Good morning people! It is a great day! I am wearing a new shirt, and I smell like lotion, and I had Starbucks on my way to work. AND I have a new VCR. My friends are awesome.
Last night I finally got to just hang out at home, instead of running off to a play or a sport or a dinner or a class. It was nice. Well, I did have softball at 6, where we all apparently had butterfingers for the night, but I was home in time to watch the Apprentice and cook some dinner.
The string of women getting the axe on Apprentice continues to amaze me. The women worked well enough together to win, but even since they were split up, it’s just cat-fight central. Four men fired, followed by seven women. I didn’t mind seeing Katrina go last night, as she had become sort of whiny (“no one listens to my ideas about belly dancers, waaaaah”), and despite her protests, she did seem to use her sexuality in lieu of actual talent (“awww, Bob, come on Bobbbbb, you know you want to give me what I want, smile, wink wink”). Amy looked shocked to have lost, and didn’t do that well in the boardroom…of course, she’d never been in there before, so she probably wasn’t totally sure what to expect. Anyway, only five left now. Kwame’s only around because he’s managed to stay under the radar by not doing anything too stupid, Troy relies too much on his aw-shucks, I’m-an-Idaho-country-boy schtick, and Nick is a bit abrasive; I’m picking Bill or Amy to win.
This is shaping up to be a fun weekend. Georgia Tech is playing tonight hoping to make it to the Elite Eight, tomorrow I’m play soccer, hitting the batting cages, and going to a hockey game, and Sunday we’re doing a group outing to the Cheesecake Factory and REI. I plan to gorge on cheesecake, then buy a tent that I’ve had my eye on since before Christmas, and a backpack. How exciting!
5K update: Ron called last night to say he has 11 entries in his mailbox, which takes us up to 71 people! Wow! We’ll definitely get more than 100, which is awesome! This morning I picked up two packages from Runner’s World–race numbers as well as ad fliers and, randomly, little packets of Advil to put in all the race packets. The lady in the apartment office was like “oh, this is heavy” and I said “oh good, it should be stuff for the 5K I’m organizing for next weekend!” She thought that was really cool and asked me all sorts of questions about it. Made me feel cool.
VCR? What is this VCR of which you speak? I believe I may have heard of such a term, primitive recording devices…
Its a primitive version of the TiVO, still useful because it does not require any sort of paid subscription, and once purchased, requires no additional expense. It also has this nifty feature that allows you to watch one show while recording another… strange, weird world.