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I finished reading Watchmen over the weekend. I definitely liked it more than I did when I was starting it in January. I feel like I need to read it again, though, before I can fully appreciate it. And I know I missed loads of little details. Not sure when I'll see the movie, but hopefully soon.

Some of the choices for the Fandom Steel Cage Match are making me cry a little inside. Booth is beating Dexter right now? Really? I mean, granted, I haven't been following Bones, but I did watch the first 5 or so episodes, and based on the first five episodes of Bones versus the first five episodes of Dexter, Dexter wins in a landslide. But beyond that, Dexter is one of my favorite characters EVER. There are few characters I would vote over him. Also, House beating Chuck? I can find that one slightly more understandable, at least. I was also happy for awhile because Ned was beating Dean, but Dean's now back in the lead. It's not that I don't like Dean, but... I don't know. I don't love him nearly as much as everyone else seems to, and I definitely like Ned more.

Actually, I think I have a problem with all the current results except for Barney beating Liz and Ten beating Mal. Besides what I already mentioned, I would really, really love Lorelai to beat Spike, but I don't see that happening seeing as pretty much everyone in Buffy fandom adores Spike. blah. Ok, I probably shouldn't care so much about this. But it still feels kind of frustrating.

Anyway, this week is thankfully not too busy compared to the last few weeks. I got my German test from Friday back that I didn't think I did very well on, and I got an A/A-. She must have curved it because there's no way I did better on this test than the first one. I'm still stressing out over the Multivariate Stats test from last week that she hasn't returned yet. I really just can't wait until Friday. Only 4 days left!

So I wrote this up like a month ago and was just waiting for the Doctor Who finale to post, but then it came and I totally forgot about it. But anyways, since I did a short review of all the shows I watched last year, I figured I'd do the same for this year. There are spoilers, so if you haven't seen all of a TV show that aired this year then you might not want to read it (the shows under the cut are Battlestar Galactica, The Black Donnellys, Doctor Who, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, House, Lost, My Name is Earl, The O.C., The Office, Prison Break, Studio 60, Supernatural, Torchwood, Ugly Betty, and Veronica Mars). ( 2006-2007 Television Season )

I totally caught my mom watching a rerun of Ugly Betty last night. I'm so awesome at getting her to watch the TV shows I like.

I've been failing at updating and yet I've had absolutely nothing to do. I only had two full days of school last week due to AP tests and this week I haven't had any yet (although now I'm done with AP tests so that'll change). I've had no homework due to not going to class/teachers being kind and not assigning any.

I saw Spider-Man 3 on Friday with Jackie and Galaxy. That was... not so good. I thought I had lowered my expectations for it, but I didn't expect to not like it for the reasons I did, I guess. I felt like the beginning was boring, the middle was ridiculous (like they were trying to be funny, but went way over the top), and the very end was good. Oh well. If they make a fourth, I'd probably see it. Ah, there are so many sequels coming out, though. The trailers before it started, it was like... one original movie at the beginning, and then it was Harry Potter 5, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Shrek 3, The Fantastic Four 2. So many sequels. It kind of got ridiculous after awhile.

2 hour until the last episode of Gilmore Girls ever! I'm kind of sad. I started watching that show when its very first episode aired when I was in 6th grade. I don't really know why, I think maybe because it came on before Charmed, but yeah. I've watched it ever since. I think I'm going to do what I did when The O.C. ended and make a post of my favorite moments, but it'll probably be a week or two until I do that since I have a bunch of memory book pages to finish before Monday and I feel like I should finish those first.

I'm in a very... book-reading-mood. I don't know why. I read all of Persuasion by Jane Austen on Sunday night (which I didn't mean to, I just was planning to read a few chapters, and then I got sucked in) and then all of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger on Sunday and Monday. Reading The Time Traveler's Wife was totally just like reading Jane Eyre last fall all over again in terms of how obsessed I got over it and how I wanted to be reading it every minute and then rushing through it and being sad when it was over. I ordered like 4 books from Dover Publications because they are ridiculously cheap ($9 for four books! Well, ok, plus $5 shipping, but still. $14 is pretty good for two books, even!) but they probably won't come until next week, which makes me sad. I want new reading material now.

AP tests are over for me, anyways. I don't have much to say about them, except that I'm glad they're over, especially since I'm not even sending my scores. They started getting really tired near the end; Physics and Chem felt like I would never finish them. The English one was honestly kind of fun, though. It was kind of cool analzying a passage and poems without stressing out over the grade. And the prompt for the prose was totally exactly what we wrote our last two essays on. Not so much the last one (the prompt was different, but the essay ended up being about the same subject) but definitely the second to last one. I basically just rewrote that essay, except I used one character instead of 3. But yeah, I'm glad those are over.

I'm basically just waiting for school to be over now. 31 days until the last day of senior finals (and then a few days after that until graduation). I really can't wait for it to be over.

( Gilmore Girls 7.14: Farewell, My Pet )

( Veronica Mars 3.13: Postgame Mortem )

Saturday and Sunday I finished my season 3 and season 4 DVDs of The West Wing. I'm still absolutely loving this show. I think I'm going to get at least season 5 from my parents, and I'm super anxious. I've heard from many places that season 5 is the worst season, but I'm still looking forward to it. I've lowered my expectations I think based on everything I've heard, and besides, I got through season 8 of Charmed. If I can handle that, I can handle anything. Plus, I'm spoiled for some stuff in season 7 and I'm super excited for it, so I at least have that motivating me to get through it.

wtf I want my car back! 2-3 weeks ago when I first took it in they said it would be ready on the 5th, which was last Thursday. My mom told me it'd be like 3-4 weeks, so I was really happy with that, since it was sooner than I expected. But then Thursday they were like "We're almost done, we just got to do this thing, and you can have it Friday." Friday it wasn't done, but they said definitely Saturday. Saturday, still not done, but Monday! Monday it was almost finished, and on Tuesday they'd deliver it themselves to my house. Well, it's Tuesday, and now they're saying it'll be for sure done tomorrow. For some reason, I don't believe them. I mean, I'd be fine with if it they'd just told me in the first place it'd be like three weeks because I wasn't expecting it to be done so soon. And it doesn't even seem like they underestimated the time it would take, because each day they keep saying it'll be done the next day. It just makes me think they're saying it'll be done the next day to placate me when they know it really won't be done for like another week. The thing is, I'd rather they just tell me the truth about when it'll be done then lie to me.

Anyways. Hello to new friends from the fall friending meme! Just to let you (and the rest of my friends list who doesn't already know), I suck at checking my flist on Mondays and Tuesdays because Mondays I get home at 5:15, have until 8 to finish homework (and Mondays I usually have the most amount of homework), watch TV from 8-11, then sleep at 11 so I'm not dead at school the next day, and Tuesdays I don't get home till 8 because of Symphony, and then I watch TV till 10 and that usually doesn't give me enough time to do anything online. But I'll catch up on everything tomorrow afternoon.

Now for TV stuff! Some of this probably doesn't need to go behind a cut, and I don't think I have a lot to say about anything, but here we go anyways:

( Heroes )

( Studio 60 )

( Gilmore Girls )

( Veronica Mars )

blah. I still have French homework to finish. Off to do that now.

( Gilmore Girls )

I watched House last night too, but I never have anything to say about it. I enjoy it, but I'm not involved enough in the show to have anything to say, or any actual opinions about what should happen (other than boo Cameron/House, yay Wilson/House).

Things in real life have been slowly getting better. I think I posted about how everything seemed to be going wrong, but it's been going up this week, so far. My car will be fixed a week from tomorrow which is a lot sooner than my mom originally told me she thought it would take, which is good, since I really miss having a car.

Supernatural premiere tomorrow night! woohoo! And another new episode of The Office! eee! :D

Ah, such a nice day. I pretty much just played The Sims 2 all morning and didn't talk to anyone and it was very good. It felt so much like a Saturday, and not just because we didn't have school today and usually I have school on Fridays. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's because my parents didn't go out tonight and they've been going out every Friday night for like over a year now. Anyways, it's nice, because it feels like I only have one more day before going back to school, but really I have 2, so yay. :)

I saw the second half of the Gilmore Girls pilot this afternoon, and wow. How did Alexis Bledel become such a bad actress the past 6 years? Because she was really, really good as 16-year old Rory, and now she's just... bleh. I hate how she acts now (and I don't mean the character, I mean the actress; she's adopted this sort of baby-voice and I can't really explain it, but it's been bothering me for like 2 years now). And Rory herself isn't hateable! And I like Lorelai now, but she was way better before. I miss the beginning of Gilmore Girls. Its first season was so freaking good.

Tomorrow is more nothing. Well, hopefully animal shelter (bleh, I'm going to have like 4 hours for this month. I really need to go more), and then hopefully I'll start working on headers for Christmas requests, because if I don't start now, I'm going to leave them all until the week before, and that would be bad.

Today was my first time going to Symphony, so after school I drove Jackie, Emma, Ariel, Galaxy, and Mukul to Albertsons/Del Taco and we had dinner and then went back to school. Pretty uneventful day, but it was good.

( Gilmore Girls )

( My Name is Earl )

( Supernatural )

Stolen from everyone ever:

Go here and choose the following:

1. One that makes you automatically think of me.
2. One that you think I should TOTALLY use more often.
3. One that you don't get/needs more explanation/you have no idea why the hell I have it.

guh. I have to write an essay tomorrow in Euro. I mean, at least for this we got 5 possible free response prompts, unlike for the English essay last week, but still. I didn't prepare very well for them and I'm pretty much screwed. Well, there are like 2 that I'm ok at, but bah. I don't know. It's 100 points, too. But then, it seems like everything in Euro is many, many points. We have an 80 question multiple choice test in Euro on Friday, too, and I'd be surprised if that wasn't up around 80-100 points. It's annoying, because it makes things seem more important than they actually are.

( Other reasons to hate Euro. )

sigh. Anyways. Nothing much in school today, except we had the first sub of the year and it was in chemistry, of all classes (I want a sub in Euro. Or French. Permanently), and her face looked like it had been Botox-ed a lot and she looked kind of dead. And she spent the entire class period ordering things from magazines on the phone. It was pretty bizarre.

( Gilmore Girls )

( Supernatural )

Tuesday night TV!

( Gilmore Girls )

( House )

( Supernatural )