Okay, I need to just be strong and force myself through this. My heart won't really be in it, though, because my heart has now left the Tower forever. Oh Stacy... you were too good for this cold, hard world of brass and fine Italian marble. I knew it was going to happen, but still I needed to hold onto one little dollop (little dollop... ok, being strong) of hope in my back pocket, believe there was some slight sliver of a chance that life might be fair just once. Now that dream has hailed the final taxi and ridden off into the night, never to return. She nearly lost her composure 6 times that I counted during her goodbye, but she kept it together. So must I. Other than the horrifying tragedy of the episode, the biggest news this week was of course the corporate restructuring that occurred at the top. Much like Lil Dollop herself, I cannot bring myself to admit any weaknesses or faults in Stacy today, but Sandy and Maria were definitely the best two choices for culling, and Classy Massey continues to impress as the most qualified of the women, maybe of the entire group. Her sleeper-holding partner in potential dog maiming, Kevin, also showed himself worthy of my respect again, and Wes should not have let his tender feelings for the youthful Andy cloud his judgement when it came time to send people packing. The only other potential winner I see in the bunch, Kelly the army man, continues to be the sort of person I really dislike. Wes became the leader of the new Mosaic, and made what are probably the first impressions he has ever made on me so far due to that central role. The accumulated result of those impressions is that I still find him staggeringly bland and nondescript, but he seems nice enough, and at least I can distinguish between him and Kelly now. I like Andy a little better, too, despite everyone else's derision I thought it was nice for the dogs to help out the kitty kind (to the tune of $12). I'd be curious to see what will happen next week when 'The Young Guy Strikes Back' or whatever they said in the coming attractions, were it not for the fact that the scenes from next week have proven themselves beyond any doubt to be a complete farce. I called the Stacy firing, but it turned out to have nothing to do with the "I can't stand people who exagerate" teaser, and really the teaser had nothin' to do with nothin', just like last week. If he was on a military mission losing that phone would have cost some buddy his life, from what I hear, but it didn't seem to have much impact on civilians (also, I have some interesting trivia for these Apprentice hopefuls - although not many people are aware of their existence, New York City actually has a number of telephones conveniently scattered throughout the city that anyone can use for only two bits). Chris sounds awfully New Yorkish and ought to be hip to that, but it may be beneath his dignity as a Rolex-wearing entrepreneur since he was 11 years old to massage the buttons of such a contraption, I guess. And Raj returned to being fairly sensible, I thought, his suggestion to branch out into another location to maximize the potential for canine coddling was smart and ultimately taken up by Jennifer, and he shockingly did not wear a bowtie to visit Gracie Mansion! The other moment to mention while on the subject of the Bloomberg reward is when they showed a reaction shot of Kelly right after they found out what prize the Donald was bestowing this week and he had a little angry twitch from missing out on a sit-down with the mayor. I actually think Michael Bloomberg is pretty decent as mayors go, a hell of a lot better than Giuliani at least, but being denied a chance to shake his hand and hear a few stale insights on 'leadership' while he counts the seconds before he can get the hell out of there and jet down to Bermuda would elicit little in the way of involuntary muscle contractions in this sweet face. Finally, they really should have set up a doggie foto hut, they would have totally creamed Apex (or at least provided some hilarious footage of a Corgi trailing taffeta and tulle bounding across the Sheep Meadow with Sandy and Kelly hysterically scrambling to corral him) and these would be tears of joy splashing down onto the mousepad right now. Back next week to provide commentary on a sad and empty new world.