F.U. Ratings
No Survivor this week, just a hodgepodge of recycled clips and tidbits for unfaithful or new viewers. They always do this to drag the series into the ratings period in May, but just the same, it's lousy. I'd rather they start with 17 contestants and make it one week longer without having to rely on such cheesy time-buying measures. Plus I've had a very long week at work - this isn't the kind of job where you get to send email for hours, pay your bills, make plans for the night - this is a very busy all the time job. In that respect, I actually like it - but I wish I had a little more time to myself to get paid to relax - there's none of that. So far so good though, I've opened 5 new credit cards - there are little promotions, but I've met my goal for the whole month of April. I hate that stuff - selling discount cards at the bookstore and now badgering people about opening a store card... just the same, I'm glad to be off to such a solid start - if anything, it might give me more flexibilty or make me a prime target to get more hours as they open up. Already, I am counting the days until my first real day off - next Thursday. I would have been in bed already, but I sat down to check my email and naturally, felt tempted to blog. Oh, if anyone is interested, big mark downs yesterday, so it's a good time to browse if you need to pick up some new spring items. I know we just got a new shipment and there will be a whole "new" store waiting for me tomorrow - that's kind of exciting, in a perverse, shopaholic, kind of way.
Anyhooo... that's all that's brewing in my universe - stuck inside the store and usually coming home to tiredness. I worked 7-3 yesterday and then mustered up thje strength to go to the gym. Since it was close to 80 degrees yesterday, I guess I had a burst of spring fever. It went back to chilly 40 today, I passed on the gym, ate spaghetti for dinner and watched Survivor. Back in tomorrow, 11-6. There isn't much to say about Idol last night, aside from the obvious truth that Kimberely got screwed and Carmen is some how still on the show because of a radically underestimated Mormon mafia. I guess the girl from the Real World New Orleans broke through some kind of glass ceiling for Mormons on TV. Last night I was sucked into the two-hour Bachelor on ABC. There is a Mormon contestant on that show too. That Andrew Firestone is a good looking... he seems to have a level head and good personality too - so he is the catch that he claims to be. Many of the girls are flaky, catty, and too highlighted / fake and baked. The front runner, in my eyes, is "Tina from Wisconsin" or "Tina Fabulous" (the knicknames distinguish her from the other Tina). All I have to say, and I am sure many would agree, any show with two Tinas has highly saturated white trash quotient. The other observation I have is that Andrew is almost 30 and pretty sharp - he seems like he easily could have been a Midd kid. I don't know much about his past or his upbringing - but I don't think it says very much that his ideal woman is 23, anorexic, and likely works in sales or something unimportant and nebulous like "account representative." There's a nice rags to riches story in the making, but why not make the game a lot harder? Bring in some pretty Harvard or Yale or equally as impressively-educated contestants that are older than 23 and seem to have some real direction in life? I find it impossible to believe that there aren't any ivy league grads that are lookers... I was radically unimpressed with the ability of any of the girls to make conversation - the show has a lot more real world than reality - it's all about tanning by the pool, drinking margaritas out of keg cups, getting dolled up to go out and come home and fight. I guess that's the recipe for good bad tv, but since the show is more serious than the Real World ever pretended to be, I think the contestants should be a little older and fitting of Andrew's apparent appeal. So that's that... I don't think I'll watch again, 2 hours was enough, but my sister is home and she is into it. There will be none of Monica Lewinsky's Mr. Personality next week, even I won't stoop low enough to support that.
posted by lmjasinski at 10:02 PM
