It Started with a Journal

There are three reasons I haven't been watching The Vampire Diaries:

1) I rarely watch ANY television during its original airing. I usually watch TV on DVD, so I'm almost always a season or two behind. Shows I love like Mad Men, House, Lost, Arrested Development, Gilmore Girls, Prison Break, Rome, How I Met Your Mother, etc., I watch/watched on DVD. There are a few rare shows that I try to keep up with in real time, like Glee and S4 of Dexter, but that requires watching on Hulu or downloading a torrent, which I am too lazy to do for most shows. It sucks because this means I am more sensitive to spoilers (an entire season could be spoiled), but it's also nice because I can skip commercials AND watch episode after episode of one show and watch events unfold in a less disjointed way.

2) I hate Twilight and am resistant to anything that appears to try and win audiences over because it's trying to take advantage of the 'hot new thing.' I am skeptical there could be quality there for that reason, particularly because the 'hot new thing' it's trying to take advantage of is so low quality to begin with that it's obviously not aiming toward discerning audiences.

3) I LOVED the L.J. Smith book series. I read them as a teenage girl, before Buffy came along and made vampires cool, and it was one of my favorite series. So I was even more resistant to the show based on my skepticism that they would be able to do it well (given point #2) and my fear that they'd ruin something I had really loved. (And my fear that the series itself wouldn't stand up to the test of time.)

However, I've read and seen enough about the show at this point that I think I'm ready to give it a shot. I'm #8 in my library queue for the first season, but I think it's going to take awhile as there's only 1 copy available. Still, I thought it was going to be a show that I'd never watch, so the fact that I will do so eventually is a big step!

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I'm also going to start watching The Shield. I don't actually know anyone who watches this show, but I've heard/read enough critical acclaim about it that I'd like to see it. I've gotten the complete series on DVD; it's kind of cool-looking, actually. It's like a big hardcover book, with little inserts for the discs.

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My BSG Blu-Rays have come! I don't know now whether to start rewatching those or starting The Shield.

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I'm on S7 of XF. It wasn't a bad season but I DREAD what's coming. Why did they attempt to do XF w/o DD?! Greedy fuckers. I mean, XF just isn't XF w/o Mulder and Scully. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.

The Samantha resolution though, wtf? (The end of Closure is beautiful, however.)

Mulder constantly breaks my heart.

I'm interested in rereading my favorite fanfics from way back when, but I suspect a lot of them won't be available anymore. A lot of people took down their stories after they finally realized that having their real names associated with fanfic might not be such a good idea. I've already gone back to reread a couple, and those unfortunately did not pass the test of time.

I want to go back and rewatch S6. Again. Other than Agua Mala and Trevor it was pretty a much a perfect season, imho. Freaking Agua Mala, I spit on it.

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I still haven't seen Lost S6. Or the latest season of House. Or of course Mad Men S4. OMG so much to catch up on! I have tons of vacation, maybe I should take some time off and just watch TV the whole time. Hey, that'd be a pretty darn relaxing vacation.

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I also want to rewatch Buffy again. Also Firefly, which I also just got on Blu-Ray. Maybe I'll do a Whedon binge after I've watched everything else mentioned here.

I've actually been writing (my ficathon fic), so indulge me in WoWness...

Happy happy joy joy! seldon says he's gotten WoW! Squee, delay in shipping notwithstanding! Now the eternal question becomes, what new character do I create? Sounds like he might want to be a gnome, which means Alliance. ONLY FOR YOU, CARLOS, WILL I BE ALLIANCE. ONLY FOR YOU. (Well, along with my two existing Alliance chars, but that's neither here nor there.)

( Other random WoW things. )

Okay, so I watched "Sports Medicine" on House last night, and I just have one question: Was that guy the actor who played Noel on Felicity? Because it looked like him, but I didn't recognize his name in the guest star credits, and while I can't recall what it is, I'm sure I'd know it if I saw it. If it wasn't him, he looked freakishly like Noel on Felicity. I'm just saying. However, I am 99% positive that the woman was the actress who played that annoying girl on Dawson's Creek. She made me go all Michael Bluth when she was crying. I was like, "How can I make you never make that face again?" I don't think it was so much that she was crying badly as it is that she looked really awful doing it -- even worse than the way normal people look when we cry, not when actresses cry on screen. (For an example of really good crying, see Inara do it in "Heart of Gold" on Firefly.)

Massive vacation update. It's hard to imagine that I might have left something out, but I probably did. I already miss being on vacation, even though it's beyond thrilling to have my own bed and have all my stuff around me. For one thing, it's freakin' freezing here now, and it was always in the 70s and 80s on the east coast. Woe.

( The good eating was had -- including Mystic Pizza and Tasti-D-Lite! )

( The eating we planned to have, but didn't, alas, actually have. )

( The Broadway shows we watched, including Alan Tudyk in Spamalot! )

Traffic was freakishly good this morning. Is there some kind of holiday going on that I don't know about?

So did I mention that I put my condo up for sale? I can't remember. Anyway, it got listed on Thursday, and my agents (I got rid of my old agent, who I was not happy with) noted on the listing that I did not want to review offers until Monday, with the hope that I would have multiple offers to choose from. I didn't hear anything over the weekend, so I assumed that they'd been too optimistic. Well, I got a call this morning from one of the agents, and apparently there have been a couple of offers to come in, so we're going to meet tonight to go over them. O.o My mom's like, "I knew you should have asked for more." But I thought it was a reasonable price, plus my condo dues are very high -- $257/month. Just for dues! Not counting the mortgage! Anyway, I have yet to see what the actual offers entail, so I don't know that this monkey is off my back yet -- I mean, what if they suck? It'd be nice to get this settled before I leave, but it won't be the end of the world if I don't.

I had a fairly frivolous weekend.

( I watched Firefly. )

( I also watched some S1 House. )

( There was also come college football viewing. )

( I played WoW. )

Also, I wish the world to know that Jade is an Indian giver, and took back the Xbox Lego Star Wars game that she and Robbie gave me for an early bday present. Well, she claims that she accidentally packed it into her luggage by mistake and that she'll return it to me in NY, but this seems a likely story.