vanquished!

I found a renegade social security agent. Her exact words, after going through my files for about fifteen minutes and trying to ascertain exactly how the Yonkers district office of the NY State Department of Health would let the Austin office know that I am, in fact, a female, were:

"Well, it says we're required to verify your birth certificate with its issuing agency. But it doesn't say we're not allowed to not verify your birth certificate."

Amen.

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The only good thing about Ivan is that all the film productions that got lured away from Austin by New Orlean's tax incentives ("bribes," said Suzanne) are coming home to wait out the storm. Bring on the Texas hospitality. AFS screened Fire tonight, and I liked it a lot. It's a family melodrama -- sometimes when the characters are alone they say how they're feeling out loud so you understand their motivations -- but other things, some of the interactions and the imagery, where nuanced and very real. There's this recurring image of one of the heroines as a young girl sitting in a field of yellow flowers with her family, and every time it came up I knew exactly how she had felt when she was there with them, and how it made her feel to remember it.

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