apprentice, week 4

so last night, while grading all my calc exams, i had on martha stewart's apprentice show, so i have given at least one episode a chance... i didn't enjoy it as much though. i guess partly because i have a very different philosophy of home and atmosphere and things like that from martha, so i have a harder time getting into her projects. while i am interested in some of donald's projects more than others, on the whole i think they're more stuff i find intriguing to think about how to do even if i wouldn't necessarily be good at doing it.

on to this week's show. i can't believe the guys didn't protest clay's exemption. he really was a tyrant. his team was functioning really well, even when he wasn't in the room, but he ripped apart lots of their work without even really giving it a chance. nonetheless, their work paid off, and it was also hilarious to see a guy dressed up as a genie. they done good. randal is still hands down my favorite, not only on that team, but on the whole show this season. every time he's on camera, he's not griping about this, that, and the next thing. he's calm, and focused, and getting his job done. i like him.

the women are another story. last season, i was pulling for kendra the whole time, and really liked her. this season, i have yet to find someone on the womens team i consistently like. they were all so cliqueish this week too which really annoyed me. toral should have stepped up more. but really, kristi, felisha, alla, and sometimes jennifer were so nasty. jennifer the least so. when she speaks up, she does for a good reason, but she kind of associated herself with the other three. i like kristi's accent, and on the whole her attitude of "everyone needs to step up" is healthy, but she can turn on people so quick and be unjustifiably snappy. alla, i really liked at the start, but this episode she was more of a shadow to kristi and felisha's bad attitudes. felisha struck me as two-faced and fake this episode. the whole deal with forcing toral into a job that didn't really fit her was ridiculous. they just wanted something to be catty and pin on her. they would have been much more efficient to have someone play the mascot who was already at the costume designer's location. instead they go out of their way to make toral look bad. i didn't approve of the was felisha went about that at all and bullied her. toral did screw up by not being more assertive, and she was a fair choice to fire, but felisha would have been equally choice this week. i guess of the annoying people, jennifer is least annoying. rebecca, i'm still trying to figure out. she is at least consistent and thinks before she speaks so that she doesn't come across as catty and/or stupid. i haven't seen enough of marshawn. she seems fairly level-headed and as managed to stay out of alliances/cliques. i'm curious to see her come out of the woodwork a little more.

anyhow, a fair ending to a week with lots of stupid girls, and one really bossy guy, but the people i like alright are still going strong. markus wasn't even that annoying this week, so major score.

we'll see how this goes.

i give the pizza seminar tomorrow, so i should be asleep.

night y'all :P