Quarterlife crisis, anyone?

Hi guys, it's me, Jane. I know I'm posting out of turn, but I'm covering Linda's spot this week. My topic of choice is rather multifaceted, so for you commenters and other BSG posters, feel free to address any (or all) aspects. Whichever moves you. Our topic of the week, if you can't guess, is the Quarterlife Crisis. We BSG bloggers are all in our mid (or in my case, late, but we don't need to focus on that) twenties, and I suspect that most of us have had, are having or will have a quarterlife crisis at some point pretty soon.

So what is a quarterlife crisis (QLC)? Growing up, I'd always heard of The Midlife Crisis, where stereotypically one freaks out at the impending arrival of old age, gets divorced, dates people way too young for one's age bracket, and buys a sports car. I first heard about QLCs when I was in the middle of mine. I'd say mine began my senior year of college (2001) - when I discovered that despite having been told all my life that a college degree would land me a great job, no one wanted to hire me - and ended with the penning of my manifesto in Fall 2005. I don't know if Melissa will remember this, but she was the one who first brought the term QLC to my attention. We had just returned from our first (and hellish) trip to South Korea, had no job, no job prospects and no real interest in real jobs anyway. I don't remember how she heard about QLCs, but when she described it to me I knew that it fit what I was going through exactly.

But what *is* a QLC? you ask. Well, according to wikipedia a QLC is a psychological "crisis" akin to the midlife-crisis, but occurring amongst those ages 21-29. Symptoms include (among other things) feeling "not good enough" because one can't find a job that is at one's academic/intellectual level, frustration with relationships, the working world, and finding a suitable job or career, confusion of identity, insecurity regarding the near future, and insecurity regarding present accomplishments. (That came from the wikipedia article on QLCs, which I highly recommend reading in its entirety.)

Anyhow, roughly six years after I first heard about this QLC concept, it seems to have hit the mainstream via... well, I was going to write TV show, but that's not the case at all. Quarterlife is an internet-based show. It's shown ONLY on the internet. However, it's not some sort of low-budget, made-for-the-net kind of production; it's got the production quality of a legit TV show. (I heard on NPR that because of the TV writers' strike, TV channels are negotiating with Quarterlife to air it on regular TV, as that show - being set entirely in new-media - had already negotiated a completely different contract with their writers. No clue as to how that will pan out.) Episodes last about fifteen minutes, and are posted on the Quarterlife site every Sunday and Thursday. I've actually found the show pretty engaging, thus far.

In addition to simply being a net show, quarterlife has its own social networking site (a la MySpace and Facebook) as well, where you can create your own profile, upload blogs, vlogs, etc, and even befriend the characters from the show. As a social networking site, quarterlife leaves much to be desired, as it's new and there are still quite a few kinks in the programming. But, never fear! The Quarterlife characters have MySpace pages! No, I don't mean that the actors playing these people have MySpace pages, I mean the characters have them. These pages are maintained as though these characters were real people [example]. They even have blogs, where they blog about things that have happened in the show... and entirely unrelated things like Hillary's candidacy and class divisions in the US. Which totally weirds me out. These are not real people!

So, things to think on this week: What do you think about quarterlife crises as a concept? Have you had one, or are you having one now? What were/are your QLC experiences? What are your thoughts on the Quarterlife internet show? What do you think about the idea of internet based "tv"? What do you think about being able to interact with characters from shows? Have fun!

Six Feet Under

I am a little obsessed with death.

So, would I want to know when and how I would die? Hell yes I would! I think it would fuel my need to see the world a bit, and push my relationships with people. I might not take people for granted as much as I do. Frankly, I've been called an ice queen (the inspiration for last year's Halloween costume), so maybe my impending death would help remedy things. Of course, it could also fuel some new phobias or compulsions. Like what if you died from some disease you caught because you didn't wash your hands? I'd probably wash my hands 'til the skin came off.

And speaking of diseases, this might be old news to most of you, but I think this stuff is too cool. I'm buying this one and this one, and giving them to my friend Chad for his birthday, just so I can say I gave him syphilis and gon0hrrea.

Sorry about this post being late. I was going to do it last night, but I was really sick (still am, hence me being home right now writing this), and it was all I could do just to make myself stay awake long enough to watch Pushing Daisies. Hmm...which is perfect for this topic. Has anyone else seen this show? It's cute - quirky and weird. It's about a guy who can bring dead people back to life with a touch and put them back under (permanently) with another. However, he has to put them under within a minute of bringing them back, or someone else nearby dies.

Hmm...this one tending towards stream of consciousness. I guess that's what you end up with when I'm not feeling up to par.

I Can't Get No...Satisfaction

Well this topic is perfect for me, as anyone who knows me knows that I've been addicted to heroin and sex since the age of 5. Just kidding - well about the heroin at least. I can't actually say that I'm addicted to drugs (never really taken any), or alcohol (ok - I've had my share of drunk nights, but I rarely get drunk anymore), or anything else - except food, shopping, and a captive audience (with or without the duct tape and gag).

But seriously, real addictions for me? Actually probably pretty close to Jane's. I'm addicted to the internet, though it hasn't been able to be quite as severe in the past 6 month because I've had dialup at home. But no longer! My sister saw a sign saying that we could finally get DSL out in the sticks, and she told me when I got home last night that my mother had already called and we're getting the hook-up Thurs! I can finally post the pics I have on my camera! Ooh! AND with DSL we can set up a wireless network, and we can set up the other computer! So while I don't generally check my email before I pee in the morning (as it would take far too long, and I'd probably have an accident before then), that may soon change.

Also TV is a big one. I generally don't have the time to just sit and watch, but I do record my favorite shows. I love Sex and the City, Dexter, Weeds, Big Love (all the really good shows on the movie channels you have to pay for - well not Sex and the City), but I do have an embarassing love for some reality tv. The worst, I'll admit, is American Idol. I suppose I can truly say it's an addiction, because even though I'm completely embarassed and ashamed to admit I watch it, I do it anyway. The others are the competition shows on Bravo. It all started with Project Runway, then moved onto Top Design, and finally Shear Genius. I just love all the creativity, and competition, and bitchiness - and I would LOVE to be on one of those shows, but I don't have the right experience or degree.

Travel is probably my other addiction. Living in Lake City, I mean, who could blame me for wanting to get out and visit some cool places any chance I get? Oh - that reminds me - my grandmother has a timeshare in Sedona that we could trade for a week in London - anyone up for a trip? However it is a bit of an expensive addiction, and often I end up using the money I should be paying off medical bills with to go on these trips. However, I use the excuse that it has made me a more worldly and well-rounded person, so it's totally worth it.

In the interest of keeping this a relatively short post, I suppose I should end it there. I could ramble on about my love for Neil Gaiman, Jack White, shoes, and other things, but I'm sure I'll cover those at some other time on this blog.

Enternewsment

Man, I used to love those kid shows-- Seasame Street, Square One, 3-2-1 Contact, and Channel One in the afternoons at school. I still watch them, too, although Glenn was right about Elmo's World: stoopid. But if you're home from work in the mid-morning, Seasame Street and Dora the Explorer are still better quality TV than any 6-hour long morning news show with 20 minutes of real information that just gets recycled and drawn out with fancy graphics and 'teasers.'

Last night I camped out in front of the History Channel all night watching shows about the battle of Thermopylae, pirate history and technology, and historial sexual practices from around the world. And then I watched TAPS, the SciFi ghost hunter show I mentioned before (although not educational in the least, I do love that show).

I have to agree that the History Channel is sometimes way too much of the WWII Airplane Channel. But when it's not that, it's usually really interesting. I pretty much only watch the Discovery Channel when they have one of those medical freak shows on, but I can get that same fascination with less of the freak show guilt by watching House. Watching these channels, though, I do run into the Dragon Problem-- I've been told I'll believe anything with a footnote (I think I was searching for irrefutable truth to support my deep suspicion of aspartame at the time), and I have to stop myself from getting too wrapped up in the conspiracy or future predicting shows. Like the one I saw the other night on the History Channel that said several completely unrelated ancient cultures, all renown for their learning and intelligence, have independently predicted that the world as we know it will end on December 21, 2012. Try sleeping after that.

I don't consider news shows educational in the least. Everytime I happen to pause on one, I last about 15 minutes before they're either repeating stories or sensationalizing the ones they have to an unrecognizable degree. Garbage, garbage, garbage. We don't need multiple 24-hour news stations. We don't need fancy graphics and politically polar pundits. We need the news, we need to know what's going on in the world, and we need to be reminded to how we got to this point. Tell us about events present and past, not theories about the future laced with 'angles' and 'spin.' Please, leave the future predicting to the History Channel.

The More You Know

Do you remember those commercials? Well, I guess that wouldn't be that long ago - I'm pretty sure I've seen some recently. However, it's not like you can learn much from the "educational" programming that TV has nowadays.

TLC, or The Learning Channel is such a joke - how did they get that name anyways? It's pretty much just a bunch of reality shows about having a baby, or decorating your home or something. They have these funny commercials about a made-up line of figurines called "life lessons" that you collect when you watch their programming, but what do you really learn from these shows? (Except how to dress any figure well - I can't dump on What Not to Wear - Stacy, Clinton - you my dawgs, yo!)

Same thing goes for Discovery - I agree with Jane, it's a little disconcerting the content. However, one show I like that they air is Mythbusters. Yes, it's purely entertainment, and loses focus on the learning, but it gets kids interested in science and math, as they often have to use physics and equations to carry out their experiments. Plus its always fun to watch them blow stuff up. Some of my favorite programming on Discovery used to be Shark Week. I loved watching all of the shows about feeding habits, migration and the like, but in recent years it seems to be lacking. Most of them now are CG recreations about prehistoric sharks, or a half-hour of "Poke the Shark with a Stick"

As for PBS, I can't say that I've watched much of it lately. The last thing I saw was a documentary on Jim Jones, which has me paranoid now of men who wear sunglasses inside. (For anyone not in the know, Jim Jones wore sunglasses constantly - and people still trusted him! How can you trust someone who won't let you see their eyes?!) About a month ago, my preacher joked that he was going to have to start wearing sunglasses because of the bright sunlight coming through the window. He put on some sunglasses, and as the thought ran through my head, I heard Caitlin's dad whisper "Jim Jones". (I watched the documentary at their house). Next thing you know, the old preacher will ask us to drink the Kool-Aid.

I kinda miss the educational shows. Every once in awhile they show something interesting. My favorite gimmick lately has been the "Anatomy of Sex". People watch it for the sex, but it's a clinical breakdown of all the processes and secretions made by the human body during foreplay and intercourse. Fascinating, but a total disappointment for any yokels looking for free porn on TV. (Duh, that'd be Cinemax...wait - you have to pay for that too... um, duh - that'd be MTV (yeah, that's better!))

Whatever happened to Bill Nye? or Beakman's World? or Mr. Wizard?! How about 3-2-1 Contact? Or Square One? (That's the show that had Mathnet, Caitlin, not 3-2-1 Contact (I just looked it up)). I miss all of those shows, and they made learning fun. What do kids have now? Welcome to the dumbing down of America.

Just what is it that we're discovering here?

I grew up watching pretty much only PBS and the NBC nightly news, and as such I have a fondness for educational/factual television. Yes, I love to watch plenty of mindless entertainment, but I’m also perfectly willing to kick back and watch something informative. Before moving to Korea last August, I’d never had the opportunity to watch the Discovery Channel. I was excited, thinking I’d be watching it more than anything else. (Little did I know OCN would distract me by showing CSI nearly all the time… And yes, I can sense Caitlin’s disapproval from across the Pacific.) CSI notwithstanding, I do actually watch the Discovery Channel Asia a good bit, although over the past ten months I’ve begun to wonder just how accurate it all is.

My distrust of the Discovery Channel stems from several things. Two of those “things” are actually two episodes that I really enjoy watching: A Haunting and Psychic Detectives. They’re really entertaining, although I don’t take any of it seriously. The thing is, these shows present everything as fact without present any alternate explanations for what’s happened.

For example, in one episode I saw of A Haunting, a woman starts to have incredibly strong, irrational, unexplainable feelings of sadness and despair shortly after moving into a newly purchased old house with her boyfriend. The show explains her feelings by bringing in psychics who sense the negative energy of a malevolent spirit, blah, blah, blah. To me it seemed obvious that the woman was suffering from the classic symptoms of clinical depression; she needed Lexapro and not an exorcism. Additionally, it seems that almost all of the A Haunting episodes involve some sort of Catholic exorcism/cleansing. Do only Catholics see ghosts? The show also presents as fact that if you use a ouija board or dabble in the occult, you will soon be possessed and/or tormented by Demons from Hell. As someone who has done both of those things, I would just like to point out that I haven’t summoned any demons.

I took a class in college called Pseudopsychology. We looked at all sorts of paranormal phenomena, but we looked at them from the point of view of the believer as well as the scientist. Everything we discussed in class was debunked via scientific experimentation. As an educational television station, shouldn’t they add some education of this sort to their shows about ghosts and psychics? Or do they skip over that simply because it’s not as entertaining?

One weekend I stumbled upon a documentary on the Discovery Channel about a British scientist who had discovered the fossilized remains of dragons in Eastern Europe – irrefutable proof that dragons were not mythical beasts after all. It was an incredibly well done documentary, with interviews and footage from the excavations and extensive delving into historical records… except that as I was pretty damn sure none of it was real, I checked online. According to the Discovery Channel’s website, it was a mockumentary showing what would happen *if* someone discovered proof that dragons had existed. Um, ok. Someone please tell me what’s the point here? Confusing small children who might watch and then believe in dragons? Yes, it was entertaining, and yes, I watched the whole thing… but that was hardly educational!

Obviously, not all shows on the Discovery Channel are of that nature. I watched an excellent documentary of the terrorist siege at the school in Beslan, Russia quite recently. I felt that the documentary was quite well done (especially considering that they were able to get Russians willing to go on television and criticize the way the government handled the situation; that kind of open criticism is hard to find over there), and I felt that I learned a lot. Except that afterwards, I found myself wondering if everything I had just watched was presented as accurate. I mean, this was the channel that told me ghosts and dragons were factual!

So what are your feelings on educational television? (And not just the Discovery Channel – you can take on PBS or the History Channel or any other educational station.) How factual should educational television be? Is it acceptable to include shows about dragons and psychics and ghosts without any sort of scientific counter argument? Or should educational TV be like the channels here in Korea: a teacher lecturing at a blackboard, guaranteed to send your children to sleep immediately?

How TV reminds me that I'm getting older

One of the Korean TV channels had a day-long Prison Break marathon the other day, and I watched a good chunk of it. I spent a good portion of my Prison Break watching time trying to figure out where I’d seen the actress who plays lawyer Veronica Donovan before. Finally, I gave in to curiosity and googled the show.

Turns out the actress is Robin Tunney, who played Sarah Bailey, the main character in The Craft. Remember that movie? It came out during my senior year of high school. Back in high school I was part of an extremely tight-knit, very cliquish group of friends called the Round Floor. (Yes, we had a name.) When The Craft came out, a girl who had known the Round Floor for a long time told me that the movie reminded her of us. (The girl was Karen K, for anyone who might be wondering.) At the time I totally didn’t see the connection, but looking back, we were a pentagram shy of a coven. (WD40 anyone?) Somehow, seeing “Sarah Bailey” all grown up was really rather disconcerting.

Left: Sarah Bailey; Right: Veronica Donovan

And just in case you needed a reminder of The Craft...

Similarly, I’ve been a fan of crime dramas for years and years. Recently, I found myself wondering why all the actors and actresses cast to play the prosecuting attorneys were so young… then it occurred to me that they’re all probably roughly my age! Hell, I have friends from college and one ex-boyfriend who are now lawyers, so it’s certainly feasible.

Lastly, I recently discovered the BBC’s newest Robin Hood series. It’s incredibly cheesy, but the star, Jonas Armstrong, is simply gorgeous. I ran him through wikipedia and discovered that I am three years older than him! Something about being older than Robin Hood is seriously unnerving. It’s not going to stop me from ogling him though.

Yummy.

For Glenn

I hate to break in on our topic of discussion this week (and break my long-standing tradition of my blog post titles), but I had to post a few things specifically with Glenn in mind to read (though everyone should read them): Read these three articles about your favorite show, 24. I thought you'd find them interesting.

I now return you to our regularly scheduled topic.

Trumps

I have to say out of all of them, I probably have the worst TV guilty pleasure - American Idol. It's actually really embarassing to admit to anyone not a fan of the show. It's like an addiction - I wish I could stop, but I just can't help myself.

The best part of the show is the first couple of weeks. This is when they show the auditions in all of the different cities, and you get to see how awful and delusional 90% of the people who try out really are. The other night there was a girl who auditioned and she knew she was tone-deaf. Her reasoning was that they could teach her and shape her into whatever singer they wanted her to be. When they pointed out she was tone-deaf, and this was a singing competition she flipped out! WTF? Crazy.

Speaking of crazy, watching a cracked-out Paula Abdul is always fun. Not only do you have comments that make absolutely no sense, but she also dances in her chair and all sorts of other weird stuff. Last year, when Constantine got kicked off towards the end she was bawling, I mean really sobbing, and then turned around and was sitting on top of the table and cradling his mother's head "comforting" her.

I also like being really bitchy, and watching Simon Cowell do the same. Most of the time he's not really being mean, he's just being honest. I have to say that I love to watch the show with someone else, and rip apart the contestant's performances. At one point in time Lindsey, my roomate at the time, and I would try to figure out who would be in the bottom 3. Then, to make sure the right person hopefully got voted off, we would vote for the other 2 people. (See, you can't vote against anyone, just for who you want to stay on - this was our way around it).

I'm sure I have other guilty TV pleasures. I LOVE House and keep BBCAmerica on constantly, but I don't think of those as guilty pleasures the way I do American Idol. Whew! Glad I got that confession off my chest. What was the school topic really supposed to be about?

What?! Never!

I totally flaked out on this. It's been a very stressful couple of weeks here and somehow this got lost in all the fuss. I actually thought about the topic while on the metro and even started a post while at work, but I got distracted with actual work and forgot about it.

Let me be brief. I have a lot of TV addictions at the moment, but I don't think any of the crap I watch is nearly as bad as the crap I COULD be watching, so I don't consider them guilty. What I think is funny, though, are those moments when your suspension of disbelief is temporarily, well, suspended and you find your self saying "what? that would never happen!" to some show like 'Psyche.'

For example, in Law & Order (all of them) whenever the detectives are questioning someone in any place but the interragation room, the people always have something better to do. They answer one or two questions (which undoubtedly provide an invaluable nugget of information) and then say something like, "look, I'd love to help you out, but I have dinner reservations in 2 hours and I need to vacuum the floor before I go." What?! I think if I was ever approached with the phrase, "Excuse me, ma'am. We're from NYPD and we're investigating a homicide. Can we ask you a couple questions?" I would block off the entire rest of my day and tell them anything they wanted to know. Then again, I'm not a murderer. Along this line, how well funded must the Las Vegas crime lab be if they can use all that techno-magic and solve crimes solely with evidence (as in, without the need of many witnesses) in a single night?! And yet, I watch these shows every single time I catch them on.

In Jericho, the best show that no one's watching, I totally believe all the science-y stuff and the government responses to the bomb. It even fits pretty well with what little I know about emergency response, radiological devises and fallout, and the preparedness level expected by DHS of a place like Jericho, Kansas. And yet, for all the effort the writers apparently put into getting that believable, they don't feel it necessary to bother with questions that arise like, "Hey! How come no one in this show ever showers, or shaves, or changes clothes, but they all look so pretty and clean?" or "Hey! What kind of alternate-reality Kansas is this where no one is shouting about the End Times, or God's wrath, or even praying very much?" And yet, I'm downloading this show (and getting copies that my boyfriend downloaded) to watch it because I think it's great.

I guess it just comes down to a few key elements required for any TV show to work. For Jane, it helps to have well choreographed hand-to-hand combat. I, apparently, like to watch from a safe distance situations that would scare me to ever actually be in and that involve characters I can care about. Do we just have low expectations of TV shows? Or is that really all it takes to entertain us and keep us coming back for more?

No, I'm not a lesbian.

Well, Glenn seems to have brought discussion to a standstill over here this week. I'm not sure that my take on guilty pleasure television will do too much to revive things, but here you go:

I *love* Xena: Warrior Princess. I first started watching Xena when I was living in Russia back in 2000. At that time it was on TV five nights a week, and I watched it every chance I got. I'm not sure why I started watching it in the first place, but I was immediately hooked. For one thing, I am a huge fan of films and TV shows which feature well choreographed hand to hand combat. I totally eat that stuff up. And episodes of XWP are packed with fantastic fighting sequences (especially in the later seasons, as Gabrielle evolves into a kickass warrior). Okay, so the plots can get pretty hokey, and the special effects (other than the fight scenes) were pretty bad, but I loved it any way. It was fantastic to watch a TV show starring two kickass women who traveled the globe having adventures... definitely an inspiration to a young woman a long way from home, traveling the world and having adventures herself.

I shaved my head while I was in Russia. This had nothing to do with XWP; it was simply something I'd wanted to do for a long time. I was inspired by one of those, "I'm in Russia, I might as well" bits of illogic. I don't have any pics of my hair at its shortest (which is probably a good thing; it did not look particularly good) as my camera was stolen around the same week as my haircut. The earliest picture I have for you is from about two months later when a friend of mine from the States - and his camera - came to visit.

This was me seven years ago!

The same friend who took the above picture was also the person who brought the whole Are Xena and Gabrielle lesbians? question to my attention. Honestly, I had been watching the show religiously for months and it had NEVER occurred to me. There are scores of movies and TV shows wherein dudes travel about and have adventures and no one goes on at length about the homosexual subtext, but change the heroes to heroines - especially ones who don't fit into the traditional feminine role - and suddenly they must be lesbians. Bah!

Anyway, I returned to the US, and to my tiny, conservative university campus, sporting short hair and an addiction to Xena. Suddenly there were rumors that Jane was indeed a lesbian. Um, no. Later, when my hair was still short, people would assume that Melissa and I were a lesbian couple. Yes, she is very tall. Yes, I am very short. Yes, we have a tendency to travel the world together having adventures. No, we are neither lesbians nor a couple. (Melissa, do you remember that time the Burger King cashier told us we were a cute couple?)

Anyway, I have recently discovered that some enterprising people have gone and put EVERY episode of Xena on YouTube (in 10 minute increments), and I have been working my way through them - and enjoying them just as much as I did back in 2000. And if you're interested, there are tons of TV shows online that you can watch, not just Xena. So click here.

Guilty Pleasure Television/School is for Fools

I'm really sorry that it's technically only Monday for twenty-two minutes and I'm just now posting, and it's not even that good. This week's topic is a dual one, so if one thing doesn't work for you, then go for the other. The topics are guilty pleasure television shows, and the very general topic of school. Just any school related story.

Anyway, as some of you know, I have for a few years been into the greatest show ever made, 24. Yes, it's completely ridiculous. Yes, it's basically a voicebox for right wing propaganda. But Jack Bauer is a total badass, and once I watch one episode in a season, I can't stop. Now, obviously, the ridiculous factor is easily dismissed in my case, because I am a huge fan of Star Trek. In the original series of Star Trek, there is an episode where a colony of women take out spock's brain and use it to power their computer. Then for some reason, they keep Spock's body alive and walking around. So McCoy has to put Spock's brain back in. I can't remember the name of the episode. "The Crazy, Mixed-up Computer Women," I think. It's Nick's favorite episode. Anyway, the point is that since Star Trek is one of my favorite shows, the suspension of disbelief is not something I have a huge problem with in 24. However, much of the philosophy of the show is in direct opposition with my actual, real life philosophies. For instance, frequently the terrorists are Middle Eastern, and when characters on the show complain about how they can't just arrest all Middle Easterners, I say "Hell yes you can! Listen to Jack Bauer!" Or a very specific episode where the main bad guy terrorist calls in a "PC Lawyer" to slow down the government's interrogation of one of his men. The PC Lawyer basically stops them from torturing the guy, and I was like "Fuck that shit! Get that PC Lawyer out of there and let Jack Bauer break his fingers!" But in real life, I am very much a fan of PC Lawyers and not torturing people. This is why 24 is such a guilty pleasure to me, because I absolutely do not agree with it's politics, but love watching Jack Bauer kick people's asses times a billionty.

Of course, then I can shut the show off and go back to believing the things I believed beforehand. I don't know if a lot of people can do that. According to Tickle.com, a reliable source, I'm one of the smarter 20% or so in the nation. Probably many stupid people watch 24 and use the scenarios depicted to reinforce their staunch political beliefs. The show, broadcast by a pretty right wing network (Fox), is probably doing a lot of political harm to the lefties, whom I support. I mean, last season *SPOIlER* the president was the conniving villain *END SPOILER*, but the show still regularly reinforces the belief that Arabs and Muslims are the bad guys, and we must do something about them before it's too late for god's (Christian) America.

Not that I'm going to stop watching it or anything.

So what is everybody else's guilty pleasure show? No pulling out the lame "I don't watch television" cards.

Also, as far as school goes, I need to write a poem in the next hour. I've procrastinated until the last minute again. My bad. School stories? I'll think of one later this week. I only have a couple minutes while it's still Monday.