raybear | Is that sexual harassment?

My boss just hit me up for money for doing the aids walk this weekend. No pressure, she said. Funny thing is, despite my brief millisecond of panic obligation, I know she meant it. This is a person who doesn't allow people to make too many jokes during sexual harassment training because to quote her, "it's happened before." Part of my mistakes last week involved the rejection letters to applicants and she's very careful in following the legal obligations of the job search process. She's meticulous and honorable and ethical in her management duties. Which is sort of why it was funny when she was pretending to guilt me into giving her money.

I only write about this because this is the only job I've had in my entire life where my boss is NOT completely inappropriate in behavior or lacking in management skills. It should be duly noted.

In Other News^TM, I'm following in the footsteps of

grocerygetter and

freakysparks by creating and hot/not list. But first, a definition.

I've decided to do three categories: Hot, Five Minutes Ago, and Fired. The first is obviously things I like and recently obsessed and the latter is stuff I've been sick of for awhile but won't go away, but the middle category are things that people think are new and hot, but in actuality most people are late in the trend and it's on it's way out, not in. Doesn't necessarily mean I don't LIKE what's in the category -- it's just not new. So here's my interpolation (sic) as it relates to my own life.

HOT

- Menthol Pall Malls
- NetFlix.com
- Gin and lemonade
- clingy dark grey v-neck sweaters aka 'gay sweaters'
- asiago cheese bagels with sun-dried tomato cream cheese
- stupid beef between second-tier hip hop players (e.g. Funkmaster Flex assaulting another radio dj)
- Flavor Flav being arrested
- Chicago's Fox television morning show
- selling books on Amazon.com
- writing your own smut
- still being down with Martha Stewart

Five Minutes Ago

- The Osbournes
- Anything produced by the Neptunes
- Food Network
- Livejournal crushes
- LJ Friends filters
- DVD Director's Commentary
- Trendy shoes from Payless (the fake leather lasts exactly as long as the trend does, and you only pay a fraction of the price!)
- The Strokes, Hives, Vines, White Stripes, and "Rock Is Back!" stories in mainstream press
- Mike's Hard Lemonade
- Anna Nicole Smith (the person, not the show)
- Kim Cattrell
- mohawks on non-punks
- any beef involving Nas, Jay-Z, and related players
- realizing Christina Aguilera will outlast Britney Spears
- Mystikal being arrested
- tapas and sushi as dining experiences
- "admitting" you like Courtney Love
- liking Reese Witherspoon

Fired!
- Any duets with Ja Rule
- White guys rapping over guitars
- the tv shows Friends, Everybody Love Raymond, ER, NYPD Blue
- Movies released on DVD without Director's Commentary
- those fake looking bowling shoes
- paying retail for anything
- R. Kelly (why won't he just be incarcerated/wrongly exonerated already and get out of my face?)
- the only rap artist in your collection is 2Pac, but you claim to have a special connect with him

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My lists aren't as long as I thought they'd be. Or maybe I just want to go home now.