Some snippets today...
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Katie and I have been giving the new sitcom Miss/Guided a shot. I've always dug on Judy Greer as she usually plays the snarky best friend roles and steals a lot of the scenes she shares with others (Arrested Development, 13 Going on 30, Love Monkey, and The Hebrew Hammer, for starters). So seeing her take the lead should be interesting. Anyway, one of this week's three episodes featured Ashton Kutcher, one of the show's producers, playing a substitute Spanish teacher who (SPOILERS) is fired when they discover he doesn't have a degree like he states in his CV (the education world's version of a resume).
This got me thinking, how many times does this sort of thing happen and have any of you ever considered completely falsifying a resume and applying for a job just for kicks? What job would it have to be to make you run that risk?
Advised?
The show also got me thinking about guidance counselors/advisers as that is the role Greer plays in the show. I know in high school I went to see my guidance counselor for college and class advice on an occasional basis. But I never even found out who my adviser was in college. I swear I never even knew their name nor did I ever see them. They were supposed to help you plan your schedule and make sure you graduated on time and the like. I don't know why, but I never needed the help and apparently I must've slipped through the cracks somehow as I never received a letter or any communication from my adviser in my four undergrad years.
Belmont
I'll be perfectly honest with you, I would've been completely willing
to have my NCAA brackets completely blown if Belmont won last night
against Duke in the first round. Just to see a #2 lose to a #15
would've been beautiful. And for that #2 to be Duke? My most hated team
in the NCAA. The place from whence Christian Laettner spawned forth.
Sorry, I'm a UK fan, so I hate Duke. And, yes, I know UK lost
yesterday. But they were a #11 seed who lost to a #6 seed so it's
understandable. Damn you, Belmont!! You could've scored one of the
biggest upsets in March Madness history. And I would've even bought a
T-shirt so I could wear it in front of my brother in law.
Snakes
Cinematical scored a preview picture of Ray Park as Snake Eyes in the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. He looks pretty cool. As I said in my comment on the page, he looks just like the second costume that Snakes wore in the comics. So I was pretty cool with it, save for one thing.
I'm not sure how many of you were G.I. Joe fans, either of the toys or the original comics, but I was a fan of both. And, I'm sorry, but that red mark on his upper arm is actually supposed to be a tattoo hidden on his forearm. (SPOILER) It's a mark showing his affiliation with the clan of ninja that trained him and his "brother" Storm Shadow. And it's supposed to be used to reveal the relationship that underlies their rivalry, not an advertisement of his belonging to a clan of warriors that have long been considered extinct. Small beef to some, big beef to me.
I am still pretty excited about the movie, regardless. It's got a pretty awesome cast.
Brit
Was anyone else completely weirded out by this week's episode of South Park where Kyle and Stan try to save Britney Spears from the world? I didn't quite know what to make of it. Neither did Katie.
