It's a sad, or maybe telling, that I just got back from a wonderfully inspiring graduate school class and I walk into my apartment and start watching Laguna Beach followed by My Super Sweet Sixteen. And I could justify this by saying that I work for MTV Networks and that this is research, but it aint gonna work because I dont even work for the channel MTV. And I could say that this is all part of our pop culture and I need to know this so that I can make it in this pop culture obsessed world, but that won't work either because I've got a brain that holds a lot of other stuff and I should rely on that instead. But to be honest, I like mindless TV and I enjoy counting how many times these stupid girls say "like."

My findings:

Like ok, like these stupid like girls on Laguna Beach, like said "like" 23 times like between 10:26 and like 10:29. Like oh my God!

The girl on this week's installment of My Super Sweet Sixteen doesnt have that big of a problem with using "like," so I'll stop counting. Her issue is that she's a Super Snob! Yes, I know, they all are on this show. But this girl came from poverty, was a foster child and got adopted by a rich family and now insists on being the center of attention and spending the most money as possible on her party. She's an uber-bitch making this show what it is. What's funny to me is that the execs who thought up the idea for the show get all these awards and it seems kinda wrong to reward someone for finding the snottiest, stuck-up, rude, insensitive, heartless, impolite, ignorant, disrespectful, ungracious, outspoken, low-class kids and putting them on TV as if they deserve it. However, the show makes them look like brats, so I guess they'll get what they deserve....some day.