Getting lost and my first gray hair.

Well hello there,

"I know I've got a power... I can feel it in my balls."

Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been meaning to be prompt with my news, but I stumbled upon a wonderful distraction in the form of this show. Misfits, a British comedy original. As my apparent fondness for the Brits and their humor grows, I have not been able to stop watching this show upon its discover... two nights ago. So instead of spending my little free time I have now sharing my life with the world in the form of this blog, I've just been watching TV. Thank goodness that British television has about half the number of episodes in one series in comparison to American shows, otherwise, I don't see how I could possibly get any work done.

Anyway, the show is a sci-fy, fantasy comedy with the usual brilliant British screen play, and I'm more hooked than a bait worm. Since I have already professed my love for British television, I won't bored everyone with more of this love sick shit. I would just like to recommend the show for anyone who's down for some wicked humor and semi Wolverine style super heroes. Find it on Youtube or watch-series or wait for it to come out weekly on Hulu, you won't regret it. (Unless dark, offensive, politically incorrect humor isn't your thing... then maybe you shouldn't even be reading this blog.)

Now, onto the real reason why you are here.

another week is here, and Great Britain.

I got offered a job position at a school, but it doesn't start until this upcoming Fall. Crap. I need something NOW.

Oh, and I didn't end up getting/winning the Kindle on eBay. People got really 'aggressive' later and it was bought for almost 190 bucks. I guess it's a good deal since it comes with the cover, but eh, I didn't think it was worth it.

I have to head down to San Diego again this up coming week to really get the last of my Medical demands together and hopefully send them in. The good thing is at least I am in direct contact with a Medical Nurse and she's (not so promptly) answering all my questions. Every time I hear from her, my hope to leave is revived, and I'm excited about PC again. I am also happy to have any excuse to head for SD. Granted that I was kind of in a sad rut my last few months there, I still like it more than LA. Just being there lifts my mood up.

I'm trying to be as optimistic as I can about this whole situation. I don't really like being at my parents very much. I have tried to avoid this scenario for a really long time, and it really is by a miscalculation that I am here. I will risk sounding dramatic and say I'm hanging on by a thread. It all narrows down to the fact that I'm too liberal and they're not down for it. Surprise? Maybe only with my brother. He likes Texas, I didn't see that coming.

fabulous casting job, everyone

Been spending my time rewatching Coupling the UK version. If Friends is like watermelon, then Coupling is like mochi green tea ice cream for me, slightly foreign but just as refreshing, delicious and always leave me wanting more. Steve Moffat (same writer for the Office) is simply brilliant. I love British comedies for the subtle, slightly dark but always true nature of their humor. This show is seriously slap of the knee laugh out loud oh man it's so true kind of way. It was adapted to a US version but the casting sucked and was canceled only after 4 episodes. I had to see for myself how bad the US version was, and man, it's like UK version is yummy GummyVites and the US version is the shitty chalky hard Flinstone ones that I used to have to endure when I was a kid. It's all the same jokes, and maybe it's the British accents, I don't know, but the UK casts are seriously fan-tabulous. The sad thing is thing is that there are only 4 seasons and British television has shorter episodes than US, so there would be only 6-7 episodes per season. Even though I know it's never going to happen, but somewhere in my heart, I am hoping for a reunion show.

Another down side is that watching the show makes me really miss England.

Also British, I just downloaded and now listening to Adele's albums. Brilliant.

i read book(s)

I stumbled upon this book by accident. And by accident I mean typing in "audio books" in torrentz.com and going through the search results.

I have never really "read" and audio book before, but I wanted to try out my new mp3 player, and wanted to compensate reading for the fact that I bought something while not having a job. And also because I like Tina Fey. If her book is anything like Liz Lemon, I'm down to read/listen to it. It is a bonus that the reader of the book is Tina Fey herself. It's like she's telling you the story!

The beginning was kind of slow, somewhere in the early chapters, I went into REM lying on my couch. For what it's worth, I usually just fall straight asleep when I listen to podcasts of lectures back in my college days so Tina, don't be upset, you weren't boring, it was me, not you.

Unlike Chelsea Handler's A You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea? Fey's book is more subtle in term of comedic punch line, but just the funniness is still just as powerful. Which make me look like a real idiot, or a weirdo, laughing out loud while standing by myself in front of various public locations, i.e: library, The World's Market, Ross...

Though right now, Fey is working her dream job and enjoying a big fat pay check for that job and the days of post-grad struggle are way behind her and I am none of the above. Her problems, and consequentially, her book's selling points are still so relative. I don't know how she is in real life, but her humbleness in this book really appeals to me. It also helps that Fey might be one of those people who just make you laugh when they spit profanity.

More over, I like that Fey wasn't just talking about how she struggled in the early years and now appreciating her success, but also talk about how tough it is for a woman to be funny and for people to appreciate it (yes, a form of female empowerment, how feminist of me, I know).

Though they pretty much do the same thing, which is cracking jokes and make people laugh, I don't feel like female comedians get the same credits as male comedians. And when they do, it's because they have balls (Chelsea Handler) and their accomplishment would be noticed as something huge... for women (Bridemaids --a comedy for women, written by women). Putting these disclaimers is a form of gender discrimination.
Of course there are things that are made for gender specific, such as pads and tampons for women (because men obviously don't need them) but other than that, everything else should be equal, especially when it comes to being funny. Who cares if a movie, joke or a play was written by a man or a woman, shouldn't people just enjoy it all the same? And if someone is good at something, such as a great yo mama joke, shouldn't it be because that person is hilarious, not because he's a man. Women can talk shit too. We can also be real dirty too.
This issue has bothered me for a while and Fey discussed this in her book, which I really appreciate.

Overall, this is a good/funny read, and listening/reading this book has really gotten my reading mojo going, so I'm trying to bid for a Kindle and start my reading marathon soon. Can't wait!