Sept. 3 Divorce: I read this on Yahoo. What is the #1 reason people get divorced? It's not cheating.
Me: Money.
I then asked my brother if he read the article.
P: Uh, one of them spends all the money?
Me: That's what I thought, but that's the last reason for divorce which is 5%.
27% growing apart
25% infidelity
17% unreasonable behavior
10% midlife crisis
5% money
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/most-common-reason-divorce-040000055.html
Min. wage: Speaking of money, the min. wage in Alberta has been raised from $8.80/hr to $9.40/hr on Sept. 1. I forgot about it, and then I had to go back and recalculate my earnings for the past 2 days. I made $2 more each shift. I read the Metro, and Bill Moore- Kilgannon of Public Interest Alberta says that real min. should be $12/hr full-time. Now I know what to aim for.
Job search: I was going through my papers, and I see that an interview I did a few weeks ago hasn't called me back. That's fine because it seems like a really hard job where the workers are traveling a lot, and I have to plan the travel. I get help with a travel agency where I would book the clients flights with.
I also noticed that I had written down a note, where a company called me. I called them back and left a message. That was also a few weeks ago. I realized they haven't called me back to schedule an interview. They probably hired somebody by now. The lesson is to keep track of all the calls and call back.
One time this company called me and I called to Human Resources. They said HR is not there right now, and call back tomorrow. I did again the next day, and they weren't there. I didn't call them again since I called twice.
Analyze: I talked to my dad today as he was frying chicken. I've been looking for an office job since 2008. I have kept track of my job search since Apr. 2010 when I got laid off from the Soup place. It was then I started sending at least 100 resumes a month. I did the math and Apr.2010- Aug. 2011, I passed out over 2000 resumes.
I have gotten interviews, but no office job. The minimal success is one office job that I worked for a month in 2008. One office job that I worked at for 2 weeks in 2010. I graduated out of college 3 yrs ago, and that's all I have achieved.
I can honestly say to myself, I used my time effectively and worked really hard in looking for an office job. I spent 3 yrs, and passed out over 2000 resumes, did several interviews, and haven't gotten a lot of success.
School: It's time to go back to school from the above analysis. I thought of going to a computer class at night, but I think I'll go to class in the day. I am more alert in the day and then I can do all the homework and study for the rest of the day. Instead of class at night, and then go to sleep, and do homework the next day.
Job articles: I get Alberta Job Centre newsletters emailed to me once in awhile. Here's a good article: "Apply the Scientific Method to your Job Search."
http://www.albertajobcentre.ca/content/index.cfm?objectid=FCBF8013-2219-80B4-53805FD61814CA11&utm_source=Albertajobcentre.ca&utm_campaign=4cf64b2675-AB_Career_Aug_24_20118_24_2011&utm_medium=email
I also get Job Boom newsletters. Here's one article: "Bosses may be bad, but workers worse." It says 3% of bosses had sex at work, but 50% of workers had sex at work. lol.
http://career.jobboom.com/workplace/2011/08/09/18531126.html
Here's one: "A woman's place in the boardroom." Women in the boardroom brings new perspective and retains employees and make them more productive.
http://lifewise.canoe.ca/Work/2011/08/04/18510826.html
Sept. 4 Flashback: I got a flashback of 2006 and I was talking to my friend Michelle. She told me she has friends who graduated out of university, and 6 months later, they're still working at Shoppers Drug Mart. They're working at jobs, and not a career in their field. I remember my sister when she graduated, after 6 months she got a career in her field.
I remember she has this big notebook, and she wrote down all the places she applied to, nice notes. I hear her rehearsing her answers to job interview questions. I write down all the places I applied to in these little notepads. I'm on my 3rd notepad.
Friends: Today on Facebook, Dan L. asked how my job search was going. I told him I did 8 job interviews last month. I could have done 9, and the company called me to set it up. 15min. later, they called to cancel. I asked if they will reschedule and they said they don't know.
Circumstances: I can't control the circumstances of this economy. I can control my job search.
Focus: I need to focus on my job search and what's important. So let's stop writing about stupid stuff that doesn't matter like my hypothetical daughter working at Hooters and "genders being mean." It's okay to write and think stuff like this sometimes, but I tend to focus too much on stuff that doesn't matter.
Interview skills: I talked to my dad yesterday about my interview skills. My resume is good with my college education and employment history. I get the interviews, but I don't think I impress the interviewer. I was talking to my friend Jessica today about my answers.
Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.
Me: I have a college diploma in Professional Writing. I learned how to write business letters and proposals. I also have a lot of computer skills from the classes that I took in the program.
Jessica: Show your personality to an interviewer.
"What do you do for fun?" is a common question. She talked about how she volunteered at the hospital for 2 hrs a week, for a year. That's really good. I guess I should volunteer too to add more skills to my resume.
J: I went to a funny website that helped with getting my career. I went to marieclaire.com and read the career section.
Me: I thought "funny website" was going to be some actual funny website with snarky comments, not a women's magazine website.
Career quiz: I have mentioned before in a weekly email that I was reading the "Cubicle Coach" questions in the magazine. So I went to the website, and did the quiz: "Do you need a career reboot?"
There was this question about how you feel about the following statement: "What I'm doing now has everything to do with where I want to be in 5 years."
I picked: "Yes, and I am learning a lot of great skills that I bet will apply to wherever I end up."
The other choices weren't really me either. But I guess that one was more like me then these ones:
"Absolutely."
"I thought I did, but after this job, I'm reconsidering."
"I don't know where I want be 5 months from now, let alone 5 yrs."
"When you aren't at the office, you:"
I picked: "Are dabbling in other interests that aren't fulfilled with my day job."
http://www.marieclaire.com/career-money/jobs/career-makeover-quiz#qtop
Degrassi: I was watching Degrassi where Anya does a college interview. She lacks confidence so she took a little cocaine. A was talking really loud and fast. Later A got rejected because she blew the interview. The professor was played by an actor I saw on The Listener who says he knew Toby when he was a kid.
Professor: You were erratic, and if I didn't know better, I thought you were on drugs.
Me: I thought her answers were pretty good. I guess it was how she presented herself that wasn't very good.
You guys are like: "What?" A question was: "What challenges have you faced and overcome?"
Anya: I have dyslexia, but I worked on it and my grades are good. My mom got cancer, and I was there with her at her doctor appointments while I kept up with my grades.
I'm paraphrasing here.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Post Secret/ jokes/ headlines
Aug. 30 Post Secret: Here are some secrets from Post Secret.
"I'm afraid my church won't ordain me if I go to rehab for depression but I'm afraid I'll take my life if I don't. I shouldn't have to choose between my calling and MY LIFE.:
Email: I am a 31 year old ordained non-denominational minister. Last winter I went to a 30 day inpatient facility for grief and suicidal thoughts. I found God there more than I did at the church that ordained me. Go.
"Sometimes I think this is heaven and we just don't realize it."
"I can't wait for the day we are 90 yrs old, dieing in the hospital together either from overeating or indoor tanning too much. I'll love you till the end."
"I made my therapist cry."
"After months of depression and suicidal thoughts I am finally happy again. Don't give up!"
"I'm 49 and still waiting for my life to begin."
Me: What are you waiting for exactly? Do something about it.
"No one knows I'm not returning to my job after summer vacation."
Me: That sounds very freeing. Just don't show up.
"When I am really desperate I remind myself: I'm a good person."
Names: This is a Post Secret: "I can't help but judge when people with people give their kids stupid- ass self- involved made up names." The names were: Diezel, Rumer, Blaze, Neveah, Cinsere."
Tweet:
I always assume that children named Neveah will grow up to be strippers.
Email:
I always assume those who judge 'made-up' names, haven't thought about the fact that at some point in history, their name was 'made-up' too.
Email:
"Nevaeh" is heaven spelled backwards. I find it hard to believe children with such a name could grow up to be strippers.
Email:
I feel as though some of the email comments regarding the "made-up names" postcard are critical of the postcard author. PostSecret is supposed to be a place where we can unburden ourselves, and nobody can do that if they think they might get "called out" for expressing their inner secrets.
Me: This has been discussed on 16 and Pregnant thread on twop.com. There aren't really any "made up names" and Neveah being a stripper name.
Aug. 31 Family joke: I got this from Daily Silly. It's a little dark, but I thought it was kind of funny.
One day a girl brings home her boyfriend and tells her father she wants to marry him. After talking to him for while, he tells his daughter she can't do it because he's her half brother. The same problem happens again four more times! The girl starts to get pissed off. She goes to her mom and says, "Mom... What have you been doing all your life? Dad's been going around laying every maiden in the town and now I can't marry any of the five guys I like because they have turned out to be my half brothers!!!"
Her mom replies, "Don't worry darling, you can marry any one of them you want, he isn't really your dad."
Adoption jokes: I was thinking about Buffy again, but this time she says to Cordelia:
Buffy: You don't know anything about sharing because you're an only child. Why? Because your brother's adopted.
Not really funny, and I wrote that joke.
I got a flashback of 2007 when I was working at a cafe and talking to my manager Aziz who's married and has a kid.
Me: Have you ever thought of adopting?
Aziz: No, because you know the kid is not really yours.
Me: Well look at Angelina Jolie. She adopts lots of kids.
Aziz: Yeah, well she can afford to hire 10 nannies to take care of all of them.
Sept. 2 Director joke: I was watching Glee's Valentine's Day ep way back in Feb. I see that Tate Donovan directed the ep called "Silly Love Songs." TD played Marissa's dad on The OC. He went from acting to directing.
That reminds me of the joke on The Simpsons where Homer bowls a perfect score and goes on Springfield Squares which is a parody of Hollywood Squares.
Ron Howard: Why did you think I went from acting to directing?
Homer: I don't know. Because you weren't cute anymore.
Disco Stu (contestant): I agree.
Kent Brockman (host): You're right, good night everybody!
Script pitch: Today I pitched my Rain script to Panacea Entertainment. I hope I get a reply back and they will read my script.
Headlines:
Stupid criminals:
I got this from the Globe and Mail. According to Orange News U.K., a 61 yr old man forgot to bring a bag to rob a bank. Thus, he left empty- handed on a bicycle. The cashier said she didn't have a bag and activated the alarm. The police arrested him 7 min. later.
Police in New Hampshire captured a woman who robbed a pharmacy. A motorist saw the woman running into her car with the license plate "B-USHER" and caught Bonnie Usher quickly.
In Grants Pass Daily Courier, a woman robbed a Umpqua Bank and then rode off in a car driven by a man. She then picked up her daughters from elementary school. They got home and the police were there and was arrested.
Stupid: Also from the G&M. British town councils have gotten these questions from the public, (reported from a survey):
-A woman asked her council ask if a car park was haunted because her car had "moved to another parking space when she went shopping.
-A person asked what the plot of was to She Stoops to Conquer, an 18th century play.
-A person complained to Surrey Council that the phone number to the library didn't work. He was told that "0900-1800" was the opening hours.
Smart: A 6 yr old boy in Missouri saw a road sign that said there was one single curve ahead, when there were many. He wrote to highway administrators. They called him back and said he was right and they will change the sign. -Associated Press
I got this from 24, where "Naked Man chases down Thief." An Australian man Ryan Dein saw a man in his home stealing his laptop, wallet, and camera. Dein was naked and he chased him and tackled him down and got his stuff. He let the thief go, but he dropped his wallet. The police arrested a 22 yr old Ballina, New South Wales man.
Parents: I got this from the Edmonton Journal. What if your daughter is going to leave the country to marry a foreigner you don't like? What would you do? In Russia, a mother called the airport and told them that her daughter is a suicide bomber and that they have to stop her at the Domodedovo Airport. This is from the RIA Novosti news agency.
The mom is arrested for making a false terror report. I thought that was extreme on the mom, but in a way it was kind of creative I could use for my storytelling. I have talked about "overreacting to situations" like on MADtv where a woman falsely accuses her neighbor of hitting her children because some of her leaves were blown onto her yard.
"I'm afraid my church won't ordain me if I go to rehab for depression but I'm afraid I'll take my life if I don't. I shouldn't have to choose between my calling and MY LIFE.:
Email: I am a 31 year old ordained non-denominational minister. Last winter I went to a 30 day inpatient facility for grief and suicidal thoughts. I found God there more than I did at the church that ordained me. Go.
"Sometimes I think this is heaven and we just don't realize it."
"I can't wait for the day we are 90 yrs old, dieing in the hospital together either from overeating or indoor tanning too much. I'll love you till the end."
"I made my therapist cry."
"After months of depression and suicidal thoughts I am finally happy again. Don't give up!"
"I'm 49 and still waiting for my life to begin."
Me: What are you waiting for exactly? Do something about it.
"No one knows I'm not returning to my job after summer vacation."
Me: That sounds very freeing. Just don't show up.
"When I am really desperate I remind myself: I'm a good person."
Names: This is a Post Secret: "I can't help but judge when people with people give their kids stupid- ass self- involved made up names." The names were: Diezel, Rumer, Blaze, Neveah, Cinsere."
Tweet:
I always assume that children named Neveah will grow up to be strippers.
Email:
I always assume those who judge 'made-up' names, haven't thought about the fact that at some point in history, their name was 'made-up' too.
Email:
"Nevaeh" is heaven spelled backwards. I find it hard to believe children with such a name could grow up to be strippers.
Email:
I feel as though some of the email comments regarding the "made-up names" postcard are critical of the postcard author. PostSecret is supposed to be a place where we can unburden ourselves, and nobody can do that if they think they might get "called out" for expressing their inner secrets.
Me: This has been discussed on 16 and Pregnant thread on twop.com. There aren't really any "made up names" and Neveah being a stripper name.
Aug. 31 Family joke: I got this from Daily Silly. It's a little dark, but I thought it was kind of funny.
One day a girl brings home her boyfriend and tells her father she wants to marry him. After talking to him for while, he tells his daughter she can't do it because he's her half brother. The same problem happens again four more times! The girl starts to get pissed off. She goes to her mom and says, "Mom... What have you been doing all your life? Dad's been going around laying every maiden in the town and now I can't marry any of the five guys I like because they have turned out to be my half brothers!!!"
Her mom replies, "Don't worry darling, you can marry any one of them you want, he isn't really your dad."
Adoption jokes: I was thinking about Buffy again, but this time she says to Cordelia:
Buffy: You don't know anything about sharing because you're an only child. Why? Because your brother's adopted.
Not really funny, and I wrote that joke.
I got a flashback of 2007 when I was working at a cafe and talking to my manager Aziz who's married and has a kid.
Me: Have you ever thought of adopting?
Aziz: No, because you know the kid is not really yours.
Me: Well look at Angelina Jolie. She adopts lots of kids.
Aziz: Yeah, well she can afford to hire 10 nannies to take care of all of them.
Sept. 2 Director joke: I was watching Glee's Valentine's Day ep way back in Feb. I see that Tate Donovan directed the ep called "Silly Love Songs." TD played Marissa's dad on The OC. He went from acting to directing.
That reminds me of the joke on The Simpsons where Homer bowls a perfect score and goes on Springfield Squares which is a parody of Hollywood Squares.
Ron Howard: Why did you think I went from acting to directing?
Homer: I don't know. Because you weren't cute anymore.
Disco Stu (contestant): I agree.
Kent Brockman (host): You're right, good night everybody!
Script pitch: Today I pitched my Rain script to Panacea Entertainment. I hope I get a reply back and they will read my script.
Headlines:
Stupid criminals:
I got this from the Globe and Mail. According to Orange News U.K., a 61 yr old man forgot to bring a bag to rob a bank. Thus, he left empty- handed on a bicycle. The cashier said she didn't have a bag and activated the alarm. The police arrested him 7 min. later.
Police in New Hampshire captured a woman who robbed a pharmacy. A motorist saw the woman running into her car with the license plate "B-USHER" and caught Bonnie Usher quickly.
In Grants Pass Daily Courier, a woman robbed a Umpqua Bank and then rode off in a car driven by a man. She then picked up her daughters from elementary school. They got home and the police were there and was arrested.
Stupid: Also from the G&M. British town councils have gotten these questions from the public, (reported from a survey):
-A woman asked her council ask if a car park was haunted because her car had "moved to another parking space when she went shopping.
-A person asked what the plot of was to She Stoops to Conquer, an 18th century play.
-A person complained to Surrey Council that the phone number to the library didn't work. He was told that "0900-1800" was the opening hours.
Smart: A 6 yr old boy in Missouri saw a road sign that said there was one single curve ahead, when there were many. He wrote to highway administrators. They called him back and said he was right and they will change the sign. -Associated Press
I got this from 24, where "Naked Man chases down Thief." An Australian man Ryan Dein saw a man in his home stealing his laptop, wallet, and camera. Dein was naked and he chased him and tackled him down and got his stuff. He let the thief go, but he dropped his wallet. The police arrested a 22 yr old Ballina, New South Wales man.
Parents: I got this from the Edmonton Journal. What if your daughter is going to leave the country to marry a foreigner you don't like? What would you do? In Russia, a mother called the airport and told them that her daughter is a suicide bomber and that they have to stop her at the Domodedovo Airport. This is from the RIA Novosti news agency.
The mom is arrested for making a false terror report. I thought that was extreme on the mom, but in a way it was kind of creative I could use for my storytelling. I have talked about "overreacting to situations" like on MADtv where a woman falsely accuses her neighbor of hitting her children because some of her leaves were blown onto her yard.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
crazy news/ discipline/ Catfish
Aug. 28 Crazy news: I found this on Yahoo called "Wrestling sister take down hit and run suspect." Brittany and Brienna Delagado are on the Oklahoma University Wrestling team. They were riding with their grandma when they saw a car collision. The driver of the car ran out. The sisters chased after him and tackled him and held him down. Good for them.
http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201108/wrestling-sisters-take-down-hit-and-run-suspect
Discipline: I was reading The Globe and Mail about parenting. When your child does something wrong like steal, don't humiliate and shame your kids to discipline them. Kids don't have the emotional ability to handle it. They will grow up with lower self- esteem and confidence. It was talking about a woman in Australia who found out her 10 yr old son stole candy from a store and she made him wear a sandwich board on a street. It said: "Don't trust me because I'm a THIEF."
Another case was a kid called his teacher a jackass, and his mom made him wear a sandwich board saying something like, I can't remember. Uh, "I called my teacher a jackass, honk if you think I need an education." The mom in Australia had a really hard time disciplining him. She took him to jail cells, the police station, a visit to juvenile hall and it still didn't work. This was her last resort. The solution mentioned in the article was: Take him to the store and get him to apologize to the owner. Don't go back there unless accompanied by an adult.
In the teacher case, apologize to the teacher. He may get detention and write lines: "I will not call my teacher mean names."
Teenagers: Teenagers can not really be shamed. Or not as easily as kids. I was thinking about those out of control teenager girls on the Maury show. The girls come out and the audience of 200 people are booing her. She would give them the finger and say: "Whatever, whatever, don't be hatin', don't be hatin'." These girls aren't ashamed.
You need to pull out the bigger guns. You send them to a woman's prison, boot camp, or get that really built black guy who's a motivational speaker to talk to them. After a day or two of intense therapy, they will straighten out. They will come back and say: "I don't want to be a stripper anymore. After I was at that women's prison I realized that it could be my future unless I change now." There are also the video post cards where they tape a message to Maury where they thank him for his help.
Catfish: Today I was watching 20/20 The Sixth Sense. It talked about the documentary Catfish. It stars Nev Schulman who falls in love with a girl named Megan on Facebook. I missed the first 20 min. of it, but I saw the last 40 min. of it. I then got the other names from Wikipedia. Nev lives with his brother Ariel and friend Henry.
Nev gets an email from this 8 yr old girl Abby Pierce. She had painted this painting of one of N's photo. They became Facebook friends, and all these people are in Abby's network. N then falls in love with A's beautiful older sister Megan. N and his brother and friend all start filming this entire online long- distance relationship for 9 months.
Then they start thinking it's not real and N, Ariel, and Henry all go to Michigan where Megan supposedly lived. They go the address of this one farm, and no one's there because it's at night. Prior to it, they sent all the film footage to their editor in case they don't come back.
The next day they go to Megan's house. It's all being filmed. N meets the mom Angela. She invites them in. She introduces them to her husband Vince, and then her two mentally and physically disabled step sons. Then there is Abby who isn't even an artist at all.
It turns out Angela Wesselman created all these fake people. Angela is 40 something yr old housewife and she had made all these paintings. She put it on the internet expecting support, but got a lot of disses. So she created it that the paintings were from an 8 yr old girl prodigy so people would be nicer to her.
She chose Nev randomly. It starts off small pretending to be an 8yr old girl, but you can't have a Facebook profile without any friends. Angela had to create all these other characters to support her one character. N and his friends even said: "You can create all these characters if you're Shakespeare or J.K. Rowling."
20/20 interviewed Angela about why she did all this. After creating one 8yr old girl, she created Megan. From this online relationship she had with Nev, in a way it's like she fell in love with Nev, but Nev certainly fell for her. She used the internet to escape her life by living her fantasy life.
When N and his friends came to visit her, she said she knew the day was going to come when her fantasy life would end. It was exhausting to keep up this online. She said she won't do it again because it was so hard. She discussed that she doesn't have multiple personality disorders because she can pretend to be so many people.
I think she's very creative. She paints and can seem to write if she can do voices of other people online. She should use her creative energy to keep painting and write, and not pretend to be someone online.
It's called Catfish, because Angela's husband Vince said this (paraphrase): "When fisherman catch fish, they put all the codfish in one place. They put a catfish in it so it could make the codfish more agile. We need catfish in life to always keep us humans always guessing. If we aren't, then we would be boring and never grow."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_%28film%29
Aug. 29 Dance: I really wanted to watch the Britney Spears tribute on the MTV Music Video Awards. I saw the part today on Youtube. It's really good. Lady Ga Ga is talking about her, and then they showed the performance. The dance number was kind of short though. They played a medley of some of Spears's songs and they had about 20 dancers dressed like her in her videos, all dancing together on stage. It was good choreography.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlr9h04Kqc
Comparsions:
"If your parents die, you become a superhero": I read a review about Columbiana in the National Post. This movie isn't shown to critics. The article talked about: "If your parents die, you become a superhero." Like in Batman Begins.
"If parents or loved ones die, you have to avenge their death": I thought that up when I saw the Columbiana trailer like The Princess Bride.
Aug. 30 Job search: I did an interview for the optometrist clinic and they called me and rejected me. That's okay.
I kind of dreaded doing this, but I called that law firm where I did that "crazy interview." I was studying my computer book for 5 days afterwards. They said the receptionist position has been filled. I know, it's been 12 days since the interview. By studying my book, I took some time off my job search.
Rant: I was kind of under the impression that I was going to get hired at the law firm. He said to me to call him on Mon. when I get my schedule and he may work something out for me. I wasn't really hired.
Yeah, well at least it wasn't as bad as Call Centre #3 back in 2007. I thought I was hired and did a day of training. Then they told me to call next week to get my schedule. Then when I called, they said they didn't really hire me and they're going with someone else. At least I got paid when I did that day of training.
Yesterday, I went back on Kijiji, and there were 10 pages of job ads I had to go through. Most were staffing agencies and I didn't miss out on anything. Yeah, well at least I forced myself to study and write my Rain script.
http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201108/wrestling-sisters-take-down-hit-and-run-suspect
Discipline: I was reading The Globe and Mail about parenting. When your child does something wrong like steal, don't humiliate and shame your kids to discipline them. Kids don't have the emotional ability to handle it. They will grow up with lower self- esteem and confidence. It was talking about a woman in Australia who found out her 10 yr old son stole candy from a store and she made him wear a sandwich board on a street. It said: "Don't trust me because I'm a THIEF."
Another case was a kid called his teacher a jackass, and his mom made him wear a sandwich board saying something like, I can't remember. Uh, "I called my teacher a jackass, honk if you think I need an education." The mom in Australia had a really hard time disciplining him. She took him to jail cells, the police station, a visit to juvenile hall and it still didn't work. This was her last resort. The solution mentioned in the article was: Take him to the store and get him to apologize to the owner. Don't go back there unless accompanied by an adult.
In the teacher case, apologize to the teacher. He may get detention and write lines: "I will not call my teacher mean names."
Teenagers: Teenagers can not really be shamed. Or not as easily as kids. I was thinking about those out of control teenager girls on the Maury show. The girls come out and the audience of 200 people are booing her. She would give them the finger and say: "Whatever, whatever, don't be hatin', don't be hatin'." These girls aren't ashamed.
You need to pull out the bigger guns. You send them to a woman's prison, boot camp, or get that really built black guy who's a motivational speaker to talk to them. After a day or two of intense therapy, they will straighten out. They will come back and say: "I don't want to be a stripper anymore. After I was at that women's prison I realized that it could be my future unless I change now." There are also the video post cards where they tape a message to Maury where they thank him for his help.
Catfish: Today I was watching 20/20 The Sixth Sense. It talked about the documentary Catfish. It stars Nev Schulman who falls in love with a girl named Megan on Facebook. I missed the first 20 min. of it, but I saw the last 40 min. of it. I then got the other names from Wikipedia. Nev lives with his brother Ariel and friend Henry.
Nev gets an email from this 8 yr old girl Abby Pierce. She had painted this painting of one of N's photo. They became Facebook friends, and all these people are in Abby's network. N then falls in love with A's beautiful older sister Megan. N and his brother and friend all start filming this entire online long- distance relationship for 9 months.
Then they start thinking it's not real and N, Ariel, and Henry all go to Michigan where Megan supposedly lived. They go the address of this one farm, and no one's there because it's at night. Prior to it, they sent all the film footage to their editor in case they don't come back.
The next day they go to Megan's house. It's all being filmed. N meets the mom Angela. She invites them in. She introduces them to her husband Vince, and then her two mentally and physically disabled step sons. Then there is Abby who isn't even an artist at all.
It turns out Angela Wesselman created all these fake people. Angela is 40 something yr old housewife and she had made all these paintings. She put it on the internet expecting support, but got a lot of disses. So she created it that the paintings were from an 8 yr old girl prodigy so people would be nicer to her.
She chose Nev randomly. It starts off small pretending to be an 8yr old girl, but you can't have a Facebook profile without any friends. Angela had to create all these other characters to support her one character. N and his friends even said: "You can create all these characters if you're Shakespeare or J.K. Rowling."
20/20 interviewed Angela about why she did all this. After creating one 8yr old girl, she created Megan. From this online relationship she had with Nev, in a way it's like she fell in love with Nev, but Nev certainly fell for her. She used the internet to escape her life by living her fantasy life.
When N and his friends came to visit her, she said she knew the day was going to come when her fantasy life would end. It was exhausting to keep up this online. She said she won't do it again because it was so hard. She discussed that she doesn't have multiple personality disorders because she can pretend to be so many people.
I think she's very creative. She paints and can seem to write if she can do voices of other people online. She should use her creative energy to keep painting and write, and not pretend to be someone online.
It's called Catfish, because Angela's husband Vince said this (paraphrase): "When fisherman catch fish, they put all the codfish in one place. They put a catfish in it so it could make the codfish more agile. We need catfish in life to always keep us humans always guessing. If we aren't, then we would be boring and never grow."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_%28film%29
Aug. 29 Dance: I really wanted to watch the Britney Spears tribute on the MTV Music Video Awards. I saw the part today on Youtube. It's really good. Lady Ga Ga is talking about her, and then they showed the performance. The dance number was kind of short though. They played a medley of some of Spears's songs and they had about 20 dancers dressed like her in her videos, all dancing together on stage. It was good choreography.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlr9h04Kqc
Comparsions:
"If your parents die, you become a superhero": I read a review about Columbiana in the National Post. This movie isn't shown to critics. The article talked about: "If your parents die, you become a superhero." Like in Batman Begins.
"If parents or loved ones die, you have to avenge their death": I thought that up when I saw the Columbiana trailer like The Princess Bride.
Aug. 30 Job search: I did an interview for the optometrist clinic and they called me and rejected me. That's okay.
I kind of dreaded doing this, but I called that law firm where I did that "crazy interview." I was studying my computer book for 5 days afterwards. They said the receptionist position has been filled. I know, it's been 12 days since the interview. By studying my book, I took some time off my job search.
Rant: I was kind of under the impression that I was going to get hired at the law firm. He said to me to call him on Mon. when I get my schedule and he may work something out for me. I wasn't really hired.
Yeah, well at least it wasn't as bad as Call Centre #3 back in 2007. I thought I was hired and did a day of training. Then they told me to call next week to get my schedule. Then when I called, they said they didn't really hire me and they're going with someone else. At least I got paid when I did that day of training.
Yesterday, I went back on Kijiji, and there were 10 pages of job ads I had to go through. Most were staffing agencies and I didn't miss out on anything. Yeah, well at least I forced myself to study and write my Rain script.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
family/ parents on TV/ genders being mean
Aug. 26 Family: One of my friends emailed me back in how she says that since her parents were divorced when she was 3, and her dad wasn't really around to raise her. She would consider herself to have one parent. Okay.
Parents on TV: I wanted to add to that Flashpoint ep where the mom is angry at the strip club owner for having her 17 yr old daughter work there. It was a little too unbelievable.
Sausage Factory: There was that The Sausage Factory ep where Gilby and Zack got a job at a video store. Gilby was letting teenage boys rent out porn tapes. One of the (customer) boys dad comes in and says: "So you're the guy who was letting my son rent out porn tapes, I'm going to beat you up for that!"
When I saw a man coming in to beat up the one who let his son rent out porn tapes, I didn't predict that was going to happen. I did believe it could happen. I guess because men are more likely to get angry and use violence to solve a problem. Can you imagine a woman coming into the store and going to beat up worker there? Not really.
What would most likely happen is the woman would get the assistant manager who was responsible for it, and get the manager too.
Woman: I found my teenage son watching this porn tape. He said he got it from the assistant manager at this video store.
I'm sure the mom would be livid, but she wouldn't use violence. For TV purposes and for this sitcom to make it funnier, let's have a character almost get beaten up. The audience is mainly teen boys who watch this show, they may get the idea to do the same thing by switching porn tapes into the regular movie cases too.
If they see a parent (mom or dad) calmly telling the manager about it, the teen boys know they could possibly lose their job. Gilby had the excuse: "If I get caught, I will say I simply misread the title." He would still be working there. Or he may lose his job, but he can get another one at a video store and do the exact same thing over again.
You have to raise the stakes, you may get beaten up by a really angry dad, so don't let teen boys rent out porn tapes.
Flashpoint: It's an action- drama. In real life, a mom may call the police and say she knows that there is a 17 yr old girl working at a strip club. There isn't much of a story. Or she could burn the strip club down. There is little bit more of a story. To add to that, someone was in the strip club and got hurt. That story has been down: an arson occurs and the arsonist thought the building was empty, but somebody was in there.
Question: A girl tells her parents she's a stripper. Who is going to be more upset? Mom or dad? I'm sure both are upset, but I'm leaning more to mom. On The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, there was a trick where this young black woman tells her parents that she's a stripper. The dad was in on the joke. The mom was furious. She lashed out at JK who played the strip club owner.
She was angry and disappointed at her daughter: "I never taught you to do that. I never raised you to do that. So how come you're going around doing that?"
Genders being mean: I was thinking about that Jamie Kennedy Experiment show again about the 2 male judges who were mean and funny. The point of JKX is to be funny. Women are funny, but in this case where they judge talent, they are going to say the plain truth and it may be mean, but it's not funny.
For example:
Host: What do you think of the performance?
Woman: He's not talented. He can't ride a unicycle, he can't juggle, let alone both. I don't know how he even got on this show in the first place.
Maybe some of the audience would laugh at it. But it's not really funny, because she reiterated what happened, and didn't add anything.
Host: What did you think?
Male judge Ron: Shut it down!
The audience laughs.
Host: What would you describe in one word about it (JK's performance)?
Ron: Is "absolutely horrible" one word?
The audience laughs.
I can imagine a woman answering the question.
Woman: Poor.
I imagine the audience wouldn't laugh. The above was the plain truth, but the woman is not trying to be mean or funny. It just is.
Job interviews: Today someone posted on my blog. His name is Davey and he said this:
"Did you hear anything back from the two interviews you had? When you say the interview went ok, what do you mean? Were you prepared and did you rehearse answers to the likely questions before hand? Did you feel like you presented yourself in the best possible way? What would you do differently next time?"
I was prepared, and I rehearsed my answers to the questions beforehand. I presented myself in the best possible way, and I wouldn't do anything differently. Well maybe, I should try to impress the interviewer more. The interview was okay as in, I didn't stumble on my words.
I got a callback from the optometrist clinic I did an interview in the afternoon. They're going with someone else, but they'll keep my resume on file.
I did a job interview at college cafeteria in Jan. and I got rejected. I then did an interview for them a few weeks ago, and yesterday I got a call. I got rejected again, but I will still apply. Maybe the third time's the charm.
Writing: I've been writing my Rain script for the past few days. Today I sent a draft to myself and I can say I'm proud of it. It's 45 pages long and it's solid.
Aug. 27 TV show hosts: I was thinking about: "What woman would be really mean and funny (snarky) about judging Jamie Kennedy's performance?" I thought Chelsea Handler. But she's a TV host so she is supposed to be like that.
Then I thought: "What guy would say all these mean comments about JK, and then when the comments are aired in front of JK, what guy would not be embarrassed or ashamed of what he said?" I thought Daniel Tosh. But he's a TV host and he's supposed to be like that.
But I think if they aren't famous TV hosts, get rid of the fame, and strip them down to just personality. These are the two people who would say snarky things, and both not be embarrassed if the person they're dissing heard them. I personally don't know anyone like that.
I can imagine my brother not saying snarky things about JK. He would tell the plain truth. I can see my friend Dan N. not being snarky.
Presenting yourself: I'm getting older and my job search is affecting how I think and watch TV. I was thinking about that Survivor player who got his friend to visit him on the island.
Friend: Your grandma died while you were on the island.
Player looked upset. Then later it turns out P got his friend to lie about his grandma passing away to get himself sympathy votes and get himself further in the game.
Now that I'm 26, I think: "What if your boss is watching this? He may not trust you after he saw you do that." But then it may be a good thing for other bosses. Like one of my supervisors at Call Centre #3 said that to get completed surveys done is: "To lie your ass off." I'm sure he would like that Survivor player. lol.
I don't watch the show. I have to watch this player in the game before I can totally judge him. He may be a good team player helping build a fire and shelter, and win games. He may have only done one manipulative game play.
If people diss him by calling him manipulative, he could say: "I'm not like this in real life. In this situation of being on a reality show where you're stranded on an island with strangers to win a $1 million, I'm going to act like this. Lying is kind of expected in this game."
If you go on The Apprentice, it's all about getting a job at the Trump company. When I was a teen and in my early 20s, and watching Big Brother. I thought it would be fun to be on TV, and meet new people. Now if I was on the show, I would be worried about how my boss and potential bosses are going to see me. You are going to get judged by the viewers/ strangers.
Aug. 28 Warrior: I saw this on Yahoo and Warrior is a MMA movie. It has the vibe of The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg. It's a drama. I saw the trailer about a family man named Brendan who was a war hero and is now a teacher. He is behind on his house payments and has a wife and two kids to support. That's why he fights.
There is bonding between his dad played by Nick Nolte, and his older brother. It looks good, I may watch it. What was cool was that, I saw the actor Jake McLaughlin as a solider who thanks Brendan. JM was a MMA fighter on a The Mentalist ep.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi339320089/
Parents on TV: I wanted to add to that Flashpoint ep where the mom is angry at the strip club owner for having her 17 yr old daughter work there. It was a little too unbelievable.
Sausage Factory: There was that The Sausage Factory ep where Gilby and Zack got a job at a video store. Gilby was letting teenage boys rent out porn tapes. One of the (customer) boys dad comes in and says: "So you're the guy who was letting my son rent out porn tapes, I'm going to beat you up for that!"
When I saw a man coming in to beat up the one who let his son rent out porn tapes, I didn't predict that was going to happen. I did believe it could happen. I guess because men are more likely to get angry and use violence to solve a problem. Can you imagine a woman coming into the store and going to beat up worker there? Not really.
What would most likely happen is the woman would get the assistant manager who was responsible for it, and get the manager too.
Woman: I found my teenage son watching this porn tape. He said he got it from the assistant manager at this video store.
I'm sure the mom would be livid, but she wouldn't use violence. For TV purposes and for this sitcom to make it funnier, let's have a character almost get beaten up. The audience is mainly teen boys who watch this show, they may get the idea to do the same thing by switching porn tapes into the regular movie cases too.
If they see a parent (mom or dad) calmly telling the manager about it, the teen boys know they could possibly lose their job. Gilby had the excuse: "If I get caught, I will say I simply misread the title." He would still be working there. Or he may lose his job, but he can get another one at a video store and do the exact same thing over again.
You have to raise the stakes, you may get beaten up by a really angry dad, so don't let teen boys rent out porn tapes.
Flashpoint: It's an action- drama. In real life, a mom may call the police and say she knows that there is a 17 yr old girl working at a strip club. There isn't much of a story. Or she could burn the strip club down. There is little bit more of a story. To add to that, someone was in the strip club and got hurt. That story has been down: an arson occurs and the arsonist thought the building was empty, but somebody was in there.
Question: A girl tells her parents she's a stripper. Who is going to be more upset? Mom or dad? I'm sure both are upset, but I'm leaning more to mom. On The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, there was a trick where this young black woman tells her parents that she's a stripper. The dad was in on the joke. The mom was furious. She lashed out at JK who played the strip club owner.
She was angry and disappointed at her daughter: "I never taught you to do that. I never raised you to do that. So how come you're going around doing that?"
Genders being mean: I was thinking about that Jamie Kennedy Experiment show again about the 2 male judges who were mean and funny. The point of JKX is to be funny. Women are funny, but in this case where they judge talent, they are going to say the plain truth and it may be mean, but it's not funny.
For example:
Host: What do you think of the performance?
Woman: He's not talented. He can't ride a unicycle, he can't juggle, let alone both. I don't know how he even got on this show in the first place.
Maybe some of the audience would laugh at it. But it's not really funny, because she reiterated what happened, and didn't add anything.
Host: What did you think?
Male judge Ron: Shut it down!
The audience laughs.
Host: What would you describe in one word about it (JK's performance)?
Ron: Is "absolutely horrible" one word?
The audience laughs.
I can imagine a woman answering the question.
Woman: Poor.
I imagine the audience wouldn't laugh. The above was the plain truth, but the woman is not trying to be mean or funny. It just is.
Job interviews: Today someone posted on my blog. His name is Davey and he said this:
"Did you hear anything back from the two interviews you had? When you say the interview went ok, what do you mean? Were you prepared and did you rehearse answers to the likely questions before hand? Did you feel like you presented yourself in the best possible way? What would you do differently next time?"
I was prepared, and I rehearsed my answers to the questions beforehand. I presented myself in the best possible way, and I wouldn't do anything differently. Well maybe, I should try to impress the interviewer more. The interview was okay as in, I didn't stumble on my words.
I got a callback from the optometrist clinic I did an interview in the afternoon. They're going with someone else, but they'll keep my resume on file.
I did a job interview at college cafeteria in Jan. and I got rejected. I then did an interview for them a few weeks ago, and yesterday I got a call. I got rejected again, but I will still apply. Maybe the third time's the charm.
Writing: I've been writing my Rain script for the past few days. Today I sent a draft to myself and I can say I'm proud of it. It's 45 pages long and it's solid.
Aug. 27 TV show hosts: I was thinking about: "What woman would be really mean and funny (snarky) about judging Jamie Kennedy's performance?" I thought Chelsea Handler. But she's a TV host so she is supposed to be like that.
Then I thought: "What guy would say all these mean comments about JK, and then when the comments are aired in front of JK, what guy would not be embarrassed or ashamed of what he said?" I thought Daniel Tosh. But he's a TV host and he's supposed to be like that.
But I think if they aren't famous TV hosts, get rid of the fame, and strip them down to just personality. These are the two people who would say snarky things, and both not be embarrassed if the person they're dissing heard them. I personally don't know anyone like that.
I can imagine my brother not saying snarky things about JK. He would tell the plain truth. I can see my friend Dan N. not being snarky.
Presenting yourself: I'm getting older and my job search is affecting how I think and watch TV. I was thinking about that Survivor player who got his friend to visit him on the island.
Friend: Your grandma died while you were on the island.
Player looked upset. Then later it turns out P got his friend to lie about his grandma passing away to get himself sympathy votes and get himself further in the game.
Now that I'm 26, I think: "What if your boss is watching this? He may not trust you after he saw you do that." But then it may be a good thing for other bosses. Like one of my supervisors at Call Centre #3 said that to get completed surveys done is: "To lie your ass off." I'm sure he would like that Survivor player. lol.
I don't watch the show. I have to watch this player in the game before I can totally judge him. He may be a good team player helping build a fire and shelter, and win games. He may have only done one manipulative game play.
If people diss him by calling him manipulative, he could say: "I'm not like this in real life. In this situation of being on a reality show where you're stranded on an island with strangers to win a $1 million, I'm going to act like this. Lying is kind of expected in this game."
If you go on The Apprentice, it's all about getting a job at the Trump company. When I was a teen and in my early 20s, and watching Big Brother. I thought it would be fun to be on TV, and meet new people. Now if I was on the show, I would be worried about how my boss and potential bosses are going to see me. You are going to get judged by the viewers/ strangers.
Aug. 28 Warrior: I saw this on Yahoo and Warrior is a MMA movie. It has the vibe of The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg. It's a drama. I saw the trailer about a family man named Brendan who was a war hero and is now a teacher. He is behind on his house payments and has a wife and two kids to support. That's why he fights.
There is bonding between his dad played by Nick Nolte, and his older brother. It looks good, I may watch it. What was cool was that, I saw the actor Jake McLaughlin as a solider who thanks Brendan. JM was a MMA fighter on a The Mentalist ep.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi339320089/
Thursday, August 25, 2011
job interview/ flashback/ jokes
Aug. 24 Job interviews: Today is my day off and I went to a job interview this morning. It was at an optometrist clinic that I interviewed before months ago. The interviewer remembers me. The interview was okay.
Then in the late afternoon I did a job interview at another optometrist clinic. It was average. Today I didn't study my HTML book, and I didn't call that company again.
High school: I was thinking about this conversation I had with Angela. What if my sister wanted to go to the performing arts high school that I wanted to go to? Would my dad let her? My dad asked: "Why would she go to that school?" Maybe if all her friends went there. Angela said that was a stupid reason, but that happens a lot. Teenagers want to be with their friends.
I can say this in general, all high schools have the following electives: art, drama, band, computers, home economics courses like cooking and sewing, French and Spanish. I know Wagner and M.E Lazerte are the only schools that have cosmetology. Victoria Performing Arts has Drama, and then they have Acting which is a harder drama class to get into. You have to audition and have a recommendation from your gr. 9 drama teacher to get into Acting 10. This is the only school that has dance as an elective.
Maybe there's another school that has dance, but I don't know for sure. Wagner is a good computers/ technology school.
College: College is different. No one goes to college to be with their friends. There are these factors like money to spend on tuition, and how much time you want to go to school for like one or two year programs or 4 yrs. Not every school has the same programs. I can say University of Alberta, Grant MacEwan, NAIT, Norquest, and CDI all have business programs.
The U of A is the only school that has law. I know NAIT is the only school that has Radio and TV programs. Unless someone wants to tell me there is another school out there that has the program. MacEwan also has 4 different campuses so even if you and your friends are going to the same school, it's not the same location.
Blog article: I got this email through my blog. I thought it was an easy read where she listed "48 iPad Apps That College Students Love." There are apps that help you take notes, organize your schedule, and find cheap textbooks. There are apps that can be used if you aren't a college student like finding entertainment in your city:
Hi Tracy,
I’m a writer for Onlinecolleges.net and we just published an article “48 iPad Apps That College Students Love” I think you’d like to feature it in your upcoming post schedule.(http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/08/23/48-ipad-apps-that-college-students-love/)
Thanks!
Jasmine Hall
Aug. 25 Jokes: I don't know if you ever noticed this, but in my 3rd email of the week, it's where I put all my jokes. I need to cheer up because I get angry and depressed.
Producers: I checked my email today and I got this email in French regarding my The Vertex Fighter script. Well they called it the original title The Fighter. I called my brother over because he took French in school. lol. He told me: "It's a rejection letter. They said due to the big volume of propositions, we're not going to take your script." I then noticed "grand volume de propositions" in the line.
Crazy trigger: This was months ago, but I was at Wal- Mart to pick up a prescription. I had to wait so I read, and then did some shopping. I found this candle, when the wax melts, it turns into massage oil. I got this flashback of a few years ago where James Kyson Lee (Ando from Heroes) was on Talk Show with Spike Feresten.
JKL: I got this candle from a fan. If you melt the candle it will turn into massage oil which I will give to your wife.
The audience laughs.
Earlier in the ep, there was a sketch where Spike was talking to his "wife" over on webcam.
Job jokes: I was watching The Office months ago in the ep called "Garage Sale." The boss Michael was talking to the camera.
Michael: I should have burned this place down when I got the chance.
lol. It reminds me of the days when I was working at Call Centre #2 and I kept wishing the place would close down. Instead I bide my time and kept working there until I got to quit to go to school full-time.
On 30 Rock, they talked about the past like the social network Friendster. Does anyone remember that? It's still here, but no one really uses it like My Space. What's in now is Facebook. They mentioned the disappearing travel agent job. I remember reading an article on the internet about people using the internet to book travel plans instead of going to an agency.
Flashback: I got this flashback yesterday. It was probably from 1998 or 1999. The British boy band Five was performing at Canada's Wonderland (amusement park) and the TV show The Hit List was there. One of the host's Leslie sees a poster that said: "I Quit my Job for Five."
The young woman/ fan said: "I wanted a day off from my job to see Five, and my boss wouldn't let me. So I was like, I quit." Then Leslie took her and her friend to meet Five. That was so cool. Five then talked to the camera to the boss: "Give her her job back or you're being plain nasty."
I was like 13/ 14 when I saw this and I thought it was so cool that she got to meet them. Now I'm 26 and I think: "Or you could call in sick on that day and skip work and then see Five." Unless her manager sees her on TV with a different poster: "I skipped work for Five." Or the manager would have fired her and said: "You're trying to convince me you're sick when you asked for this day off earlier?"
I'm going to assume that this woman didn't have a really amazing job. She probably worked in retail or a restaurant that didn't pay very well. It's really just a job, and not a career.
Dark joke: This is from MADtv, I am forewarning it may be offensive. There was a sketch about a superhero named Bible Dude. He was talking to this high school football team in the locker room.
Coach: I'm just a pedophile.
Bible Dude: Well if it's good enough for the Pope, it's good enough for me!
The audience says: "Ohhhhh."
Magic Clerk: This is a sketch on Jay Leno. This magician's name is Michael. He works at a Seven Eleven. He asks for an ID from this black woman. He then cuts it up. Then he tells her to look at this sign by the counter, and her ID magically shows up on the sign.
He then did another trick where he turns a $1 bill to a $100 bill by spraying something on it.
Then in the late afternoon I did a job interview at another optometrist clinic. It was average. Today I didn't study my HTML book, and I didn't call that company again.
High school: I was thinking about this conversation I had with Angela. What if my sister wanted to go to the performing arts high school that I wanted to go to? Would my dad let her? My dad asked: "Why would she go to that school?" Maybe if all her friends went there. Angela said that was a stupid reason, but that happens a lot. Teenagers want to be with their friends.
I can say this in general, all high schools have the following electives: art, drama, band, computers, home economics courses like cooking and sewing, French and Spanish. I know Wagner and M.E Lazerte are the only schools that have cosmetology. Victoria Performing Arts has Drama, and then they have Acting which is a harder drama class to get into. You have to audition and have a recommendation from your gr. 9 drama teacher to get into Acting 10. This is the only school that has dance as an elective.
Maybe there's another school that has dance, but I don't know for sure. Wagner is a good computers/ technology school.
College: College is different. No one goes to college to be with their friends. There are these factors like money to spend on tuition, and how much time you want to go to school for like one or two year programs or 4 yrs. Not every school has the same programs. I can say University of Alberta, Grant MacEwan, NAIT, Norquest, and CDI all have business programs.
The U of A is the only school that has law. I know NAIT is the only school that has Radio and TV programs. Unless someone wants to tell me there is another school out there that has the program. MacEwan also has 4 different campuses so even if you and your friends are going to the same school, it's not the same location.
Blog article: I got this email through my blog. I thought it was an easy read where she listed "48 iPad Apps That College Students Love." There are apps that help you take notes, organize your schedule, and find cheap textbooks. There are apps that can be used if you aren't a college student like finding entertainment in your city:
Hi Tracy,
I’m a writer for Onlinecolleges.net and we just published an article “48 iPad Apps That College Students Love” I think you’d like to feature it in your upcoming post schedule.(http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/08/23/48-ipad-apps-that-college-students-love/)
Thanks!
Jasmine Hall
Aug. 25 Jokes: I don't know if you ever noticed this, but in my 3rd email of the week, it's where I put all my jokes. I need to cheer up because I get angry and depressed.
Producers: I checked my email today and I got this email in French regarding my The Vertex Fighter script. Well they called it the original title The Fighter. I called my brother over because he took French in school. lol. He told me: "It's a rejection letter. They said due to the big volume of propositions, we're not going to take your script." I then noticed "grand volume de propositions" in the line.
Crazy trigger: This was months ago, but I was at Wal- Mart to pick up a prescription. I had to wait so I read, and then did some shopping. I found this candle, when the wax melts, it turns into massage oil. I got this flashback of a few years ago where James Kyson Lee (Ando from Heroes) was on Talk Show with Spike Feresten.
JKL: I got this candle from a fan. If you melt the candle it will turn into massage oil which I will give to your wife.
The audience laughs.
Earlier in the ep, there was a sketch where Spike was talking to his "wife" over on webcam.
Job jokes: I was watching The Office months ago in the ep called "Garage Sale." The boss Michael was talking to the camera.
Michael: I should have burned this place down when I got the chance.
lol. It reminds me of the days when I was working at Call Centre #2 and I kept wishing the place would close down. Instead I bide my time and kept working there until I got to quit to go to school full-time.
On 30 Rock, they talked about the past like the social network Friendster. Does anyone remember that? It's still here, but no one really uses it like My Space. What's in now is Facebook. They mentioned the disappearing travel agent job. I remember reading an article on the internet about people using the internet to book travel plans instead of going to an agency.
Flashback: I got this flashback yesterday. It was probably from 1998 or 1999. The British boy band Five was performing at Canada's Wonderland (amusement park) and the TV show The Hit List was there. One of the host's Leslie sees a poster that said: "I Quit my Job for Five."
The young woman/ fan said: "I wanted a day off from my job to see Five, and my boss wouldn't let me. So I was like, I quit." Then Leslie took her and her friend to meet Five. That was so cool. Five then talked to the camera to the boss: "Give her her job back or you're being plain nasty."
I was like 13/ 14 when I saw this and I thought it was so cool that she got to meet them. Now I'm 26 and I think: "Or you could call in sick on that day and skip work and then see Five." Unless her manager sees her on TV with a different poster: "I skipped work for Five." Or the manager would have fired her and said: "You're trying to convince me you're sick when you asked for this day off earlier?"
I'm going to assume that this woman didn't have a really amazing job. She probably worked in retail or a restaurant that didn't pay very well. It's really just a job, and not a career.
Dark joke: This is from MADtv, I am forewarning it may be offensive. There was a sketch about a superhero named Bible Dude. He was talking to this high school football team in the locker room.
Coach: I'm just a pedophile.
Bible Dude: Well if it's good enough for the Pope, it's good enough for me!
The audience says: "Ohhhhh."
Magic Clerk: This is a sketch on Jay Leno. This magician's name is Michael. He works at a Seven Eleven. He asks for an ID from this black woman. He then cuts it up. Then he tells her to look at this sign by the counter, and her ID magically shows up on the sign.
He then did another trick where he turns a $1 bill to a $100 bill by spraying something on it.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Jack Layton/ family/ The Listener
Aug. 22 Jack Layton: I got home and got on the computer to see that Jack Layton is the #1 thing to be searched on in Yahoo. I then checked my email and something from Linked In mentions his death. I then go on Yahoo and read the article that he died from his second bout of cancer at age 61.
He was a nice guy and a good politician if he was a federal NDP leader for 8 yrs. I remember seeing him on The Rick Mercer Report where RM goes to JL's house. There is a tour and it was funny. JL can speak Cantonese and introduced RM to his mother-in-law who's Chinese. I went on Facebook and everybody's talking about JL:
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."
-Jack Layton
Family: I was thinking a lot about family yesterday and today. Like on Buffy where Cordelia said: "I have two parents unlike some people." There was fallacy in that because Buffy does have two parents, they're just divorced and she doesn't really see her dad often. Her dad is alive, so I count that as having two parents. If one of her parents is dead, then I can say she has one parent. Also Giles is like a father to Buffy.
Parents: Divorce is kind of grey issue. I have a friend who's parents have been divorced since she was 3, and her mom raised her and her big brother. She doesn't see her dad often, but in my opinion she has two parents. I don't know about my friend's opinion, because she may say she has one parent.
I have another friend who's dad left her and her mom when she was 6. She never saw her dad again. I think he's alive, but in this case, my opinion would be she doesn't have a dad.
I remember talking to my friend Angela a few years ago.
Me: I was watching Tyra Banks show, and this teen girl said: "I found out my dad is not my real biological dad."
Angela: Yeah, well at least she does have a dad.
Me: That reminds me of Maury-
A: I thought you quit watching that show.
Me: I did, I just remember it. This guy finds out that he may not be the father to these two kids. He says: "Yeah, well they're still my kids." The audience cheers. It turns out he is the father. If I found out my dad is not my real biological dad, I would be sad about it, but I would still consider him my dad because he was the one who raised me.
Adoption: I was thinking about this. I have seen this on TV shows like Arrested Development and The Vampire Diaries where someone learns they are adopted. What if my brother was adopted? I would still consider him my brother. Of course, this is the sibling I actually get along with. If my sister was adopted, I would still consider her my sister. We were all raised by the same parents, DNA isn't everything. If I found out I was adopted, I would still consider them my family.
Mixed relations: I remember reading in a magazine about this girl who found out her mom is really her biological aunt. Her aunt is really her biological mom who gave her up for adoption to her sister. I saw this on Dr. Phil and 30 Rock where it turns out the mom is really the biological grandma. The older sister is really the mom.
Job search: I have been doing a little bit of a job search for the past few days. I basically read my Job Serve emails that I've been getting and apply to some. I've been busy studying my HTML book. I called the company today, but couldn't reach the person, so I left a message. I'll try again earlier tomorrow.
Aug. 23: I called the company again earlier in the afternoon, but he wasn't there so I left another message. I'm a little annoyed because I spent 5 days studying my computer book, and not looking for a job. I did email my friend who was interviewed to see if she got the job. Be patient. They may not even have made a decision yet.
Rant: This is a mild rant. The Listener came out in summer 2009. It wasn't until Feb. 2011, CTV started airing the second season on Tues. Then they aired it for awhile and changed it to Fri. Then they took it off the air though there are still 3 episodes left of the season to air.
Then last week, they started airing it on Wed. I want CTV to pick a day, and air it consistently on that day. Or the very least, don't start airing some episodes, and then take it off the air, and then a couple months later bring it back on again. I'm going to post this on twop.com on the thread "Little things that TV stations do that annoy you."
The Listener: After CTV stopped airing it, I actually tuned into an episode on the internet. There were French subtitles, but the show was in English. The ep I saw was called "To Die For." Toby is with a woman in his apartment and she may stay over, but then she starts sneezing. It turns out there's a ferret and she's allergic to it. It belongs to T's friend Oz.
T goes to the woman Billie's office at work, and she closes the door. The sign says she's the polygraph examiner. There was no dialogue, and you know her a job at the IIB. This ep seems to be inspired by the famous chef Gordon Ramsey because T and IIB have to solve a murder at a restaurant.
Chef Dylan hears his partner Will arguing with Mob Boss who wants his investment back. MB shoots Will. MB says he didn't kill Will. T uses his telepathic abilities and reads MB's mind and that's what happened. Dylan is in witness protection. They show the CN tower so good shout out to Canada.
They go to the restaurant and it's fine dining. T reads mind and it turns out Jack shoots Will and not MB. T reads Dylan's mind, and D was protecting Jack like J always protected D when they were kids. They talk to this woman Cook. Cook is lying to get a free restaurant. But then Cook tells T and agent McCluskey about it. Dylan bought Cook's silence by giving her the restaurant.
Jack shoots Will in the leg. Dylan finishes the job with the second shot. Dylan hides the gun in the restaurant wall. Dylan frames MB with murder.
There is a little subplot with the IIB boss Klein with the female Lawyer in bed together. Lawyer and McCluskey don't totally get along due to a previous case they worked together. Klien and Lawyer thought M doesn't know they they're together, but M is smart and does. I've seen this on Castle where two people who work together are dating on the low, and thought no one else at work knows about them, but everybody does.
Another little plot was the hospital boss Ryder lashes out at Oz about having a ferret at work. Later in the show, Oz comes in to feed the ferret and finds Ryder sleeping on the couch at work. He says his wife kicked him out because he has an anger management problem and won't go to class on it. He does if you watch the show, because he's always grumpy.
Oz leaves. Then Oz comes back and tells Ryder to go to anger management class. At the end of the ep, Ryder thanks Oz for the pep talk and takes the ferret so he and his family can take care of it.
The Listener is on CTV on Wed. nights, so go check it out.
He was a nice guy and a good politician if he was a federal NDP leader for 8 yrs. I remember seeing him on The Rick Mercer Report where RM goes to JL's house. There is a tour and it was funny. JL can speak Cantonese and introduced RM to his mother-in-law who's Chinese. I went on Facebook and everybody's talking about JL:
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."
-Jack Layton
Family: I was thinking a lot about family yesterday and today. Like on Buffy where Cordelia said: "I have two parents unlike some people." There was fallacy in that because Buffy does have two parents, they're just divorced and she doesn't really see her dad often. Her dad is alive, so I count that as having two parents. If one of her parents is dead, then I can say she has one parent. Also Giles is like a father to Buffy.
Parents: Divorce is kind of grey issue. I have a friend who's parents have been divorced since she was 3, and her mom raised her and her big brother. She doesn't see her dad often, but in my opinion she has two parents. I don't know about my friend's opinion, because she may say she has one parent.
I have another friend who's dad left her and her mom when she was 6. She never saw her dad again. I think he's alive, but in this case, my opinion would be she doesn't have a dad.
I remember talking to my friend Angela a few years ago.
Me: I was watching Tyra Banks show, and this teen girl said: "I found out my dad is not my real biological dad."
Angela: Yeah, well at least she does have a dad.
Me: That reminds me of Maury-
A: I thought you quit watching that show.
Me: I did, I just remember it. This guy finds out that he may not be the father to these two kids. He says: "Yeah, well they're still my kids." The audience cheers. It turns out he is the father. If I found out my dad is not my real biological dad, I would be sad about it, but I would still consider him my dad because he was the one who raised me.
Adoption: I was thinking about this. I have seen this on TV shows like Arrested Development and The Vampire Diaries where someone learns they are adopted. What if my brother was adopted? I would still consider him my brother. Of course, this is the sibling I actually get along with. If my sister was adopted, I would still consider her my sister. We were all raised by the same parents, DNA isn't everything. If I found out I was adopted, I would still consider them my family.
Mixed relations: I remember reading in a magazine about this girl who found out her mom is really her biological aunt. Her aunt is really her biological mom who gave her up for adoption to her sister. I saw this on Dr. Phil and 30 Rock where it turns out the mom is really the biological grandma. The older sister is really the mom.
Job search: I have been doing a little bit of a job search for the past few days. I basically read my Job Serve emails that I've been getting and apply to some. I've been busy studying my HTML book. I called the company today, but couldn't reach the person, so I left a message. I'll try again earlier tomorrow.
Aug. 23: I called the company again earlier in the afternoon, but he wasn't there so I left another message. I'm a little annoyed because I spent 5 days studying my computer book, and not looking for a job. I did email my friend who was interviewed to see if she got the job. Be patient. They may not even have made a decision yet.
Rant: This is a mild rant. The Listener came out in summer 2009. It wasn't until Feb. 2011, CTV started airing the second season on Tues. Then they aired it for awhile and changed it to Fri. Then they took it off the air though there are still 3 episodes left of the season to air.
Then last week, they started airing it on Wed. I want CTV to pick a day, and air it consistently on that day. Or the very least, don't start airing some episodes, and then take it off the air, and then a couple months later bring it back on again. I'm going to post this on twop.com on the thread "Little things that TV stations do that annoy you."
The Listener: After CTV stopped airing it, I actually tuned into an episode on the internet. There were French subtitles, but the show was in English. The ep I saw was called "To Die For." Toby is with a woman in his apartment and she may stay over, but then she starts sneezing. It turns out there's a ferret and she's allergic to it. It belongs to T's friend Oz.
T goes to the woman Billie's office at work, and she closes the door. The sign says she's the polygraph examiner. There was no dialogue, and you know her a job at the IIB. This ep seems to be inspired by the famous chef Gordon Ramsey because T and IIB have to solve a murder at a restaurant.
Chef Dylan hears his partner Will arguing with Mob Boss who wants his investment back. MB shoots Will. MB says he didn't kill Will. T uses his telepathic abilities and reads MB's mind and that's what happened. Dylan is in witness protection. They show the CN tower so good shout out to Canada.
They go to the restaurant and it's fine dining. T reads mind and it turns out Jack shoots Will and not MB. T reads Dylan's mind, and D was protecting Jack like J always protected D when they were kids. They talk to this woman Cook. Cook is lying to get a free restaurant. But then Cook tells T and agent McCluskey about it. Dylan bought Cook's silence by giving her the restaurant.
Jack shoots Will in the leg. Dylan finishes the job with the second shot. Dylan hides the gun in the restaurant wall. Dylan frames MB with murder.
There is a little subplot with the IIB boss Klein with the female Lawyer in bed together. Lawyer and McCluskey don't totally get along due to a previous case they worked together. Klien and Lawyer thought M doesn't know they they're together, but M is smart and does. I've seen this on Castle where two people who work together are dating on the low, and thought no one else at work knows about them, but everybody does.
Another little plot was the hospital boss Ryder lashes out at Oz about having a ferret at work. Later in the show, Oz comes in to feed the ferret and finds Ryder sleeping on the couch at work. He says his wife kicked him out because he has an anger management problem and won't go to class on it. He does if you watch the show, because he's always grumpy.
Oz leaves. Then Oz comes back and tells Ryder to go to anger management class. At the end of the ep, Ryder thanks Oz for the pep talk and takes the ferret so he and his family can take care of it.
The Listener is on CTV on Wed. nights, so go check it out.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
crazy interview/ Post Secret/ names
Aug. 20 Crazy interview: This is part 2 of the crazy interview. Today one of my friends Facebook me and she said that she was at the interview. I didn't see her there. That's a weird coincidence.
Aug. 21 Post Secret: Here's one from last week:
"I told my friends that my husband was laid off when he was really fired for poor performance."
Last week there was a post card with a picture of a woman's deformed foot: "Sometimes I worry that THIS will be the difference between binding LOVE...and being ALONE."
This week an emailed photo of deformed hands and feet said: "I just got engaged."
Me: That was nice.
Cut to a picture of two angel statues: "I'm my ex-husband's mistress."
There was another post card with the same picture: "I'm afraid I will never have this so I settle for men who don't listen when I say no."
Cut to a picture of university building: "The only reason I'm finishing my Phd is so I can buy new return address labels that have DR. in front of my name!"
Me: Well it's still good to achieve your goals and get an education.
Cut to a picture of a short bus: "Because of this bus, I have no friends."
-----Email-----
I work as a 1:1 aide for kids with disabilities and "this" bus has garnered me some of the best friends I've ever met.
"I just learned how to swim! I'm 43! It's never too late!"
"I worry that the path I have worked so hard to finally get on is the one that will take me furthest away from where I actually want to be."
Barbecue: I went to a barbecue last night at my co-worker's place. I haven't gone out at night since two months ago with Leslie at West Edmonton mall. The barbecue was fun. They had homemade spring rolls that everybody loved. There was spare ribs and chicken with some fruit.
My dad drove me to it, and I took the two buses to get back home. I am self- reliant in taking the bus to work and job interviews to places I have never been to. However, I needed a ride. Well my dad gave me some more motivational talk for my office job search. I told him about the coincidence that my friend and I went for the same job.
Laughing about death: I got this through my Daily Silly jokes in my email:
"When I was younger I hated going to weddings; it seemed that all of my aunts and the grandmotherly types used to come up to me, poke me in the ribs while cackling, tell me, 'You're next.' They stopped that after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals."
That was dark. On The Simpsons there was an episode where they killed off Ned Flanders' wife Maude.
I had written about this Tosh. O video clip before, but I titled it as "funny and weird." It kind of qualifies as a death joke.
Cut to a strip club. It was busted for selling drugs. Camera pan to all these young women wearing tight and revealing clothes, and they're all hiding their faces with their hands.
The camera stops on a pretty young blonde woman smiling and waving at the camera.
Daniel Tosh: Looks like somebody's parents are dead.
Hooters: I met this woman at the barbecue and she's East Indian and adopted by Dutch parents. She said she had worked at Hooters as a waitress.
Me: And what did your parents say?
Woman: We had a good hour and a half talk about it. They said: "If you love and respect us, you wouldn't work there." I told them that I was an adult and that I can make my own God damn decisions. And they're religious.
I would be kind of disappointed that my daughter works at Hooters. I would ask: "And you can't get a server position anywhere else?" I would have to think to myself: "Yeah, well at least she's not a stripper. Though this could be a slippery slope. I should help her get another job."
Flashpoint: I was watching an episode of this show called "A Day in the Life." One of the plots is that the SRU team gets a new member named Raf. He's played by Cle Bennet and I have seen him in other Toronto shot shows. It's Valentine's Day. A woman is holding the manager at a strip club hostage.
The woman is a mom, and she found out her daughter is a stripper there. To add to that, she's 17 so she's underage working at a strip club. The owner has asthma and he's struggling to breathe. Raf talks down the mom by talking about how he knew a boy who was molested by a teacher. The boy's dad then kills the teacher and is now in prison. The daughter is listening to this in another room and cries.
The mom then drops the knife and is arrested. I don't really like the story. I don't know why. Maybe because it ruins my stripper jokes. Or maybe it's too unbelievable that a mom would hold the owner hostage in his own club. Well I have seen The Jamie Kennedy Experiment where they convince a woman that her daughter is a stripper. The mom looked furious, but kept her cool.
Computer book review: In that crazy interview, we discussed about creating websites. I thought I may have to do something for their website. I then got my HTML, XHTML & CSS (6th Edition) book that I bought for my computer class in 2008 out. It's written by Elizabeth Castro. I took a few days off my job search by studying this book.
This is a really good and informative book about creating websites. There is chapter 3 about Basic (X) HTML Structure, chapter 4 about Basic (X)HTML Formatting. I read that and then Chapter 2 about Working with Web Page Files, and Chapter 1 about Web Page Building Blocks.
If I do get hired, then I will have been prepared to create something for their website. If I don't get hired, that's okay because it's good to refresh my memory about creating websites. I think I bought the 5th edition of this book back in 2004 when I was in another college program.
Funny video: I was thinking about something unintentionally funny and the plain truth. I was watching TMZ.com and Meghan Fox (Transformers) and her boyfriend Brian Austin Green (the original 90210 and recently Desperate Housewives) were at an airport. The TMZ people were talking to BAG, and not MF. That's because everybody was asking MF for autographs, and not BAG.
Some of you maybe saying: "Ha ha." But it's true. Look at the video footage.
Names: I read this in the Edmonton Journal. Someone named their daughter Taelyr. That's crazy spelling and the correct way is Taylor. I was reading my Freakonomics book and someone named their daughter Temptress. The teen daughter was bringing men to her mom's house. What if you named her Chastity? Would she still do that?
At the back of the book, it talked about names and the average amount of education that the mothers have to name their kid that. For Chastity, women who named their daughter that has an average of a 10th grade education. So no, even if you named your daughter Chastity, she would still do that.
Then I got a flashback of years ago I watched an ep of Blind Date. This black woman, her name was Princess. She said: "When I tell people my name, they don't believe me that it's my real name." Maybe it's her name, but the vibe I got from her was that she was stuck- up.
Oh yeah, and the date went bad. She went out with a black guy who was a magician/ hypnotist/ performer. They were at the first location, and the guy up and left. I've seen where a person leaves in the middle of the date after 2 locations, but not the first.
Aug. 21 Post Secret: Here's one from last week:
"I told my friends that my husband was laid off when he was really fired for poor performance."
Last week there was a post card with a picture of a woman's deformed foot: "Sometimes I worry that THIS will be the difference between binding LOVE...and being ALONE."
This week an emailed photo of deformed hands and feet said: "I just got engaged."
Me: That was nice.
Cut to a picture of two angel statues: "I'm my ex-husband's mistress."
There was another post card with the same picture: "I'm afraid I will never have this so I settle for men who don't listen when I say no."
Cut to a picture of university building: "The only reason I'm finishing my Phd is so I can buy new return address labels that have DR. in front of my name!"
Me: Well it's still good to achieve your goals and get an education.
Cut to a picture of a short bus: "Because of this bus, I have no friends."
-----Email-----
I work as a 1:1 aide for kids with disabilities and "this" bus has garnered me some of the best friends I've ever met.
"I just learned how to swim! I'm 43! It's never too late!"
"I worry that the path I have worked so hard to finally get on is the one that will take me furthest away from where I actually want to be."
Barbecue: I went to a barbecue last night at my co-worker's place. I haven't gone out at night since two months ago with Leslie at West Edmonton mall. The barbecue was fun. They had homemade spring rolls that everybody loved. There was spare ribs and chicken with some fruit.
My dad drove me to it, and I took the two buses to get back home. I am self- reliant in taking the bus to work and job interviews to places I have never been to. However, I needed a ride. Well my dad gave me some more motivational talk for my office job search. I told him about the coincidence that my friend and I went for the same job.
Laughing about death: I got this through my Daily Silly jokes in my email:
"When I was younger I hated going to weddings; it seemed that all of my aunts and the grandmotherly types used to come up to me, poke me in the ribs while cackling, tell me, 'You're next.' They stopped that after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals."
That was dark. On The Simpsons there was an episode where they killed off Ned Flanders' wife Maude.
I had written about this Tosh. O video clip before, but I titled it as "funny and weird." It kind of qualifies as a death joke.
Cut to a strip club. It was busted for selling drugs. Camera pan to all these young women wearing tight and revealing clothes, and they're all hiding their faces with their hands.
The camera stops on a pretty young blonde woman smiling and waving at the camera.
Daniel Tosh: Looks like somebody's parents are dead.
Hooters: I met this woman at the barbecue and she's East Indian and adopted by Dutch parents. She said she had worked at Hooters as a waitress.
Me: And what did your parents say?
Woman: We had a good hour and a half talk about it. They said: "If you love and respect us, you wouldn't work there." I told them that I was an adult and that I can make my own God damn decisions. And they're religious.
I would be kind of disappointed that my daughter works at Hooters. I would ask: "And you can't get a server position anywhere else?" I would have to think to myself: "Yeah, well at least she's not a stripper. Though this could be a slippery slope. I should help her get another job."
Flashpoint: I was watching an episode of this show called "A Day in the Life." One of the plots is that the SRU team gets a new member named Raf. He's played by Cle Bennet and I have seen him in other Toronto shot shows. It's Valentine's Day. A woman is holding the manager at a strip club hostage.
The woman is a mom, and she found out her daughter is a stripper there. To add to that, she's 17 so she's underage working at a strip club. The owner has asthma and he's struggling to breathe. Raf talks down the mom by talking about how he knew a boy who was molested by a teacher. The boy's dad then kills the teacher and is now in prison. The daughter is listening to this in another room and cries.
The mom then drops the knife and is arrested. I don't really like the story. I don't know why. Maybe because it ruins my stripper jokes. Or maybe it's too unbelievable that a mom would hold the owner hostage in his own club. Well I have seen The Jamie Kennedy Experiment where they convince a woman that her daughter is a stripper. The mom looked furious, but kept her cool.
Computer book review: In that crazy interview, we discussed about creating websites. I thought I may have to do something for their website. I then got my HTML, XHTML & CSS (6th Edition) book that I bought for my computer class in 2008 out. It's written by Elizabeth Castro. I took a few days off my job search by studying this book.
This is a really good and informative book about creating websites. There is chapter 3 about Basic (X) HTML Structure, chapter 4 about Basic (X)HTML Formatting. I read that and then Chapter 2 about Working with Web Page Files, and Chapter 1 about Web Page Building Blocks.
If I do get hired, then I will have been prepared to create something for their website. If I don't get hired, that's okay because it's good to refresh my memory about creating websites. I think I bought the 5th edition of this book back in 2004 when I was in another college program.
Funny video: I was thinking about something unintentionally funny and the plain truth. I was watching TMZ.com and Meghan Fox (Transformers) and her boyfriend Brian Austin Green (the original 90210 and recently Desperate Housewives) were at an airport. The TMZ people were talking to BAG, and not MF. That's because everybody was asking MF for autographs, and not BAG.
Some of you maybe saying: "Ha ha." But it's true. Look at the video footage.
Names: I read this in the Edmonton Journal. Someone named their daughter Taelyr. That's crazy spelling and the correct way is Taylor. I was reading my Freakonomics book and someone named their daughter Temptress. The teen daughter was bringing men to her mom's house. What if you named her Chastity? Would she still do that?
At the back of the book, it talked about names and the average amount of education that the mothers have to name their kid that. For Chastity, women who named their daughter that has an average of a 10th grade education. So no, even if you named your daughter Chastity, she would still do that.
Then I got a flashback of years ago I watched an ep of Blind Date. This black woman, her name was Princess. She said: "When I tell people my name, they don't believe me that it's my real name." Maybe it's her name, but the vibe I got from her was that she was stuck- up.
Oh yeah, and the date went bad. She went out with a black guy who was a magician/ hypnotist/ performer. They were at the first location, and the guy up and left. I've seen where a person leaves in the middle of the date after 2 locations, but not the first.
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