Something About Anger

While I was home this Summer I purchased the first 4 seasons of "Seinfeld". It truly is my favorite television show of all time. I read online that seasons 5 and 6 will be released this Christmas. Needless to say, I've been watching a lot of Seinfeld lately. My mother hates this show and complains evertime I watch it at home. "Why are they yelling at each other?" "Why don't they just stop yelling?" yells my mother as I'm watching my favorite sitcom. Another show I like, but I don't really know why, is "Everybody Loves Raymond." This is one show me and my mother both enjoy. Over the Summer I was bored so I downloaded all 9 seasons of Raymond. As I watched the episodes I realized a familiar tone: every episode has yelling! As I lay in bed last night I compared the two series. On Seinfeld the characters are angry at their friends, themselves, and at life in general. The good episodes have the characters angry at all three. On Raymond the characters are angry at their family members, usually one family memeber in particular (apparently everybody hates Raymond). That said, if you're going to be angry at someone or something, would you rather have it be your friends, yourself, life or your family? The well balanced person would tell you not be angry at anything. Gee, a comedy without yelling. That doesn't sound funny at all. In other news, I'm sick. In fact, I knew I would be sick before I felt sick. When I started teaching on Tuesday maybe 25% of my students had runny noses and were coughing. Sure enough by Thursday I had the same symptoms. I'm about half way through editing and re-sizing my Hong Kong pictures. I should have them posted by Monday Korean time.