I have another confession.

I really don't do much TV related. Spend a couple years working for a TV station and you kind of realize what a wasteland television is. I don't even have cable, probably the reason I can spend as much time as I do typing this crap in. However, there is one show I make a point not to miss every week. And it hurts me to even mention it, but I need to do it. Consider it a binge and purge session, and this is the purge.

I watch Survivor.

I know, I know, I know. I'm supposed to be smarter than that. I'm supposed to be cooler than that. But I'm not. I allow myself one complete garbage show, and since I don't watch much else and have already given up and decided to wait for the DVDs of Alias and 24's fourth seasons, I figure I may as well stick with Survivor. I watch it since it's one of the few shows that I can talk about with my parents and coworkers alike. They give me weird looks and point and laugh if I mention Buffy, Angel or X-Files, so I tend to keep my conversations to Survivor when it comes to TV. I think Survivor is one of the few subjects where we both care what the other is saying when we talk about it, so that's gotta count for something, right? Would you believe I run the office pool where we bet on who gets booted each week? I'm just losing cool points left and right here, I know, but I feel the need to get this off my chest.

So, as I'm watching Survivor tonight, I'm realizing that I started off liking all of these people, and now I'm beginning to hate all of them. The only one I really like is Stephenie, but that's only when she's competing in the challenges, cause she just whups everyone's asses. Otherwise, she's kind of annoying and has really weird-looking eyebrows. Like REALLY weird looking. Like "she waxed them off, botoxed the brow ridge and then painted them back on" weird looking. She'd be extra hot if it wasn't for that. Otherwise, it seems the show is just following the pattern of starting out with a ton of promise for everyone being cool, and then turning them into a bunch of assholes who sit around bitching about each other behind their backs. It's kind of like starting a new job, and then you realize it's just like the job you left. That's how every season of Survivor goes. And somehow I'm right there every fucking Thursday, gobbling it up. I am so uncool. It could always be worse, of course. I could be a fan of Friends or The OC...