daytime t.v.

i was watching all my children today and JR was in his father, Adam's, face about how he ruined his life because of what he did to JR's mother, Dixie, and i remembered that the whole Adam, Dixie, JR conflict was happening right around the time that i started to watch. See, Adam was trying to make Dixie feel like she was crazy and unfit to take care of her son, JR. JR as just a baby when i started watching, and I was eight. So that means that in real life time JR should be around 15 years old, but JR has a child of his own now, and he has been married and divorced. I think he is probably in his late twenties. this is what i love about about soap operas, they exist in a timeless world. the day is never mentioned, or time of day, sometimes the same day is on for days on end. when edmund died a few weeks ago they pronounced the time of death, 930 am, but when edmund was hit by the shovel and caught in the burning stables it was clearly nighttime. time is so meaningless in soap operas. the other day ethan was on the phone planning his evil scheme to take down erica kane, and he said, "okay, we'll meet on tuesday." that has no meaning to the audience, when is tuesday? i don't know. everyone in pine valley just seems to float along, no real work to do, except of course getting away evil killers, plotting revenge schemes, and having torrid love affairs. i think that is what heaven must be like, a soap opera. this timeless place where every has nice clothes and you can always have fresh squeezed orange juice with breakfast and if you want it to be night so you can have sex on your satin sheets is automatically night. and even if someone dies, you know they aren't really dead, but just attempting to make a career for themselves outside of daytime television. you know they'll be back, they always come back to pine valley.