Tomorrow night I am going to get my first real night of beauty sleep in over a year. Yes, that's right, as of tomorrow, I am turning in my futon and crappy mattress for a real adult bed. And as sad as it is, I am excited about it. When I moved to DC 14ish months ago, I wasn't sure how long I would stick around so I didn't want to drop a lot of money that
Mig, sometimes I think you are inside my head and writing down my thoughts--only you do a much better job at it! yet again, great article... ...though I think I am going to cause physical injury to those damn spammers!
Red Sox Nation all the way!
See, I would say my hatred of A-rod is completely rational. There was also a special kind of glory watching him sulk and pout after the game realizing that had he not been so greedy, he too could have been on the winning team--but we don't need him, and now, we don't want him! I'm hoping we can do this in 4 cause I don't think I can handle another Game 7!
Yes, I fully recognize that I am officially obsessed with Red Sox Nation--more so that usual, and that is saying a lot. But, my question is, why isn't everyone else? It is slightly biazzre to be down here in DC--a city with it's fair share of Red Sox supporters, but definitely not Beantown. Due to my belief in curses, demons and supersitions
Guess only if the Sox win. Will you still say this is exciting when the Yankees win? Just askin' I think that it is funny that you would question the loyalty of a Red Sox fan--this isn't a bandwagon team--if you are a tired and true Boston diehard you have experienced October heartache for your entire l
you are an ass alan and i hope you are reading this you aren't the same person as any of us new before you left for college. You now go and get drunk and sleep with people you are a disgrace to the Band name. YOu can no longer be part of IT IS a BAnd thing EVER......!!!!! tractor-chick You know,
I don't really have one coherent thought running through my head, but rather lots of short little snippets of ideas that keep crashing into one another. So, in an effort to stop the thought-crashes in my head, I'm going to try to spill my brains onto the keyboard (oh, that sounds gory). 1. The Red Sox are giving me an ulcer
Then why did your company not get the contract? The company I wrote the bid for? Cause the premise behind the proposal sucked and it didn't meet any of the US's goals in the region. The other company that I mentioned in my first post did rece
So which way is it? You can't have it both ways. Actually, you can. As I explained. Some contracts were no-bid and some required the bidding process...why is that so hard to understand? You do realize that there are other companies working in Iraq other th
Yeah "shadesofgrey" can you explain just how something can be considered a no-bid contract if the government invited others to bid? Sounds more like to me that their bids were to high or that they didn't bid at all because they couldn't handle
So was Clinton at fault for giving Halliburton a no-bid contract in Kosovo? Was Dick Cheney manipulating Bill? Even though the contract happened in 1993 and Cheney wasn't CEO until 1995? see my previous comment, and then re-read my first one without our your
First of all, there is nothing in my post that either supports or doesn't support Haliburton. All I say is that 1. the bidding process could have been run before it was and 2. other companies had experience. Re-read, I don't make any statement against Haliburton. The fall out over the water and electricity would have occurred regardless of the company getting the bid because it happened so late. Notice, I state that the government could hav
you imagine the brouhaha if we had waited for a competitive bidding process to start the rebuilding in Iraq? Kerry would be skewering Bush for the delay, of course. There wouldn't have been any fall out if the bidding process began prior to the conflict as was called for in a Senate Foreign Relations Co
I remember your pain all too well. I moved to DC about 14 months ago in the hopes of bettering my chances of getting a "good job." I started waittressing so that I could pay my bills while searching. Six months later, I was still waittressing. Luckily for me, an old boss opened his own consulting/lobbying/public policy firm and needed a researcher. So, I just sort of feel into my current job--and I will finally be getting benefits in January--oh t
i completely understand the night shift thing. I didn't technically work nights, but I worked from 4:45pm to almost 4am when I first moved to DC (it was bar work). My boss always thought it was amusing to schedule an early shift after a late one. So, I would get home around 5ish, get to sleep around 6ish and be up again at 8:30am so that I could be in work by 10--and if I was really lucky, that early morning shift would be the start to a double shif
Speaking as someone who only just learned the rules of the game two days ago, its getting quite exciting. I don't know if its my Irish sensibilities or what, but even though I have been living in NYC for the last two years, I am rooting for Red Sox. Looking forward to catching the game tonight! I'm not
how did that job interview go...? eh--sort of ok, sort of not--passed the assessment but not high enough to get an offer--but could get an offer if i pass a language exam in arabic...right, that's not going to happen! <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-
Thanks for the interest xtine--it went ok. The interview was for the Foreign Service--basically it's an all day assessment broken down into three parts. I passed two of the three parts, and scored high enough to pass the day overall--but not high enough to be offered a job. That said, all I need to do is brush up (read: Learn) my arabic skills, the language bonus will boost my score enough to get an offer. Or I could just try again next year. <
It varies by state, and while I'm not aware of any state that does require the employer to pay--there have been court court decisions and/or state labor commissioner interpretations that address this. The basic premise mostly involves companies with policies that strongly suggest/require a two week notice of termination. In such cases, the employee is following company policy like a good employee and therefore should be paid for the two week notice per
but the game just doesn't hold my interest very well any more:) ) I always have to supplement the game--usually with a couple of pints and good conversation. Tonight, JU is doing the trick.
I started watching the Red Sox/Yankees game at work at 5pm. I couldn't bring myself to leave to watch the game somewhere else because I thought I would miss something important. So here it is, almost 10pm and I am still sitting at work. This game is going to last forever and my butt is getting sore from sitting in this horrible chair--not to mention, I'm
Sorry but I disagree. Have you looked at the requirements for US citizenship? The link is posted above. Go read it. #3 plainly states that they *must* be able to read, write and *speak* the English language. That's the law! If the debate is whether or not to change the law, saying "it's the law" is not
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Thanks for the laugh Greywar. I find it incredible that they were really trying to compare a news show with a show on comedy central!
ShadesofGray: Perhaps you'll be so kind to remind the Kyoto zealots that CO2 is not a pollutant. I agree that CO2 isn't a pollutant but you would think teh US is a global menace because we didn't sign the Kyoto accords. It's easy for Europeans to sign those kinds of things because..guess what? They'll just ignore them (ask Fran