Well, it was just a screening interview with a recruiter. Went okay. Guess I'll hear something in a week or so, if they want to bring me in to talk to a hiring manager.

Bah.

t kicks ground

It is the time of bliss in MyCompany Tech Support--time to breathe between calls, actual lunch hours, good odds of getting off at the scheduled quitting time. The extra stuff to keep track of is up to date, not quite so many catastrophes in the land.

From here until January is my favorite time of year.

OK, but this will cheer us all up: [link]

Totally awesome music video parody about crack ships.

Timelies all!

Going to a concert tonight. I've never seen or heard this performer, but a friend of ours in AZ has apparently raved about him, so here we go.

Job ma all around

Seconding the job~ma.

Also, holy God, will this day never end?

And it's about to get longer because I have to step away from FB, because more (non-Buffista) friends are being distressing. This time over whether Katy Perry was doing geisha drag last night and whether, if she was, it was offensive or not.

The general consensus on which, including among people of whom I thought better, is: "Of course not! It's beautiful artistry! People are just looking to be offended! If you're right, then obviously I have the right to be offended every time a Japanese person wears jeans! My dad's buddy in the service brought me back a wee kimono when I was four, so that made me a TODDLER RACIST, right? OMG, I'm mixed-race, so now I have to quit Dickens Fair because I'm appropriating, right? Why are people so sensitive about nothing? IT WAS JUST PRETTY GET OFF MY BACK STOP RUINING EVERYTHING PRETTY YOU RUINERS." O, for a bingo card.

I also feel guilty because there are two other people trying gingerly to push back against it all, and I feel like I'm abandoning them by stepping away, but I just can't even.

JZ,

all this is made worse by KP in an interview [link] saying (jokingly, but in WAY WAY poor taste)

“I am obsessed with Japanese people,” Perry said. “I love everything about them and they are so wonderful as human beings.”

But then she took it up a notch.

“I’m so obsessed I want to skin you and wear you like Versace,”

I'm mixed-race, so now I have to quit Dickens Fair because I'm appropriating, right?

What is your response to that?

My response to that, if I bothered to make one (eta: to that person, obvs, not to you, since I AM responding to you, but no way will I post it to her), would be two-pronged; first, that as mixed-race, she's lower down on the privilege ladder than your average WASP, and even though I'm nowhere near well read enough to lay it all out coherently and flawlessly I know that better brains than mine have talked about how very different it is for the less-privileged to appropriate bits of the culture of the more-privileged (see also: reverse sexism/racism, rape jokes that shit on the victims vs. those that "punch up," etc.); and, second, that even if it were theoretically straight-up appropriation, in actual fact the London of Dickens' time was pretty bustling and international and there's no damn reason she couldn't play a mixed race Victorian Londoner with prefect historicity and no appropriation at all.

But I'm not gonna, because that way lies madness.

le n, what the what? DAMN. That's some truly impressive tone-deafitude.

O, for a bingo card.

Number of days since the last time people have disappointed us: 0.