After reading the TWoP summary of last week's "Top Chef" ...

... this quote from Keckler perfectly sums up what bothers me so much about Howie.

The thing with Howie is, he isn't a team player. Yes, I know that's been covered, but beyond that, he is someone who sees a problem and doesn't bother to fix it. He keeps his head down and attempts to protect his own ass, maybe grumbling passive-aggressively about the problem but doing absolutely nothing to fix it for the good of the team. He gives the originator of the problem enough rope to hang themselves and only steps in at Judges' Table to be vocal. That's the ONLY time we see Howie as a communicator: when it's time to sell someone else out to make sure he's protected.

That's what bothers me most about him, I think. It's one thing that he just isn't a team player. Lots of people aren't team players, but at least they TRY.

I think I've just lost a lot of tolerance for lack-of-communication issues in the last few years. Having an adult conversation regarding a problem is not that damn difficult. And the great part is that I get to deal with it at work every week lately. Did I mention that the guy that's been working with Operator Asshat and I continually gets bitched about to me by her rather than talked to in person with her? And that at our last group meeting she actually called him out by name for being slow and bad at his job in a roomful of the entire department? Both of my bosses said the look on my face right then was freakin' priceless.

I just can't do the passive-aggressive thing anymore, not even with dumbass reality-show contestants. At least in real life I can force a confrontation before everything goes completely downhill. I can't do that with a TV show contestant, and it makes me want to grind my teeth together or something.

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In sillier news, those plot baggies or whatever the hell you want to call them look like an index card tree or something on my living room door. It's kind of weird, that being the first thing I see when I wake up. Heh. :)

Random stuff

-- A description of Christian boot camp. I think I'm going to throw up. And hate people a little more than normal today.

-- Project Runway marathon of the first season today. Woohoo!

-- I have maple walnut ice cream and ice cream cones. Clearly I win at something.

-- I've spent the last two days writing down scenes and dropping them in those silly baggies. And continuing to feel like a ginormous dork because of it. But hey, whatever works.

-- Today's the first day I'm supposed to go back to work, and instead I think I'll go to sleep at six and not wake up until ... you know, whenever. Heh.

-- Someone keep me away from my Amazon wishlist and adding stuff to it that's so expensive I can neither afford it nor would want anyone to spend that much on me who wasn't directly involved in my conception and birth. (On the other hand, it IS a wishlist, hence my overwhelming urge to have some ridiculously expensive computer on there at all times.) EDIT: Oh, holy crap, I found a pink laptop. It's like a Barbie laptop! *flails* If one of you wins the Powerball tonight, you'll buy it for me, yes? Complete with a bag of sparkly gel pens and hair clips? And maybe a pony?

Boosting this from Penknife ...

... because let's face it. It being summer, the fannishness has fallen by the wayside, and I hate that.

So, I want to talk about fannish things in this space again. Badly.

Comment here with a fannish topic or question, and I will talk about it. You know my fandoms -- Supernatural, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, The Office, Project Runway, Top Chef, America's Got Talent (yes, I KNOW), Heroes, Dexter, X-Men movieverse and anything else you know I've written fic for.

Anything. I will talk about anything as long as it is fannish and not about this LJ mess. (And if you say "chan," I will thwap you.)

"You realize if we played by the rules right now, we'd be in gym?"

And if I played by the rules right now, I'd be at work eating pizza. But who cares? Why would I want to be at work eating pizza when I can be at home in my PJs watching Project Runway and plotting twenty-six different novels at once?

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It does mean that I don't get to rip Operator Asshat a new one until next week, but whatever. It can wait.

One of the few things I managed to do today (aside from go into the kitchen, take one look into the sink, and remember just why I might want to wash my dishes) was go to the library and reinstate my library card. I plan to make use of it tomorrow, although I apparently owe two bucks in late fees from the last time I had it in, like, 2001. Oh, two whole dollars!

And yes, I had a mental image of the librarian chasing me out of the library yelling, "I want my two dollars!" It seemed fair, given the price.

A quick comment on tonight's "America's Got Talent"

You know, I was hoping during the first act that the bits that were off were just an audio error, and now that I've heard the second act ... yeah, I'm definitely starting to think somebody in the audio department is fucking something up.

The "America's Got Talent" final performances

So, my opinions of the performances of the final four.

( No more show after next week? *whimpers* )