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Biz Bee
Last night was the Biz Bee, Fairbanks' corporate spelling bee to raise money for the Literacy Council, in which representatives of local businesses ... make complete fools of themselves onstage while failing to spell easy words. I mean, compete for charity! Yeah! Anyway, the News-Miner sponsors it and this was my third year as one of the three people representing us on our team. This was probably our worst showing ever ... we wiped out on a relatively easy word ("deterrence" ... we were kicking ourselves afterward) and didn't even get to the really awful words like "agathokakological". This is also the first year I booked out after losing instead of staying all through the evening to help clean up at the end, but it has been a Very Trying Week and I just needed to go home, watch the next DVD ep of Dead Like Me with Orion and go to bed...
I'm still wearing bright red fingernail polish ... our team name was The Love Bugs (bee, bug, get it, hahahaha ... okay, not very funny, but we thought so) and we were all dressed up like very tasteful harlots. Since I never wear polish, it's kind of cool to look down and see it on my fingers as I type. I think I might leave it on and wear it to work today.
I'm still wearing bright red fingernail polish ... our team name was The Love Bugs (bee, bug, get it, hahahaha ... okay, not very funny, but we thought so) and we were all dressed up like very tasteful harlots. Since I never wear polish, it's kind of cool to look down and see it on my fingers as I type. I think I might leave it on and wear it to work today.
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The scary thing about Ms. Herbig is that I once had a boss who was JUST LIKE HER. Only without the saving grace of being genuinely organized. I worked there for about two weeks and I literally quit because of this woman, although obviously I didn't say that was the reason. I think she would have driven me postal. And, you remember how Dolores acted towards Georgia when she quit in the first season? That's exactly what Tanya did to me. She was acting like I was her best friend, telling me all the intimate details of her life (and the lives of everyone around her) -- I think I must have worn that Georgia deer-in-the-headlights look quite a lot around her -- and then after I quit, I ran into her a few months later in the course of doing my next job, and she was absolutely cold. Acted like she didn't know me.
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I'm just kiddin'. She and I watch up to two episodes at a time, but not much more. We bounce between that and my Arrested Development Season 1. Tobias, Buster, and Gob are our perennial favorites.
Back to DLM, Georgia is a well-rounded character, even if she's lost as to what to do. I don't think though she's going to be very attractive though when she hits her 50's. Britt McKillip (aka Reggie) however is going to be dangerously good looking when she hits 18.
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I haven't seen Arrested Development. In fact, I don't even know what it is... my utter lack of pop culture knowledge is showing again. ;p
I have a theory that the better-looking someone is when they're younger, the scarier they get as they age ... whereas people who start out with those "interesting ... but not pretty" faces end up looking better as they get older -- the aging process just adds character and depth to what they already had.
WHY?! WHY JEBUS, WHY?!
Arrested? Simply the best comedy on television. Or at least, WAS. Fox freakin' dropped half of the order for this season's episode count, which = Cancelled. Though they offically haven't said that yet.
They even lumped the last 4 eps on Friday night last week together, a final "thanks, and f*** you" to the show that won them a few Emmys.
Meanwhile, Stacked and The War At Home forge ahead.