A Lil Quickie...

Ouch! That unemployment figure was ugly. And the revision downward even moreso. What surprises me is how the economists can't figure out that we're effed...and get the estimate right. Like, duh. Now the news is gonna talk about this all day and the market will be down and it'll just suck. So much unpleasantness, and on a Friday! And it's real extra cold outside too? I need a drink and it's not even 9am yet.

Anyway on to more pleasant things. I arrived home last night after my personal trainer tried to kill me. She has a mandate to return my bum to its former glory so if that's what it takes I guess I have to deal with it. Just undoing the damage of the "good life" (=working 12 hours a day starting at 5:30am). After the attempted murder at Equinox I plopped exhaustedly on the couch and was greeted by a DVR full of goodies last night. When I'm not off gallivanting in Manhattan and around the world having adventures to write about for your entertainment, I have some of my happiest moments at home on my couch with my DVR, remote in hand. Can we have a moment of silence for the DVR? Who invented this contraption? They deserve a Nobel Prize. Although there is probably some correlation between my bum situation and my DVR fixation...hmmmm.

Last night I burned through Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, 90210 and 30 Rock all in the space of like two hours. There were so many goodies last night I could hardly stand it. 30 Rock was straight comedy with the new interns. Tina Fey is a genius, I worship her. Especially that movie Mean Girls whom I am convinced I know. I'm not going to say from where because this blog is not about a vendetta. Positive energy people, let's keep it positive! But let's just say, it wasn't high school. I'm cool with our Prom Queen to this day. :-) I'm shouting her out right now, she knows who she is and she better come see me in NYC as soon as the weather breaks! Anyway you gotta watch 30 Rock. Tracy Morgan is so funny I would have his babies even though I already know they'd be ugly because no amount of pretty is enough to make up for all he got goin' on.

On Ugly Betty...I love those b$%ches Amanda and Marc. They are so fierce! Ugly Betty is all about the fierceness. I also like they now have Lauren Velez on the show. I know a secret about her but I don't think I can write it here...but let's just say I used to have this friend who hung out with her once and came back from that trip with a story to tell! That show is just brilliant through and through but don't Betty look like her breath stink? All that metal gotta carry a lotta germs. Amanda mentioned it last night.

Then Grey's Anatomy managed not to bore me. There were no heavy handed platitudes, no grand breathless speeches last night. The actors must love getting to deliver all those monologues. Oh oops...Lexi had one. I forgot. But it wasn't too bad. It was also kinda cool to see Owen Hunt kirk out like that. Although I'm disturbed by his Cro Magnon brow...it just feels so aggressive and I would be scared if I saw that coming at me in the middle of the night. Reminds me of...

And 90210. Go Adriana putting yourself on blast like that - even though it was a bit narcissistic but whatevs. And go Rhonda too! I like that the nerd girl has something up her sleeve. Well played. I'm all about the sympathy trade...whatever it takes to get what you want girlfriend, I am not mad atcha!

Ok I gotta get back to work now...I got moved to a new spot on the trading floor and now I have three screens (from two) which is AMAZING and I LOVE it because now I just have one devoted to the Launchpad all day long, but it is higher beta too, just more opportunity to get busted doing something I ought not to be doing on the clock. I usually write these things at home but like I said, that employment number got me all depressed so thought I'd check in real real quick.

Adventures planned for this weekend so hopefully I'll have some juicy hump day goodies for ya Wednesday. And check back in on Sunday, I got a story from the vault in the queue you may like. Ta!