The power of television

In between periods of blinding pain, hits of percocet, and the long periods of "sleep" that followed them this weekend, I was lucky enough to catch the first episode of TransGeneration. For those of you who don't know, this is an eight-part documentary on the Sundance Channel that follows the daily lives of four transgendered students at universities around the country.

It's fascinating subject matter, and I enjoyed the way that the stories unfolded uniquely for each of the individuals. These documentarians, however, have done something over and above making a run-of-the-mill reality TV show that happens to be about transgendered teenagers. They've managed to inadvertently expose and examine a powerful, irrefutable universal truth that crosses all boundaries of gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity:

College kids are SO.FUCKING.ANNOYING.

I'll be sticking to Spongebob on a go-forward basis.