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but he wont announce it until early next month. I’m worried he’ll pick Gephardt, which, in my opinion, would be a complete bomb. Well not a bomb, but I can’t really see Gephardt helping Kerry anywhere other than Missouri, and we need the South more than the Midwest. My pick? First off it would be McCain for a unity ticket, but that won’t happen, so I’m hoping for Edwards or Clark as a distant third. I’d personally be ecstatic with Vilsack, but his name recognition doesn’t leave Iowa and the VP should be at least slightly recognizable on a national scale.
Ohhh - So I should mention that I’m at work now. Ezra Mutli Services, an organization of the Jewish United Federation. My internship is technically with the JUF and I meet at their main building weekly for seminars as well as at Northwestern University’s Hillel, but my direct placement is in Uptown, which rocks. Right now I’m observing social workers interacting with their clients, and hopefully by next week I’ll start taking on clients of my own. Rock Rock Rock. There’s also a Russian/Jewish Senior Citizen Center downstairs, and today I’m leading the Kiddush. They’re really big on opera, and every once in a while you’ll see everyone singing in Russian.
Beyond that, this is the first Friday in about 3 weeks where I’m absolutely ecstatic that it’s Friday, and that’s a goooood feeling to have again. My only complaint about the job is the commute - 1-2 hours depending on the time, but usually closer to an hour and a half because I drive during rush hour.
Ohhh and I’ve also seen a bunch of movies the past few weeks so I should at least grade them, because that’s fun:
- Young Adam: B+
- Day After Tomorrow: B- (I wasn’t expecting anything beyond Independence day dialogue and plot wise, and I was happily surprised that you actually left with something other than “what if Aliens attack Earth!?”
- Goodbye Lenin: B+ (Good, but I was expecting better)
- Fog of War: A
- Mean Girls: B
- Saved: B-
- Stepford Wives: C+ (Sooo much wasted star power I wanted to barf. Broderick, Kidman, Glenn Close, Cristopher Walken, and Bette Middler could’ve made something truly brilliant… but whatever, right?
- Ladykillers: C- I’ve all but given up on the Cohen Brothers after this and that movie with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones
- Colene and Carlete: C (I don’t know if I got the title right - some drag queen comedy with Nia Varlos, Toni Collette, and David Duchovny)
Movies opening this weekend or still playing that I reallllly want to see: The Mother, Control Room, Coffee and Cigarettes, Alila, dodgeball-kinda, Napoleon Dynamite. There’s also the health care for all rally on Saturday at Lincoln Park with Howard Dean, Jessee Jackson, and a few congressmen, so I think we’ll be going to that as well.
Ohhh - So I should mention that I’m at work now. Ezra Mutli Services, an organization of the Jewish United Federation. My internship is technically with the JUF and I meet at their main building weekly for seminars as well as at Northwestern University’s Hillel, but my direct placement is in Uptown, which rocks. Right now I’m observing social workers interacting with their clients, and hopefully by next week I’ll start taking on clients of my own. Rock Rock Rock. There’s also a Russian/Jewish Senior Citizen Center downstairs, and today I’m leading the Kiddush. They’re really big on opera, and every once in a while you’ll see everyone singing in Russian.
Beyond that, this is the first Friday in about 3 weeks where I’m absolutely ecstatic that it’s Friday, and that’s a goooood feeling to have again. My only complaint about the job is the commute - 1-2 hours depending on the time, but usually closer to an hour and a half because I drive during rush hour.
Ohhh and I’ve also seen a bunch of movies the past few weeks so I should at least grade them, because that’s fun:
- Young Adam: B+
- Day After Tomorrow: B- (I wasn’t expecting anything beyond Independence day dialogue and plot wise, and I was happily surprised that you actually left with something other than “what if Aliens attack Earth!?”
- Goodbye Lenin: B+ (Good, but I was expecting better)
- Fog of War: A
- Mean Girls: B
- Saved: B-
- Stepford Wives: C+ (Sooo much wasted star power I wanted to barf. Broderick, Kidman, Glenn Close, Cristopher Walken, and Bette Middler could’ve made something truly brilliant… but whatever, right?
- Ladykillers: C- I’ve all but given up on the Cohen Brothers after this and that movie with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones
- Colene and Carlete: C (I don’t know if I got the title right - some drag queen comedy with Nia Varlos, Toni Collette, and David Duchovny)
Movies opening this weekend or still playing that I reallllly want to see: The Mother, Control Room, Coffee and Cigarettes, Alila, dodgeball-kinda, Napoleon Dynamite. There’s also the health care for all rally on Saturday at Lincoln Park with Howard Dean, Jessee Jackson, and a few congressmen, so I think we’ll be going to that as well.