Vibrant.(Still) Unrepentant. Badass. Old. Queer

It would seem that I need to move the job hunt into high gear. EPA published a notice in the Federal Register that our contract has been awarded to an organization for the blind in upstate NY. This is the same organization that won the last contract I was on. They spent the first 2 or so years of that contract completely forking it up. Which annoyed me, because EPA rode our arses hard on that contract. Every single email we sent out (which was about 200/week) was scrutinized and rated for grammar, spelling, and content. We came up with a double-review process before sending any email. In the last year of the contract, over 75% of our email responses were rated "better than EPA could answer." Which, if I do say so myself, was pretty damn good. Of course, after the contract was awarded to the other company, one of my co-workers sent a test email inquiry to them. When she got the response, she came to me and said, "If I had tried to send out something like this, you would h...

Below are 20 pictures pulled from my work computer. Your task, if you choose to accept it, is to use 5 or more of these pictures to compose an entertaining blog post. When you are finished, leave a comment, and I'll provide some linkyluv. It's like a meme. Only it's not. You can thank me later. *smooches*

Biddy tagged me for this Guilty Pleasures Meme. One of the many great things about being a VUBOQ is that the unrepentant part allows for a fairly guilt-free life ... so here are some of my simple pleasures: 1. dirty martinis (with expensive gin) 2. ice cream 3. good cheese from Whole Foods 4. a visit to Leah, the Colornatrix. 5. laying in the grass looking at the sky 6. pottery 7. really nice chocolate 8. splurging on cute clothes I don't need 9. blobbing on the sofa 10. host spur-of-the-moment social gatherings It would seem that the Straight Guy decided to do this one as well. What up with that? I thought Straight Guys didn't dig memes.

Marathon Mom tagged me for her new Three Words Meme , which is sweeping teh intartubez! I'm not quite sure if I'm doing this correctly, but here are her instructions: Pick three things about the evening that made it fun (so hard). Then I will think of other things that can be described by [at least one of?] those same three things that are not related but completely random. So here we go ... My Three Words: Party . Booze . Neighbors . friends surprise gay straight Japanese American male female black white gin & tonic limes vodka pink champagne cheese dip birthday kiss photographs gossip beer I'm not going to tag anyone for this particular meme, because I've heard a rumor that a certain Straight Guy has also done this meme . And he's tagged three lucky ladies hot chicks. I still have one more meme to do, so tune in later today for that. Also, it's Tomokito's birthday ! Happy Birthday to the best Upstairs Neighbor EVAR!!! More later. *smooches*

This is what happens when you open your home to wandering bloggers: You start to get tagged for memes ... and then FIVE DAYS LATER realize that you've been tagged. So, Confessions of a Marathon Mom did taggeth me for the 6 Words Memoir Meme ( See ?). The rules are: Sum up my life in six words. No more, no less. The loophole is you can write as many of these six word sentences as you want. Oooh. Fun. No? Thank gawd I don't have to tag 6 people or say my 6 favorite types of cheese or how I'm 6 degrees of separation from Peter Cetera (actually, I'm only 3, which puts me 4 away from, OM-forking-G, CHER!!!!). I seem to be rambling ... so here's (a part of my) life in Six Word Sentences : I, Vicious Unrepentant Bitter Old Queen. Am *way* cooler than I, Claudius . I don't know what that means. Having never actually watched I, Claudius . Someone said it was good though. Someone said I was good too. Of course, then he slept with a long-haired skinny twenty-someth...

The lovely and talented Java tagged me for the 7 Deadly Sins meme. Oh, joy. Oh, rapture. I promise not to hold it against her. 1. If you could kill someone (or injure them egregiously) who would it be and why? Bonus points for 'how'. I can't think of anyone I despise so much that I would want them dead. What can I say? I have a very forgiving nature. 2. You have been given 25 Million dollars and you have to spend it all (no donations to charity or investing). What do you spend it on? But I want to invest it. And give it to charity. Sorry. I guess I'd spend it on traveling. And I would travel in style. 3. You have the opportunity to steal anything in the world without getting caught. What is it and why? I'd steal the heart of Brad Pitt from that evil temptress, Angelina. Wait. Maybe I'd steal the heart of Angelina. Hmm ... can I steal two things? 4. You have the opportunity to pawn off one facet of your life to someone else forever. What is it and w...

Updated with the ANSWERS ... Yeah. So, GayProf did this little contesty meme thing about song lyrics. Since I participated in his, I feel obligated to do my own. Here are his rules: Here are the [adapted] rules for the meme: 1) Put your mp3 player or music player on your computer on random. 2)Post the first four lines from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song (Skip repeat artists). 3) Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from. Leave your guesses in the comments. Some of mine are going to be very hard. Try not to cheat by googling the lyrics. You have all weekend. Good luck. *smooch* [oh, and some songs I couldn't find the lyrics, so I skipped them. whatever.] 1. Nothing's gonna stop me Only you can stop me Yonaka no san-ji a.m. Makura moto no PHS Naru no matte 'ru Baka-mitai ja nai -- Movin' on without You , Utada Hikaru 2. A la luna de Valencia, me robaste el corazon. Lo tiraste contra la Albuferay en ...

Sin has tagged me. Woo hoo! A meme! Fortunately, I have nothing better to do this afternoon ... So here goes ... The rules are as follows: -each player lists 8 facts about themselves -the rules of the game appear before the facts do -the player ends by tagging 8 people, which means listing their names and then going to their blogs to tell them that they’ve been tagged, then going back and commenting on their lists. 1. Contrary to word on the street, I have only awakened in a pool of my own vomit once, which was in my crazy heavy drinking college days and involved way too much EverClear . Shots of it. If the pictures my roommate took ever surface, I will deny it's me. All those *other* pools of vomit were someone else's I'm sure. 2. I am not bulimic . I don't binge. 3. I have primed tobacco once in my life. And never again. Seriously. Never. Again. 4. It took me approximately 7 hours to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . 5. When I was a child, I ...

Awhile back, I did a meme for GayProf in which he asked what song would be the theme song to a television show about my life ... or something along those lines. I finally remembered to upload the song: Tsuri ni Ikou . Enjoy. I couldn't find a video on YouTube, but here are a couple of songs by The BOOM: Futari no Harmony (duet) Sore Dake de Ureshii (duet) Shima Uta

The following people have received 5 Fun and Exciting Questions from Yours Truly: Chelsea Only Me [ meme est finis ] Goblinbox [ meme est finis ] Marve [ meme est finis ] Cooper So ... where are your answers? WHERE? I'm supposed to be off having fun enjoying the sunshine, but I'm at WORK. WHY AREN'T YOU ENTERTAINING ME?!?!?! WHY?!?!?! Not that I'm needy or anything ... Anyway, it's been a fun-filled day at the office. Not only have I referred as many callers as possible to their EPA regional offices (because I'm too cranky to answer their questions), but I have also scored my ALL-TIME High Score on 3D Pinball: 4, 285, 750. Eat that, Kittens. Only an hour to go. And, I can go home. Sort laundry. Do the washing up. Plant chilies and marigolds. And have a nice relaxing glass bottle of wine. Yay. [PS. And extra special *smooches* to Mush, who answered my felting questions]

Last week, I agreed to participate in GayProf 's 5 Questions meme. He asked me 5 questions. I typed up 5 answers. Hated them. Erased them. Edited them. Deleted entire paragraphs. GayProf asks the hard questions. Anyway, I'm still not happy with most of my answers; however, I'm pretty sure, if I don't post something soon, the Meme Gods will come down to smote me. I really don't want to be smoted ... er ... smitten? Here are my answers thus far. I am maintain the right to update and edit: 1. What are the events in your life that resulted in your concern forthe environment? Was this a sudden epiphany or part of a long process? I typed up a long answer, which I hated. So, in a nutshell, it was a long process, wrapped up in my love for the biological sciences, growing up in the NC mountains, my college ecology course, and teaching students about ecological and environmental issues here and abroad. 2. A number of your entries focus on the foibles of dating. They also incl...