I MUST learn to delegate.

I bought these new panty hose. They're "toeless" so that you can wear them with your sexy, strapless shoes that show off your sexy feet and their sexy pedicure.

I have neither sexy feet nor a sexy pedicure, nor did I intend to buy the sexy "toeless" panty hose. Upon discovering my error, though, I decided to wear open-toed sandals to work (albeit not-very-sexy ones), along with my new "toeless" pantyhose.

These hose have a little loop which goes around your big toe, or one of your toes anyway. The loops are around my toes and are now CHOKING THE LIFE BLOOD OUT OF THEM. THEY ARE ALSO KILLING ME.

NEVER. AGAIN.

I have been on a diet, did I tell you? Therefore, I have been in a pretty lousy mood all week and all I can think about is food.

On top of the diet, I have PMS AND my sister Barbara leaves tomorrow for a two-week vacation. I can't believe she is deserting me! Who am I supposed to talk to for the next two weeks?

My sister and I are very close and we talk pert-near every day. *sob*

So I watched "Push, Nevada" last night. Someone who is creatively involved with this show really likes David Lynch. It was good, though. I am intrigued. Nice change of pace from your ordinary t.v. fare, which in and of itself is nifty.

I also watched The Real World, Las Vegas. OK, first of all - everyone on this show is hot! I thought this show was supposed to be reflective of REAL people involved in REAL life, only while living with seven strangers and having their lives taped for the rest of us to view, pick over and laugh about. These are not real people. These are only real people on the planet Babe.

That said, these are also quite possibly the lowest bunch of degenerates on a Real World yet and that's saying something, boy howdy. I guess I should reserve judgment until I watch at least a couple more episodes. We'll see if I can stomach the show for that long. Plus, why reserve judgment? The stuff that was on the first show all took place within what - the first week these kiddies were in Las Vegas? If they're already acting like this...well, I shudder to think how their behavior may deteriorate when they get "comfortable" around each other.

In the comming attractions at the end of the show, they intimated that one of the hottie chicks might get thrown out of the boss pad in which they've been set up. Hopefully, I can stick it out until we at least get to that drama.

I've been a Real World fan since the first season, but with all of the "reality" t.v. shows now peppering every channel of the 700-or-so offered by my cable company, it all gets a bit overwhelming. Enough of this real life crap - give me a poorly-written sit-com already! I stopped watching Real World a few seasons back - never saw New Orleans; never saw Hawaii; never saw Seattle; never saw "Back to New York". At least, I didn't see all of the episodes for those seasons - just a few here and there. I did watch Chicago last season and perhaps it has re-ignited my addiction. We'll see.

My problem with so many of these "reality" shows is that they are so not real. At least not in my neck of the woods and for that I am grateful. I am grateful I don't know any people like these because, for the most part, the people chosen to be on "reality" shows are the most disgusting examples of humanity that the network honchos can dredge up from the sewers (or wherever they find these people). I suppose watching should be good for my self esteem because hey, as big a selfish creaton as I can be, I ain't no (fill in the name from the series of your choice here). But instead, these "people" just make my tummy hurt. And I really hope that the young, impressionable MTV audience is not looking to these over-sexed-to-the-point-of-ignoring-the-feelings-of-everybody-else-on-the-planet idiots on the Real World as sterling examples of how to behave in a civilized society.

OK, in all fairness, there have been "people" on these shows who are not degenerate creeps. Everyone except Puck from Real World, San Francisco, for example. But then we have everyone except Jon Brennan from Real World LA to counter-act that nice cast. Are ya feelin' me, here?

I am not speaking of Real World exclusively, of course, so it is unkind of me to pick specifically on that show.

"Temptation Island"

"Blind Date"

"Dismissed"

"Survivor" of course, but at least on this type of show it is well known from the git-go that the object is to WIN THE GAME, which in and of itself leads you to the assumption that not everyone is going to play fairly or nicely and you may see some not-so-flattering portraits of human character, here.

There are a myriad of other titles, of course. My question, though, is do any of us actually KNOW people like those featured on these shows? Cause just the fact that these horrifying examples of humanity are walking the face of this planet scares me.

How in the world did I get on this tangent?

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