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Wow, go away for a couple weeks and everything changes. It looks nice so far. I'll have to spend some time catching up. Hope everyone is doing well.

Back atcha! How are you doing?

Oh, our family is doing well, our son just took an out of level test for the school in math and came home saying, but Mom it was too easy lol. I hope that his results are high enough to cement the school plan for next year.
Work has just been insane the past several weeks and I've put in alot of extra hours. It will get better in the next couple weeks

Good. May is our crazy month, too--a wedding anniversary and 3 birthdays! Plus the end of school and an always busy time for DH's work. It's all a little nuts!

Here's hoping for great test results and a good placement for next year for your DS!

Did anyone watch the season finale of Gray's Anatomy.

I love that show.

That ending rocked, I loved it! Next week, Lost!

Loved the ending too!! so romantic.

I liked most of it.

I'm not sure I liked their making Callie gay. I always have trouble with shows that take an intelligent, self-aware adult woman who has always been straight and have her suddenly realize she's a lesbian.

In my opinion, that's when "ER" jumped the shark: when Weaver decided she was a lesbian, pretty much out of nowhere.

I thought Callie's coming out was a little more motivated than Weaver's, but still...most women I know who came out came out in their teens, when they were first exploring their sexuality. This woman is a *doctor*, a *surgeon*. She's highly sexual, too. Always has been. I have a really hard time buying that she didn't know her sexual preference!

Just to be clear, lesbianism doesn't bother me. If she had been a lesbian from the start, that would make perfect sense to me. If they had an intern coming out, I could maybe buy that since they're younger. It's the fact of treating woman like our sexuality is so mysterious that even *the women themselves* don't know how they feel that bugs me.

Plus, when's the last time a middle aged man on a TV show suddenly realized he was gay? It never happens. Men know. Women are mysteries. It bugs me.

(Of course, I realize that some of this is that lesbianism is a turn-on and many people are turned off by male homosexuality. It is assumed that audiences would not accept a man coming out in adulthood. I do get that. Still, I don't like the message I get from this sort of storyline.)

I do feel bad for Rose, though. I liked her.

Rose was weak. I hope they eliminate her character. (myspock)

I actually dislike the character portrayal of Hahn. She has been presented as the most intelligent, most emotionally secure, most successful, rock star of a surgeon. So, of course she must have been a hardcore lesbian from the start, without question. ((sarcasm))

Those writers are pikers in that regard.

And no, I am not now, nor have I ever been a lesbian, however I support and embrace all who are members of an "alternative" sexual identification.

((how lawyerly of me))

Me thinks I have too much time on my hands today.

Of course, if they had made two model-like women into lesbians, we'd be criticizing their lipstick-lesbianism. That's why Hahn bothers me WAAAAAY less than Callie. At least Hahn seems to have been gay from the start. And she is attractive and strong--not "butch." So I'm okay with her. Not loving it, but at least it works.

But Callie's indecisiveness just seems like a throwback to the day when being gay was not even imagined. Then maybe a grown woman might have come out later when she had her first contact with a lesbian and she realized it was a possibility for the first time. But today? Nuh-uh. I just don't buy it.

(And I'm here procrastinating because I don't want to clean the house for DS6/7's birthday part tomorrow! LOL!)