Today is October 25.  Basically there will be no October page.  Starting 
Nov 1, look for the land of rach at pair.com: 
http://www55.pair.com/rachelpi also you can check out my .Mac homepage at 
http://homepage.mac.com/rachelpi
But the journal will be on Pair.

Training is going well, everyone is nice.  Got a cat, Calypso.  he's orange.
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<b>A Brief Essay</b><br><br>
After perusing <a href="http://www.3wishes.com">this site</a>, I was reminded of just 
how sexualized nearly any occupation a woman could enter into has become.  You have 
your traditional nurse, maid, waitress, but the sexy secretary is now Executive 
Lady.  There's also cop, construction worker, military officer, and FBI costumes.  
I'm sure if you looked, you could find a sexy librarian costume.<br> One notable 
omission would be the geek girl, grrl coder, sexy hacker, what have you.  It would 
probably 
have to come as some strange offshoot of the librarian because all geeks, like all 
librarians, must wear glasses.  They do have the Sexy Trekkie outfit which I guess is 
a step in the right direction as well.  Probably the closest you would get is the 
cyber punk look but still not really what I'm going for.<br><br>
So one of the main reasons I didn't update for so long is laziness.  The other is 
that isua wasn't accepting my Kerberos tickets.  So I tried an experiment which was 
to follow ISU's <a href="http://ait.iastate.edu/pubs/mng338/mng338.html">directions 
for secure FTP/Telnet</a> on my work laptop.  I was able to get in, no problem, 
leaving the October 25 entry as proof.  (Technically I guess my first experiment was 
to log in to webmail to make sure rah1 was still active).  So I followed the 
instructions once again, no luck.  I tried editing the Kerberos .plist file, no 
dice.  Finally I tried specifying isua2.iastate.edu, and that seemed to work.  So I'm 
not sure what my old .term file said, but I've changed it to always open isua2.  
Hopefully no more problems from here on out.  So now I don't know if I want to go 
through with moving the journal for real over to pair.  What does anyone think?
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<i>Somewhat later</i> Oh yeah, and another thing.  My grandma told me she's 
participating in some 40-day long thing at her church.  The topic is to find out your 
purpose in life.  (or something, not sure).  Anyway, if an 87-year-old woman doesn't 
know what her purpose in life is, what hope do the rest of us have??

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Today is October 28.  It's 
<a href="http://www.apple.com/retail/jordancreek/">Official!</a>  Grand Opening 
November 6.  Tell your friends.  Tell your enemies.  Today at training I did a good 
skit where I played a sleazy Hollywood producer type.  I did a vague NYC/Boston 
accent, and everyone loved it.  Some memorable lines:
<blockquote>
<b>Me:</b> We got all these yahds and yahds of 16 and 35 mm film--<br>
<b>Adam:</b> What's a "yahd"?<br>
<b>Me:</b> About tree feet.<br><br>
<b>Chad:</b> (listing off the applications in the suite, ticking them off on his 
fingers)<br> <b>Me:</b> (aside/stage whisper) Good thing there weren't more products, 
or the kid woulda had to take off his socks!<br></blockquote>
Well, maybe you had to be there.  I got huge laughs, people liked the voice.  It was 
fun.
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