I started watching this tv show, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," I think in the desperate hope that it'd give me some kind of insight into my students, the crazy, drama-infested ones at least. I don't think its working. It just reinforced, kind of, that my kids are crazy and this is the tv show that they're watching.
The dialogue, right now, really, is "you're so desperate to get a boyfriend. No you're desperate! No you look like a washed up teenage porn star...." Oh. My. God. Seriously.
And then I got hooked... and I've sat here, most of this Tuesday watching the marathon in preparation of the finale. And, while I realize that the likihood of a 15 year old boy finding his "soulmate" at age 15 is somewhat skewed by Hollywood... it's really sweet in a way. I don't like how they portray Christians (Grace) on the show. They make us out to be completely guilless and naive.
