Oy, catch-up time.
Wickedrentq, you'll be happy to know that I saw DRS and absolutely loved it - I haven't laughed that much since Avenue Q. I think I might see it again in a couple of months - it would be interesting to see how the new cast members approach those roles and I'd like to see it when Norbert's performing (although his understudy was excellent).
Aww, all this talk of ghetto high school experiences makes me nostalgic for middle school. *revels in the sarcasm*. In addition to the usual run-of-the-mill bullying, of which I was a major target (I had the class behavior problem threaten to spray a can of deodorant in my face and try to trip me as I was walking down the stairs, and that was just the tip of the iceberg), there were regular fistfights in the cafeteria, schoolyard brawls that ended in participants being sent to the hospital, as well as one incident the year after I graduated that brings new meaning to the phrase "going down the staircase," if ya know what I mean. It's no wonder my parents had my little brother apply to a magnet school in another borough. Even there, they had bomb threats, beefs with kids from a nearby high school, and the disturbed classmate who threatened my brother with a swiss army knife.
Ah, parents and awkward scenes. I'll never forget the time I was watching this TV show called "Popular" a few years back and my mom walked into my room just as a sex scene was starting. She was all, "no wonder you closed the door when you put the TV on!" and I felt really embarrassed. These days, I'm more comfortable watching risque material while my mom is around (when we saw Avenue Q together, she laughed even louder than I did during The Internet Is For Porn), but that might just be a function of my being older. The one thing my mom still gets flustered about and tries to "protect" my brother and I from is foul language - whenever my dad watches The Sopranos, she yells at him to turn down the volume because she doesn't want us to hear it. Which is pretty ludicrous, since all of those bad words she doesn't want us to hear are words we hear Dad say all the time.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms