Update 1/27/09: I swear

Tomorrow I give six random strangers a sworn oath of office (lower case, mind you).  I'll be their supervisor.  It's just weird how one month you're looking for a sponsor for your irreverent man-on-the-street segment for a rock station, and the next you're deemed competent enough to invoke "God" on other people's integrity.  Yah, there's "god" in this oath.  I don't know what happened to that whole separation of Church and State thing.  There's an alternative version for those who don't want God in their oath.  I didn't take that one.  I was too shocked I was taking an oath in the first place.  It's a temporary job for god's sake.

When they asked me to stand and take "the oath" I thought they were being facetious.  I chuckled to show how funny I thought my new employer was and then found myself standing in the silent inspection of someone waiting for me to repeat the line they just read.  I had to ask, "Could you read that again?"

By the time I got to the God part I was kind of sorry he had to be involved.