Nov. 28 Channing Tatum Lookalike: Today I was working, and this guy passes by with his mom. He and I make eye contact. When I first saw him, I knew who he looked like.
Guy: So what kind of soups do you got?
Tracy: We got 6 kinds.
They enter. We talk a bit.
Tracy goes to the cashier to help another customer and then she goes back to them.
Tracy: There are a couple of things I want to tell you. One, we only take cash.
Woman: Okay.
Tracy: And two...
Tracy looks directly at the Guy.
Tracy: Do you know who you look like?
The Guy and the Woman look taken aback.
Woman: No, who?
Tracy: Channing Tatum.
Woman: Who's that?
Tracy (waves her right hand): GI Joe?
Woman: Oh yeah.
Guy: Wasn't he like in a dancing movie a few years ago?
Tracy: Yeah, it was called Step Up back in 2006.
Woman: Well he's pretty good looking, that's a compliment.
Guy: Now you're making me blush.
lol. He did look like CT, but CT is taller.
Joke: I was watching Conan O'Brien and he said this: "This guy got arrested for having sex with a horse. He wouldn't take 'neigh' for an answer."The audience laughed, and so did I. I told this to Justin and he laughed too.
Fable: I was reading Patrick's book about gambling. It had this fable "The Frog and the Scorpion." Have you ever heard of it? The Scorpion wants to get to the other side of the river, and he floats on the Frog. Then the Scorpion puts his stinger in the Frog in the middle of the river.
Frog: Now we're both going to die.
Scorpion: It's just my nature.
"Self- destruction" is the Scorpion's nature. I remember hearing this fable way back in 2001. It was on an episode of Smallville. The story was a little different. Lex Luthor's dad was talking to L. The Scorpion who gets to the other side of the river, then kills the Frog, not the middle of the river. It ended with the Scorpion saying: "I'm sorry. It's just my nature." As in my nature to go and back stab you.
CSI: NY: I was watching this show and the actor Scott Wolf (Party of Five) guest- starred. It turns out he was the guy who did it. I can't believe I didn't catch that. Well it's more obvious on Law and Order: SVU. The biggest guest- star is always the guy who did it. On CSI, they don't really do that at all. The rapper Nelly guest- starred and he didn't do it. lol.
Then I was reading that Veronica Mars book and it talked about this character who was played by a big name actor. He was used in the first episode of season 2. Then at the end of the season. The essay writer said this character must be important if he's played by someone so famous, but we don't get to know what it is until the very end.
Loan stores: I was talking to Justin about that Money Mart article and the first thing he says is: "You go in there, and you get into this circle." I think he means cycle where you keep paying for the interest on the loans. He said that he gets those checks from those loan shops, since he works at a bank. He has to put the check in, and then would be able to tell if this person has any money in the account. He can put 30 checks in, and only one of them has money in the account.
He did tell me that he and this co- worker, a young girl went to CPR training, because every branch needs 2 people who knows CPR.
Job rant: The first 2 weeks of my call centrte job was good because my shifts were 9:00am- 4:30pm because we're calling businesses. Now we're calling residences, and my shifts are 5pm-9pm. It all depends on the different projects. I want it to be like Ipsos. You call people to do surveys about products and you can work 1pm-9pm or 4pm-9pm. Leger was always the same surveys, and the only shifts were 4:30pm-9pm. I want day shifts because I can get a full 8hrs.
Nov. 29: At Ipsos there were 3 days of training. Leger had one day of training. Malatest had very little like a few hours of training. Maybe because the guy Brad and I already had experience in this and we didn't really need it.
SLAT: I was watching Muchmusic and they're advertising that they're going to play the crappy TV show Secret Life of the American Teenager starting Dec. 7. That show came out on Family in 2008. They seem to only have the first 11 episodes on MM's site. I know CityTV aired it and they're sister stations with MM.
Well this brings me to my next rant. I want to watch the episodes I missed on Youtube, but I can't find them. I don't think anyone even put it up yet.
Dating: To compare my life to TV, I remember reading someone diss the character Ben on SLAT. Ben says that he and his girlfriend and Amy needs to have something in common and thought of cribbage. Someone said that's stupid and lame. I just looked it up on dictionary.com and it's a card game.
In other news, I found this guy through online dating. We both have dance in common. We emailed a bit, and I asked him out. We'll see how it goes. Even with that other guy who rejected me through that site, we both had MMA in common.
Writing: Now I'm thinking about, why are these two characters together? Why are they going out? What makes you root for them? Those are the questions that Conni Massing has asked.I did a little editing on Rain. This one scene is based on the IM chat I had with that MMA guy. Instead of the funny sidekick Eddie say: "I don't know what's funnier, you being a virgin or the guy saying yikes." I changed it to what my friend Daniel said: "What is this guy like 13? Asking have you ever had sex before? Have you ever done it? Not knowing what it is." lol.
Job search: Well yesterday I was going through my professional email account and I emailed all these production companies- again. I emailed one back in June and he said he was busy. Then I emailed him last night, and he said he's even more busy. Maybe I'll hear from more tomorrow.
Nov. 30 Egg nog: So the other day I tried egg nog at Sorrentino's. Interesting how I'm 24, and I have never had egg nog before and it's common. Well common once a year. It tastes alright.
Funny advice: I was reading the advice column "Damage Control" in The Globe and Mail. He kind of wrote like I did. I wrote that ludicrous storyline for Criminal Minds. He gets a letter from a guy who's getting laid off, and he has to plan the company Christmas party. The advice was don't wait until you're unemployed and then start looking for a job. Start looking for one right now, and by the time your job is over, you already got one lined up.
It reminds me of Ipsos closing down, and then I started looking for a job. 9 days later I got a job at Grand and Toy. Prior to it, he gives the ludicrous storyline of how the guy should put on a costume like pink slippers (because he got the pink slip.) When the party is in full swing, the band will then put on gas masks as a green gas is released into the room.
The laid off employee will come in and say: "If you don't give me my job back, you guys won't get the antidote." It was like those old school Batman movies before it was changed to less comic book, and more real life in Batman Begins.
Shopping: In other news, today I went to Bonnie Doon with my mom to buy black dress pants. We bought a pair on sale at Suzy Shier. Mom will hem it to fit me, and she will hem one of the Jacob pants I bought. It's all good.
White Collar: I checked out a couple of these episodes. I have to say Matthew Bomer is a really good actor. I've seen him on Tru Calling playing Tru's boyfriend and some of the TV show Traveler where he plays the lead. I have to say this show is what makes me impressed with his acting. He plays a criminal who has to team up with the FBI to fight white- collar crime. He's pretty funny on the show.
It was interesting to see Tiffanni Amber Theissen as the wife of the FBI agent. I haven't seen her since 2002 in the short- lived show Fastlane.
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