Hilarious friends from myriad walks of life have bombarded my Facebook feed with guffaw-inspiring pictures that show the various perceptions about a given occupation. The purveyors of this meme have extended it to jobs as diverse as public relations people, college students, sports information directors, home-schooled kids, photographers, disc jockeys, improvisers, seminarians, and even cats.
Examples of the “What People Think I Do” meme continue to proliferate. Since I’m always up for meme-participation (Anyone who knows me knows that I live for this stuff!), I thought I would throw my hat[1] into the proverbial ring.
So, here’s my attempt to shed some light on my own life and livelihood. I don’t see why directors and web developers and stay-at-home moms should have all the fun!
Bon appetite!
Most of us are simultaneously delighted by this wonderful holiday and perplexed by how best to spend it. Anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account has no doubt been inundated by complaints, apprehension, and questions revolving around the ideal method of celebrating Valentine’s Day. In fact, what was once a simple day of passing pink and red cards at worst, or a straightforward jewelry-for-sex exchange at best, has transformed into an increasingly pressure-packed, stressful event.
The Office scored its first victory of the year with a humorous tale of responsibility-avoidance, while Archer hit a minor bump in the road after a very strong start to the season. 30 Rock was solid as usual, but that wasn’t enough to take the win last time around.
One of the many peculiar things about me is that I own a large DVD album filled with disc after disc of the television broadcasts of NFL games I deemed worthy of memorializing. I recorded most of these classic games myself when they actually aired. Part of my annual routine in the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl is to revisit a few of these classic contests. I focus mostly on the Super Bowls themselves, but I’ll occasionally dust off a good playoff game or two.
Secondly, I’m a borderline-apologist for the WWE. I’ve said over and over that the writing on RAW in the post-Attitude Era, from a television perspective, has been as good as or better than it’s ever been. The point is that I’m not the stereotypical older fan who thinks “everything sucks,” or that nothing is as good as it was in 1998. As I said in my Rumble preview linked above, I had been very impressed with the character development for Daniel Bryan, John Cena, and 
The 2012 Royal Rumble pay-per-view includes just four announced matches, but the show nonetheless looks like the most interesting edition within memory. The WWE has done a great job of enhancing each match with intrigue that goes beyond the basic question of who wins.
SitCombat: 2/16/12
This was SitCombat for February 16, 2012:
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