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I love Paul Walker, but Itook my stand with no more Vin Diesel.

Vin Diesel is the only reason I watched the fast and the furious.

Yay, msbelle!

That reminds me, I saw a car on Monday with this license plate: MSBELLE.

I have a minor quandry. After months and months of bitching about never getting called in for interviews, I have my second interview request in the past week. But it's for a job that I'm not sure I want, and I don't remember why I applied for a job in Lewiston, Maine. Did someone tell me it's particularly spiffy? Should I take these people's time and money for them to fly me up there, put me up in a hotel, and interview me when I'm sitting here going, "Wait, I applied for what, now?"

FWIW, my manager's sitting there going, "Hey, free trip. Go for it!" But it's with a school, and I feel uncomfy spending a school's money, since it's usually not too thick on the ground.

Suggestions?

I don't know that I ever had much success making converts to Firefly, but casually mentioning that my envy for Zach Braff stems not from his comedic talent or skill as a director but from his likely being the only man that's gotten to make out extensively with Christian Kane sent a number of people racing to rent or buy The Broken Hearts Club today. Greg Berlanti should put me on his marketing payroll.

why I applied for a job in Lewiston, Maine. Did someone tell me it's particularly spiffy?

Home of Bates College, next to the Androscoggin River (much less toxic than it used to be!!), and across the river from Auburn, Maine.

I spent a fair amount of my childhood there, when it was a small, aging industrial city with a graying working-class population. Now, it's a magnet city for refugeee resettlement (Somalis, of all people), so it's probably a lot less white than I remember. When I visited after college (now 9 years ago), they were trying to revitalize the riverfront.

Cold enough to wean a vulture, though. Be prepared.

Calli, I just said the same thing in your LJ, but in case you check here first: the school's budget for flying people in is their business. What you might get out of the trip, even if it's just interview experience, is for you to worry about.

it was a small, aging industrial city with a graying working-class population.

This sounds like where I grew up.

When I visited after college (now 9 years ago), they were trying to revitalize the riverfront.

As does this.

The city's website makes it sound like a nice place. But it doesn't fit the parameters of where I'm looking to settle. And with the big 40 looming larger and larger, I do want to settle somewhere and put down roots. Unless I have a chance to do something incredibly cool (like work in NYC or Geneva) in which case I'd postpone the whole root thing indefinately.

What you might get out of the trip, even if it's just interview experience, is for you to worry about.

And heaven knows I could use the interview experience. I did have a phone interview last week. But I haven't had a sit-down with the head honchos -type interview in about 8 years. Hmmmm.

Found this in an update about the Bravo and Sundance Channels:

On Jan. 1, Trio, a lively little pop-culture channel Zalaznick had prodded along for nearly half a decade, died. NBC took it off the few places where it was still seen (including Time Warner’s digital tier in Kansas City) and replaced it with Sleuth, which airs reruns of detective shows.

But TrioTV.com lives on, and beginning in March three Trio staffers — all hired over to Bravo by Zalaznick — will be turning little-seen TV gems into streaming video. The first title will be “EZ Streets,” surely one of the most ambitious network shows ever tried, from “Crash” screenwriter Paul Haggis, that aired briefly on CBS in 1996 and 1997.

AOL.com has announced similar plans to stream old Warner Bros. TV shows over the Web. But Zalaznick, a former indie-film producer, has bigger plans. She wants to take Trio’s beloved “Brilliant But Cancelled” series and develop it on the Web as she was never able to do on cable.

Yeah, if a hire-er wants to pay you to travel, that's their business. If you don't want the job, I wouldn't bother, but it might be An Adventure, anyway! At least, probably more of an adventure than the time I went to the beautiful Lewiston-Auburn metro area -- I was keeping my mother company on the drive to and from a meeting, and spent the rest of the time reading in the car. Awesome.

When I visited after college (now 9 years ago), they were trying to revitalize the riverfront.

I'm not sure this worked out too well. I was there in July for a wedding and again this Xmas. It looked like the Lewiston I remember from my youth (gray being the operative term).

Now, it's a magnet city for refugeee resettlement (Somalis, of all people), so it's probably a lot less white than I remember.

This went a little smoother, but the "native" population (aka heavily Quebecois-descended) handled only slightly better than the South Bostonians handled busing in the 60s. Somehow the ancillary cultural backlash in the town led to Lewiston becoming the state center for anti-gay legislation efforts (which thankfully recently hit a major speed bump that made national news).