"got something for canadian melodrama?"

sitting outside in the clean night air as i exhaled second-hand smoke from my lungs, s and i were contemplating life. i had a memory of a boy i had a crush on in middle school. it was then, our first year in college, that we realized we were in the same 7th grade science class together. neither of us remembered each other being there. however we could name more than half of the kids sharing our bunsen burners and long, black lab tables. many late nights thereafter, as most roommates have, we continued finding these little commonalities between us. one being our one-time love for a little canadian show on the public broadcasting system called degrassi junior high.

i can't tell you how estatic we were to find someone else in the world that loved degrassi, let alone even heard of it. we reminisced about how we loved joey jeremiah, the twins getting mono, spike and liz' hair, and on and on. s and i were among the few to understand what ben affleck and jason lee were talking about on chasing amy when they made mention of the show. and it was s who called me a couple years back telling me about degrassi the next generation being on the n. yes, we were in our late 20's and we watched but only because snake, spike and joey were on it as adults. but it was the new generation kids story lines hooked me. now that im 30 and STILL watching degrassi the next generation (along with other crap on mtv and vh1) i found out that the n is now showing degrassi old school! which is, plain and simple, reruns of degrassi junior high! you know the first thing i did was call s! when i began the conversation stating i had some very exciting news for her i think she was expecting me to say i was pregnant but no, i had called instead to tell her about our kid show that was going to be replayed for our veiwing pleasure. they play it weeknights from 11 - 2 so i only get in two episodes a nite. at first i was trying to get in 3, since we don't have a vcr on the tv with digital cable (much less a dvr like the rest of the tech. advanced world) but i wasn't able to wake up the next morning for work. so i have to live with the two i can get. it's just so refreshing to see the horrible 80's hair, clothes, and lingo. the show was so cutting edge dealing with topics of crack, teenage pregnancy and alcoholic moms. you know, even before 90210 was cutting edge.

of course, i'm the nerd that has to ask everyone in my age group if they remember the show. they all say they have no idea what im talking about. or rather, what im talking "aboot."