Charlie Wilson's War...

... is another movie on my long and growing holiday movie list (but who am I kidding. I may get to see one, then plop the rest in the trusty netflix queue.) It's also been on my reading list for a good long while. I get a kick out of seeing the previews regularly, because I actually interviewed for a job with the real Charlie Wilson about 4 years back (when I first decided I needed a new job - it's been a bit of an extended process here, but things are picking up - Insha'Allah as we say in Morocco.) The job ad I applied for didn't specify the employer, it was a vague legislative associate... International experience a plus... description, but when I was called for an interview, the woman told me it was at Wilson & Associates, former Congressman Charlie Wilson's organization. I mentioned to my mother that I had an interview with a former Congressman Charlie Wilson and she exclaimed "good time Charlie! You can't go to work for good time Charlie." He apparently had a bit of a reputation for booze, and women, and hot tubs and perhaps a little cocaine - back when Congress and Washington was still fun you know...I wore a fairly short skirt to my interview. It didn't work. He was impressed by my time in Morocco, but thought I didn't have enough direct Hill experience for his needs. He had an amazing office on Pennsylvania avenue filled with Afghan and Pakistani tribal swords and guns and clothing and such. Just one of my brushes with the pseudo-celebrity of the political class.