toastykitten

I kind of bluntly told a friend that I didn't think she lost any weight, and I got a sarcastic, "Gee, thanks, Kim." I didn't even mean it as an insult - and frankly, I don't think she should have lost any weight. I thought she looked fine. The conversation moved on from there, but I felt bad about opening my stupid mouth.

God, I hate navigating female self-esteem. Because none of us have any.

Some links of interest:
Blade got cancelled.
Tutoring gets outsourced to India. Tutoring costs $25 now? What? Nobody told me that when I was asked to tutor kids!
Blogging teachers get fired, for, um, telling the truth.

I quit reading the Twop 30 Days forum after someone said something to the effect of "I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but why don't the parents learn English? That'll prove they're making an effort to be American!"

Ugh.

Anyway, the Outsourcing episode was really good. They got a guy who was relatively smart, and thought about his topic. He had an actual sense of perspective. I paused the TiVo because I was so amazed. Intelligence! On television! He had insightful things to say about how the rush to Westernization is also changing Indian traditions and culture, and how India may not be able to deal with it.

Other shows we've been watching:

Who Wants to be a Superhero? - Reality game show series by the Sci-Fi network, in which dorks in suits compete to be in the next Stan Lee superhero comic. Stan Lee gives the tasks and decides who goes. I've only watched the first episode so far, and it is really funny. It's already starting to give me dreams. I'm a fan of Fat Momma, and Major Victory "Be a winner, not a wiener". Mark, of course, is rooting for the software engineer aka Feedback. I hated the Vin Diesel wannabee, and the raw foodist chick. I thought they were obnoxious.

Psych - The premise of this show is that this guy fools everyone into thinking he's psychic when the truth is that he's just a really detail-oriented person who solves cases. Kind of like Sherlock Holmes, with a black Watson. I gave this one a couple of episodes, but the gullibility of everyone they meet keeps pulling me out of the show.

Blade - I like this show, except I hate the guy who plays Blade. I'm not saying Wesley Snipes was a good actor, but he had presence. This guy doesn't have any. Bonus points for multi-racial casting, though, and an interesting side plot about how vampire ashes are the new crack on the streets.

Time to sleep.