A lot of people have been doing Father's Day journal entries. I read a few, and then stopped, because it's difficult to read about how a father should be, when mine wasn't anything like that. But then I read this entry, in which Barry had a different type of non-father, and it reminded me that love for one's father is always there, waiting, even when there is never a safe way to express it.
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There's a new reality show on WB: Beauty and the Geek. They took a bunch of male nerds and a bunch of female beauties, and paired them up. The men have to coach the women in various nerdy subjects (yes, including rocket science), and the women coach the men in fashion, popular music, and social graces. Then they get tested, and, as usual, a team gets eliminated.
I missed the first episode because I was prepared to be angry and disgusted. You know how I love and appreciate nerds (although they called them geeks, these are actually nerds), and I don't like people making fun of them.
I caught the second episode because it just happened to be on in the background, and now I'm hooked. They aren't making fun of anyone. Yeah, the tasks and tests are pretty inconsequential. The main point is just getting the socially poles-apart people together to get to know each other as people and teammates. The best parts are the interviews. The women are starting to acquire more confidence in their brains. The men are discovering that beautiful women are people, too.
One woman said that she has dated only "hot" guys, and up until now, she thought all men were pigs. But "these guys are so sweet!" She never realized there was a whole other world of possibilities out there, and from now on she wasn't going to judge men by appearance alone.
One of the men (small and skinny) is in a constant (bad) Woody Allen impression, and annoys everyone else with bad jokes. In an interview, one of the other men says he understands why: "It's easier when people laugh at you when you're being funny. It's hard when they laugh at you when you're being you."
Do yourself a favor - go kiss a nerd.
~~ Silk
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Above link: http://journals.aol.com/bbartle3/Vengeance/entries/838
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