1. You Cut a Hole in the Box

This is depressing. Apparently Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer: [link]

That's sad. I had read that but the source was the National Enquirer so I chose to not believe it.

"Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little bounce in it!"

"It's a small world after all..."

"No, not that! Anything but that!"

Bad x-post.

Sad to hear about the Swayz. Pancreatic cancer is truly nasty, too (my SIL's mom had it).

That is sad news.

AAAAAGH. I may yet kill this recruiter.

He is annoying the crap out of me, calling and emailing. I have a phone interview with the people tomorrow, and he's sending me oh ONE MORE form, and Oh, he needs me to GO TO THE DMV and get my driving record because Washington state won't give it as part of a background check? And I point out I've only had a WA license since January, but that doesn't matter, I have to GO TO THE DMV. And when I ask how quickly I need to do that (like, buster, they haven't fuckin' HIRED me yet--that'll be a few weeks at least), he's like "It would've been great to have it today". And then has the GALL to suggest that I should postpone plans to "have a mojito" in the afternoon to go there. WTF, jackass???

Kathy, I was wondering if that post was purposeful.

I am sad to hear that about Swayze. Reading that article I hadn't known he was stil working. Cool.

I've been meandering through flickr looking at other people's photos, and I've fallen in love with Franca Alejandra's. She makes every day of her year an event. Marvellous.

Why do they need your driving record? That seems odd. And seriously, a background check won't find that? Also - odd.

The job would require a fair bit of driving, and apparently normally the background check signature allows the DMV to release that, but WA State won't, and requires the person whose driving record it is go to the DMV. RIDICULOUS.