I know I suck. I suck big time. You aren't the only one thinking this...it seems to be a common theme. I've been focusing all my attention on finding a job. I am either looking for jobs or feeling depressed about not finding a job. I go back and forth...oh and I've also taken some time to get drunk at the Zombie Hut..my favorite bar in Brooklyn. You might not resemble the walking dead going in there, but you bet your ass you will when you leave....mmm, frozen zombies. My dream is to get my fun-lovin sisters to visit me and then the three of us will hit the ole hut and get our drink on. Fun stuff.

I have breaking news on the blog front. Very very soon I will be starting a brand new site dedicated to all my favorite things, TV, Music, Pop Culture...and Myself! Whoot!
I have been asked to join Ryan BRE's Media Web Empire and he's set me up with here it is....
www.kristaoverbybestfriend.com

Feel free to visit now, however there is only a heading and banner right now. I will announce when the first content is up. Hopefully it will be very soon. I just have to get my act together. Oh but I have ideas...oh yes, I have ideas.

Love and Couch Potato wishes, (I haven't left my house and air conditioning since the heat advisory. I don't do "hot")
Krista

Am I the only one digging this So You Think You Can Dance bus-nass? I'm eating this shit up!
I love it. I love the choreography, especially everything Mia Michaels touches. P.S. is she pregnant? I hope so, cause if not she's going downhill since the beginning of the show. She's got to have one in the oven.

I could use a lot less of Mary Murphy and her toothy grin and thin-lipped guffaws. God she irritates me. If I had a crossbow I would crossbow her right in the forehead. It would look something like this...

Mary used to be my least favorite judge until I got a glimpse of Brian Friedman and his array of large Barbie dream necklaces. Who told him it was okay to wear this...(in trying to find a photo of the monstrosity he calls an accessory I found many descriptions of the offending neckware. Here are a few of my favorites:

"Looked like something out of Harry Potter" tvgasm
"Pimpy jewel necklace" starbright 31
"Biggest Alexis Carrington necklace of all time" sothahappened

So, I can't find a picture so I'll have to make do with what I could find. A God-awful picture of him from last season with straightened girl hair. For those of you who didn't see the real thing, I tried to recreate it using the ever useful MS Paint. My version is actually more tasteful than the original.

I also have a feeling that Mormon swing kid Benji is totally in love with his old partner Danielle. He's gotta be, right? You know he's bought her a ring and everything. His parents are probably freaking out about his non-white, non-Mormon, Marilyn pierced, dancing queen. I wonder what they would prefer - him actually realizing he's gay or him getting nasty with Danielle? Hmmm.

I feel that Natalie is a star in the making. We need us a new J Lo, I know Natalie is Greek, but she must have a bit of Latina in her somewhere. She has total star quality. I was gunning for her, but I don't know Allison is so good too and Heidi and her little scrunchy face is great too. It's so hard!

I also love Ivan. I love Ivan and his little short pants and white tube knee sicks. He totally had me at contemporary dance. Who would have thought he could look so manly?

God, I'm totally geeking out over this tv show. I should stop...but not before talking about how great the opening dance segmant was...that song was totally catchy, who has ever heard of Roisin Murphy before? Ramalama me want to dance just like them!

TV Geek Out.

As some of you know I've been temping as of late. Temping my little heart out all over New York City's financial center. Although, on Monday, having had enough of investment bankers and their incessant talk of all things money related I'm switching temp agencies and heading to more creative pastures...hopefully.

In light of my temping and wanting to try to make my days go by just a little bit faster I've decided to start a temping rating system. Rating a number of things from snacks, chair comfortableness, and staff temperament. And since my mind is still in the world of rating things, I'll use the following scale:

1 = Hellish
3 = Are they serious with this shit?
5 = Fine, if you have no expectations
7 = Niiiice
10 = Are there any job openings?

Starting from my last temp assignment first.

I'll call this place, Bennigans, Jokey, Bernard, and Vulkan.

• Snacks and Drinks: 5 - they had a small refrigerator with some assorted soda and one of those coffee drink station things that produce one cup of bland coffee at a time and no snacks to speak of. Not even a bag of pretzels.
• Chair: 4 - It was junky and too low to the ground, my back is still sore
• Other Admins: 1 - These jokers didn't explain anything to me, including how to transfer the phone system or the names of who I was working for, yet expected me to know everything they knew, including what the bosses sounded like from far away and where their offices were located.
• Boss Man: 1 - This guy was a total asshole. He yelled at me after I told his wife he was out of the office. Um, HE WAS OUT OF THE OFFICE, affair anyone?
• Air Temperature: 7 - Fine, no sweating in my jackets
• Location: 7 - I did have to walk 3 avenues over from the subway to the office, but the blocks weren't crowded
• Extras: 8 - This was a nice bonus, there was a mobile post office van outside of the office building in case you need to mail something or pick up some stamps...very nice. There was a Subway sandwich shop across the street, run by some very quick Indian dudes. Fast and a lot cheaper than most Manhattan lunch places.

Temp Friendly Average - 4.7 This place really did suck

Next place, I'll call it - Bushlyle Gang

• Snacks and Drinks: 9 - the bulk of the points come from the fact that they bring in Dunkin Donuts coffee every morning! They offered sodas, vitamin water, and plenty of snacks, although not many healthy alternatives in the snack arena.
• Chair: 10 - great chairs, high backs, fully adjustable and brand new
• Other Admins: 10 - super nice, helpful, funny, and all watched reality tv and liked to discus who deserved to win American Idol
• Boss Man: 6 - I worked here twice, for two different guys. The first was interesting and nice the second barely noticed my existence and wouldn't make eye-contact when speaking to me. Bizarro.
• Air Temperature: 7 Fine - did not sweat in my suit jacket
• Location: 7 - Very close to the subway, entrance to building only across the street, although I did have to change trains once
• Extras: 8 - They set me up with a temporary security badge, which was really nice since I didn't have to check in with building security every morning

Temp Friendly Average - 8.1

So, yeah I know I haven't posted here in awhile. But I have posted other places. And I still don't have much to say, but I did want to share something I found the other day. Josh and I were hanging out and needless to say we spent a lot of time with this...it's a database of celebrity and famous faces where you can upload your face and it matches you with the closest famous face.

Here are the fruits of our labor.


Josh is matched with everyone's favorite Bee Gee Robin Gibb.












And look, your truly is matched with...Kris Kristofferson...great.
Isn't it every little girl's dream to look like some old haggard dude? Side note on this picture, Josh and I were having a competition on who could look more disgusted...I think I won, right?





















Jay and Scott both were matched with interesting men...Scott was matched with philosopher and author Camus and Jay with Edward Teller a nuclear physicist and man behind the Manhattan Project. Somehow both of these visual matches are matches intellectually as well because Scott is an absurdist and Jay likes building bombs...just kidding.









Of course, all of these matches could be thrown out of the window because when I put Betty into the database she was matched up with none other than Selma Hayek. Can you see the resemblance? I should have never shown this match to Betty though because now all she wears are low cut shirts and sombreros which are supposeldly to celebrate her new Mexican heritage.





When I tried the matching again however Betty was matched up with Morihei Ueshiba, the father of Aikido, and a man who is credited for being able to pin an opponent with a single finger. I'm not going to show this one to Betty...I don't want her getting any ideas.

Deep Thoughts
by Krista O

Sometimes I think that all animals are imparted with the secrets of life, but because of this God decided not to give them the gift of human communication. But if they could talk...wow, it would be cool.

Hi ye bastards! Welcome to ye olde country blogge. Tis me, Krista! Of the Virginia Krista's. Waz up? Why are you here? What are you looking to find? Entertainment? Porn? (Or are they one in the same?) Gossip? Information? Funny Pictures? Well, you get none of that tonight. Tonight you will get stream of consciousness. A stream coming from a sofa in Brooklyn at 1 am on Sunday morning. My new kitten is sleeping on the floor next to me. The tv is on, but I'm not watching it. I should be cleaning my apartment. My new roommate Kedar is moving in tomorrow. I just can't get motivated.

Things have been changing lately. As some of you might know, I am now a SuperTemp (TM). I've been temping all over the city. Part of me loves it. I work all over the place. I don't have to deal with stupid people shit, no one really cares what I do, and I can surf the web all day. However, it has its down sides. Those being, I have to surf the web all day and no one really cares what I do. It's boring as hell some days. But so far I've been lucky and have been placed at some cool places. My last assignment was at Rockefeller Center. You know what is cool about that? From 9 to 10 AM all you hear is the roar of the crowd cheering for the Today Show people. And you know what I heard the people cheering for last Thursday? Taylor Hicks. I heard him play his stupid harmonica and the people loved it. Loved it. However funny it is hearing all that from the desk of a temp, how annoying must it be for everyone who has to listen to that every freakin day? People were trying to have meetings and every few minutes the meeting is interrupted by screaming and a southern guy yelling, "soul patrol!" The company I worked for before that was cool because their fridge was stocked with Vitamin Water and they had free snacks.

I don't know where I'll be placed next week, but here is to hoping they have free lunches. Boy do I love me some Hedge Funds. I have no idea what they do, but I do know they have some great perks.

Hello to all of you competitive eating lovers out there. Liz and my latest post is up on Digest. I hope you like it.