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I've spoken to a few people about getting into government - my Agency, which I note I've had trouble with here and there, is hiring for a clerical position:

Secretary: FSIS-MCE-2009-0040 GS-6/7 ($37,084 - $41,210)
NOTE - open to all US citizens, though job is cross-posted under FSIS-MMP-2009-0300 for fed current and former employees

If you've ever thought about it, it's worth a scan to see what they are looking for. There is a quick link to the KSA questions which aren't bad on this one and easy to use to see where you might guess you place.

Going to work today though I still feel somewhat asstastic. Too much to do to stay out, but maybe I'll leave early.

No plans on leaving LJ - I have no taste for twitter, and facebook - while capable of taking posts of substance - lacks many people writing (it's twitter with pictures). It seems the social networking sites give the illusion of connection with no substance - anyone can (and does) play a game or make a quick comment, but what do they amount to? I've seen many blog sites, but only LJ really nails the f-list issue for me and has the vast majority of people who actually write things. Writing is important to me, so I'm stuck here. If this goes kapoot or enough people leave for my experience to fail critical mass, then I'll find a blog site that uses a similar system of f-list and has people who write.

Been using firefox and google chrome. I was wrong about work email - it works in both, only it gives you the super-basic version if you don't use IE6.0.
Chrome I like, though I am surprised how annoying it is that it lacks a "stop load" button, that it frequently requires "form resubmission confirmation" when you just try to back up (give me an opt out of this crap), and lacks a specific listing of former sites through the back/forward buttons. The one window crashing not taking others with it is nice, but it's also the only browser I use that constantly crashes on yahoo email. Chrome also fails to have manual menu options, a real hindrance. It somehow manages to put tabs behind my MSOffice toolbar as well, so I often don't run in maximized mode.
Firefox is ok too, and I may switch to it as it lacks the problems I listed in chrome. In fact, why aren't I using it now?

Mr. Posty McPost

You know what's odd to me? The number of people "congratulating" me on having a girlfriend. Now I happen to think she is spiffy and find her more so the more time we spend together, but most people "congratulating" me haven't met her. What if she were horrible? Maybe I made her up? What if I paid her by the hour for her performance, or the relationship is heavily based on my funding of "the operation?" Why is it congrats? I'm sure once more people meet and get to know her it'll be justifiably congrats for Wow, she's really nice. What is she doing wasting her time with a creep like you? ;P

I know it's meant with, and I totally take each comment with, good intentions. I haven't ever had a comment like that and though "Well that was odd" at the time - but later on as I hear more of them it started me wondering. I know there isn't a script for what to say; still, to me it would have seemed more appropriate to say "I'm happy for you," or "I'm glad you're feeling good." I'd understand "Well thank god - maybe now you'll stop being suck a little bitch." (hint - probably not going to happen) "Good luck with that" and "Hope it works out" make sense.

If there were a time to say congrats, it would seem to me the time would have been when I was NOT whoring about, when I was NOT settling for who was available and showing interest (or just drunk), when I was NOT engaging in risky behavior for the sake of getting off in the short-term, when I WAS showing an ounce of maturity and/or self-control. "Congrats on not fucking everything in sight!" "Hey, you're showing an ounce of self-esteem, and it looks good on you!" "I had no idea what your head looked like from the front." Then again, I guess it's weird to note things not done vs. things done.