I spent the afternoon handing out candy at a cable station's haunted house. For $10/hour. Yes, times are that tough. I had a grueling phone interview with a really irritating EDD rep this morning and I was just like, you know, my agency used to have 150 temps at the studio where I usually work and now they have 60. Executives have been told they ( Read more... )

So chreebomb and her abuelo are in the living room and he's reading the Jenna Jameson memoir that I had neglected to edit from my book collection for his visit. Actually, a good 90% of my books are all about sex, sexuality, sex work, queers, and naked whatnot so if I were to grandpa-proof my shelves I would have Richard Scarry and my Narnia collection left ( Read more... )

It always, always begins with a casual question. Something like, So, are your parents still together? This time it was Where does your family live? Are they in Los Angeles too?"My brother is in Portland and my godmother is in New Jersey," is what I usually say, which is what I told this co-worker last week ( Read more... )