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Apr. 5th, 2009 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordugh I love HIMYM so much.
One of the things I love that I realize after watching season 2 again is that even though I adore Barney/Robin and they are my OTP and all that, I don't hate Robin/Ted. Like, I don't want them to end up together, and maybe I'd dislike them together more if I didn't already know they definitely don't end up together. But I know that they won't get back together permanently, so I can enjoy it more. And I actually find the season 1 finale sweet between them, and their break up in season 2 actually makes me sad. I mean, not sad that they won't be together anymore, but just sad because the situation is sad. If that makes any sense. I don't know. But I really love that about season 2.
I also really randomly love Monday Night Football. I mean, it's not my favorite episode ever, but I don't think it's mentioned as much as other equally awesome episodes like Slap Bet and Sandcastles in the Sand and Zip, Zip, Zip and all those. But it's like the whole episode was written for me! I've totally had the same thoughts that Ted voiced during the prayer to the Tivo gods. And I loved that the whole plot basically revolves around avoiding spoilers, because that's so true for me. Especially when I'm on the west coast and there's such a huge gap between when people start talking about the episode and when I actually get to watch it. Actually, I was entirely spoiled for what happened in Sandcastles in the Sand even though I wasn't even watching the show then and nothing was revealed outside of lj-cuts. But I was on my flist page and all of a sudden there were like a million posts about the show and everyone's moods were all happy and I was like "So Barney and Robin totally hooked up, right?" And then I checked and I was totally right, which I found pretty amusing at the time. But if I had actually been watching the show, I would've been like "Oh, crap, I would have liked that to be a surprise." (Not that I fault anyone for posting about the show afterwards because I totally would have done the same. Just saying that I'm totally familiar with that situation.) Which is also why I'm not going to be on my flist at all during the time between when the new HIMYM episodes air and when I actually get to watch them. Especially for the finale since I'll be in CA by that point, so there will be a longer wait for me to see the new episode. I mean, I'm not spoiled for anything coming up this season so I don't know for sure that anything will happen, but I'm expecting something major to happen between Barney and Robin in the finale (I mean, the whole season has been building up to that), and I'd really rather not be spoiled for it beforehand. (That was kind of a long tangent, sorry.)
Listening to the DVD commentaries and watching the features and stuff really made me fall in love with Neil Patrick Harris even more than I had already fallen in love with him before. I just love how into the show he is! How, like, I think it was for the season 1 finale, he was talking about having recorded the episode and watched it or a certain scene or something over again. And how he cried at the end of the episode! He also absolutely killed me in the commentary for Single Stamina where he starts talking about how during the shooting of the episode, he was being outed, and how he was dealing with that between takes and all that. That made me so sad for him.
Oh man, I've been so obsessed with this show the past week (...which is probably pretty obvious). I also may have watched this Barney/Robin promo far more times than is reasonable (spoilers up to the most recent episode, but nothing past that). The part in the video where Barney goes "I can't sleep, I can't eat" totally kills me, even though in the actual show the full line is played more for laughs and isn't quite as dramatic as it seems there. But it's an awesome promo, and what I love is that it was actually put out by CBS and isn't even fan-made. Of course, being as ridiculously obsessed with the show as I am right now, I am very sad that there isn't a new episode airing tomorrow. But I did discover that there will be 24 episodes of the show this season instead of 22, so there are still 5 episodes left to go rather than 3, like I originally thought.
In real life news, I might have a place to live next year. I haven't wanted to say anything about it yet because, well, what happened was that I was talking to a friend of mine from German, and she was asking where I was going to live (I guess this was like a week and a half ago) and I was like "I don't know, but I REALLY don't want to live on campus next year." And she was like "Well, I have a friend who's a senior who's going to be leaving her apartment, I could ask her for you." And I was like "Oh sure, that sounds great," but I wasn't really expecting anything from it. And a week went by and she didn't say anything and I kind of forgot about it, but last Tuesday we were talking again and I was like "I got a crappy room draw number so I definitely need to find a place off-campus" and she was like "Oh, I guess I should ask my friend for you!" And I was like "Yeah, sure," again, even though I didn't expect her to, but then the next day when I saw her, she had actually talked to her friend. And I asked her about when she would be leaving, and she's not moving out until like September 1st which is totally perfect because I didn't want to have to live here over the summer. And she said that I should probably talk to the landlord, but if I wanted to see the place first, she'd talk to her friend about me coming over. And so yesterday she texted me her friend's e-mail so I could e-mail her about seeing the apartment and she just e-mailed me back and so I'm going to go check it out on Thursday afternoon probably. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but this would be really awesome if it would work out.
I have a test in Research in Psych on Thursday which I'm not too nervous about, and a project due in Differential Equations which I'm freaking out about. Especially since my group hasn't even met yet. Li said she'd send an e-mail around Thursday night, which of course she didn't. So I sent one this morning, but no one's responded yet, and I have no idea how to do any of the problems. ugh, I'm kind of hating this class. But on the plus side, we're randomly getting Good Friday off this year (I swear we never got it off during high school, and we definitely didn't get it off last year so I don't know why we are this year, but whatever, not complaining), so at least I only have 4 days to get through this week. I really can't wait until it's Thursday.
One of the things I love that I realize after watching season 2 again is that even though I adore Barney/Robin and they are my OTP and all that, I don't hate Robin/Ted. Like, I don't want them to end up together, and maybe I'd dislike them together more if I didn't already know they definitely don't end up together. But I know that they won't get back together permanently, so I can enjoy it more. And I actually find the season 1 finale sweet between them, and their break up in season 2 actually makes me sad. I mean, not sad that they won't be together anymore, but just sad because the situation is sad. If that makes any sense. I don't know. But I really love that about season 2.
I also really randomly love Monday Night Football. I mean, it's not my favorite episode ever, but I don't think it's mentioned as much as other equally awesome episodes like Slap Bet and Sandcastles in the Sand and Zip, Zip, Zip and all those. But it's like the whole episode was written for me! I've totally had the same thoughts that Ted voiced during the prayer to the Tivo gods. And I loved that the whole plot basically revolves around avoiding spoilers, because that's so true for me. Especially when I'm on the west coast and there's such a huge gap between when people start talking about the episode and when I actually get to watch it. Actually, I was entirely spoiled for what happened in Sandcastles in the Sand even though I wasn't even watching the show then and nothing was revealed outside of lj-cuts. But I was on my flist page and all of a sudden there were like a million posts about the show and everyone's moods were all happy and I was like "So Barney and Robin totally hooked up, right?" And then I checked and I was totally right, which I found pretty amusing at the time. But if I had actually been watching the show, I would've been like "Oh, crap, I would have liked that to be a surprise." (Not that I fault anyone for posting about the show afterwards because I totally would have done the same. Just saying that I'm totally familiar with that situation.) Which is also why I'm not going to be on my flist at all during the time between when the new HIMYM episodes air and when I actually get to watch them. Especially for the finale since I'll be in CA by that point, so there will be a longer wait for me to see the new episode. I mean, I'm not spoiled for anything coming up this season so I don't know for sure that anything will happen, but I'm expecting something major to happen between Barney and Robin in the finale (I mean, the whole season has been building up to that), and I'd really rather not be spoiled for it beforehand. (That was kind of a long tangent, sorry.)
Listening to the DVD commentaries and watching the features and stuff really made me fall in love with Neil Patrick Harris even more than I had already fallen in love with him before. I just love how into the show he is! How, like, I think it was for the season 1 finale, he was talking about having recorded the episode and watched it or a certain scene or something over again. And how he cried at the end of the episode! He also absolutely killed me in the commentary for Single Stamina where he starts talking about how during the shooting of the episode, he was being outed, and how he was dealing with that between takes and all that. That made me so sad for him.
Oh man, I've been so obsessed with this show the past week (...which is probably pretty obvious). I also may have watched this Barney/Robin promo far more times than is reasonable (spoilers up to the most recent episode, but nothing past that). The part in the video where Barney goes "I can't sleep, I can't eat" totally kills me, even though in the actual show the full line is played more for laughs and isn't quite as dramatic as it seems there. But it's an awesome promo, and what I love is that it was actually put out by CBS and isn't even fan-made. Of course, being as ridiculously obsessed with the show as I am right now, I am very sad that there isn't a new episode airing tomorrow. But I did discover that there will be 24 episodes of the show this season instead of 22, so there are still 5 episodes left to go rather than 3, like I originally thought.
In real life news, I might have a place to live next year. I haven't wanted to say anything about it yet because, well, what happened was that I was talking to a friend of mine from German, and she was asking where I was going to live (I guess this was like a week and a half ago) and I was like "I don't know, but I REALLY don't want to live on campus next year." And she was like "Well, I have a friend who's a senior who's going to be leaving her apartment, I could ask her for you." And I was like "Oh sure, that sounds great," but I wasn't really expecting anything from it. And a week went by and she didn't say anything and I kind of forgot about it, but last Tuesday we were talking again and I was like "I got a crappy room draw number so I definitely need to find a place off-campus" and she was like "Oh, I guess I should ask my friend for you!" And I was like "Yeah, sure," again, even though I didn't expect her to, but then the next day when I saw her, she had actually talked to her friend. And I asked her about when she would be leaving, and she's not moving out until like September 1st which is totally perfect because I didn't want to have to live here over the summer. And she said that I should probably talk to the landlord, but if I wanted to see the place first, she'd talk to her friend about me coming over. And so yesterday she texted me her friend's e-mail so I could e-mail her about seeing the apartment and she just e-mailed me back and so I'm going to go check it out on Thursday afternoon probably. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but this would be really awesome if it would work out.
I have a test in Research in Psych on Thursday which I'm not too nervous about, and a project due in Differential Equations which I'm freaking out about. Especially since my group hasn't even met yet. Li said she'd send an e-mail around Thursday night, which of course she didn't. So I sent one this morning, but no one's responded yet, and I have no idea how to do any of the problems. ugh, I'm kind of hating this class. But on the plus side, we're randomly getting Good Friday off this year (I swear we never got it off during high school, and we definitely didn't get it off last year so I don't know why we are this year, but whatever, not complaining), so at least I only have 4 days to get through this week. I really can't wait until it's Thursday.
