apprentice, week something or another, and other such fun

what have i been waiting for since this season of apprentice began? yup -- markus *finally* got fired.

it's funny -- randall is my favorite person on the whole show, i respect marshawn a lot too... and i don't always agree with rebecca but i think she's strong too. adam i can go either way and everyone else gets on my nerves. and the 3 people i really like were 3/4 of the winning team this week. i can't really stand felisha or alla, and markus has always struck me as lazy, annoying, and never quite on task. it was humorous that what got him fired is that he can't answer a question straight and i thought that took a lot of balls for him to respond to "markus, you're fired... good luck" with "i'd accept that if i thought you meant it, but i don't believe you really mean good luck". his rambling essay in the cab at the end was sooo typical of what they've shown on screen all season -- he thinks that he's all profound and stuff, but really the man can't say a coherent sentence... he just jams words together that have no meaning as someone else said on last night's episode.

that says not much at all about the task so far -- which was to teach a learning annex workshop and whoever got the best reviews wins. randall proved that a safer topic done well is tons better than an eye-catching topic done poorly. just a catchy name doesn't win the prize. :) i was sad when rebecca and brian beat their heads into the wall and had no faith in randall's idea, but they stayed on task, and their team really did do fantastic. i still can't believe rebecca's pushing through this whole season on crutches -- that has to take a ton of work too. i have a hard enough time getting through a day in a math department with a limp, much less doing all the stuff they do on the show on actual crutches... oi.

random tangent: eric makes fun of me for watching apprentice every week, but he will actually probably watch with me next week since it's a star wars related task and i think george lucas is supposed to be in part of the episode too from what i've seen online -- that'll be entertaining. :P

moving on,...
in other news, my knee is better today than yesterday but still a bit annoying.

my car is in the shop today instead of tomorrow, so i'm eric's shadow for the day -- stuck on campus til he gets out of class at 1:20 then hanging with him until my car is ready -- since paying for today's stuff in entirety would put my good credit card over the limit, i'm getting a good year credit card with a few months payments same as cash (i.e. no interest), plus my mom, feeling bad for the fact that my car has cost me more in a week than i make in a month, is donating $500 to the fix lara's car fund (we still have a joint checking account we both have quick access to, which comes in handy at times like this!)

so today is alright -- i'll be happier when i'm done spending mega bucks and when i have a completely functional knee again though.

but major yay that markus is finally gone!

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