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ARGH!!

.. you see that someone found your site by typing in "retarded kids eating hot wings" into Google.

I do what I can for the masses.

Blech.

You know, I usually get pretty psyched about the Wings Awards.. if nothing else, it’s a chance to dress up, hang with my friends, and laugh at bad theatre.  But this year.. I’m wearing a dress I’ve already worn before, even my shoes are old, I’m not really stoked about any of the nominations (you know, just sometimes you feel that EVERYTHING about a show was dynamite and you just rally behind it), and I just really don’t see the point in us going.  We’ll go, Bryan will accept his award, and we’ll head home.  Woo.

(If you were nominated, I hope you win.)

It is FREEZING in here today.  I am shivering.  I don’t understand how we decide on the temperature during this time of year.  I remember when I lived in Main Hall, it sucked big ole donkey balls (I’m sorry, that was crude.. but you know you laughed) during an Indian Summer like this, because that heat reliably came on October 15th.  So even if the high on October 16th was in the upper 80s (as it should be today), your radiator was just a’goin.

My pork tenderloin and mashed potatoes were a HUGE hit last night.  As it turns out, I can be domestic.  Sorta.

Okay, time for a tantrum.  Ready to hear it?  Here it goes..

Because of the stupid baseball game and a lack of any decent tv competition, we ended up watching Wife Swap last night, and it covered something that I KNOW has been a hot topic online before: the working mom with a unattached family, or the family of a dozen homeschooled children with the stay-at-home mom.

And I have to say that they handled it very well.  They picked a very good family for both cases: the homeschooled family was large, EXTREMELY close, but not at all crazy; the working mom had a very "virtually connected" family and the kids were highly independent and preferred it that way.  The swapping of the wives really sent a shockwave through both families.  What REALLY amazed me were not the wives, who both seemed fairly intelligent and if nothing else, determined.. what really surprised me were the husbands.  THEY were CRAZY.  I mean, usually, it’s the children that really can’t adapt to the changes in rules or the new mom coming in, but these fathers went absolutely nuts.  They acted like 5 year olds.  They got rude, mean, and childish.  It was embarrassing.  Men are NOT supposed to behave that way.

I’m still not a real big proponent of the homeschooling thing.  The parents, although not ignorant or stupid, could only say that they were homeschooling because they were AFRAID of public schooling.. of the influences, of the unsavory teachers, etc.. and that’s just not a viable answer to me.  And the mother was so incredibly reluctant to let her daughters grow up that she would tell her dates, "You know that if you want to kiss my daughter, you have to kiss ME first."

Tell me that’s not extremely creepy and that you wouldn’t run from that family.

I’m not saying they are the standard that all homeschooled families should be measured against.  I’ve seen some really great examples.. and some not so great examples.  And every child is TRULY unique..

Anyway, enough of that.

The guy that I told I was gay and had genital herpes has just walked in.  Let the games begin.