Confessions

I am going to make some confessions today. Not the good stuff (:-P), just some things that I feel like I need to apologize for. Culture and society tells us that we need to feel a certain way about certain things, and I have to cop to disagreeing with many of them. So, here is my penance.

1) I hate Grey's Anatomy. I know...I am a girl and I am supposed to love it, but I just can't. They are all annoying and whiny and not as pretty as everyone gives them credit for. Ellen Pompei gets a little bit of a pass for being in Old School, but not much. I kind of like Sandra Oh, but the rest of them are just awful. Katherine Heigl? Not pretty and really annoying. Patrick Dempsey was in Loverboy. The giant girl who looks like a linebacker? Ew. The super-pussy one that Isaiah Washington called a faggot? Well...seriously...what else was he supposed to call him? He sucks. OK, enough of that.

2) While we are on the subject...Sex and the City? Please...most overrated show ever. Every character on that show (save for maybe Miranda) was completely and utterly un-likable. And why does everyone love Sarah Jessica Parker? She is annoying and her "sense of style" usually results in her looking like a clown. And why has no one ever noticed that they all live totally non-believable lives? They are all completely loaded (hello, those apartments are all worth a mint!), but one is a writer and two of them seem to work about 20 hours a week. I do think Kristin Davis is gorgeous, though:-)

3) Shoe shopping. I just don't get orgasmic over it like a lot of girls do. Maybe because there is no pair of heels ever that can make me tall. Well, no pair that anyone other than a stripper would wear.

4) I strongly believe in aggressive girls. I have had a couple of conversations over the past month with girls who don't feel comfortable approaching guys or asking them out. Bollocks...you can be on the Supreme Court but you can't ask a boy out? At least one of them capitulated to my nagging and made a proactive move last night, but I won't rat her out...she can tell you when she pleases:-)

5) I don't get excited by babies. I have been over this before.

6) No one should get as excited about a baseball team as people around here do (This one is gonna get me into some trouble!)

7) Jewish food is totally underrated. I could eat bagels and lox at almost every meal for the rest of my life. Potato latkes, sticky buns, chocolate covered matzo (OK, maybe that is not Moses-approved:-)). I have some Polish and German ancestry in there somewhere...maybe that is where this comes from. Also...I heard a story about why Jewish people in America are traditionally linked with Chinese food...but I don't know if it is true. Does someone else have an explanation? I want to see if it matches up! OK...off topic...

8) French food is generally overrated. Mostly it is the insistence on grossly small portions. I don't eat that much...if I leave a restaurant still hungry, there is something wrong!

9) I wear very little makeup, and I don't spend much effort on my hair, either. Totally not worth the time every morning. I generally shower, dress and get ready for work in less than half an hour.

10) I think we give old people too much. There, I said it. Social Security, Medicare's drug benefit, discounts on everything, property tax waivers...all shameless giveaways to the elderly on the backs of the young. That is what they get because they all vote and we don't. And if anyone tells you "Well, they all paid their share when they were younger," they are lying. For a variety of reasons that is simply not true. But that, my friends, is a longer story;-) And for today, I am done confessing.