City market/ Dateline/ laughter

May 26 City market: Today on the bus ride to work, I saw that the City Market is being set up in downtown.  So after work, I went home and went back to downtown to shop.  I ate some free samples like cookies and bread. There was a lot of crafts, jewelry, and clothes that are sold.  There were lots of handmade lotions, soaps, and lip balm.  There were also fruit, vegetables, elk meat, wine there too. It was a beautiful and sunny Saturday afternoon so I checked it out.  It closes at 3pm though.  I also interacted with the sellers there.  I need to socialize more.  I then went to City Centre mall and bumped into my old manager from the Soup place.  She noticed me first and we chatted a bit. Martin Kerr: Martin Kerr was singing and playing his guitar at the City Market.  When I got there he was singing Oasis's song "Wonderwall."  Here's his website where you can listen to his music and buy his cd: http://martinkerrmusic.com/ Dateline: Looks like somebody doesn't like Chris Hansen's snarky comments.  I went to that Youtube video of those 2 guys running.  A comment on it was: chris is a dick. he always says stupid entrance lines . ''nice brownies?'' ''no hug for me?'' ''Looks like you got a big night planned'' ''So, we going for a photoshoot'' all these lines hes said before and it pisses me off. i want to punch his face. he looks amused when questioning them. Business mind: Back when I was like 22, I saw America's Most Wanted where they got Miss Teen America to be the decoy to play an under aged girl.  She's at the house and the predator comes in.  The host John Walsh confronts the predators and says things to them like: "That's bull.  You were here to have sex with a young girl!"  JW is way more confrontational and angry at the predators.  Then they arrest the predator. I was 22 so I didn't have a total business mind back then.  I did notice Chris Hansen seemed like he's doing more of a job interview when talking to the predators.  For example: CH: According to the transcript, you said you were going to (blank) her.  Would you like to explain that? Doesn't that sound like a job interviewer asking: "According to your resume you said you studied natural sciences.  Can you tell me more about that?" Fun article: Crystal Hall sent me this article "9 College Lessons We Learned from 90210" through my blog.  It was a fun article making fun of the show.  Even if you never watched the original show from the early 90s, it's still funny. The lessons are "#3 You can date everyone in your social group" and it won't be awkward.  "#5 All of Your Hanging out will be done in one place."  They hung out at the Peach Pit.  I remember watching my Tru Calling dvds and Jason Priestly (from 90210) was a reoccurring character on that show.  He was doing an audio commentary on an ep. JP: I didn't like shooting (scenes) in the morgue.  I can see years of my life going by on that set.  Kind of like how the Peach Pit was for me. lol.   http://www.thebestdegrees.org/9-college-lessons-we-learned-from-90210/ May 27 Laughter: Christine Seivers sent me this article through my blog called "11 Reasons Laughter May be the Best Medicine of All."  It talks about real health benefits of laughter like how it reduces stress, and it helps us cope with difficult situations.  It boosts our immune systems, and increase blood flow. http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/blog/11-reasons-laughter-really-may-be-the-best-medicine-of-all/ Guy lives at AOL: I found this story of a guy Eric Simons who works at AOL and also lives there.  He was living there for 2 months until he finally got caught.  lol.  He still works there, but just can't live there. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/meet-the-tireless-entrepreneur-who-squatted-at-aol.html May 28 Editor's joke: I was going through my newspaper articles and I found this from the National Post.  On the Weekend Post edition there is a books section.  Here's a little article from Apr. 30, 2011. If you're going to submit a story to a magazine, read Lynne Barrett's blog The Review Review.  Here's her thought: "Oh no, another story with the character waking up hungover and getting a phone call.  Why must they flash back before anything interesting happens?  ...This one gets good in the middle, but then the character just sits down and thinks about stuff." That's some good tips right there.  I guess it's a cliche for a character to wake up hungover.  I never wrote about a character waking up hangover, but I have about a character waking up.  I usually like to start a story right as something interesting happens. May 29 Stupid: I was watching that Dateline clip again in Petulama, Califronia.  I found this Youtube comment.  It's at the 7:03 min mark where the predator tries to be released. "Because you came up here to prey on a 13 year old girl" "I know, but that part is over, whatever happened. Don't you think I should be let go now?" What a ridiculous statement. How bout'... 'I just murdered someone, but that part is over now don't you think I should be let go?' I forgot about that part.  I do remember the 3:52 mark when I first saw it where he wants to hug the girl.  I thought: "Don't touch her."  I need to stop watching these clips because I'm getting angry.  It's just some random obsessions I get sometimes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVgILI93LbY Jun. 2 Jokes: I got these from Daily Silly. A woman who ran to the mall for a quick errand lost her purse, but an honest teenage boy returned it to her. The woman looked inside her purse and remarked, "That's really odd. Earlier I had a twenty-dollar bill inside, but now it's gone. Instead, I see four fives." "Well," the boy explained, "the last time I found a lady's purse, she didn't have change for a reward." Me: I thought it was kind of quirky. Here's another one: This guy is getting ready to celebrate his 50th anniversary and his friend says, "What are you going to do for your anniversary?" The guy says "Well for my 20th anniversary I took my wife to Italy". His friend says, "Thats nice, so what are you going to do to top that?" The guy says, "I think I'll go pick her up." Me: That was a good twist.