ok, call me silly. i didn't expect to like it. i only watched it because i couldn't find anything else to watch (the sign of a desperate, not quite "healed" tv addict) i've spent the last week watching the first two seasons of (omg, i can't believe i'm about to admit this) Greek.

see, when i was a young girl, i always wanted to attend a university and experience all it had to offer, including the greek sorority system. i wasn't a popular girl in either jr. high or high school. i had several female friends but only really two very close ones. the rest were more acquaintances, brought together by our thumbing at the status quo. ok, it was the 70's, i was kind of anti-establishment.

but i still held onto the fantasy of a sorority. even tho i could befriend popular people (uh, they were usually scared of me) they never accepted me. for some reason, i thought college would be different.

of course my parents put that on stall. they made me attend the local two year community college before i could transfer to the four year institution. in all my virgo stubborness, i dropped out of the two year college. that would show them, eh? yeah, not so much.

to this day, i miss not having that four year college experience. when i went back to college in my 30's (not for lpn, but for a 4 year degree before heading off to a masters) the iceback couldn't even let me enjoy it then. because i was getting to go to college and he wasn't. i had a whole chunk of my day i couldn't even talk to him about because he'd get pissed. after the initial separation, he was a bit better about it and i could share my day. but the resentment was still always palpable.

enter Greek. it's a really good show about growing up, navigating relationships in a semi-closed micro-cosism society. i didn't expect to like it. and i started out not liking a lot of the characters but as the series rolled on, i liked them even more. Cappie is a good example of that. I didn't like him the first episode, but he grew on me. Even the rich kid, Evan, has some redeeming qualities.

so if you have some time to kill, look into Greek.

well, i very much dislike Cat, the stray that followed us home from the beach one day. now her and mark, (having only known each other for a month) are planning to wed. initially, it was going to be in nov, but because nick is on house arrest, they've knocked it back to march.

believe me, i've tried to find good qualities in her, i really have. i tried to find her a puppy, went out of my way to do it. i thought i was getting somewhere with her, somewhere i could live with her and she with me.

and then, one day, she pulled that totally female sabotage bullshit that so many girls try to pull. you know, the one where she "innocently" asks a question, but she's really only asking the question to embarrass you? yeah, she did that. after i was nice to her. oh, these youngins think they are so sly with that bs. it's Bitch-101. problem is, guys don't usually see it. most females do, and they recognize it.

so...after that...no sympathy for her whatsoever. i will no longer go out of my way to be nice. i will treat her like i treated the iceback's oldest sister...i will ignore her and only speak to her when spoken to....additionally, her inane talking about pointless shit drives me insane. i heard her repeat, six times to the same three people, how slow her day was (at the strip club) look, i'm not disparaging strippers, i'm not (little vanilla me seems to have quite a few of them as friends.) but damn, is that all you can talk about? that and your 5 minutes of sub-local fame being a finalist for a kareoki contest, again? really?

btw, i just have to say, west virginia has better strippers than this girl. read into that what you want.