God makes His plans. Information's unavailable to the Boss Man.
This question popped up in the Games section of my child actress message board: “What's the furthest you've ever traveled from home?” For me, it's Voormezele, Belgium, the little town where George Llewelyn Davies is buried. Back in 2007, I spent a weekend there, looking for his grave. According to this website, it's 4,883 miles from where I am now.
At work today, Boss Man told me I'm “slipping.” (Boss Man is my code name for him in this journal, but I don't like using it. Bruce Springsteen he is not.) I was very tempted to say scream back at him, “Oh, yeah? Well, you work at your job, collect your pay, and think you're gliding down the highway, but in fact, you're slip-sliding away!” Haha.
I finished Mockingjay a few hours ago. Neither Sara nor I ever bought it, so our mom lent us her copy. (As an aside, when she came over to drop it off, she said, “Did you not hear me knocking?” when I opened the door. No, I didn't hear you knocking. That's why I got up and opened the door.) Somehow, I'm feeling let-down. It just wasn't as good as the first two, and I'm glad neither of us actually spent money on it. Sigh... Tonight's new NCIS episode was a disappointment, too.
Notes on 8x06 Cracked
Writer: Nicole Mirante-Matthews.
- Ugh, the opening scene. Clea's ridiculous makeup and annoying, ansty movements did not create any sympathy for her, and neither did flinging herself in front of a bus. Think about that poor bus driver!
-/+ The bullpen scene was a bit odd. I don't ship Tiva, but it does seem strange that Tony is still having flings with random women. But it was SO refreshing that Ziva didn't get jealous. (I'm still recovering from having to suffer through jealous Tony in Royals and Loyals. Ugh.) The only part that really irked me was Ziva and McGee making fun of Ethel's name. There is nothing wrong with classic, old-school names! I'd rather be named Ethel than have some tryndee name like Jordynn.
- Why was Ziva eating at her desk? It seemed really weird to me. And what was she eating -- oatmeal?
+ I laughed at Palmer's "walk on the green" comment at the crime scene. It so reminded me of his "rabbit's foot" exchange with Ducky back in Moonlighting.
+ On a purely shallow note, Ziva's peach-colored shirt and military-style jacket looked really hot together.
- And there's the "Do you have children, Agent Gibbs?" question again.
- "I'm officially a fan." No, Abby, the fact that the Clea was a mentally ill, paranoid woman who felt an obsessive need to write math equations all over her body should not make you a fan.
- "We should get Abby out here." No, Tony, you shouldn't. Abby is a forensic scientist, not a mathmetician. It was refreshing to see Abby out of the lab, but bringing her to Clea's hideout did nothing but increase her creepy fascination with her. It reminded me a lot of Tony's behavior back in Obsession, which was disturbing as all get-out.
- Ew, Abby not only went into autopsy and talked to Clea's corpse, but even stroked her hair like she was alive? I don't get it -- is this episode supposed to make us feel sorry for Abby? Because it's just making me more and more creeped-out. Her behavior is bordering on a fetish now. Someone from the team needs to sit Abby down and put a stop to this.
+ Wow, I loved Tony talking about Ethel to Ziva and Ziva giving him advice. She seemed genuinely concerned, and they were both nice and friendly with each other, not mean or jealous. SO refreshing and sweet to see! I wish they could get along like this in every episode!
- Abby ditching McGee was childish, and Gibbs blaming McGee for it was mean. Abby might be your daughter figure, but she's a grown woman, not a little girl, Gibbs! She's perfectly capable of riding bus routes by herself!
- "You never raise your voice to me." Ugh. How childish can you get? Okay, maybe Abby is a little girl; she's sure acting like one here.
- "I promised your daughter I would finish what she started." No, Abby, you didn't. You promised it to her corpse. There's a very big difference: One is healthy behavior, and one isn't. The whole scene between Abby and Clea's mother had me rolling my eyes so hard.
+ Gibbs giving Palmer an assignment like he was a field agent. How cute was Palmer's surprised expression? It reminded me of Tony's cute surprised eyes at the radio station in Dead Air last week.
+ "It's a terrible thing, betraying someone's trust like that." I loved the way Tony delivered this line.
- Cutting straight from Gibbs arresting April to Tony dancing into the bullpen to the Saturday Night Fever theme was really messed-up. I wasn't crazy about Tony in the Travolta costume, but I did like Ziva's smile in that scene.
- If I'm not mistaken, this was Mirante-Matthews's first episode, so maybe I should go easy on her, but man, Cracked didn't do it for me. From what I've read on communities and message boards, virtually none of the fans liked it. What I don't understand is that Pauley Perrette posted on her Twitter page that she was actually excited about this episode. Yes, it was Abby-centric (and we don't get those often), but how could Pauley not see how much this sucked? Abby deserved much better.
+ Because as a whole, I'm fairly impressed with Season 8 so far. It'll be interesting to see how things play out with the DiNozzo Sr. episode next week.
Sara says that if I don't get my hair cut soon, I'm going to look like one of those Pentecostal women. And if I don't start laying again, she's going to stew me up for supper (something she learned from her hero, Greasy Sae).