The Southern Lights

Today's super-annoying, very-first-world problem: despite all the free time on my hands, I am STILL behind on most of my TV shows.  Instead I watch marathons of Hoarders and Tabatha's Salon Takeover.  No, I am not proud of myself.

House: I have one more disc to go on last season... and then all of this season.  Still kind of facepalming over the last ep I watched, in which [VAGUE SPOILER ALERT] homedude turns out in the very last minute of the show to be a mastermind serial killer!  Who eats people!  Finally, something I find less plausible than House/Cuddy.  And I have watched none of this season.

White Collar: Haven't watched any of season three, though I think I still have most of them on my DVR, if it hasn't started randomly erasing crap again.  Grrr, this one I'm pissed at myself about because I really wanted to be caught up by the mid-season premiere, which was... today.

The Office: The last one I watched was the Halloween episode, maybe?  Though I may have missed one before that.  Again, theoretically, these should all be on the DVR.

Bones: I... may have given up on Bones.  I watched the first few episodes of last season and just sort of... stopped.  Plus, the friend I spent New Year's with, upon hearing that I was behind in the show, just went ahead and told me the major plot twists.  And it sounds like they pulled an ninth-season X Files reveal (Dude from Lost: "...until one lonely night when you invited Agent Mulder into your bed." Me: "THE FUCK YOU SAY?!").  The revolving one-dimensional interns, the increasingly-forced chemistry... is it even worth getting caught up?

Sherlock: I have downloaded all three eps but only watched the first one.  And been scrolling very quickly past my Twitter feed and some of my flist until I can watch the other two.  SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT VERY VIGILANT ABOUT SPOILERS.  This is Priority Number One, though.

I also want to watch all of Arrested Development again and go through my massive Avengers box set, though when I'm going to do that, I don't know.

But I am writing again!  Not, like, a lot, but more than none, which is what I'd been doing through the holidays.  But first, off to finish Mockingjay.  And then check if there's a fandom for that.  There's gotta be.

Setting: a local Chinese restaurant. Mom and Dad have already gotten a table

Me: Hello!  Sorry I missed your phone call earlier.

Dad: That's alright.  I just had a question about The X Files.

Me: Go for it.

Dad: Who is Diana Fowley?

(awkward pause)

Me: I can't say that word at the dinner table.

Fin.

Also, Thing That Pisses Me Off #3749: obnoxiously cute couples who get professional (non-wedding) photos taken together and post them all over the internet to show everyone how perfect they are.  I'm not one of those people that's always got to have a significant other, but come on.  Especially when I know she stole him from a "friend" in the first place.

Ahem.  Forgive me, it's been a bit of a bad... decade.  So now, do I watch Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece The Seven Samurai, or the Simpsons Tree House of Horror 16?  I think you know the answer to that.

Oh, yes, the train trip!  Great fun, except I came very close to strangling Shannon in an Au Bon Pain next to the FBI building.