Everybody Loves Tina

Tina Fey.... how do I even begin to explain Tina Fey?

Tina Fey is flawless. I hear her sense of humor is insured for $10,000. She does car commercials.... on Saturday Night Live. Her favorite movie is Starsky and Hutch. One time she met Oprah Winfrey on a plane, and she told her she was beautiful and intelligent. One time she punched me in the f-

Wait, does all that sound familiar? If you're a young female who loves watching chick flicks while your hand is in a bag of Doritos or breaking off bits of a choco bar, odds are it does. One of the most memorable quotes from the cult classic Mean Girls. And if it wasn't for Tina Fey that movie would have not even existed.

Although she started her comedy act joining the comedy troupe The Second City based in Chicago, she made her mark on the public after signing on to Saturday Night Live (SNL) as a writer and then gradually moved up to head writer and performer on the show. I think she once said in an interview that when she first came in to SNL she was the only female writer there. And unless you've been living under a ton of bricks in the middle of the dessert I'm sure you know of her widely-loved parody character of Republican rep, Sarah Palin. 

Besides having a highly successful job on one of the funniest shows on TV to date, she also is responsible for bringing us the adaptation of the screenplay to the book "Queen Bees and Wannabees" by Rosalind Wiseman, which is none other than the female cult favorite Mean Girls. If Tina Fey didn't exist we would have never been able to use all those memorable lines from the film in our everyday lives.... and that would just not be acceptable. Her other movie credits include Baby Mama (with the magnificent Amy Poehler!), the Invention of Lying, and Date Night.

Sketch show, movies... what else? I know.... TV series! She still managed to squeeze a credit to her name for the hit tv show 30 Rock. No, she's not only the writer, again she stars in it as well. Her ability to do work behind and in-front of the camera in numerous projects is incredibly versatile, to say the least. She also has a ton of awards to show for all her work on all these shows. But what about socially-related titles given by the mass media? She has those too of course, such as the Associated Press' AP Entertainer of the Year as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in '08, appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 list as one of the most powerful celebrities 3 years in a row, even got on the infamous People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. 

Have I not yet managed to sway you into love and praise for this woman? Taste the rainbow yourself :

Tina & David

Also, I need her new book. I laughed like a mental person by myself in the bookstore when I read the back cover testimonials, 

I can't even imagine how amazing the inside will be like.

Starting to believe this woman is an alien from the future who's been sent here to show us what it is to be perfection? I've kind of known that for a while.

x Natasha

What do you want to be when you grow up?

"I told them I wanted to be a cake... and so I did!"

Pic Cred

As children, we've probably heard this question many times. Maybe from a little old lady standing in line at the cashier behind our Mother to pay for biscuits and milk, or maybe from the scary doctor who turned out to be a really nice guy who gave us candy for being so brave. 

When I was a wee little kid, I had such high expectations for myself. I thought it would be cool to be a female scientist. I wanted to play with the stars and be an astronaut. At one point I even believed it was possible for me to be royalty ("I wanna be a princess!"). Such high expectations for such a little person.

But none of it came with pressure or doubt. There was not a single day where I thought to myself that I could not do these amazing things I had planned. If other people could do it - and were doing it - of course I could do it too!

Yet somehow along the way I lost that fierceness, most likely along with my innocence. I could go on and try to blame the world for this. I could blame it for being so ripe with the reality that I was familiar with but had not gotten acquainted to yet when I was still enjoying my Dr. Seuss books. But I can't, because that's just how the way things go. The older I get the more aspects of life tell me that I have responsibilities to tend to. The more we grow up, the more we understand things about the world that we didn't understand or care about when we were young. Nobody told us that horses are expensive and cowboy get-ups look rediculous after we've said we want to be a cowboy and spend life lassoing bad guys up. None of that biting reality sensibility. The biggest crisis of our days was probably our easy-bake oven not working right, and as far as we were concerned our magic princess wand could work.

What I've learned after reaching my 20s is that I'm more than 15 years older but I have become less confident in my future than when I was 5 years old. Just because you've done your time with school doesn't make you the master of life and the beholder of its secrets. Just because you're dealing with things like money and jobs doesn't make you the zen master of stability and independence. Quite the contrary, if I had to I'd label the 20s as "The Lost Days". Yeah, that label was inspired from the Emily Strange books but that doesn't make it any less true.

I've been on this earth for 22 years now and I still have so many questions about the world. Forget the world, let's talk about my life! What do I want to do? What should I do? What do I plan on doing? Unfortunately, these questions haunt me on a daily basis like a cake haunts fat people on diet. That little question has evolved some ("What do you want to be now that you're done with college?") and the people who ask the question have changed (no more friendly old ladies up for a chitchat because I'm a cutie pie - they've been replaced with concerned parents and not-quite-as-but-still-as concerned relatives), and most importantly, the answer has also changed its tune : 

"I really don't know yet. But I'm figuring it out."

And I also learned that's okay.

x Natasha