Not for anything tonight.

I am so behind, I'm just catching up to posting about last week's Amazing Race. Wrote this in an email to a friend nearly a week ago, meant to edit it and post here. Then I figured I'd just wait till people were in the mood again tonight. So here goes. My immediate reaction last week:

Man. Almost the best ep ever. That gretchen drove me NUTS with her screeching, but I just love her to death after she suffered that fall and kept right on going. I was just amazed at her (still kinda screeching) at her hubby to search for the clue with they stitched her freaking head. They're bandaging her up, and she's like, "We've still got a roadblock to get through." Wow. Every time I see her now, with her face all scraped up, I have a new respect for her.

But the surfer dudes. They've been my faves right from the start, and they were something else this week. Made me cry watching them come apart and hug each other after their frantic dash to the mat.

Did i ever tell you they remind me slightly of you somehow? [Figured I'd leave that part in. Even though they're nothing outwardly like my buddy.] Not sure how, exactly. Just a certain zest for life, mixed with an omnipresent silliness.

And i'm so glad that girlfriend-abuser bit it. Could there have been more poetic justice than them coming in first place the one day he dropped the abuse and supported her; but he could only stand to hold it back 24 hours, in spite of the results it got him--apparently
berating his girlfriend is infinitely more satisfying than the winning he claims to be after--and his abuse grew so disabling that they lost a freaking physical challenge to two grandparents, one of them just a day away of needing medical attention? how insanely pathetic is that?

And how fitting? The amazing part is hearing him whine incessantly about her whining incessantly, and destroying all hope for teamwork with his constant berating about lack of teamwork. What is this guy, an irony machine?

Heeheehee. That's one of the reasons I love this show. The horrible people nearly always do themselves in with their horribleness. The nicest people don't always win, but they at least work their way toward the top, and the despicable ones usually fall away much
earlier, even when they're physically gifted.

I just hope the surfer dudes can hang in there. I'm not sure they're quite good enough to win, but there's a lot of luck and they're pretty good, so they've got shot.