how do people not know gabrielle carteris had her own talk show back in the '90s?

that's andrea zuckerman-vasquez to you: on saturday at work, i was talking a bit with the dispatcher beckie, and her friend kelly that was hanging out with her at the office. (it was a slow shift, which was odd for a saturday night.)

anyway, we got to talking about the people at work and how we enjoy working with most people, because everyone brings something awesome to the table. jim's hilarious. check. clay is great. check. (and i neglected to say that i think he's hot.) chris is great and his beard reminds us of father time. (and i neglected to say how i have a weird crush on him. because it weirds me out a bit.)

we got around to me, and i was like "i know useless trivia. like how three liters are pretty much only available in texas." kelly confirmed such. i spouted out other random shit that i know (like the whole there's two companies that make girl scout cookies, and depending on which company the troupe gets their cookies from determines whether they're called samoas or not). i don't know how we got to gabrielle carteris, or 90210 in general, but that's when i mentioned her talk show. neither beckie nor kelly knew she had a talk show in the '90s. i described it as ricki lake, only not salacious at all.

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i heart tina fey: ok, so maya is gone. boo! but the show was really good. and that's saying a lot, since the four episodes before the writers' strike were bad, as well as last season.

and maybe it's just my tina fey fanboy talking, but this episode was great from start to finish.

i particularly liked her turn on weekend update, especially when it came to hillary clinton. it's so fucking true. especially the oprah part. and the co-presidents part. ok, everything she said about clinton. yeah, this confirms i'm gonna vote for clinton, if she gets the nomination.

and lady business! "i'm a bitch in the board room, a boar in the bedroom, and i'm a bear on the toilet."

and annuale! oh my. (i'd link to it, but it crashes firefox for me every time, so try at your own risk, but it is hilarious!)

"bitch is the new black." indeed. now i need some new 30 rock. now-ish.

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confused: ok, so one of the dispatchers at work, chris, who i mentioned having a weird crush on above. yeah. i don't know what to think about him. he's cute, in a hippie-ish sort of way. he seems to have some good taste in music and books. he knows about showlistaustin, which made me like him more.

but it's a little weird. like, he and i get along really well and talk a lot when it's just he and i in the office, but add someone else into the equation, and he closes up.

that's where i get confused. if you know me well enough, you know i have absolutely no gaydar; i like what i like, and that's all i know. i guess it's the getting along and being loquacious, then three's a crowd and laconic is the word is what throws me off.

and today, my first order was a cash order, so i needed a cash out. it was just he and i in the office, and we had been talking about sxsw shows to go to, and when i saw that it was a cash order, i said "gimme some cash." and in my head, i followed that with, "give it to me hard." because that's where my head goes because i'm horribly inappropriate. after he gave me my cash, i said, "i almost said something inappropriate earlier." and immediately, he said, "you should've."

and that threw me off. did he think the same thing i did? do we have this weird flirtation going on, or is it all in my mind? i have no idea.

if we did have a weird flirtation thing going, i probably wouldn't mind. at least i'd have a decent pot connection. and possible make out buddy. but then that's when my mind would kick in and say "no, you're not stable. stop it."

which to that, i have to add ... the state agency i temped for a couple of years back, has a permanent position open, and i sent in an application for it. i probably won't get it, because i'm sure there are other former sessionals who are more qualified than i or who got along with people at work better than i, but in my mind, i'm trying to stay optimistic about it. and if you know me really well, you know how hard that is for me.

bah. next time chris and i are alone together in the office, i'm gonna ask him about his beard. because i'm terribly curious about it. it's so father time, only not white. i'm just, i wanna know the backstory about it. why did he decide to grow it out? is it hard to maintain? other questions?