OK, annoying as shit.

Called my temp agency to check-in. My agent has left. Not shocking. The new one wants me to come in and meet her, not shocking either.

Then she tells me she can't find my old scores and wants me to test. I've been working for them for YEARS. I promise you, I know Word and type 60+. What was supposed to be swing-by-and-meet will be half a fucking day.

Oh, and what's that you say? Come early to fill out forms? Bring two IDs? Now, I KNOW you have my IDs on record because I have tax forms from you right here. No, I'm not fucking doing that. Kiss my ass.

Lazy bee-yotch can't be bothered to pull my file, I think that much is clear. I'm really really really tired of being treated shitty work-wise.

FTR, if you can't wait, you can get *just* the iPhone for $200. Which is what I had to do a few weeks ago.

It's close enough, I'll just save my nonexistent pennies until I can get a subsidized phone.

Sean, that sucks! I have a crack in my iPhone, too. How do you find out when you are eligible for a subsidized new one?

Go to the AT&T website, and on the main page that lists your phone and plan, there will be a link to upgrade your phone. The link will tell you if you're eligible yet.

Loved Spotted Justice and The Enforcer! (also? Fat Cat was really cute in that picture)

In regard to Men's Studies ... everyone pointing out that feminism has often pointed out that patriarchy is bad for everyone. But these kinds of things are as erica has said (or, less profanely, they're outraged that they aren't the center of the universe any more and they want their toys back). There were news reports a while ago that women now make up more than half the students enrolled in college - which is news because until after my generation a common attitude was that girl's didn't need to go to college.

Sigh.

Yet another mass email from my ex-best-friend, absolutely-brainwashed-Scientologist these days, about how psychiatric drugs are killing millions of people each year and make other peoples' lives miserable.

Free will and choice, right.

Wrod... If I were going to present a paper on this, I'd have to find a replacement for "knobwank"(or translate it into Latin, which I can't...bet Alan Grayson could. And, yes, if Alan Grayson jumped off a bridge, I'd want to, also.Aside from the whole not-jumping thing. Crap...you think you have a plan in life, right? Details.)

There were news reports a while ago that women now make up more than half the students enrolled in college - which is news because until after my generation a common attitude was that girl's didn't need to go to college.

This has actually been happening for at least 10 years- I *think* women overtook men in attendance in the 90s sometime.

It's easy to think this just recently happened because every year or two there will be some study or general outcry that is all OH NOES TEH BOYZ ARE BEING OVERRUN BY LADEEZ! HOW CAN WE FIX THIS INSANE UNTHINKABLE PROBLEM! And then there'll be studies about how girls in school intimidate boys by... doing their homework or something.

However, you'll note a fairly quick and steep decline in the male-female ratio the higher up the education chain you go.

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And then there'll be studies about how girls in school intimidate boys by... doing their homework or something.

I'm pretty sure they've already done this.

Yeah, I was trying to think of something that was actually ridiculous and OTT and realized that, depressingly, they have done all these studies FOR REALS.

There were news reports a while ago that women now make up more than half the students enrolled in college - which is news because until after my generation a common attitude was that girl's didn't need to go to college.

When I went to Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt was still officially accepting one woman for every three men. There were still professors on campus who had been known in earlier to address classes as "Gentlemen and others." Vanderbilt went through a strange evolution. The charter didn't specify the sex of the students, and there were always women there, accepted as "special students," and comprising up to 20 percent of the student body. When the board decided in the '60s to officially admit women, it apparently feared a tidal wave of women students who would swamp their traditions and also, more practically, make them build more dorms. (There was considerable discussion about changing the "sex ratio" when I was there, and one of our more common typos on the student newspaper was to write about changing the sex ration.)

changing the sex ration

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(were there ration coupons?)