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( Greek - 3.20 )

So I was catching up on Brothers and Sisters, and the guy who played Alec last season (he also showed up in 4.15, which is how I realized this), the guy who Kitty almost cheated on Robert with (or did? I don't remember. They kissed, right? Does anyone on my flist even watch this show anymore?) was totally one of the leads in this play I saw with my parents over spring break at South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa. In his bio thing in the program it said he had guested on Brothers and Sisters but I didn't realize it was him until I saw 4.15 and it was like "WAIT A SECOND I SAW HIM IN REAL LIFE A WEEK AND A HALF AGO!" (He was very good in the play, btw.) I love when people on shows I've seen are in plays there. It happens pretty frequently, actually, since Costa Mesa is pretty close to L.A.

Fringe is coming back tomorrow! I'm so excited. The last episode was amazing. During the time when I got super behind on TV and wasn't watching like anything but Chuck and Greek and HIMYM and TBBT and wasn't really looking forward to any new episodes, I was super anxious for Fringe to return because omg the last episode was AMAZING and obviously ended on... kind of a cliffhanger? Not like... really a cliffhanger, but it left me wanting to know what would happen next, I guess. Anyways, it's coming back! And Glee is also only a few weeks away, right? I've been missing it recently. I have the urge to do a rewatch, but I have plenty of schoolwork and still a lot of TV to catch up on and I'm still trying to watch a lot of movies and I haven't read anything for fun in over a week and I want to try to start reading more again, so... I don't really need more things to add to my list of things to do. I have definitely caught up a bunch on TV, though. I now only have like 15 episodes to catch up on (down from 40-something from last week). Of course, the stuff I have left I'm not as eager to watch. But I'll get to it at some point.

I don't think I mentioned last time this happened, but, well... ( Major and Minor stuff )

Current Mood: anxious

I got done with my last final yesterday morning. I think it went well? Like, I was expecting it to be harder than it was, but it was harder in different ways that I didn't expect, if that makes sense. In any case, I think I did well, provided I didn't make loads of stupid mistakes, which... I do pretty often. I checked most of my answers, but I developed a really terrible headache about 10 minutes into the final and it had already been 2 hours and I just wanted to get out of there and get lunch and finish packing and leave. So we'll see.

Anyways, I'm home now, which I'm happy about. I'm not really sure what to do with myself now, though. Like, there are loads of things I've been planning on doing that I haven't had time to because of school, but now I'm like "Well I can't read a book, I have to do... something." I feel like I still have finals to study for and papers to write and such.

I woke up to the announcement of the Golden Globe nominations for TV on the radio and there were actually loads more I liked than I thought I would. First of all, though, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS! YES. Also, MICHAEL C. HALL and Dexter and Mad Men and True Blood (there are probably shows that deserve it more, but I don't care because I love this show ridiculous amounts) and Anna Paquin and Sally Field and Rachel Griffiths and John Hamm and Hugh Laurie and The Office and Steve Carell and 30 Rock and Tina Fey and that was about it. HIMYM should have been nominated, but I can forgive them for nominating NPH. I'll actually probably care more about the movie noms and wins than the TV ones, but I've barely seen any of the stuff nominated at this point, so right now I'm focused more on the TV. (I am very happy about Heath Ledger's nom, though). I'm hopefully going to see Milk within the next week and I also want to see Frost/Nixon as soon as it gets here, but it isn't playing anywhere here yet.

Ok, I think I'm going to maybe read a book today for fun (oh god I don't know when the last time I did that was).

Current Mood: good

I have a thesis for my film paper! ...that may not sound like a big deal, but after watching the film I'm supposed to analyze (Ritual in Transfigured Time, if you're interested), I was just like... what the hell am I going to say about this? And I'm so used to arguing about how various techniques contribute to form a meaning or about the author's intent in books, but that's totally the opposite of what my professor wants, since he wants us not to write about story at all and instead write as if I were a Russian Formalist. And it's just... very difficult to get my brain into this other mindset. But I wrote a thesis, which I didn't think was incredibly good but... basically the conclusions I had reached, e-mailed it to my professor, and he said it would work. So yay! Now... I just have 2000 words to write. Joy. Well, Less than 2000. My thesis is some amount of words (like... 30-50, probably). So, 1950-70 words left. And at least I have three whole days to write it, rather than just one day, like with the (longer) English paper.

I also got my last abnormal psych test back, and I got a 95, and I had expected to do worse on it than previous tests since I was more rushed for time than usual (I got 94s on the previous two tests), so I was pleasantly surprised by that. That class is already my absolutely favorite, and it doesn't hurt that I'm going to get an A pretty easily in it, unless I horribly screw up the final test next week. The rest of my classes... not going that well. Optimistic predictions would be 2 A-s and a B+, but it's more likely to be a B and two B+s. Oh well. That's still pretty good.

So yeah. Feeling mostly positive, at least for now. Bizarrely enough, the thing that's actually making me feel more negative is TV! Specifically, ( Brothers and Sisters 2.14: Double Negative )

Anyways, a week and a half until I'm done with my first year of college! I can't wait. This summer is going to be awesome.

Current Mood: okay

I watched some of the special features on the Doctor Who S3 DVDs last night, including the set tour with Freema Agyeman, and came to the conclusion that Freema is ridiculously adorable and I love her so much. I also saw that she does the commentary for The Last of the Time Lords with John Barrowman, which I am ridiculously looking forward to. I've only gotten through the commentary for Runaway Bride, the deleted scenes, the gag real, and the set tour, so it'll be a little bit before I get to that. Still, very excited.

I watched last night's Brothers & Sisters. ( Brothers & Sisters 2.12 )

I think I'm getting sick. I've felt like vomiting since last night, and I feel kind of dizzy. But I don't have a fever, and I haven't actually thrown up, so I don't know. I'm debating whether or not to go to Wind Ensemble tonight. Normally, I probably would just blow it off, but we have a concert on Friday and I'm in a smaller ensemble and have a couple solos, and we've only had the music since school started up again, so... this would be the fourth week, and we only have two rehearsals a week, and... yeah. It just seems like it's not the week to miss rehearsal. blah. I don't know.

Current Mood: sick

Ok, I've been sucking at updating this, so I'm going to make a conscious effort to update this every day. I mean, it's not that I don't like updating, and I like being able to go back through my entries, but I honestly just... forget to update. So I'm going to try harder at updating and at commenting and hopefully be more present.

...today is not really a good day to start this, though, since I have a 5 page paper due tomorrow and I haven't written a single word of it yet. I think next semester I'm going to take like all math and hard sciences and hopefully I'll have one semester with no papers. Or at least just one. I really, really hate writing papers. sigh.

Um, but, quick update! I don't know if I mentioned it or I just thought about mentioning it, but I've been watching Eli Stone. I really, really want to like it because it's Greg Berlanti and I haven't not absolutely loved anything I've seen of his (well, not entirely true; I didn't absolutely love Jack & Bobby. But Everwood and Brothers & Sisters I love infinitely) and I think the lead actor is really good and an interesting character, but... I just can't get into the show. Part of it I think is that there's no ship for me to latch onto, and that's usually a key factor in getting me obsessed with a show (and there are exceptions to that, of course; there's no ship I really strongly support in Brothers & Sisters, for example. I enjoy Robert and Kitty, and I like Kevin and Scotty, but I became obsessed with the show before Robert was introduced and before I started really liking Scotty, which didn't happen until this season). But the other part is... it's not really anything special. (Of course, this is my opinion only.) I'm hoping it gets a lot better, and I'll stick with it for awhile, but so far it's been pretty disappointing.

I have to say, I planned my schedule pretty badly this semester. Like, all the classes are good, but I have way too much class on Tuesdays/Thursdays, and on Tuesdays/Thursdays, the pairing of the classes is really bad. I start with English, where the aim is trying to interpret the meaning of the books we're reading and figure out what the author intended, and then in the afternoon I go to Film Analysis/Visual Culture where we discuss semiotics and discourse and cultural studies theories which basically all center around the fact that there is no meaning inherent in works, individuals can't transfer meaning through objects, and meaning is socially constructed and completely arbitrary. gah. It's a bad combination, because I just end up feeling like everything we discussed in English is totally worthless and pointless. And I'm kind of really wishing I hadn't taken Film Analysis/Visual Culture because we had a test last week that was basically just a one hour, in-class essay (oh god I hated those in high school so much, I thought I was done with them) and I'm pretty sure I did horribly, and it's such a long class (2 1/2 hours so we can have film screenings, except we haven't started actually watching movies yet) and I think it's going to be my hardest class, and there's another class that would've been easier, had no papers, and had a professor who is awesome (and is also my adviser), and would've been MWF so I'd have less class TR. sigh. Oh well. Too late now.

Ok. Back to work. (Or, more like, start to work.) I'm looking forward to it being tomorrow. (Especially because new Torchwood! Except I probably won't watch it until Thursday. But still! Also, MWF classes are awesome and laid back and so much better than TR classes.)

Current Mood: drained

Ugh. I'm pretty sure my brain is about to explode. Partially due solely to astronomy (So, the universe has no center and is infinite, but is expanding. Oh, and the expansion is accelerating. And there is dark matter and dark energy and no one has any real clue what they are, and we only know what like 4% of the universe even is anyways), and also partially due to the million things I have to do in the next two and a half weeks (but mostly just this week). I originally had two 10-page papers due this week (one of which I finished this weekend! Go me for having something done! Well, I still need an abstract. But whatever, that'll take 5 seconds), but one got pushed back to Monday (when I also have a 5 page paper for another class due, but it still gives me more time for the other paper, so it's still good), but I still have a presentation on Thursday and a group presentation on Tuesday and my partner was supposed to meet me today at 4 and it's 6:49 and she never met with me and she's not in her room and did I mention she has all the results so I can't even do it on my own and get it done with, and I usually don't see her until Tuesday during geology but that's when our psych lab is due and al;skfj gah. I am stressed about this. I do know where her first class is tomorrow (it's in the same room as my first class, just an hour before), so I guess if I don't talk to her tonight, I can go to class really early tomorrow and stalk her. But I really wanted to get this done tonight because I was planning on spending tomorrow in the library getting one of my papers done, or at least the research for it, or maybe starting the presentation I have Thursday, or maybe starting to think about the presentation I have on Monday, and oh god, I'm starting to feel like my brain's going to explode again.

Yeah. Have I mentioned before how much I hate group projects? And that I really can't wait until this semester is over?

I also keep missing TV which sucks, and I might have to miss most of the shows I watch this week due to how much stuff is going on. blah. I mean, I guess it's not bad to have episodes saved up to watch if the writers' strike goes on, but still. I'm afraid I'm going to miss an episode or forget or something (and of course that would be the end of the world). Ok, it's not really a big deal. I just want to watch them now.

Also, I really want a new layout, since I've had this one since like May or June, but PSP is on my computer at home. I hate that there's no PSP for Mac. I freaking spent $70 on it (which is a lot when you have no job and are going from birthday/graduation/saved/etc. money alone) and then I can't even use it on my Mac. And Photoshop is like 30 billion dollars and whatever I already bought PSP and don't want to buy a million more programs anyways. And I could get Parallels and then use PSP on this computer, but then I'd have to also get a copy of Windows XP from somewhere, and at that point I might as well buy Photoshop for 30 billion dollars. sigh. Although it's not really like I have time to play around with PSP/Photoshop as it is considering the millions of things I have to do and gah I'm procrastinating way too much.

Ok. I'm going to try to get some more work done tonight, I'll go knock on the girl who I'm doing the project with's door again in about an hour, do some more work (maybe. If I can get motivated enough), take a shower, and watch Dexter. Brothers and Sisters will probably have to wait until tomorrow (even though I won't have time tomorrow! Damnit. Whatever, maybe I'll just stay up until 1 AM and watch it anyways (I have to watch it then because I use a Slingbox to watch my stuff which transmits the cable/DVR signal from home to here through the internet, but it's on CA time because that's where my DVR is, so Brothers and Sisters which is on at 10-11 there is 12-1 for me, which... I really can't stay up that late and still function normally tomorrow)). Um. I should start working and stop procrastinating.

Current Mood: busy

Ok, so I spent the weekend basically watching every episode of Brothers and Sisters, which was kind of stupid, because I was planning on saving it for either winter break if the strike ends early, or for if the strike goes on a long time and they run out of episodes for all the shows I love to watch. But the thing is, well. It started because I was doing this presentation for my Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies class (it's about technology in relation to gender, race, and sexuality) on queer representation on television today (which, by the way, was totally the most fun presentation I've ever done, because I basically just spent 40 minutes talking about Ugly Betty and Queer as Folk and Doctor Who and Torchwood and well just about every show I've watched that has gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or intersexed characters), and I was doing "research" for it (basically just reading through the Sexuality on TV thread at TWoP to make sure I wasn't forgetting any major representations on shows I've seen) and I kept reading that the character of Kevin was one of the best representations of a gay male on television in that he wasn't stereotypical and they actually showed him having relationships and kissing men and then treated his relationships just as straight characters' relationships. So I decided to just watch a few episodes before and talk briefly about his character, but then I got hooked on the third episode and I couldn't stop watching this weekend. Which wasn't good when I had a test Monday and spent most of Sunday finishing up in time for the episode that night.

Um, but anyways. Long-winded way of saying I really, really love this show. ( Rambling about characters and stuff on Brothers and Sisters. )

I can't believe I'm going to be home again just a week from today. The past week or so has gone by really quickly. It's good, though. I'm really looking forward to being home again.