GH, Friend to Smart Ladies Everywhere...

Today my 600 word magazine article is due. I've been working on it for a week and a half. I have a LOT of information. I'm on the third draft of writing it and I'm turning it in by 7 tonight. I am a smart and capable lady. But I needed a break.

And that break is the last half hour of General Hospital. I've been watching GH more than half my life, on and off. I kind of, well, actually like it -- of course for the kitsch value but then, well, it's sort of -- good.

I mean it's no Frontline but for the genre, I think the actors do a good job. One of them is from New Hampshire! And when he was interviewed by NH Chronicle he said what people who grew up in NH do -- that it's a wonderful state. When you're from NH you have pride in it and a sense of place the way people do about Texas. People not from NH have laughed at me when I told them this. People who are from NH never do.

But back to the GH -- I'm not the only smart lady who's a fan. Dr. Moo watches and she went to Cornell! And my cousin Katie, who is in charge of a major state Web site, watched GH while on maternity leave. I'm calling it the thinking woman's soap. And by thinking woman I don't mean it's going to educate you or enlighten with you. It's more like eating a bag of those multicolored all natural potato chips as opposed to a bag of, say, Lays.

I think you should watch it, too.