I seem to have contracted a cold. Again. And this one's gonna be a bitch to shake. It started Monday with a tickle in my throat and has become a full-blown snotty coughing eyes tearing mess of a thing. I debated whether or not I should come to work today, but the guilt of knowing we were short tonight won out over my comfort. I hate having a conscience sometimes.
I am now in possession of a key to the costume shop. This not only means I am no longer a slave to their 9-5 hours, but also that I may never have to be in the same room as those students ever again. Here's the thing: they aren't horrible. They're just... college students. And not just any college students. They're theatre kids. In 2 short days I was introduced to the slut of the department, the righteous Christian girl of the department, the drunk of the department, the girl who thinks she knows everything but really knows nothing of the department and the staple of every theatre department across this great land: the guy who thinks he's straight but everyone knows is gay. And the music! It's usually this non-offensive, unbelievably boring, and slightly Christian wretchedness. The alternative? John Mayer. Over half of them couldn't stop talking about how excited they were that they had tickets to the Over the Rhine concert that night. I am in music hell here, people. As far as I know, no one who reads this is from my theatrey past so I won't bore anyone with details (I'm going to have to make miracles happen with silk charmeuse. And whoever took this girl's measurements was a moron: her nape to waist measurement could not possibly be 58". She would be a ginormous freak of nature if that was the case!), but so far I'm hanging in there. I thought my first task would take 5 hours and it took 2. So there.
It's almost not worth mentioning as news because everyone knew he would fly through but Rumsfeld is officially no longer the Secretary of Defense. Quite honestly, I don't know if anyone really cares about Gates. Everyone cares that Rumsfeld is done. Here, here!
Our kindly shoemaker from Michigan (he's really not a shoemaker, but he really looks like one), Senator Levin keeps talking away. Today it was the Iraq Study Group:
"The report represents another blow at the policy of 'stay-the-course' that this administration has followed," the Michigan Democrat said. "Hopefully, this will be the end of that stay-the-course policy."
Levin loves the term "stay-the-course." I think because for the past 4 years he was called a cut-and-run Democrat and unpatriotic. Tony Snow had this to say for the White House:
"Stay the course is not the policy and it's been that way for months," said Snow during his daily White House briefing for reporters. "We look at this as a very positive document."
He's not completely inaccurate though I don't know if the end of October can be considered "months." And the report wasn't exactly a glowing endorsement for what G.W.B. considers the current policy which is to "win in Iraq."
Anyone want to explain what the hell that means?
This is a really boring time of year politically. Congress is no longer in session. The Republicans left a big mess for the Democrats to clean up in January. The Democrats are insisting that the House work 5 days a week, poor things. Until the House and Senate are sworn in there just isn't much going on.
Except Iraq.
Which isn't going anywhere.
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