suspense my pensée

[yes, i'm in my journalism class right now--there's only three of us, but she's STILL teaching.]

we're actually watching the news in class because we have nothing better to do since no one showed up because of the rain. i sometimes wish i was that smart and think to skip class when everyone else is thinking about skipping class. but anyway, have you ever watched tv news and just wished they'd get going with giving you the actual news? especially during dinner time?

i mean, you're sitting there at dinner, ready to enjoy your roast beef or pasta or whatever you eat, and then the news comes on:

"next on the news coming up at 5:30 PM, we have found a new virus that may be present in your every day dinner! stay tuned to hear more."

so you do only what's normal and you sit and wait obediently for the following news session and you put down your fork because god knows if the news found something in roast beef or pasta.

"coming up in five minutes, the new virus found in our food. stay tuned to find out how deadly it actually is."

by now, you're probably just freaking out because this is dinner, which means that you've probably ate lunch and breakfast before and you have no idea what it could possibly be. could it be eggs? could it be bread? if milk can do evil things, then so can fruits!

"good evening, in our latest headlines tonight, a local hero is exposed when he rescues a little puppy from the gutter, trapped there since this morning. lets now head on over to jim," 

i hate it when it takes them forever to get to the actual news and by the time they actually get to it, which they happen to place at the very last minute of the half hour news, it's something stupid:

"and lastly what we have discovered may shock you...we have found that a moving virus can be found in your mouth which is then transfer to your food through your fork and back to other people in your family especially if you share! well that's it for tonight! have a good night and we'll see you tomorrow morning."

G-R-E-A-T, like that tells me the world...
this is one of the reasons why i can't be a news journalist.


ps. i made a mistake in terminology on my last post 'ohana.' the 24 "cousins" are my first cousins, and the 10 "first cousins" are my first cousins once removed. *these american terms bug the crap out of me. in chinese we all have separate titles for our male parent's siblings that are female/male, and vice versa*