Theron and the Millennials

I was watching Charlize Theron host SNL last night and she mentioned that the last time she hosted the show was in 2000, fourteen years ago.  This led me to the thought process of how I think of my students and the fact that they are millennials leaves less and less common ground.  In other words, I'm getting older and the gap is getting bigger.  This wasn't just prompted by last night SNL's episode, but it was also prompter back in the last day of April.  The typical joke is that Justin Timberlake meme mentioned that "It's Gonna be May," a spin off of the NSync song, "It's Gonna Be Me" poking fun at Timberlake's pronunciation.  I digress, when I showed the meme to my coworker, she led me to a Buzzfeed list that mentioned this that the graduating class of 2018 high schooler will not know.  The list can be found here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/extremely-upsetting-facts-about-the-class-of-2018
It mentions how they don't know that Destiny's Child is a trio, or at all.  It came full circle as Charlize Theron mentioned how she was in a skit where she played a member of Gemini's Twins in 2000, an SNL group made to parody Destiny's Child.


Funny how those things go, but some things stay universal among the generations.  For example, my niece's favorite franchise, which is all things Oz, came to life as we saw the theater production of "The Wizard of Oz." We got to meet the cast as well, it was great fun.

With my brother and niece and Glinda

My niece meeting the cast

Scarecrow, takes one to know one

These great years that have passed have also brought with it great events, some which occured in the past couple of weeks.  From Britney to brunches.

Vegas!

The Britney: Piece of Me Show

I got my seafood (oysters & crab) fix at the Wynn

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with these awesome people a la Mexicana

Brunch at Terra Nia

Cruising through Long Beach

Blessed to have awesome people in my life. To all the moms out there, Happy Mother's Day!