A Twist of Things to Come

I signed up for this today via lotusice, so time is short. I'm going to tell you about a woman I know who is so technically savvy that some of her blog posts make my head hurt from the not understanding. ;)

Our own jedi_diplomat. I'm not even sure exactly what she does -- I'm sure I don't have the clearance to know the details. *looks around for super-secret government attack ninjas* (She's actually pretty forthcoming about it, but it tends to go a bit over my head.) ;) I DO know that she's a techie IT guru for the diplomatic corps, or something along those lines. Just since I've known her she's been in Libya, Bahrain, Australia... and I think when I first met her she was somewhere in former communist Eastern Europe.

In any case, she knows what she's doing, and I'm really glad she does. I'm constantly impressed by her gusto for her job and for the guts it takes to move every couple of years. (I'm exhausted just thinking about moving two states over...)

Just knowing she's out there getting the job done makes me proud to be an American, and a woman. :D We don't think about it much, but she has been in places where people would be very upset at the idea of a woman even having a job (that didn't make direct use of her woman-parts). So, to my mind, every place she goes, she strikes a blow for women in technological fields or otherwise -- just by getting the job done.

Three cheers for jedi_diplomat!!!!