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Birthday pretties from Deeablo! For me!

Including a shirtless Keith Urban. And men in glasses. Guh. GUH! (RDA is in sunglasses, but hey, he was MacGyver, so he had geek cool long before any of the others.)

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Sickness mostly over. Fever broke yesterday afternoon. Headache went away yesterday morning. Nausea is still present, but only mildly, which means I have to find cereal for lunch (it's the only thing my stomach likes right now).

I am quite happy over the American Idol results. *twirls* Now I can vote unashamedly for Elliott from here on out and be quite happy no matter what happens.

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We have an "intern" for the next three weeks. A senior in high school who has to shadow at an agency. Bless his heart, no one is including him in anything yet. They haven't figured out to drag him into meetings to get a sense of what being in an agency is like.

But that's not the important part.

The important part is that he is the SPITTING image of Will Makar from American Idol's semi-finals this season. Seriously, he's Will's doppleganger! And so young. LOL I swear, one coworker and I keep going on about how young he is and how Will-like. And very polite.

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Brawl Breaks out at New York NASCAR Meeting

Earlier today I was amused and surprised when I read this article. Seems the community meeting held last night in NYC about putting the track on Staten Island turned into a brawl complete with a councilman being put in a headlock.

I found it intriguing that the politicans are uniformly against the track and the unions are for it. (Keep in mind, I'm from the south. Unions? Not held in high regard here.) Political party doesn't matter. Democrats, Republicans...they don't want it. (Frankly, why would they? It's Staten Island! It's not rural, even by big city standards of what constitutes rural. Believe me, bring someone born and raised in NYC to where I live, and they're going to freak over the rural.)

One gentleman, John Luisi, said something that I could have taken as derogatory, about keeping the tracks below the Mason-Dixon line if this behavior is indicative of NASCAR fans (the union guys did most of the brawling), but hey, it's a frustrating situation and I get where he's coming from.

So, like a good NASCAR fan should, I emailed him. To let him know that NASCAR Nation doesn't exactly want brawling fans either, that I understand his concerns over a track on Staten Island, that I'm actually in agreement on many reasons why it's a bad idea. And that this isn't necessarily something that all of NASCAR Nation is gung-ho about.

Dude emailed me back (and apologized for his Mason-Dixon comment, even though I never addressed it, explaining that he was in the heat of the moment and went overboard and regreted it). He emailed me back and asked me to talk to the reporter at the New York Daily News about the topic as well.

So, I just got off the phone with her. (I'm still a little shell-shocked I think.) It was very quick as she was on deadline and couldn't talk much, so she got some basic ideas from me, and she says she wants to email me later about more, but the gist was just explaining how traffic congestion and noise in the city would be difficult on the residents and how tracks across the country are abandoned in favor of these newer tracks (she had no clue about Rockingham - yes, I pimped Rockingham), leaving a big gap in revenue and what becomes sometimes a major eyesore with a track that just...sits there.

So...yeah. I'm kind of blinking and trying to figure out if talking to her was a good thing or not, although I tried to be perfectly diplomatic (much better in typewritten form, let me tell you) and present a side that understands their concerns without being critical. Besides which, hopefully at some point I'll get to explain as well that NASCAR going to NYC is actually pretty much solid, it's just where that's the concern.