Facebook, my saviour ...

There are a couple of things I'd like explained to me:

- Who is the mental midget that created the McDonald's coffee campaign? Do they seriously believe that adding -é to any word makes it French, and therefore more attractive? Someone thought this was a not just a good idea, but that it would make people buy McDonalds crappy coffee? Don't most 'Americans' (referring to the uneducated section of the populace this campaign is obviously aimed at) dislike the French and think they are snobs? You'd think this approach would backfire by driving the ignorant public away from McDonalds. It certainly did something for me. I am boycotting McDonald's until these commercials disappearé.

- To the geniuses who designed the current Baskin Robbins commercials: Having the words 'ice cream & cake do the ice cream and cake' screamed at me rhythmically over and over again while misshapen plastic figures topple off of cakes is not going to make me go buy an ice cream cake. In fact, all it does is make me change the channel, thereby defeating your advertising purpose. Try something slightly less annoying and maybe your customers won't go postal on you for having your idiotic commercial trapped in their brain-pan for hours at a time.

The above rants illustrate with striking clarity a problem I've found myself with lately: I have nothing to talk about. Yes, I do work on my French some, and study some, but neither give me much to talk about when someone asks me what I've been doing. How many times can you repeat 'No, I still haven't found a job, yes I'm still looking' before people get tired of asking you? Then comes the dreaded 'So what have you been doing lately?' After you say 'I've been working on my French some, and studying some', to which you get the obligatory head nod, you trail off without anything to add. No one wants to hear about the fascinating trip you took to the 99-cent store or Wal-mart. I feel like I'm living half my life on Facebook right now. That's where a good-sized portion of my human contact comes from on a day-to-day basis. Thankfully all of my 'friends' on Facebook are people I actually know, not random people I added because they know someone who knows someone who knows me. Their support and daily comments let me know I haven't fallen off the face of the planet or been forgotten. What I'll do with Facebook when or if I actually get a job, I have no idea. Right now, it's a fabulous time-sink. Here's a big Thank You to all my friends who send me 'drinks', 'smiles', 'Farmtown' stuff, and throw 'Water Balloons' at me. You guys are keeping me sane right now.