Hey... remember two weeks ago when I said I'd write every weekday?  I shoulda known better.  It amazes me that I did that for a whole year, and now, I can't bring myself to write more than three times a week.  I'm so weak and pathetic.  Or maybe just haven't had anything to say.  Didja think about THAT?

Those who know me, know that's not likely.  I ALWAYS have something to say!

Sometimes, what I have to say is laced with profanity.  This is a habit that I need to work on.  I know how to turn it off... I don't sit at work saying, "You are all FUCKED if you believe this shit!" but I do tend to use more curse words than I need to.  And it amounts to laziness, really.  There are so many better ways to express yourself, and make yourself heard.  The truth is, profaninty has become so commonplace, we aren't really shocked by it anymore.

When I was in kindergarten, my teacher (Mrs. Berry, who I think was scared of us) washed my mouth out with soap for saying "butt," which I'm pretty sure isn't considered a cuss word anymore.  Now, over the last 25 years, we have denigrated to "ass" not being bleeped on TV and most networks barely bleep the word "fuck," so that you hear the "f" and the "k", and with any sort of lipreading at all, you know what the fBEEPk they just said, right?

I think it's only a matter of time before we hear the full word on network television.  I swear, at some point, w're going to have to make people eat beetles on television to shock us anymore.

Oh, wait, we already DO that, don't we?

We're already hearing the foul language! It's usually in "serious" and/or dramatic shows... ex NYPD Blue.

Also, I remember Dr. Green on ER screaming an unbleeped "SHIT" in one of the heart-wrenching-he's-dying-of-cancer-and-trying-to-deal-with-it episodes.