Hiro Protagonist is actually half Korean half black. I don't think it's actually an argument worth having once someone quotes the book at you, and it's never poor form to quote the book when your casting, even if you're "just" playing casting "games", because most of us will never do more. Why the fuck get mad at someone for using rules?

Wait- I missed Jesse getting yelled at! What happened?

I met the meanest higher-up here for the first time last night, so of course she yelled at me....about things I had no control over. It was slightly upsetting in the moment, but doesn't actually matter, and really the issues weren't my fault at all. So whatever.

In better news, I am super excited about Downton Abbey getting all the Emmy nominations! It's the only broadcast show nominated for Drama Series AND has at least one person in all of the acting categories!

Hiro Protagonist is actually half Korean half black

I should reread that book. Not just for this, but in general.

The person arguing with me (I maintain I wasn't arguing with him, since I had nothing to argue about--the stuff in the book is the stuff in the book--he can pay attention or not) was saying that first names, even into the future, are an excellent indicator of race. I asked if they may be a better (though fallible) indicator of ethnicity. Since his answer was "same thing!" I could walk away knowing my blood pressure was better this way. Like, seriously, why tell a black chick with a Hispanic/Israeli/Irish name and at least three Natashas on her mother's side that you can divine anything from first names--and use Natasha as your example?

In fact, rather than the pageview article everyone was reporting on yesterday like it had already had an effect on all the babies named in 2012, I'd love to see a chart of naming trends in ethnicities. Who wants to call their kid Arya? Just white Anglo Americans? Who?

I just received a call from a student inquiring about a job I have open, and he sound JUST LIKE Dr. Nigel-Murray from Bones. I am not sure I could work with him!

Oh man. I didn't fall asleep till after midnight and slept through my alarm. I still ended up with 7 hours sleep and yet I'm EXHAUSTED. I have no concentration or motivation, whatsoever. And, of course, I have a ton of work to get done.

When I started doing tech support, nearly 15 years ago now, people were often surprised to be working with a woman. I just realized I'm on a conference call with two other women, and we're all comfortably discussing our various programs. I don't know if it's because I'm working with companies with a computer bent more often, but women are by no means remarkable in my sort of tech stuff. Even when I'm talking to people working on their own, without corporate backup, no one's surprised to be talking to a woman. I'm still sometimes mistaken for a man, but that's more because I have a low voice and people sometimes hear my name as Tommy.

For the first two years I worked here, I was the only woman in Tech Support. Six years into the job, I'm one of four. The world, it progresses.

Connie, that's good to know!

Suzi, that's pretty much my every day. I've been trying to recalibrate my internal clock, but it hasn't worked so far. My clock wants to stay up til 1 am and sleep til 9am.

Most of the time I like working at home. I get a lot done. Today, my bed is calling me and it is just down the hall. Technically I could take a nap and just work later than usual but I have all kinds of stuff I need to do this evening and I have tix to see TDKR (going by myself). Maybe I'm just anticipating being even more exhausted tomorrow.