  Pretty good day today. Spent most of work training one of the other associates. This basically means I got to have him take all my phone calls while I just sat back and made sure he didn’t screw up that badly. :) CitiFinancial sent me an email saying they had two jobs in Lexington that I appear to be qualified for. I of course immediately applied to both of them. Aside from that, nothing really of interest happened today.
I really need to go out; I've spent the entire week so far chained to my computer looking for jobs. I need a break! LOL So Andrea made mention of one of the many reality shows in her blog. It is my opinion that the decline and fall of western civilization can be directly linked to the number of the reality shows on the air. Seriously, I despise reality shows! They demean relationships and people's feelings on national television for fun and profit. Some shows aren't so bad, like the original Bachelor. Before there were any twists and surprises it was a guy or a girl honestly looking for someone to love and marry. Not bad. But then they started getting out of hand. Like "Temptation Island. " Let's take a group of happy couples, take them to this island, subject them to more temptation of the perfectly orchestrated and planned out kind then a normal person will ever deal with in a lifetime and watch those formally happy relationships fall apart.
All on national television. Yes!! Now that's entertainment! Or "For Love or Money. " Let's take a guy who is honestly searching for love and put him in a situation where woman are competing for his affections... only they may only be going after him to get the money at the end. So at the end this poor guy gets his heart broken by some greedy woman who got him to fall in love with her just so she could reject him and walk away with the money. Devastated people and broken hearts! Gotta love it! Is it any wonder there are so many playas out there?
Is it such a surprise that not many people take relationships seriously anymore? That people look at it like one big game? Our media, though their reality shows and music programming, teaches us that relationships aren't serious, they're just a game. And if a woman's feelings get hurt by some playa, well that's her own damn fault for not respecting the game. This is what we're taught. Call me old-fashioned, or conservative, or just plain stupid, but I cannot stand the way relationships are portrayed in popular culture. I've always believed, and always will believe, that you don't play games with people's feelings. You don't play games with relationships. They are things to be taken seriously. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, but no matter which way a relationship works out it is not a game.
We're talking about people's feelings here. So I despise the reality shows for taking relationships, turning them into games, and then promoting it as entertainment. But you know the biggest reason I hate the reality shows? They are so damn addictive!!! No matter how much I hate the premise of these shows, and deride them for their treatment of relationships, when I see one on TV I can't help but to watch.
It's like driving past a traffic accident. You know it's wrong and sick and twisted, but you just can't help but to slow down to get a good look. LOL That's pretty much all I've got for today. After the two post and comment war from yesterday, I'm all out of things to say for the moment. But that wouldn't last for long. :) So goodnight all! 
