Live every week like it's shark week

This is the first time in my entire life that I have utilized any aspect of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week. My only regret is that I wasted the first 20 years of my life NOT watching Shark Week. What the crap was I thinking? That sharks WEREN'T really scary and also awesome, and thus the perfect subject for a seven day television event exrtavaganza?! Psh.

We kicked it off tonight with Ocean of Fear, a dramatized documentary about the worst shark attack EVER which happened to the USS Indianapolis during WW2. It was crazy intense. We didn't watch the whole thing, because Becca and I were getting too depressed, what with the people going crazy and beign eaten by sharks all the dang time. Luckily we DVR'd it, so we can watch the second half later, when we are more hardened and desensitized to human suffering. Maybe after work, Schmec?

Anyway, Shark Week is just one symptom of a major change that has come over my life. Suddenly, I am intensely interested in Discovery Channel type programs. Weird, I know. It's nt that I hate learning or anything, and thus stay away from anything remotely educational...it's jsut um...yeah, I have no good excuse, I just haven't traditionally been the History Channel or PBS type. I'm not overly enthusiastic about WW2 pilots, so there's like half the History Channel programming out, and most documentaries on TV I assume are mostly conjecture and sensationalization passed off as fact. (It's funny that of all things, I chose to direct my incredulity and cynicism at educational television. Of all the underdog categories of life to start throwing rocks at!)

ANYWAY, the point is that all of this started to change when I stumbled upon Simon Schama's Power of Art series on PBS. Frankly, it first caught my itnerest because the first one I saw was on Bernini, and the guy they had portraying him in the little dramatization parts was dang attractive. Seriously, like wow, suddenly I am intensely interested in Italian sculpture. So, after reeling me in on the sex appeal hook, the program is really quite interesting, and so now I look for it whenever possible.

Then I spent the weekend in Provo mostly watching Planet Earth DVDs and a marathon of Man vs. Wild, and then bam, Shark Week! So with this landslide of interesting and awesome documentaries and survival shows, what's a girl to do?