Anyone else growing a 'stache for Movember?

[CFH]

Now, let me preface this by saying that I loathe Movember and mustaches are gayer than Bilbo, Miles, and Fenster riding a water slide together.

However, I've been doing an internship with the Red Cross and I am desperately trying to convince them to take me on as a regular or contract employee once an opening comes up. Our office is having a Movember 'stache growing contest and I have decided to participate in an attempt to further ingratiate myself.

In short, my gayness for the Red Cross is stronger than the gayness of Movember. That's a powerful thing. I should probably put that on my resume.

I am growing a Lemmy-style Motorhead 'stache with matching chops. I may post a pic or two on here if I feel the need to have my self-esteem destroyed.

Anyone else growing one?

I know this is kind of off topic but isn't the Red Cross been outed as a scam organization? I remember during the Haitian and Japanese disasters there was troubling news that the Red Cross spent the money donated to them for other purposes. You know like buying luxury cars, putting the money in their bank accounts, using the money for vacations, etc. Oh they did use the money for some humanitarian purposes, but mostly it was used on them.

Well, I can only speak about the Canadian Red Cross and to be honest I'm not really even qualified to that. I'll just speak about what I have seen.

The Canadian Red Cross has a huge impact here in Canada. In addition to it's well-publicised disaster management, it runs programs that prevent abuse and loan medical equipment to those in need etc. For example, here in British Columbia the Health Equipment Loan Program loans out desperately needed medical equipment to people dealing with serious injury, illness, or the end of life each year.

It is also strictly accountable. I'm working right now as a grant writer and I know first-hand the degree to which funders scrutinize the organization. Literally every penny of a grant needs to be accounted for from the first proposal until well after the project is completed. Any confirmed impropriety would have serious consequences, especially considering the organization has been accorded special status by the Canadian government.

The programs I have worked on are also endorsed by a wide variety of professionals, including medical practitioners, civil servants, municipal governments etc. If there was any doubt about the quality of the work that the Red Cross does, these people would not risk their reputations by backing it.

That's kind of a disjointed reply because I'm extremely tired, but from what I've seen at least, the Red Cross is a profound source of good for my country.