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[bironic]

Thanks a lot, every insurance company I can find in this county, for refusing me two months of health coverage to fill a gap between school and work in case I get hit by a car or stricken with swine flu, all because I had a kidney stone and a scan for what turned out to be a benign growth two and a half years ago.

This is especially irritating coming as it does a day after Obama's speech about the ideal healthcare environment in this country. It may have wanted some substance to back up its ideals, but the moral motivations can't be faulted. Also, he's an excellent speaker.

/politics

Working a lot this week. Tired. A bit demoralized. Have more to do tonight. Dreading an interview tomorrow at which I'm almost certain I'm going to be offered a job. Dreading because I don't know if I want it and I haven't been able to figure it out since this became a possibility more than a month ago. Am probably going to take it anyway, and then deal with whether it's a good fit or not -- and telling my current supervisor, who is expecting me to be around for another several months yet.

But: synn is coming tomorrow for the weekend. There may be a Tim Gunn event in person next weekend. And tonight is the premiere of The Vampire Diaries, which looks just as terrible as every other TV show that utterly misses what makes vampires compelling, but I was obsessed with L.J. Smith for about a month in high school, several years after I knew better, and it'll be really cool to see those characters in whatever mutated hypersexed teenage incarnation on screen.

("I'm going to eat you, Salvatore.")

Comments

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just have to leave a little drive-by Tim Gunn love. He's so classy, and I just adore him for his restraint and for the way he cares about all these people he deals with, even when they're being emotional wrecks or downright brats.

He's just so, so cool.

/fangirling

[bironic.livejournal.com]

The little heart-to-hearts they sometimes show on Project Runway are so sweet. And I really appreciated that when he did his makeover show a couple of years ago, instead of berating the guests he worked to educate them on what kinds of clothes looked good on different figures, and went the extra mile to give them a little bit of self-confidence counseling when they needed it.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Yup, I've seen Tim Gunn's Guide to Style and I really liked it for just that reason.

Sharp as he is, he seems to have an enormous heart and there's just no meanness in him. That quality is something he has in common with Craig Ferguson, who I also adore.