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adelagia and I are ultra cool people. OK no, we are giant dorks. But we are so dorky that it almost becomes cool. Y/Y? Case in point: We spent hours -- literally hours and hours -- this weekend playing board games at Crossroads. Because you know what we discovered? The Uncle's Games there has a WALL of board games that you can take and play at the outside tables for free. It is AWESOME. We are not talking about your run-of-the-mill Monopoly/Life/Scrabble board games. We are talking about adult board games for serious board gamers (first introduced to me by the ultra cool herself

romanticalgirl). The game we spent the most time on was Pandemic, which is a really fun BUT HARD SO HARD, cooperative game. I don't know how many times the world succumbed to disease before T and I were finally able to save it. We played so many times, you guys. You don't even know how accomplished we felt when we finally won, lol. After that we played Forbidden Island (by the same guy who made Pandemic), but that was child's play in comparison. We also played Lost Cities, which has the worst instructions ever, but once we figured it out we warmed up to it. We played until Crossroads closed -- but is it our fault that the place closes at 6pm on Sundays? WTF, amirite?

If I ever get a new house and move -- which is looking less and less likely -- I am totally going to dedicate a room to board gaming. I'm going to have a gaming table and have shelves filled with awesome board games. My dreams are small.

I have discovered the beauty and wonder of The Big Bang Theory. I love Sheldon to pieces. It took me a season and a half to like Penny. She was just so generic early on, and plus was such a stereotype, that it was hard to like her. But she's finally grown on me, and I actually like her and Sheldon's interactions (not necessarily in a romantic sense) the best... because they are truly opposites, and neither of them are sexually interested in the other, so their relationship stems truly from growing to like each other in their own ways. I also really like Koothrappali. Harold is meh, and I pretty much despise Leonard. They're both fairly shitty friends -- maybe that's what I don't like about them. The only thing that rubs me the wrong way about the show is that they continually perpetuate various stereotypes, particularly that no attractive woman could possibly be into science, video games, or science fiction/fantasy TV/movies. Maybe I find that particularly grating/insulting given how I nerded out above re: board games, but I know plenty of attractive, intelligent women who are interested in such topics. We don't all have to be dumb blondes who work at the Cheesecake Factory. (Also, I wish they'd created a fictitious place for Penny to work, because where she works is SO not the CF. Every CF looks the same, they have a distinctive interior design, and their uniforms do not look like they belong in some local diner.)

I found out a spoiler about S4/S5 (I'm only midway through S3 at the moment), so spoilery commentary here:

One of the interesting things about the Sheldon character is that up through where I've watched, he's been an asexual character. The characters have even openly talked about that very thing. However, I learn that he gets a love interest in Mayim Bialik (who I had a class with at UCLA and she used to call me about homework, lol, though obviously we did not stay friends beyond that class), and... without having met her character yet, I'm resistant. I feel like he should stay asexual, almost like a child. Or if he were to have a love interest, I think it should be Penny (even though I went a bit cold on that once she slept with -- ew -- Leonard), for the reasons I stated above.

Also, I think that they've so far sucked at taking advantage of their one-episode guest stars, with the sole exception of Christine Baranski. Summer Glau was totally wasted -- what a lame cameo. Same with Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (as the prostitute in Vegas). And Katee Sackhoff. And Michael Trucco. (Lulz two BSG stars though.) Wil Wheaton was okay, but ultimately still wasted. The problem with his, Katee's and Summer's cameos was that they played themselves, so it was fairly limiting in terms of storylines.