So, what do I have left to say about last night’s Apprentice episode? I guess I should explain my opinion that Tana Goertz is not even all that nice, so here is that explanation: she is friendly, albeit in an overbearing way that I would find extremely off-putting in person, but friendly and nice are not exactly the same thing. Like when Tana did absolutely nothing on that Pontiac task while Kendra put together a great brochure all by herself and then Goertz tried to steal the credit for it during their presentation? Not nice. And for that matter I’m not sure I’d consider Tana to possess real, honest friendliness, which would involve listening to people, being interested in what they have to say, having some concern for their happiness, etc. Tana seems to just be smiling and saying things that sound nice but really not paying any attention to the other person at all and then blowing them off. Like she did repeatedly with the aide to Gov. Pataki last night: the Governor, the most important person there, wants to see a schedule of what he’s supposed to do and she very clearly does not really give a shit. The fourth time the aide comes to ask for the schedule and says again that the governor has just been sitting there waiting for half an hour, Tana’s reply is something like, “Good, that’s great.” Then when the aide finally snaps a little at her and says, “NO, it’s NOT” she’s all, “Oh, I’m sorry, is there something wrong?” If you can’t even bother to listen to and care about the concerns of the most V.I. of the P. at the event which will decide whether you win or lose this contest, you clearly cannot be bothered to listen to anyone (more Goertz listening skills were displayed later in the suite when Kendra asked her a question while in a bathroom stall which Tana ignored and then went to bed, leaving poor Kendra alone in the bathroom going "Tana? Tana?"). It was also around this time that she complained that everyone was coming to her with problems, and no one was telling her she had pretty blue eyes and that, you know, a compliment might be nice. In stark contrast with Kendra, who seemed on top of every detail of her event, even to the point of annoying Michael a little with her micromanagement, Tana didn’t seem to do much of anything, delegated almost everything to her teammates even though she kept on saying how incompetent and idiotic they all were, didn’t double-check anything, and didn’t even delegate some important tasks and then seemed pissed off that her team had not just delegated themselves those tasks. Kendra’s micromanagement might be slightly annoying and would not be an effective way to manage in an everyday situation, but this is the final task! No one has anything to lose but you! It’s pretty much a mirror image of the ways Kelly and Jenn handled their final tasks last year, and we all know how that turned out. The current line on the Yahoo poll asking who readers think is going to win is about the same, too, with Kendra getting 77% to Tana’s 23%. I’m guessing that a large part of that 23% are Iowans, but let me point out that Tana said last night that she dropped out of college because her husband (KCCI meteorologist Kurtis Gertz – and by they way, I’ve finally gotten to the bottom of that different surname spelling, too) got a job in Iowa, so it’s not like she’s a native Iowan you poor deluded Hawkeye-staters – she is from Pennsylvania (anyone still wishing to root for a native Iowan can just root for me). Plus, whatever she was saying about “I think the high school graduates definitely have the edge because we have had to fight for everything we’ve got” is a little hard to swallow from someone who attended 3 years of college and only quit because her husband got a job on T.V. – not that a local weatherman probably makes mad cash, especially starting out, but it’s hardly the hardscrabble existence she seems to be implying. For that matter, I’m curious about Kendra’s repeated refrain of, “I’m the complete package, I’ve got the college education AND the street smarts” and would like to get an explanation of where and how these street smarts were obtained. But mostly I’d like to know what the hell Tana was thinking when she wouldn’t leave Chelsea Piers with the rest of her team, saying something about how it’s important to make them feel like employees, even lurking behind the door to make sure they’d left before she scurried out to her town car. Meanwhile, Team Kendra are having a big tearful group hug. That is going to bite her in the ass now that those employees are going in to meet with Trump & Co., and that ass was well-bitten already. Next week: Kendra hired, Tana fired, IAAFOTS free.