hat's off to her ...

As for after that ... the ball is ENTIRELY in her court. Don't mention it. If she mentions it, hear her out ENTIRELY ... apologize again simply .... but DO NOT burden her with YOUR upset ...

I have no idea what your future with Boss holds ... it likely depends on her work history, your price and your talent ... unfathomable.

I wouldn't count on further referrals and would be cautious about using her as a reference. This finishing-up period may give you a better idea the advisability and/or if things are frosty and your resume thin, you might ask if she would be willing to give you a reference on YOUR WORK in the future.

What a waste. C'est domage ... but at this point in your career, she's the client, you're the flunky ... I would advise avoiding even thinking those "had enough" thoughts ... they tend to be revealed in your voice and your face, even when you aren't e-mailing them to third-parties who are likely to meet your client at some point in the future.

Petty, mean, vindictive, incurious, stubborn to the point of unreality ...

I guess I believe that all these folks who luv luv luv him and think he's the cat's pajamas are speaking genuinely and not out of some sort of mafia-inspired fear ... but damn, it's amazing such a mental and emotion midget got so far ...

I'll never forget him claiming that (unlike Gore) he really didn't care if he won the office ... he'd just as soon go home to Prairie Chapel ... Idle hands (and brains) are the devils workshop.

I suspect Bush is one of those competitive types who affects not to care if he wins ... but in reality can not bear the idea of anyone else -- but him -- winning ...

url to a site regarding it and it's 2005 predecessor (also "failed") clicking on my name will take you to : http://gangresearch.net/GangResearch/Policy/gangsinpolitics_files/gangdetbill/gangdet05.htm

IMHO, it puts both Feinstein and Shumer in new light .... but for Feinstein as a representative of a state with a large and growing hispanic as well as long history of black and asian gangs ... these measures -- which are highly highly controversial -- reflect exactly which limited constituency she's answering to and just how "fear based" she is ...

There are lots of different kinds of "gangs" ... many youthful gang members simply "outgrow" their gang activity. This kind of broadening of definition, "special circumstances," etc. makes it far too easy to criminalize a nonviolent individual for life resulting in a highly prejudicial "permanent record" albatross around their neck.

FWIW: I've read that the California Prison Guard union is widely considered excessively influential ... this sounds "right up their alley."

why were the Greens GROWING ... sheesh folks, this isn't a new phenomenon and, as I screamed in 2000, it's not as if the Democratic party didn't has some sort of warning or that they some how reached out to disaffected democratic voters ...

don't.get.me.started.

the shock and awe of Florida 2000 beat back the "insurgency" ... but the problems/fissures are deep ... the democratic candidates keep pandering to the the law-and-order soccer moms and culturally conservatives, leaving a large, very large, too large portion of their voters voting for the "slate" not for the candidate at all (though I've read off and on this is changing and voters are picking and choosing -- though I have my doubts that many voters are actually that well informed).

and to exaggerate the larger significance of an electoral majority.

I grew up in Southern California which housed notoriously conservative Orange County ... and Malibu was big on John Birch conseratives back then as well .. it was the affluent, stupid ... while still a minority, they weren't as small a minority as they have become and, in those days, well, ethnic inroads had not be paved.

I grew up in Santa Monica which was innundated with "homeless" from Reagan opening the doors of the mental institutions and inadequately treated Vietnam veterans ... Santa Monica was tolerant and, though much less wealthy than it has become, the beach and the parks provided lodging ...

It is not "liberal" necessarily to provide services and housing for the indigent to avoid them living in your apartment complex's laundry room (as many did) or vestibules ... Most of the gangs Feinstein wants to get-tuff-on have been around for twenty, forty, 60 years. The penal-system prison gangs and longer sentences have added a new twist, as have the "other" ethnic gangs.

"Tolerating" homosexuality in a gay mecca is not quite the same as "liberalism"... nor is providing HIV/AIDS services ... feeding the homeless is not "liberalism" ... acknowledging ethnic diversity in a massively ethnically diverse region where remarkably discrete ethnic "ghettos" abutt one another, similarly isn't "liberalism" ... it may not even be "tolerance" (except in a war-weary Rodney King "can't we all get along" sorta way) ... it's expedient ... like bilingual education ...

People look to California almost as "laboratory experiment" because like the canary in the coal mine, emerging problems are often first identified there followed by attempted remedies. Trying to provide legally mandated services equitably to such a diverse population is a challenge few states begin to face.

I don't know how liberal or blue or red those endless miles of nondescript working class housing that stretches out for miles surrounding Los Angeles or San Diego or San Francisco or Sacramento is ... but I doubt the Republican Party holds much attraction beyond god, gays and abortion ...

In many ways, in California as in the rest of the country today's "liberals" are yesterday's "conservatives. The needle moved.