New post!

Okay! Here I am with nothing in particular to report. I got a new job....delivering Chinese. I may have another job....a low paying dental sculpture technician job. I'll know about the tech job next week. It'll be a lot less pay than the exciting, danger-filled world of derivery, but will provide boring benefits and safety. booo!

Actually, my main problem with this dental lab is its tendency to hire skilled labor for lousy wages. I could go on about this for days. Unfortunately, as I have related before, this is not at all uncommon. It has become way too easy to exploit a larger number of workers. Why am I being offered the same or worse wages that I was offered in college and right after? 16 years later. A friend tells me it is due to the influx of illegals (yep. I said illegals-my wording.)I believe one could also add to them the preponderance of just plain disadvantaged, undereducated documented Amuurican workers. I believe that although that is a factor,(not really an accident that these people exist-business needs someone to exploit) the real problem, in my opinion, is the rampant acceptance of unscrupulous business practice. No one seems to mind the way business conducts its affairs. Wanna cut cost? Offer no benefits, low wages to your skilled workforce and give yourself a raise. Illegal? No. Not yet. Wrong and destructive? Yep. Maintaining our idealized free and fair America involves not military action, but a vigilant, active citizenry.

Why do we tolerate a minimum wage that relegates workers to living below the poverty level? Why do we continue to buy products from companies that exploit their employees and cost this nation billions in government assistance for their underpaid workers? Because we don't give a damn how bad things are for someone else. We just want our DVDs cheap, our food a little less expensive, our clothes at half price. We don't see the correlation between acceptance of poverty for others and our own devaluation. I'd say call your congressman, but chances are he doesn't care either, because he was elected with money from a big business. Next time, try electing a candidate who doesn't cater to business. Yeah. Look for one instead of just accepting whomever is offered as the frontrunner of your party.

Lordy. I could go on and I will, but I have to hurry off to my delivery job. Making enough money to live on is as easy as accepting the possibility of being assaulted or killed while delivering food. God bless the USA.

Holy Cow! Snakes and Tennis!

Looks like Patrick, the harmless snake, is probably not harmless. My ex-husband was telling me he was likely a water moccassin. That's not good. I'm surprised that didn't occur to me, but I'm not really close enough to water to have considered that a possibility. Looked like a rat snake to me. I guess I'll stop treating him so nonchalantly. He's probably been like "What's this crazy chick doing walking right past me with my big ol' venom? Doesn't she know who I am?! Look at me when I'm talkin' to you! Damn!" My ex used to run afoul of venomous snakes a lot down in Miami when he was a wee boy. I just handled the harmless ones.

Hope Pancho stays clear til I relocate Poisonous Patrick. At least my ex got a laugh out of it. brother.

Anyway, I got to go to the Bausch & Lomb Tennis Championships last night, thanks to some very generous friends. That was waay cool! Saw the #1 seed Petrova beat the heck out of Shaughnessy. Russians! Then, a fill-in doubles match which was actually more fun. Love those funny noises they make. One chick sounded like that babydoll you turn over that cries. Interesting to see these people up close, and Amelia Island is always so pretty and full of rich people. sigh. I need to make some money.

Workin' on the comic Detroit's Finest tonight as well as thinking over a possible pizza delivery. Dang. I'm trying to lose weight, but I just can't stop with the pizza! Well, it is Friday and I am a loser stuck at home, so...

Hey, all the comics pages for Windy City have slipped behind the old posts, so if anyone is looking for them (HA!) click on the oldest posts and they'll turn up in the sidebar. I've still not learned enough about making a page for them, but I will. really. And then, it'll be Comics Magic (tm).

Here's a wee sketch for another little project I need to finish:

Dumb Weblog.

Dumb. I am officially blaming this blog for me not gettin' the job I wanted. Must a' seen it and thought I was a wacko. I'm blaming it cuz I can't figure out what else happened. They liked me. I was perfectly qualified. The interview went well. Everything seemed good- Oh. Except I did it again. Asked for enough money to live on. Dumb. I just need to get it through my head. "20 years experience" + "5 year degree" does not = "worth any money."

sigh.

Oh, it had to be the blog.

In other news, yay, Gators!

In more important news, yay, Jill Carroll!

Oh, hey. Here's a photo from MegaCon this past February, in Orlando. This young lady stopped by and got a couple of sketches from me. In this photo, she is "hand posing" for me. I wrote her name down, but can't find it now. Thanks, whomever you are. I appreciated your stopping by and your reaction was quite worth the day of sitting around anime hell.



Nothing much to report here. I made some pasta salad so the vegetables wouldn't go bad. The giant citrus reward I received last week for rescuing a little doggie is nearing the end of its edibility. What's left over is going to make the garbage men mad at me. I've gained a little weight from my ice cream spree. I think Pico's OK, if a little too sassy. It's hot as hell in my house. The raccoons were super cute tonight, playing on my patio like cats. hm.

That's it. I'd planned a whole diatribe, but I just don't have it in me tonight. And who'd want to hear about it anyway? Besides, my next potential employer may be out there, watching....