Random Tuesday Thoughts

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Back to our regularly scheduled randomness (which is an oxymoron, or maybe I’m the moron). You decide after reading this post.

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I love “the Situation.” Okay, not really, but I hate to admit that I’ve sunk to a new TV low (clearly I don’t really hate to admit it or I wouldn’t). “Jersey Shore” is an MTV reality show about a bunch of North Jersey guidos (and guidettes)—their words not mine—who get a summer share at the Shore for the summer. These kids try to keep it klassy at clubs named Headliners and Karma (you KNOW those places reek of Polo and Obsession for Men with a touch of tanning oil thrown in for good measure), but end up getting drunk, making out with each other or random people on the dance floor and going home to chill in the hot tub. It’s trashy and craptacular in the best way possible with people nicknamed “the Situation” (as in what do you think of “The Situation”? while pointing to his abs), Snookie and Jenni “JWOWW,” who say things like “I feel like this is beneath me. I’m a bartender. I do great things.”

Sorry, Bill, I’m setting the DVR.

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I’m sick. Not in the way the above item would have you think, but in the sniffling, sneezing, wanna curl up into a ball and die kind of way. It started on Friday and hit me full force on Saturday. I spend most of Sunday moving my achy bones from the bed to the couch and back.

This happens every Christmas—in fact, I think it started in college. I never know when exactly it’s going to hit me but I can guarantee it will. I haven’t Christmas shopped with an un-congested head in years. It makes what’s already difficult a Herculean effort. Needless to say, I’m way behind on my buying, wrapping, shipping and if you were expecting me to mail out holiday cards? Forget it. (I know—I suck.)

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I realize I lose a lot of credibility with the second paragraph of this post, but you have to go see Up In The Air if for no other reason than George Clooney is in it. It’s funny, it’s sharp, well written, and yes, George Clooney is in it. (Did I mention that already? Oh well, it bears repeating.) The fantastic Jason Bateman co-stars along with Vera Farmiga (remember her from The Departed?).

I don’t talk in specifics about my job but I work for a boutique ad agency that does marketing for motion pictures. Up In The Air is one of the movies we’re promoting this year, and it’s so awesome that it got six Golden Globe Nomination this morning! At 5:30 this morning. Which is why I came in at 6:00. So please, don’t let my early morning be for naught. Go see it. I promise, you’ll totally love it.

PS: If you’ve seen it, tell me what you thought.

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