She said that she needed to follow them to feel comfortable with what was going on or something.

Her comment was interesting - up until that point I never thought of myself as "not following the dating rules."

Almare, I'd play with the dog. Play Fetch, take her for a long walk, cuddle with her, feed her some dog treats. Anything to distract her from missing her "parents."