When people comment about how much television my kids watch, I like to come back with "well, they watch educational shows like Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs." That just sounds better than "Sponge Bob", which is also a favorite at home and not as impressively highbrow. Mythbusters is great. It's a show where they, uh, bust myths. (I'm lazy. Go google it or something.) And Dirty Jobs is also pretty self-explanatory, but they use the word "dirty" more in a literal sense as in "soiled with dirt; foul; unclean," and not so much "obscene; lewd." The host, Mike Rowe, performs real life dirty jobs such as cleaning garbage and treating sewage. Yes, it's gross and I don't watch it except occasionally when the dirty job involves something non-poo like clouds of flour at a bakery. I can stomach that. (I also like Mike Rowe. He reminds me of a gentlemanly lumberjack. You know, the kind of guy who can swing an ax and recite poetry at the same time.)

Now I'm worried that I might get an outraged letter from the school principal, because lately Tess loves to say, "When I grow up I want to have a dirty job."