'Til The Cows Come Home

Oh... no visit to dr. hottie?

Hope you feel completely better soon.

Awww. I think I'm spreading the preschool plauge again. It seems like I meet people, swap spit, and *snap*, just like that they're sick again.

Hope you're up for Happy Hour on Friday.

WHAT, no pics of you in the hot new glasses, PLEASE!

Ew, gross! Everyone is sick! Take care of yourself. An important weekend is sneaking up and fast.

Sick and stylish...maybe you should be a fashion designer?

Yuck. I'm just now getting out of a very, very miserable flu.

Get better fast!

It's not how you feel but how you look, as they say.

Maybe "influenza chic" could become the new "heroin chic?"

I had a day like that a few weeks ago... in fact just a couple days before I came to NYC.

Uh oh... maybe I gave it to you? :(

I watched Larry King last evening. I am not an ardent watcher of The View it's too teenage giggly for me but I have seen it on occasion and I had some thoughts about Starr Jones's interview. My first thought was what on earth was the problem? The dispute seemed adolescent to me. If one knew ANYWAY that Starr was leaving who would care what day she announced it? So it was Tuesday and not Thursday, big deal. She was told in April even though everyone else knew and wanted her to leave in November 2005 for God's sake! The issues are it seems to me that of hurt, embarrassment, power and lack of it. I suspect it is the same whether one is working in an office or one is on a popular TV show. I think Starr felt humiliated and, as she said, fired. That is simply an AWFUL feeling. Being laid off or having one's contract not renewed is nothing more than complete professional rejection and I think Starr felt singled out as the only woman who definitely stands out because she is the only woman of color among the group, she felt embarrassed and very angry. I know that fear-of-layoff feeling. It's personally and psychologically destructive and can be devastating. I think Starr by "surprising" people on Tuesday and making her announcement instead of Thursday or another day was the LITTLE power she could wield at big corporate business interests who hurt her immensely. I would feel a bit vindictive too if it were I. I probably would not have had the bravery to do what she did. It seemed that lots of people talked behind Starr's back and that was not comfortable. EVERYONE perhaps Starr lied too and did things she should not have about her wedding picture. [Yawn.] ABC especially though WANTED her to lie about why she was going. Why? To save their face. It doesn't look good for ABC to be the one seen as firing the only black woman on the show! A lot smiled at her and yet sat next to her at events. It was phoney. To chalk everything up to a "business decision" is, in my opinion, insensitive and what is SO very wrong with corporate America today. No one cares but PRETENDS they do. It's about ratings and politics which reverts back to money and of course business decisions. Now really how much money would it have really cost ABC to keep Starr Jones after a hard working nine year stint? In the scheme of things I think nothing much. Power loves to use their power and THAT'S as I see it the real issue and it simply does not matter who gets hurt in the process it's all just business decisions after all. YUK. Thankfully, I am out of the corporate arena and I surely do not want to go back in. Back stabbing, revenge seeking juveniles is what exists in the corporate world more often than not with little to NO regard for one's humanity. Watch children, they are a younger edition of what many people are as adults. For the record, not that it matters, I am white but I am human too and I know what rejection feels like. Everyone lied, no one is clean there, and all in all Starr gets my vote and ABC well, it's all just business isn't it? It's not to me!!