CS Why?

I know I am going to invoke the wrath of many, but after keeping it to myself (ok, not really, but my mom and husband don't really count) I am going to spill it - I HATE CSI (both the original and Miami). I am sick and tired of people lauding it as the best show on or can't miss television. It is crap! The acting is so over the top. The writers must think those that watch it are complete morons. "Look it's a footprint. It must be a clue." No shit! Believe me, I tried to like this show, I really really did. I used to work in law enforcement (public information, not an investigator) and I know that crime scene techs DO NOT take the lead on cases. They are there to assist the investigator. God.

The Friday Five

1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
See two movies - Find new office space - Finish all the projects I have going in the kitchen (painting, hanging pictures, etc) - Go on a real date with my husband - Take a nap

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
Andrea Patterson and Rusty Brown (my two best buds in high school) - this is going to sound horrible but I've lost contact with a lot of people over the years (my real father, my mother's father, friends from school or work) and I could give a flip if I ever heard from them again. People lose touch and go on - as much as I'd love to see Andrea and Rusty again I know and they know it would never be the same. I am such a bad person...

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
Sing, paint, speak a foreign language fluently, exercise (i am so uncoordinated), clean (not the best housekeeper)

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
Buy a great house, buy new cars, pay off the old student loan (mine and my husband's), give my immediate family money, shop!

5. List five things you do that help you relax.
Read, cook, listen to music, take a shower, watch TV

Adam over at Throwing Things posted today about the 20th anniversary of the showing of The Day After. I wasn't allowed to watch it (and I've found that most of my friends were also banned from the viewing) because my parents thought it would be too traumatic. My question is this - would a movie like that be shown today? Post 9/11? I don't think so - we've become too careful. We have removed images of the World Trade Center from movies and tv shows that were filmed prior to that day. They delayed the release of at least two movies, Big Trouble with Tim Allen and Collateral Damage with Arnold the Governator. We don't want to have these discussions with our children, our spouses, our friends. But it's all very real. I live in Oklahoma and work very close to the Murrah Building which was bombed April 19, 1995. Perhaps it's because now I'm an adult and I have my own family that I think the threat we are under today is so much greater than the threat of nuclear war in the 80's. Back then I thought there were rules, now it seems, there aren't any.

What can I say? I'm shocked, absolutely shocked...