Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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Hello, my name is Ed and l . . . lwatch llDays of Our Lives. What started out 2 V2 years ago as casual T.V. watching quickly turned into a gruesome addiction that not only consumed my life but the lives of my friends around me. It was towards the end of the fall semester my sophomore year when people like Patch, Kayla and Victor Kiriakis came into my life. For the first few weeks a glance at the T.V. was all I gave. Soon afterl became acquainted with the characters and began watching everyday. Such personal activity would have been okay but soon I looked to my friends to spread this sickness. My friends, like most Wesleyan students, were easy prey for brain dead soap operas. Although they tried to resist, eventually they were asking me such questions as llDid Kim kill Emma? and Hls Victor the father? They were hooked. All I had to do was reel them in. Unfortunately, I didn't stop there. My VCR enabled me to view every episode regard- less of my classes or vacations. Probably my greatest thrill of 1988 was not my let birth- day, but meeting and taking a picture of Jo Johnson. A minor character, but still a star in my eyes. By that point nothing else mattered. Myjob, school, my friends, they all seemed unimpor- tant compared to life in Salem. I began spend- ing more and more in the magazine section at Waldbaumls reading Soap Opera Digest. I had hit rock bottom. Although it has taken several months of electrical shock therapy, I am well on the road to recovery. 1 still occasionally watch tlDays on a Friday but I have packed away my VCR and cancelled by subscription to Soap Opera Digest. As students, we often feel that at Wesleyan we are protected from such evils of society. To younger Wesleyan students, heed my warning, Stay away from soap operas. They don't create dreams, they destroy them. No matter how harmless they appear, even if it seems like lteveryone is doing it, if someone offers to change the channel to a soap opera, for God's sake JUST SAY NO! e by Ed Thorndike