Tearing Myself Away
posted at 11:35 pm
on Mar. 17, 2004
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Went out for sushi tonight. Is there a disease caused by too much raw fish and too much rice?
I arrived late to the restaurant; I couldn’t get away from work until 8:15 p.m. Even though I’ve given notice, I’m still compelled to work long hours and fret over the tiniest detail of the site. Tonight it was about font size on some pages, and whether certain URLs were forwarding correctly.
I will reserve now some time in a hyperbolic chamber for the day after my last day. You know, to depressurize smoothly.
At dinner, Lance, Susie and I talked about the stupendously ironic situation of having the head of the office of the Special Council, the government agency responsible for training the rest of the federal government how to act in a non-discriminatory manner, decide to revoke federal protection for employees’ sexual preferences. In other words, according to Scott Bloch, the new special council, if you’re gay, you can be fired, legally, for that reason.
(Washington, D.C.) Gay and lesbians in the entire federal workforce have had their job protections officially removed by the office of Special Counsel. The new head Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, says his interpretation of a 1978 law intended to protect employees and job applicants from adverse personnel actions is that gay and lesbian workers are not covered. Bush appointed Bloch(head) to a five year term in January.
