Arggghhhhhh

We have huge deadlines for reports we have to get out the door before the holidays and here I am sitting twiddling my fucking thumbs because the writers are still tinkering, tinkering, tinkering...

Then they'll deliver at the last minute and say, "Can't you lay out this 70 page, graphically-rich report faster? I have to go to my parents' house in Woodbridge this weekend!!"

Technically, our office is open half a day next Monday. Guess what?! Of the four people in Graphics, I'm the only one who hasn't taken that as a vacation day! I swear, if I have to come in and we have a report 99.7% finished when noon hits, I'm walking.

Surviving

Brief comments on the end of Survivor 15.

Wow! Fascinating turn of events. Amanda should clearly have been the winner. Todd may be loud and outgoing and apparently the puppet-master, but he did many flips and flops while Amanda stayed focussed. She is the superior strategian. Furthermore, she won two or three individual immunities and pissed off fewer people.

So why did Todd get the votes? Amanda totally fell apart with guilt because of Denise's cheesy sob story. Strong Amanda who had everything going for her spent most of the final council in front of the jury hunched over with tears in her eyes. I wonder what triggers Denise hit inside her.

That's why she lost. She couldn't marshall her arguments, she couldn't answer the jury as well as Todd could. Period.

Very disappointing. Not the worst outcome, but sad. Frankly, if Courtney had one it would at least have been cosmically amusing.

Also, in the end, I still think women are castigated as bitches if they're strategic while men are lauded as real players.