Comments by MsGrant | San Diego Reader

MsGrant

Feeding the Beast

That poem was brilliant, SD! Um, when do you sleep? Refried, glad you liked my post. "rather than peddling someone else's idea of profit" - that sums it up. I cannot reconcile what I do and what I feel. It's too much about money. My business is all about chasing the buck. Let me give you an example of the kind of s***heads I work with. This rep comes to my office on Friday. She starts telling me about her trip to the east coast - she went to New England to see the leaves change or whatever. Then her voice drops and she says "and you know what else? There were no black people or Mexican people. It was soooo white." I am sitting there, trying to keep the smile on my face, while my jaw is clenching and I want to scream at this idiot "what the hell makes you even think I would be okay with a statement like that!?!?!" I cannot stand sales reps anyway. We call them "doughnut couriers", because all they do is bring bagels and trinkets to get business and don't have any real discernable skills. Anyway, you get my drift. Phew! Thanks for letting me vent. It's almost beer-thirty! Carry on, soldier! SD - I don't stay at the shelter. I go there to pick-up the P-AT animals and me and the other P-AT volunteers load them up in the van and go to whatever facility we are scheduled for that day, so my contact with the shelter animals is limited to the P-AT animals. They have a clean bill of health. You could do the P-AT program if you are worried about contact with other kitties, such as the groomers or sitters have. There are lots of opportunities to work at the shelter without having direct contact with the animals. You could also be a dog walker. But to answer your question, I think the chances of picking up something there is minimal, since all the animals with any health issues are quarantined until they get better, or in the case of something incurable but not immediately life-threatening, they are kept in a separate holding area.
— November 15, 2009 9:42 a.m.

Thanks, Magics! Hey, did you see this? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/nov/11/of… I'm sure you did, but just in case.... Anti, I know tons of people. Unfortunately, I like very few of them, but I would be willing to extort money out of them for a good enough cause.
— November 15, 2009 7:28 a.m.