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recent findings. . .


so last week, on gilmore girls, one of the characters started attending college while working with her life coach. as i'm watching, i'm thinking, how bizarre. . . but then another character references oprah, as a place where she had heard about life coaches. . . now, i realize i've been without tv for a bit. . . and when i've had it, i've been somewhat selective. . . ok, not really. . . but i know nothing of this life coaching trend.

my roommate and i were discussing. . .and well poking fun at the whole idea. . . both of us scoffing and believing, that even though our own lives can be somewhat of a shambles. . . we think we can both become rather tremendous life coaches. it's usually so much easier to point out miss-steppings, and possible corrections for someone other than ourselves. and with a title like life-coach somehow people give you authority over their actions so when you suggest to them to do something, or not do something. . . they follow suit. its incredible. . . think of all the times you've told your friends or loved ones. . . "gee, you know, that really doesn't sound like a good idea. yeah, he's cute, but are you sure you want to be involved with a 'kinda' married, jobless, uncaring ex-con?" and your friend just gets angry and accuses you of passing judgment to quickly. . .

yeah. . . right. . .

(ps. . . i actually checked the spelling of judgment in a dictionary before using it. . . i seem to remember someone having a pet peeve over it. . . *mom*. . . and, according to merriam-webster, both 'judgement' and 'judgment' are acceptable. . . :P)


but i digress. . .

so later one evening over the weekend, i caught, what i believe was a reality show about a group of women living in a house together. . .kind of in group therapy, and all sharing this one life coach. i couldn't believe it. now. . .i might be inclined to go on and on about how all the women seemed to be of at least upper middle class, there was only one women of color in the group, and although some had been through very difficult life events. . . they all seemed very put together already. . . none of them were suffering from poverty, famine, pestulance. . . or anything. part of me thinks, wow, these people are willing to invite someone into their lives and have them scrutinize every bit of them in order to show them how to better their lives. . . how wonderful. . . then another part of me kinda wants to put these people in the same category as one comedian put anorexics. . . (i believe it was george carlin, correct me if i'm wrong) but didn't he say something about anorexia in one of his sketches. . . a bunch of upper class white women don't want to eat. . .. fuck 'em!

yeah. . . slight conflict there. . .

oh, two other phrases my roommate and i have encounted many times in the past two weeks of scheduled tv shows are "google" and "tivo" as verbs.

that's all for today. . . it's gray, chilly, cloudy, rainy, and kinda lame. . . with this 4 day work week, i guess my tuesday is like everyone else's wednesday. . . but it's almost over. . . and perhaps i'll get my car back from the shop tomorrow. . . :)

have a good one.


"and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere . . .and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."