TV Cures Post-Exam Separation

I think my brain is flat. I’ve been staring at this computer trying to write this post for five hours and this is all I’ve written. How sad. I’m joking, I’ve really only been staring at the screen for thirty minutes. I blame my thirty minute delay on post-exam separation. This afternoon I kicked off the exam season with Real Estate Transitions, and my Professor pulled no punches. Prior to the test he said, “it’ll only be 45 multiple choice and two essays”, but let me tell you – 3 hours to complete the test wasn’t enough. Like all law school test, each question provides you with a “suggested time” to complete the test, so me being the diligent law student I followed the “suggested time” and completed the multiple choice in 70 minutes and jumped into the essay questions, and let’s just say I started writing the last essay question with three minutes to go. How sad. I’m joking, I really had 15 minutes, which was the “suggested time”, but I really could’ve used an additional hour.

Since I’m recovering from post-exam separation I decided to take the night and indulge in some TV, so I turned to my favorite station – FOX, and watched That 70’s Show, where Kitty and Red Forman found nudie pictures that Donna was going to send to Eric. Let’s just say, the pictures accidentally made there way around town, ultimately ending up in the hands of Fez’s crazy girlfriend who had just got out of the mental hospital. Next, I watched Pamela Anderson’s Stacked, which featured her Baywatch buddy Carmen Electra. Let’s just say catfight. Best dialogue:

Carmen: “I’ve got bigger boobs than you.”
Pam: “No you don’t.”
Carmen: “Yes I do, I just haven’t got them implanted yet.”

This was classic campy Pamela Anderson TV – a show that doesn’t take itself seriously, perfect for light laughs.

The TV jewel of the night was Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy. Let’s just say socioeconomic clash. This show has a simple premise: what would happen if we take two families and swap their respective mommies. In this episode, the hardworking, attractive, rich, educated, and structured Austrian mommy from Park City, Utah swaps with the lazy, chain smoking, overweight, poor mommy from Port Angles, Washington.

This describes the Washington mommy, she admittedly didn’t do anything all day. She slept and smoked a lot, she didn’t work, clean, or cook, and if her she or her husband needed money, they’d just ask their 24 year old son, he had two jobs. On the other hand, the Austrian mommy had her family on a structured schedule – tennis practice on Monday, skiing on Tuesday, and there house was super clean.

Let’s just say that neither family adjusted to there new mommy. The Washington mommy neither had the energy nor the desire to be a “go getter” mommy, often telling her host family she was too tired to take the children anywhere, and often wondering why their family was so busy, while the Austrian mommy was in shock as to why their family seemingly had nothing to do, had no sense of responsibility, and seemed to mind that life was passing them by.

The show was put together well. It wasn’t overly dramatized, or degrading to either family. It really showed that family is what you make it, and really showcased that there are different strokes for different folks. Both families seemed to really love each other. Personally, I wouldn’t want to live like the Washington family: a family content with doing nothing and lacking financial responsibility, but I wouldn’t want to be like the Austrian family either, who seemed be doing too much. Although they had a nice lifestyle, they seemed to strive on the fact that they had a million things on their plate. That seems like a lot of stress.