When you can't share with one person, share with everyone

Skins is a British show about a bunch of high schoolers and their lives. Their lives are full of drugs, alcohol, sex, and basically college, but condensed and run at full speed in hour long increments. The first two seasons were brilliant with a fantastic cast of young actors, and now the third season that I'm watching on netflix takes off with a new cast with the younger sister of one of the previous characters on the show in the new group of kids.

The first few episodes were so-so. The appropriate level of ridiculousness was there, but it was missing something. The episodes with the first cast had a unique completeness to them. Every episode ended with me asking for more. Every episode was like a night filled with drama in which you want to know the next day how it all works out because everything just hit the fan and you just have to see which walls get hit!

This third season did not have this. The characters did not have the depth that was so established in the characters of the first two seasons and every episode was very stand alone, without a connecting arc.

That was until I watched the forth episode. It had all of the over the top flair that the first cast had and ended in the classic "everyone loses, innocence lost" way that I loved form the first cast's seasons.

Plus, it had one of the most hilarious lines ever and I just had to share it with someone...anyone!

One girl to another: "Me, no muff muncher. Me cock cruncher."

Fantastic.

As Galactica sails into the sunset

Well kids, it's been a fun ride, but all good things must come to an end eventually.  Tonight was the series finale of Battlestar Galactica.  BSG has been one of the best shows I have ever watched.  I haven't been this saddened by the passing of show since..well, since I finished reading Watership Down, and that wasn't even a show!  It was fitting and gave a real sense of completeness.  A fan could ask nothing more from a show.  

But of course the real problem now becomes what do I do with my Friday nights?!  Clearly I will think of something.  For me though this has become a tradition: every Friday this season I have gone over to my friend The K/T Boundary's house and watched it with her and her husband, but now we won't have BSG!  So we will figure out something, it is just too much fun hanging out with them.

In other news being back at university has been super lame!  I forget the last time I was this unmotivated to do work, but I have made some progress: I have done some work on a lab that is due in 2 weeks, I have some papers set aside to read over for a paper I have due in 1 month, and I met with my thesis advisor to discuss more things for my thesis.  So I guess I have been doing some stuff.

In other news: nothing.  Life has been pretty boring.  

I ate some good chicken sausages for dinner last night.  Yay.  Go me?  But the eggplant parm I had to go with them was terrible.  Absolutely the worst thing I have ever had.  I would not have it again...unless I decided to give it a second chance.

I also saw "Knowing" with Nick Cage this afternoon with The Kart (he's back so I'm not so so alone) and it was interesting.  I would write a proper movie review, but I don't want to give away anything.  It was very interesting and worth watching.  Actually very interesting when paired with the end of BSG.  Makes one think that everything happens for a reason or something, huh?  But randomness versus determinism is for another blog post.

For a post that I didn't expect to write, this is acquiring some length.  Shall I keep going?

Oh, no Fantasy Garage today.  That is a job for Saturday Steve.  He will give you what you want.  I, however, am Friday Steve and I am shirking my responsibilities and giving them to Saturday Steve.  Sucks for you Saturday Steve.

Sick and blah

Not much to report today, so I'm making two lists!

Enjoy!

10 really awesome things that happened to me today:

1. Learned how to use the numbered list function on blogger.
2. Made plans to meet up with a group member so that we don't have a disastrous field day like we did last week on the lake.
3. I now have a thesis advisor!
4. Talked to The Old Friend for over an hour and am now going to lunch with them on Friday.
5. Ate half a pizza for dinner even though I had a late lunch.
6. The post-doc in the lab I work in finally returned from his data gathering trip.
7. Realized I really want a 1999-2005 model Honda Odyssey.
8. Saw the lab where The K/T Boundary works.
9. Am about to go visit The Piano Man at his job (hint: it's not at a bar).
10. Totally nailed a problem from my geochem problem set, even though we didn't have to do it.

10 really crappy things that happened to me today:

1. Had crazy insomnia and didn't fall asleep until 4AM!
2. My cold went from sore throat mode to full fledged runny nose and congestion mode.
3. The lounge I went to eat lunch in didn't have a microwave, so I couldn't eat lunch at a regular time.
4. Left my food in that lounge's fridge and had to go buy more.
5. Found out that someone else is throwing the party I was going to have, so I have to wait until next week to have it.
6. Suddenly realizing the ice might be too thin to warrant a field day on Thursday to the lake.
7. Realizing I have over 50 pages of reading to do.
8. Not getting any mail.
9. Finding out how many people in my life actually play World of Warcraft.
10. Not being able to come up with ten stupid things that made me feel crappy today!!!!

Day dreaming was more entertaining

So tomorrow I'm going over to my friend The K/T Boundary's house to watch Battlestar Galactica.  This is probably one of the best shows on tv.  It has action, and sci-fi, and human drama, and unlike some other sci-fi shows that have large thin plot arcs with mostly filler episodes, BSG (as most people call it) is constantly running within the plot, with very little filler.  Every episode is a cliff hanger and it the music is incredible.  I highly encourage you all to go out and buy the seasons on DVD and get caught up.  Because this show is worth it.  I can't wait until the series is over and my friends and I can sit down and watch the whole thing!

Also on the menu is deciding what I'm doing this summer/with my life and perhaps some fun apartment bonding.  Always fun, never boring.

There was something else I had thought of, but it currently escapes me at the moment.  Maybe if I just keep typing it'll come back to me...

Yeah, no that didn't work.