Vote For Cindy!!!

[Cindysphinx]

Guess what?

The Washington Post is having a contest to find a new advice columnist, and I made the top ten finalists!!!

The way it works is that readers vote for their favorite, and the lowest vote-getters are eliminated. Winner gets to write an advice column for four weeks.

You can read my entry here:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...jo4K_blog.html

OK, tennis friends. If you like what you see, vote for Cindy!!

Cindy -- not revealing how much make-up is on her face for that picture

[Topaz]

Cindy! You've finally 'unmasked' yourself!

Good luck!

[spaceman_spiff]

Strange. I never had you pegged as the writing type.

[Angle Queen]

Cool idea. But I can't vote til Noon.

[atatu]

Ok, will vote for you, but have to admit that I like Nikki also...

[Power Player]

Cindy - does not look 50.

[Douggo]

Agreed. You form a mental picture of a person after a while. Sometimes that mental picture is off by just a tad. This is one of those times for me.

[sureshs]

The advice did not even mention that pregnant women are protected by law in the workplace and accomodations must be made for them. The boss has no choice in this matter. Document every conversation and its date and time and make it clear it is his duty to abide by the law. Put it in formal email after the meeting and copy it to yourself.

[sureshs]

It should be noon ET already, but I don't find the link to vote. Where is it?

[r2473]

I would have suggested that the pregnant woman should buy snow tires at Costco and take plenty of prenatal supplements.

[sureshs]

If it requires creating an account with the Post, not gonna vote. Don't want to be spammed for the rest of my life with email and don't want to look for the small "unsubscribe" link, which will not be honored anyway.

[sureshs]

Originally Posted by Power Player

Cindy - does not look 50.

How do you know her photo is recent?

[Cindysphinx]

Thanks, everyone!

I have to say, I am as baffled as you are about the voting.

First, the site had our answers to the first two questions.

And now those answers are gone and they have our answers for the First Official Round. Oy.

Anyway, here's the link for voting. I think.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...jo4K_blog.html

[sureshs]

It is up! No need to give your email address! I voted successfully:

"Thanks for voting! We'll announce the winners early next week. Follow the contest at washingtonpost.com/workadvice and vote for your favorite contestant each week."

Can anyone guess who (or is it whom?) I voted for?

[Fifth Set]

Registration is not required and voting finally opened.

I voted for Cindy - who wrote a good entry and is cuter than I bet anyone here imagined.

[sureshs]

Originally Posted by Fifth Set

I voted for Cindy - who wrote a good entry and is cuter than I bet anyone here imagined.

Let us just say we disagree on one or more counts.

[jswinf]

Got my vote. Of course, I was too lazy to read the other entries, was that wrong? We've seen quite a bit of your work here...

And, hey, I liked "revenude." Reminds me of many years ago and a hearing for a nursing home expansion, so many new "regular" nursing home beds and so many intended for the "developmentally disabled."

The home-grown consultant presenting the plan kept using the term "retard beds." (Do we get asterisks?) After the fourth or fifth time, my boss (a spunky 5-foot tall woman with a 3-pack-a-day cigarette habit) said "excuse me, I'm sure you mean well, but using the term 'retard' is offensive."

Anyway, good luck with it.

[sureshs]

Originally Posted by jswinf

Of course, I was too lazy to read the other entries, was that wrong?

It is wrong. I did the same too, but it is wrong. It brings up the larger question of what talent means in the Internet generation. It is already well-established in the US that online ads and pseudo-feedback collection techniques are very useful for negative campaigning during elections. If talent is chosen based on how many people can be enlisted to vote, it is a problem. But some would argue that it too is a talent, like musicians needing to look good.

[jswinf]

^^^Gosh, and you don't always expect an answer to a rhetorical question.

[goober]

Originally Posted by Douggo

Agreed. You form a mental picture of a person after a while. Sometimes that mental picture is off by just a tad. This is one of those times for me.

Worse is that I thought she posted a video of herself playing 3-4 years ago. So I thought I already knew what she looked like, but obviously I remembered wrong.