Smart to give people a chance to eat before checking out. I am again becoming accustomed to children. Babies scare me.

Ikea. This could be truly Sithly. I await my party while perched at the café. Hooray for technology. I like this place.

2006 05 04
Minus reports. All over the place. Sanity slipping. One bang report. The monitor reports go from * (best), + (good), x (standard), - (bad), and finally ! (worst EVAR).

I don't care what you think you're doing, if you give me reason to suspect you're interviewing the parent instead of the person you're supposed to be interviewing, and if you admit to the person you are interviewing that last night you interviewed someone as if they were the age group you were trying to interview -- you are getting the score you earned.

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Still lots of bad reports, but nothing as bad as that one individual who earned the bang.

One person grumbled on an open line about the length of the intro. That person is a new hire who is very sharp and works hard and well. Occasionally the monitors will give helpful feedback on certain things; his monitor report has the comment "([Phone goon] is a new hire who was not here in 2005 when the intro was longer.)" in addition to the note that he did say this on an open line.

Plasma day. Then I see if I feel like dropping off that book. Found it where I thought it would be.

2004 Sept 01
Dear Congressman Shadegg,

The tone of your letter in response to my feedback on the proposed Constitutional amendment in "defense" of marriage erroneously assumes that I am opposed to same-sex marriage.

I have gladly accepted and have been prepared to honor the idea of a marriage between any couple willing to commit themselves to each other as long as I have comprehended what marriage was. This includes a marriage between members of the same sex.

As the devoted "aunt" and full-time guardian of an eight-year-old child, I can tell you from personal experience that it is love, time, attention, devotion, and serious commitment that are required to raise a happy, healthy, and morally upstanding child. The mere perpetuation of the species requires a man and a woman, but in no way requires the social and financial contract that is marriage.

If you truly wish to defend marriage, look to the divorce rate. Why deny same-sex couples the possibility of boosting the sacred institution that 43 to 50%^* of opposite-sex married couples are fleeing? Marriage is a powerful commitment that should not be entered into lightly, and no one realizes that more powerfully than the same-sex couples who are denied it.

I do agree that children need to be raised in a stable household and taught right from wrong. I am happy to report that our household started out with a broke single mother and a broke college student and a toddler in 2001, and now features nearly a 100% rise in income, reliable --

* statistics courtesy of www.divorcereform.org

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(Letter goes on to next page at this point; next page is somewhere missing)

Hi, [Darkside]

My first official CIS class. DSL is working well. Internet Explorer is not.

I hope I will do better in this class than I did in the last one.