Oooh, I have been so busy - loads of marking - and I was going to blog last night but then I watched "The Apprentice" instead and it was so good. (Does everyone know what this is? - a reality programme in which ambitious youngish people take part in business tasks - or sort of businessish tasks - to win a job with an entrepreneur.) How I would hate to take part in this programme! What huge egos the people have and how amazing it is that they volunteer to take part in it, knowing (surely) that they're going to make fools of themselves. Daughter 2 and I take guilty pleasure in watching them.And then I was going to blog tonight but Daughter 2 was here and she found on Iplayer (or something) the follow-up show to horrid Melissa's "firing" and I had to watch that. Kind of predictably, horrid Melissa then seemed quite nice, which goes to prove the power of editing and the stress engendered by the programme which made her seem quite so ghastly.
I have long ago decided that I'm not a team player. I can work in a team all right but frankly I prefer just getting on and doing it my way. The very thought of trying to complete a group task with all those pushy, shouty people. Ahh...ggg...hhh.
Melissa invented some fine words, though. "Comfortability" was one. "Manoeuvrement" was another. Oh, the joy. I'll miss her in the show for this alone.
But now it's five to one in the morning. Mr Life and Daughter 2 will be up at six-thirty to go to Wales so that Mr Life can admire trains, so I'd better stop this and go and leap into the bath with Melvyn Bragg. Or at least with a novel by him. What a pity one needs to sleep on occasion. I do think it's a waste of time.
I bet Melvyn Bragg would be very excited at this prospect. I hope he is a person worthy of such an honour!
ReplyDeleteOh I feel absolutely the same way - I can work in a team if required, but much prefer to do things on my own. Not very helpful at uni, where you're constantly paired with other students for presentations and the like.
ReplyDeleteMy oh my I'm glad I'm not the only one who prefers to work alone...and Melissa was so very very rude! but then they are all a bit...eeeughh....and yet I'm addicted to watching!
ReplyDeleteI watched that too and I promise I was thinking of you every time Melissa mangled the English language - priceless suff. Had to admire her professionality.
ReplyDeleteI do not know the tv prog. but getting into a bath with Lord Bragg, sounds good. I do believe that when I lived in the UK, he was known as the thinking woman's 'crumpet'!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, professionality! I'd forgotten that one. He he.
ReplyDeleteI used to watch this programme with a somewhat appalled fascination, triggered by the immense egos of most contestants and especially that of the prospective employer, who has certainly never heard of charm school or any of the classical virtues.
ReplyDeleteIn Spain, our tour leader managed to get a UK paper which reviewed the new series, but I suppose it will be a while before it travels to our airwaves.
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