Wed, March 9, 2005
All's well that ends well—11:22 PM
I had a few minutes between the time I finished watching West Wing (Argh! Driver's licenses for illegals! When will they learn?!) and the time I switched off the TiVo, and it was recording Diane Sawyer's interview with supermodel/tsunami survivor Petra Nemcova. Yeah, I set TiVo up to record it – it seemed like a harmless enough thing to record, and it might be interesting. I'm not ashamed at all to say that I had her Swimsuit Issue cover on the top of a stack of magazines on my dresser for months and enjoyed seeing her flirtatious smile every morning as I left for work. It's quite a picture!
Petra Nemcova in Barbados
There are thousands upon thousands of stories from the tsunami, and of course hers is no more nor less important than any one of them. But I'm not exactly shocked that hers is the one that merits an hour of prime time, so I'm going to find a way to live with it. She's quite a cutie. I only watched about two minutes so far, but she had adorable things to say about how she found the will to survive while she was clinging, battered and exsanguinating, to the side of a tree for most of a day. I'm proud of her.
And hey, maybe some good can come of this – maybe now little girls will dream of growing up to be supermodels!
"Sharon" — Mon, 3/14/05 10:02pm
My Heart goes out to this girl for what she endured both emotionally and physically.I w