whine, whine, pout, pout...

i spent two hours tonight watching american idol...sigh.

i attempted to count points today and follow all of my goals for the week. but then i got caught up in the emotional and physical funk of being stuck with a needle four times today. both hands, an arm and a finger.

i didn't do horribly bad - mostly because taco bueno gave me a plain beef burrito instead of a potato beef burrito. and who wants to eat a burrito just of beef - not me or my iron loving self. so i only managed to stuff a taco and cinnamon chips in my mouth. oh and the medium coke. but other than that i behaved - except for the water intake, veggie/fruit intake...oh suck i failed everything today.

i'm fascinated by the below. i'm caught somewhere between - i will feel like a complete idiot and i will be able to call other people complete idiots. regardless in the promo tonight a contestant was asked what a prime number was and i didn't know. sure i've heard of a prime number and answered it on test once but it is long gone. it left somewhere between debits and credits and how to use proper ap style (note - i still suck at both of those examples).

Fox tests nation's fifth-grade knowledge
Associated Press

PASADENA, Calif. - Every parent's nightmare - being exposed for not knowing what's in your kid's school textbook - will soon play out on national television.

Fox announced Saturday that it is making a new game show, "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" that will air sometime later this year, perhaps as early as the spring.

Adults will compete in a quiz based on questions from elementary school textbooks. Actual elementary school students will be on hand as "experts" for the adults to consult with.

"While most game shows measure how smart you are, this is a show that will measure how dumb you are," said Peter Liguori, Fox entertainment president.

Fox won a competition with other networks to buy the idea from Mark Burnett, executive producer of "Survivor," perhaps because Liguori - not too modestly - said he was the only chief network television executive to answer all six questions from the show correctly.

And in case you were wondering...
A prime number is a positive integer that has exactly two positive integer factors, 1 and itself. For example, if we list the factors of 28, we have 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, and 28. That's six factors. If we list the factors of 29, we only have 1 and 29. That's two factors. So we say that 29 is a prime number, but 28 isn't.