Maria, I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. Decision and health~ma to her and coping ~ma to you.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Pix - Jun 10, 2010 9:45:21 pm PDT #22062 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
meara - Jun 10, 2010 9:45:40 pm PDT #22063 of 30000
Stephanie, I think you have to work two FULL quarters. Though usually if you can prove previous employment in another state (...not sure if Puerto Rico counts) it adds up. There's usually timelines and stuff--like, when I got laid off here in Washington, I hadn't worked two quarters in Washington, so Maryland (where I HAD worked previously) was paying in to part of it.
But yeah, they also would likely contest it, because it will make their unemployment insurance go up, especially if they just fired that other guy...
Shir - Jun 10, 2010 10:57:36 pm PDT #22064 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Maria, lots of decision~ma, eye-sight~ma, health~ma and coping~ma to you.
{{Stephanie}}. I'd be in tears by now. Good luck with the stupidity.
Again, thank you all. I'm now gonna email one of the well known bloggers in Israel who's an excellent web designer, with a suggestion to start a Hollaback blog for Israel. It's not about the type of the assault I experienced (and damn, why is it so hard to say out loud that I was attacked - as if I can't be both strong and getting attacked) - it's about giving some agency back to unreported situations like this which are staying unreported because police won't do anything about it. My only problem with this site is that it might use as an weapon of "see? the streets are dangerous and you shouldn't go out there on your own/dress like this" example, which is precisely the opposite of my intentions.
And just to reinforce Typo Boy's word - yes, there's a fight on women's right to use public space in Jerusalem. There are bus lines, mostly for the ultra-orthodox crowd, on which women are supposed to sit on the back. There are streets on which women are supposed to use one side of the sidewalk, while men use the other. In Israel, 2010. When I waited for the bus to take me home, a Birthright tour stopped and a group went down from it (I have no idea what TL stands for in America, but that's where they're from). I wanted to stand in front of them and shout "you thought you're coming to an advanced, peace-seeking country, right?".
Beverly - Jun 10, 2010 11:32:51 pm PDT #22065 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh Maria, all the good thoughts in the world for your mom.
As a recently confirmed diabetic with a PVD in each eye, you can believe I empathize. These aren't serious, I'm told, though the space aliens make life interesting. But any minor change is worrying.
Wishing her clarity for decision-making and peace with her choice, and if that is to go ahead with the surgery, patience, fortitude, and complication-free healing.
Cass - Jun 11, 2010 12:43:13 am PDT #22066 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Maria, all thoughts are with you and your mom.
In much less important news, the Insomnia Fairy can bite me. Or, alternately, it did and I am unpleased.
Seriously, I am streaming Hidden Palms on NetFlix trying to bore myself to sleep. And the scenery is pretty, I admit it is someplace hard for me to live all of the time but the desert there is still kinda home. But, damn, the stories are WB.
Shir - Jun 11, 2010 2:36:33 am PDT #22067 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
OK, I'm really gonna start this Israeli hollaback blog. I just tweeted asking for help (I need another admin, legal and security advice, and some web design if I want to do it right). I think I found the perfect name for it, taken from Genesis 18, 20-21: "And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous. I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto Me; and if not, I will know.'". "Whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it" became a single word expression in Hebrew, which translates modernly into "is it as bad as she screams it is?" (Haketze'akata).
That's what you get for angering a feminist.
Miracleman - Jun 11, 2010 2:55:22 am PDT #22068 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I sorta' see the book of Job as saying, "You wonder why God lets bad things happen to good people? You might be better off not knowing."
"Yo, God! Dude! Katrina?! What the fuck, man?"
"Lost a bet."
Zenkitty - Jun 11, 2010 3:39:32 am PDT #22069 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
"Whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it" became a single word expression in Hebrew, which translates modernly into "is it as bad as she screams it is?" (Haketze'akata).
That is awesome and perfect. (And the answer? Yes, it damn well is.)
P.M. Marc - Jun 11, 2010 4:45:44 am PDT #22070 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Shir, you are awesome.
Aims - Jun 11, 2010 4:53:35 am PDT #22071 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My phone adventures are not nearly as colorful as Joe's were, but this one just made me say, "Well spotted."
"Good morning, [Agency]. This is Aims."
"Hi. I am pregnant and I'm female."