What I’m Watching

A while back, I watched Mean Girls 2. Obviously this was in response to the success of the 2004 movie Mean Girls – I thought the original was one of the best movies I’ve seen. Unfortunately, the sequel to it wasn’t.

Mean Girls 2 stars Meaghan Martin playing the role of Jo Mitchell, the new girl in town. Similar to the first Mean Girls, Jo is picked on by a group called the Plastics, girls who are overconcerned about their physical appearance and gain popularity and social status by bullying others. The Plastics soon start picking on Jo’s father as well, which further enrages Jo and fuels her to retaliate against the Plastics.

I’m not sure if this was intended or not, but I see Mean Girls 2 as more of a remake of the original Mean Girls rather than a sequel. The plots are extremely similar, down to the relationships among the characters and the way in which the characters develop personality-wise as they mature.

If you haven’t seen the original Mean Girls yet, I recommend you see that rather than the second version. If you’ve already seen the original and want to see a remake of it, you should watch the second version. If not, I’m sure there’s plenty of other better movies out there that you will probably be more interested in seeing.

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Topic #66: What are your favorite slang words? Which ones are overused?

I actually have a strong disliking for all slang words, and I’m very critical about using the proper words at proper times. I think that all slang words are overused because they shouldn’t be used at all.

Back on February 16 of this year, the Daily Post prompt told me to describe my favorite and least favorite word. I stated that my least favorite words were any words that had multiple meanings that could be subsituted with a different, more precise word.

Generally, all slang words are regular words that originally had one meaning that now have a completely irrelevant and random meaning because of the slang connotation. For example, “cool” is probably one of the oldest slang words that there is. As we all know, cool’s real meaning is something that is of low temperature, but not low enough to be considered cold. Some day a long time ago, someone decided that “cool” could also be used to describe something good, appealing, or desirable. Obviously, being good, appealing, or desirable has nothing to do with temperature, but this person decided that “cool” would be a good word to use to describe this new trait instead of creating a completely new and unused word.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2