‘Tis the season to be…sick? So this week has pretty much sucked. Beginning Friday night with Marley, and then Adam and I yesterday, and now Rusti today, all four of us have been horribly sick in the past five days. It’s ridiculous, but the good thing about it is that it only seems to be lasting about 12 hours or so. But it really knocks you down in that 12 hours. I literally couldn’t do anything yesterday except sit on the couch and make trips to the bathroom if I felt my stomach acting up. Adam alternated basically laying on the couch and puking in a trash can and puking in the toilet. Altogether he threw up like 15 times, though when he was asked about it, he said, “I threw up twenty-eight times!” And since Rusti was at work yesterday while we were sick, my mother-in-law pretty much saved the day and took care of us and Marley even though she herself needed to sleep because she had to work last night. We both get to feeling better and then Rusti starts feeling it. So it’s been a little crappy around here. No pun intended. But I’m feeling much better now except for I seem to have a catch in my throat like I’m getting a cold or something, but I can live with that.
On a better note, I found out that a local music blog/production company is hiring for a couple of positions that I am interested in. So I sent them an email, and hopefully I’ll hear back from them soon, because that would be awesome! Since I’ll have all online classes next semester, my schedule will be much more open than previous semesters, and it would be great to bring in some money doing something I actually like.
Either that, or I could just go on this new show, “The Million Dollar Money Drop.” Have you guys seen this show yet? It has to be way more intense live, because these questions just seem easy as hell. And these people are losing a lot of money on stuff that I wouldn’t even second guess myself on. So far there’s been three couples, and only the third couple left with any money, and it was only $80,000. The first one was the best though because playing along at home, Rusti and I made it to the final question with $900,000. And the final question asked “According to TIME, who did people say was the most trusted newscaster in America in 2009: Brian Williams or Jon Stewart?” I almost jumped out of my seat and cheered like I had just won the $900,000 and said, “It’s Jon Stewart! It’s Jon Stewart!” Rusti asked if I was sure, and I assured her I was. After much deliberation by the contestants in which they noted that Brian Williams was on NBC Nightly News and Jon Stewart was on Comedy Central (both are correct of course), THEY PICKED BRIAN WILLIAMS! Oh, I felt so bad for them. They had just lost $800,000 on one question only two questions before that (on a question I got right!), and then they lost their final 80 grand on a question that, to me, was extremely easy. The second couple only made it to the sixth question, I think, before losing all their money. It’s a fun show, and it has good play-at-home ability which is basically the most important element to a successful game show. It’s on FOX every night this week, through Thursday at least, and the first few episodes are already on Hulu.
