As the field is narrowed for the 2012 Presidental election, Eric Holder is shocked, SHOCKED, that Republicans are trying, as always, to keep the disenfranchised from registering to vote. Readers who remember Casablanca recall the closing of Rick’s due to illegal gambling as the chief of police was collecting his winnings.
I’m going to give you some sage advice from some higher-ups who were very good or bad but left me with something over the years:
– You got in 1 1/2 hours early to work and bought two newspapers, local and NYC, read them. It’s your job.
– It’s a really bad idea for your boss to make staff break copyright law to make money on a conference and for me to be called out on it when I’d made my position clear.
– To that boss, when I get up at 4:30 a.m. to get to an early meeting and have to stop to get a bagel, because you won’t let me have the key to my office, pay for the damn bagel.
– Never trust a guy who tells you that you have to pull individual weeds on a clay tennis court and only a man can run an automatic, sit-upon roller. And respect Pythagoros, because he’s who got us out of there.
– When a guy says he has to sit on the right in church so God knows he’s a conservative, first tell him God may be in front looking at him and see him on the left, then leave, quickly, and forever.
– Whenever anyone hires you and wants to still do your job or change everything you do moment to moment, find another job immediately.
– If your brother says “you don’t need ski lessons,” get them, you won’t be left crying on Big Emma.
– Enjoy the fried catfish your clients bring in on birthdays, because you’re not about to be paid this month.
– Know that sisters bring traditions. Mine wouldn’t get up in high school until I picked out her clothes for the day. Now I get my husband’s out of the closet because I dread “Honey, what should I wear??” when I’m making breakfast.
– An old friend of my dad’s once said that to leave a clean desk was to die, that you had to leave something to get back to on Monday morning. He’s Irish and a great writer and would say it, today, much better than I ever could.
– Never eat maroon food.
– for another view of the universe, my brother, who asked “who turned on the dark?” Yes, he’s sane and lives by a tv set where they do murders every week.
I don’t know that I have a quote, have always been quite practical, and emotional.
I would say happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Kwanzaa. Oh, and SNL’s Dan Ackroyd as Julia Child would have told us to “Save the giblets.”
Dee
Cooking with Dee 