Clarification: If Jon Stewart didn't have anything to promote (I know the book already came out, but a ton of media promotion goes on after the movie/book/show/album has come out), and went on Crossfire, and bitched them out, then I wouldn't have cared a whit. But he's garnered a lot of media attention since his appearance, and at the end of much of it a reporter will add, "And America: The Book is in stores now." I would just hate to think that any of what he said was designed for publicity purposes. Does that make sense? Because I heart Jon Stewart, and trust me, I am not a fan of Crossfire, so it honestly has nothing to do with the actual topics raised.

Advise: If you have your hair pulled back and secured with some device, like a butterfly clip, don't absently stick a paper clip into your hair and wiggle it around, as OMG IT WILL GET STUCK.

Okay, so. I debated about posting this, because I know that everyone else disagrees and will probably rag on me, but I decided that damn it, it's my journal, and I will post what I want. I love Jon Stewart. I love the Daily Show. I think Stewart is smart and funny and cute as a button. But I was totally disappointed with his appearance on Crossfire. It really doesn't have anything to do with politics, or even the specifics of what he was upset about. I just think there are certain rules and conventions that go along with the whole guesting on talk shows to promote yourself and your product which will soon be up for sale, and one of them is not using that talk show as a public forum to voice your issues or to screw with the people hosting the show. Stewart, as a talk show host who has guests on to promote their own projects, should know this. If he has such a problem with Crossfire, then don't use that forum to promote your project. If they're so horrible, and such a waste of air time, then don't use the show and those people to your own advantage. I don't think you can have it both ways.

Anyways. I would feel the same way if someone came on a talk show that I hated, and ragged them over the coals for all the legitmately crap things they do, and then said, "And buy my book." It's just...wrong. I don't know.

It's autumn! Trees are turning colors! The air is crisp and has scent in manner of burning wood and leaves! I haven't experienced this since 1999. Terribly exciting, everyone.

So I'm doing my fifth day substituting for the computer teacher today (we didn't have school Friday). They finally told me last night that her sister just died of a brain aneurism. So that sucks. I guess she's supposed to be back tomorrow, though. Speaking of the subbing, I don't want to do too many cutesy kid anecdotes, because I don't want my blog to turn twee, but I had a kindergartener last week who started crying in the middle of class. I went over and asked her what was wrong, and she told me that she missed her mommy. I asked her what she wanted to do, so we ended up coloring. I wonder if she misses her mom so much every day?
I'm sleepy. I can't believe I got up this early for twelve years.

Dudes. Locke on Lost is totally my new favorite character on TV. Wednesday's episode was awesome. I cried at the end. Of course, I cry at the end of most things, so that's not really all that shocking, but still. I'm glad this show has been able, so far, knock on wood, to keep up to the standard it set with the pilot.

Okay, so. It's been awhile. I went through another of those huge apathetic "I don't care about the hassle involved in getting online, so feh" times. Then Laura was all, you never update! So behold. Unfortunately, there's a reason why I don't update, and that's because all I have to talk about is TV.

Well, that's not entirely true. I just started substituting. I guess our district was desperate for subs, because I became eligible on Friday and have subbed every day since including today, in which I am subbing for an elementary computer class. My God, are kindergarteners annoying. Anyways, it's ridiculously easy money, as I don't do much other than make kids do worksheets and sit quietly, and make sure they don't start hitting each other. Also, I'm going to direct the middle school play in the spring, and do a theater workshop there this fall, so that's a nice $1700 paycheck for working with kids on something I love anyways. Job stuff finally worked out. Now I just need to start applying to graduate schools and finish my goddamn script.

Lost: I didn't think I would enjoy this show as much as I am, as I'm not all that big a J.J. Abrams fan. But there are enough characters I already care about (read: everyone but stupid Matthew Fox, the curiously unemoting Evangeline Lilly (Kate), and that blond girl who has my name), so that I'm interested in what's going to happen. I especially like Charlie, of course, big surprise, but also the big pregnant girl, Hurley, Sayid, and the cranky gun shooting man. Not so much into the Ian Somerholder. I know everyone thinks he's cute as can be, but he's not doing much for me. Dudes, though. Am I the only person that totally didn't recognize Terry O'Quinn (the guy with the orange, who made the whistle)? He shaved off his wee little mustache! I was watching this last week, and he spoke more, and I recognized his voice, and then totally had an apostrophe. I didn't know that little facial hair made that much difference.

I tried to watch Desperate Housewives, and made it through ten minutes. Bah. I just don't like those kinds of dramas. I don't get what the big fuss is about.

CSI: NY is pretty good, although CSI is CSI. I mostly just watch it for Gary Sinise, who is yum, although I am surprised at the fact that I don't really mind Kanakerides, whom I actively hated as a result of her work on Providence, a show I didn't even watch.

I couldn't care less about Survivor this time around. They really need to change the show's format, or do something different, because it's becoming like Mad Libs. "Then [insert tribe member here] promised [tribe member] that he wouldn't vote against him, but then [tribe member] brought up the fact that strong people should be eliminated before individual immunity comes up for grabs, so [tribe member] broke his word. [Tribe member] ranted about ethics and friendship and having integrity." Blah.

Re: movies. Dude. DUDE. Shaun of the Dead is hilarious. Laura and I went to go see it a few weeks ago, and just giggled throughout the whole thing. I totally and unequivocally recommend it.

I bought Eternal Sunshine, and it's just a great, great movie. I love everything about it. I'm pretty sure everyone who reads this has seen it, but if you haven't, DO IT. DO IT.

The Amazing Race! Arrested Development! Arrested Development! The Amazing Race! Yay! Happiness!

but, fcuk u all pachino. bah.

Anyways, Emmys was pretty good, although I was disappointed The Sopranos won. Fashion wasn’t all that interesting, nothing really stand-out gorgeous or hideous that I saw. I was reminded how much I love William Shatner. Hee. I do have to say, though, I was interested this morning to hear on the news how Arrested Development was the second lowest-rated show to win the Best Sitcom Emmy. The lowest rated? Sex and the City. However, the reporter was quick to point out that since it’s on HBO and not on a broadcast network, it doesn’t really count.
Excuse me? More people watch Arrested Development than Sex and the City? They have gone on and on about how AD is so low-rated, and how Sex and the City is just such a cultural watermark (Or is that phrase cultural landmark? I have no idea.), and taps into the psyche of today’s urban woman, blah blah biddy blah, so amazing the show is, yes. And yet more people know who Steve Holt is than know who Big is! (I don’t know who Big is.) Anyways, I completely boggled at the TV, because I didn’t know that Sex and the City had so few people, relatively speaking, watching it, and here the entertainment media was trying to make me feel like an out-of-touch loser all these years for not watching it. Ha.

So, I’m applying to be a substitute teacher in my school district here. Seems like an okay job. I had to go downtown to the health center to get a tuberculosis skin test, though. You’d think it would be enough to just say, yep, don’t have the TB, no blood in my lungs, yea verily. But no. I also have to get my transcripts sent in, and get fingerprinted for a background check. You’d think that we’d recently had a sex offender at our school or something.