December 1, 2008
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Monday Update
I hope everyone had themselves a good Thanksgiving (well, at least to my American readers; to everyone else, I hope your weekend was good). I did watch the parade, but perhaps not as much as I normally do (though I once again accurately guessed one of the performers; this year I correctly predicted Miley Cyrus). You know, I spend so much time on the Internet, and yet I had never heard of Rickrolling prior to this weekend. When Rick Astley showed up on the Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends float, I just thought it was totally random. But funny. Dinner was good, except my aunt got the tiniest turkey possible so there wasn’t much in the way of leftovers.
The Amazing Race sucked last night. I kind of had a feeling it’d be Toni and Dallas who would lose their passports, although what did them in (at least in the short run) kinda ended up being losing their money. Actually, it was the fact that they took the Metro instead of the requisite taxi to the next place. They probably figured that they’d be hit with the standard 30-minute time penalty at the Pit Stop, but it appears that the producers will go to any length to make sure the time penalty is not used as a strategy (It was used once before, though not because of an illegal means of transportation). I find myself wondering what would’ve happened had they not done that (though with the heavy and creative editing this show uses, you can’t be sure how long they were out begging for money). The passport thing probably would’ve done them in instantly once the next leg started, though, cuz they’d probably be spending several hours at the embassy to get new passports and visas (especially when you realize that they’d not only have to get Russian visas, but visas for any other country that may still be on the race). Unfortunately, this team was definitely my favorite amongst the ones that were left, and I can’t really whip up much enthusiasm for the other three teams. Nick and Starr are too smug for my taste (though not nearly as smug as Rob-from-Survivor…both times he ran the race), Ken and Tina are okay but I’m still not crazy about them, and Dan and Andrew have to go down in history as the most inept team ever to make the final three. To their credit, though, they realize this. And as much as other fans are complaining that Dallas’s mistake “gave” the Frat Boys a spot by default, I should point out that they actually finished the leg second, so all other things being equal, it would’ve been Ken and Tina who would’ve come in last (though their mistake is what allowed the Frats to finish in second anyways). One more thing: For most of this season, Starr has struck me as a fairly intelligent girl, if somewhat high-strung. But in last night’s episode, she had a total brain fart. First, there was a clue telling them to go to a certain park and find a woman with a Shetland pony. For some reason, Starr wasn’t sure whether this meant that the woman was with a pony or whether the woman had a ponytail. Later, she kept referring to the Cyrillic alphabet as the “acrylic alphabet.”
A couple of strange things have happened this morning. When I got to the elevator to go up to the third floor, there were three girls standing in front of it talking to one another, but the elevator button was not lit. I eventually decided that their placement in front of the elevator was coincidental and pushed the button myself. When the elevator arrived, though, the girls got on with me and proceeded to go to the second floor. Why did they never push the button? Also, when I got to the computer lab, another girl arrived at the same time as me. I scanned my ID card to unlock the door (since I was closer to it), but as I went to open the door, she pushed it open and proceeded to just look inside. Her arm was blocking my path, and apparently either didn’t hear me or didn’t understand me when I tried to excuse myself. I finally ended up just ducking underneath her arm, much to her surprise.
