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As a general rule, I’m not a huge fan of podcasting. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s cool that there CAN be podcasts- I’m a proponent of citizens’ media in all its forms- but I personally have very little patience for it. I’ve got to wait for the file to download, plug in my iPod, sync, and then find time to listen to it when I don’t need the language centers of my brain for something else. And I have to have music while I’m commuting or I get cranky, so that’s right out.

So I don’t listen to podcasts, and I don’t really want to produce one. But sometimes I wonder if podcasting might not enhance some of the ridiculous stories I tell here, because I get some ridiculous phone calls. Too bad I can’t record the calls I get, because some of them deserve to be heard by the world, like the one I took where I had to spend the first several minutes trying to figure out if he wanted a recruiter or a phone sex operator. (Here’s a hint: Don’t say, “Be gentle with me, I’ve never done this before” while speaking slowly and breathing heavily if you’re looking for a job.)

Welcome back from the holiday weekend (at least for us in the US), MagicPotHeads. I hope it was relaxing for all of you- I had a lovely time destroying all hopes of future off-hours productivity by getting myself good and addicted to World of Warcraft. I’ll be tearing myself away from it for the evening, though, because the season premiere of House, MD is tonight.

Why do you care? Because Greg House is the prime example of what NOT to do in the workplace. He went on a date with his female employee, he makes cracks about how his black employee must know how to rob a bank, he makes lacivious comments about his boss, he’s rude to the patients, he neglects his clinic hours. He’s about ten different lawsuits waiting to happen, but they put up with his antics because “he’s the best damn doctor in this hospital.”

Ironically, the thing they all seem to have the biggest issue with, his Vicodin addiction, is the thing covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

So you see, my devotion to this show is professional, and has nothing to do with the novelty of Hugh Laurie playing a smart-ass American. Right.

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