Ok, another real quick post:

Yesterday Jim tells me that his place of employment was contacted by The History Channel to do a shoot here in El Paso. It's always fun when a national broadcast company contacts them because 1. It usually involves some interesting story (i.e. The Daily Show bit on the "universal stupidity" of Alpine TX) 2. It looks good on his resume. He's always pretty eager to share such information with me because he knows I'll always be really excited for him.

Not yesterday.

Here's a brief excerpt from our conversation:

J: So, I forgot to tell you...The History Channel contacted us today.
V: Oh really? That's pretty cool.
J: Yeah, they called about a shoot this weekend.
V: Oh, is it out of town?
J: Nope
V: That's good. Is it all weekend?
J: Nah, just Saturday
V: Um, are you going to do it? (wondering at this point why he's not more excited about this)
J: Uhhh, I dunno.
V: What's the problem with it? (cutting to the chase)
J: I guess there's a group here that do exorcisms...
V: ack
J: and they want us to go film one.

Ugh, eww. First of all the rational 26 year old in me knows that most supernatural events in life have a fully scientific explanation to them but the 7 year old Catholic school girl isn't so easily swayed. It's kinda similar to why I don't like to have any extremities hang off the bed...you know there's nothing there but you'll just sleep better if you avoid the situation all together. We'll see...