surviving this week merits a shoutout
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aruanWORK Note to everyone: If at all possible, avoid switching to a new software system if at least a third of your office is over the age of 30 (even if there is an endless supply of Halloween-size chocolates and candies in the training room). But more generally, avoid it on the principle that nobody should have to endure three 12-hour workdays in a row in its name.
Especially when one of its consequences is doing Local on Sunday and then NOTHING BUT EAST POLK WHICH IS JUST AS PAINFUL AS IT SOUNDS for the rest of the week. I realize that's because the section is "going live" on the new program, one of the first to do so, and it's a huge vote of confidence on the part of my boss to trust me to handle it. I'll try to remember that when I'm going to work at 3 p.m. (I got into this business on promises of no earlier than 4:30, damn it!) and making all the mistakes of opening day. Here's hoping my designer will be John or Laurie.
All you need to know? I finally put to the office that I'd like to write in addition to copy editing.
TV Not that I have time for the television I already watch, but when's that ever stopped any of us.
Sadly, with prior commitments to catching up on SG-1 (now that the 'Gates are on hiatus until MARCH OMGWTF) and Gilmore Girls (though don't talk to me about the show this season and how Lorelai sounds perpetually stilted because she keeps getting to the ends of her lines and teetering there as if on a cliff but no, she's not forgetting them, there just aren't any more WOE), not to mention staples like the nightly Stewart/Colbert (d00d, GEORGE FREAKIN' LUCAS enterted the green screen challenge) block and returning favorites The Office, Nip/Tuck, and Battlestar Galactica, despite the promising fall lineup there just wasn't going to be time enough for much of anything.
Smith and The Nine seemed too much like Heist anyway (which I liked but already saw, also in movie form). Ugly Betty has a time conflict with two other things I don't compromise on, so that was out immediately. Missed the first episode of Jericho and Standoff, so those were out. Boston Legal is my lawyer dramedy, so Shark didn't have a chance (relatedly, the only reason I was interested in Brothers & Sisters was Calista Flockhart, but she's not going to be playing a neurotic lawyer in a funny little firm, so the show would be perpetually unsatisfying.)
I did acquire another not-so-new show somewhere in the course of human events - CSI: Miami is my new crime drama of choice. Well, as new as anything that's just had its 100th episode, but still. With all that outrageously beautiful high-contrast aerial cinematography of South Florida? Fetishizing it is so meta, it makes my toes curl. Oh, and that Adam Rodriguez fella can smile slily at me in a lab coat ANY TIME. Brandon's taken to Grey's Anatomy, so that's officially on the schedule as well. But only if George starts realizing just how brilliantly dirty hot Dr. Torres is, and NOW, O'Malley.
But the biggest news of all is that I'm in passionate monkey love, and its name is Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, for all of these reasons:
-Suzanne's "Are you here to save us?" line.
-Bradley Whitford as a recovering drug addict.
-That the show is essentially rehab for real-life drug addicts.
-That Aaron Sorkin is vicariously reclaiming Saturday Night Live.
-ON AN NBC SHOW.
-The way Matt and Danny own their lives, mistakes and triumphs all.
-And that their theme song is Under Pressure.
-They frolic - excuse me, manfully settle their differences - in the sand.
-How Danny reins Matt in, runs interference for him and grounds him.
-It's a television drama about a television drama.
-But most of all, that true to form, the good guys win.
Totally willing to overlook the whole character of Harriet and her transparent tete-a-tete with Matt for it, too, because I'm usually riding high on the scene before it with Jordan and Danny, who are beyond great together.
All you need to know? [prostrates self at Aaron Sorkin's feet]
LIFE Temperatures are finally flirting with autumn, which means walks to Starbucks and leaving the sliding glass door open at night.
Thanks to accrued vacation time, Brandon and I will soon have a three-day weekend together, during which we plan to sample all that Central Florida has to offer in seasonal fare: Busch Gardens' Howl-o-Scream, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, and the coup de grace, Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights. Excited doesn't even come close.
After a Local feature story on the new regional SPCA director last week, Brandon suggested we go down to their Lakeland shelter, and OMG PUPPIES. Skeeter (five months old, Labrador-boxer mutt, beautiful light brown coat with white paws and all love), I would buy a house just for you.
All you need to know? We're going to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
krissi518's wedding tomorrow, which is tres exciting, even if I haven't a thing to wear. How big of a faux pas would a black dress be?
Especially when one of its consequences is doing Local on Sunday and then NOTHING BUT EAST POLK WHICH IS JUST AS PAINFUL AS IT SOUNDS for the rest of the week. I realize that's because the section is "going live" on the new program, one of the first to do so, and it's a huge vote of confidence on the part of my boss to trust me to handle it. I'll try to remember that when I'm going to work at 3 p.m. (I got into this business on promises of no earlier than 4:30, damn it!) and making all the mistakes of opening day. Here's hoping my designer will be John or Laurie.
All you need to know? I finally put to the office that I'd like to write in addition to copy editing.
TV Not that I have time for the television I already watch, but when's that ever stopped any of us.
Sadly, with prior commitments to catching up on SG-1 (now that the 'Gates are on hiatus until MARCH OMGWTF) and Gilmore Girls (though don't talk to me about the show this season and how Lorelai sounds perpetually stilted because she keeps getting to the ends of her lines and teetering there as if on a cliff but no, she's not forgetting them, there just aren't any more WOE), not to mention staples like the nightly Stewart/Colbert (d00d, GEORGE FREAKIN' LUCAS enterted the green screen challenge) block and returning favorites The Office, Nip/Tuck, and Battlestar Galactica, despite the promising fall lineup there just wasn't going to be time enough for much of anything.
Smith and The Nine seemed too much like Heist anyway (which I liked but already saw, also in movie form). Ugly Betty has a time conflict with two other things I don't compromise on, so that was out immediately. Missed the first episode of Jericho and Standoff, so those were out. Boston Legal is my lawyer dramedy, so Shark didn't have a chance (relatedly, the only reason I was interested in Brothers & Sisters was Calista Flockhart, but she's not going to be playing a neurotic lawyer in a funny little firm, so the show would be perpetually unsatisfying.)
I did acquire another not-so-new show somewhere in the course of human events - CSI: Miami is my new crime drama of choice. Well, as new as anything that's just had its 100th episode, but still. With all that outrageously beautiful high-contrast aerial cinematography of South Florida? Fetishizing it is so meta, it makes my toes curl. Oh, and that Adam Rodriguez fella can smile slily at me in a lab coat ANY TIME. Brandon's taken to Grey's Anatomy, so that's officially on the schedule as well. But only if George starts realizing just how brilliantly dirty hot Dr. Torres is, and NOW, O'Malley.
But the biggest news of all is that I'm in passionate monkey love, and its name is Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, for all of these reasons:
-Suzanne's "Are you here to save us?" line.
-Bradley Whitford as a recovering drug addict.
-That the show is essentially rehab for real-life drug addicts.
-That Aaron Sorkin is vicariously reclaiming Saturday Night Live.
-ON AN NBC SHOW.
-The way Matt and Danny own their lives, mistakes and triumphs all.
-And that their theme song is Under Pressure.
-They frolic - excuse me, manfully settle their differences - in the sand.
-How Danny reins Matt in, runs interference for him and grounds him.
-It's a television drama about a television drama.
-But most of all, that true to form, the good guys win.
Totally willing to overlook the whole character of Harriet and her transparent tete-a-tete with Matt for it, too, because I'm usually riding high on the scene before it with Jordan and Danny, who are beyond great together.
All you need to know? [prostrates self at Aaron Sorkin's feet]
LIFE Temperatures are finally flirting with autumn, which means walks to Starbucks and leaving the sliding glass door open at night.
Thanks to accrued vacation time, Brandon and I will soon have a three-day weekend together, during which we plan to sample all that Central Florida has to offer in seasonal fare: Busch Gardens' Howl-o-Scream, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, and the coup de grace, Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights. Excited doesn't even come close.
After a Local feature story on the new regional SPCA director last week, Brandon suggested we go down to their Lakeland shelter, and OMG PUPPIES. Skeeter (five months old, Labrador-boxer mutt, beautiful light brown coat with white paws and all love), I would buy a house just for you.
All you need to know? We're going to
krissi518's wedding tomorrow, which is tres exciting, even if I haven't a thing to wear. How big of a faux pas would a black dress be?
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Date: October 14th, 2006 01:40 pm (UTC)Hard to tell since we are in different countries. If you are in an urban or cosmopolitan area then it's probably okay - I see it all the time now. I saw some girls wearing black cocktail dresses to an afternoon, outdoor wedding just last month!
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Date: October 14th, 2006 04:18 pm (UTC)Cocktail dresses? Really? My dear (European-raised) mother nearly had herself a heart attack when I told her we wore jeans to the matinee showing of Rent in New York. But there's a line. Hopefully.
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Date: November 6th, 2006 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: October 25th, 2006 09:56 pm (UTC)For the record, BSG good. The Office good. Nip/Tuck's aging, but fun. Gates are always acceptable.
After watching two-plus episodes of CSI: Miami, I have sworn never to watch anything with Emily Procter ever again (which, yes, includes most of my beloved reelection season of WWing). She has proven beyond all shadow (and even the quantum foam) of doubt that she wouldn't be able to act no matter how many deadly objects were pressed against her All-American forehead.
(Has anyone told CSI that there's no way she could be a field cop in Miami and still be that pale?)
She makes shifty-eyed David Caruso look good. (I would underline "good" if I knew how.)
I have no issue with Gilmore Girls, except that I think it has finally come to the point where Rory is (physically) older than Lorelai. The mother-daughter anti-dynamic has broken down something fierce now that Alexis Bledel really is an adult.
And Studio 60... is taking too many liberties with itself. I've been watching, out of perfectly manly Sorkin-love, but most of the plot twists have been completely unreal to me. And the characters -- the perfect network president, the crusty-unyielding boss, the too-sophisticated-for-late-night black Yaley, not to mention Danny and Matt -- I've seen this script before.
Oh, that's right, 30 Rock. In any event, I think Sorkin's trying way too hard to pull this off, and it's a lot harder to make late-night TV life-or-death than it was in the White House.
I know you talked about other stuff in your post, but -reow-
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Date: February 23rd, 2007 05:10 pm (UTC)BSG - Needs to stop marginalizing the huge conflict that having one of its highest-ranking officers married to a cylon must pose to most of the crew.
The Office - So awesome, even if I do have to watch most of it through my fingers. Michael coming to Pam's art show at the last second and his little speech? [sniffle]
Nip/Tuck - It's crack, pure and simple. We can't justify liking it, not in any meaningful way.
'Gates - The new episodes have aired in Canada, but I haven't seen anything after the mid-season finales. They do, however, continue to be my snarky, character-driven cheese of the world.
CSI: Miami - See: Nip/Tuck. THIS IS A BAD SHOW. Exceedingly pretty, which is why I still watch it, but so, so bad. You'd think with the amount of money they have, they could hire good writers, but you'd be wrong. So wrong. And yet, here we are. THIS SAYS BAD THINGS ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF OUR CHARACTER, LET'S MOVE ON.
Gilmore Girls - Continues to break my heart with every passing episode. The Sookie-pregnant-again storyline is AWFUL, and just this side of some really icky issues. Lane has become a punchline, Lorelai is a dumbed-down, boring version of herself, Rory is extra-snotty and lame as well, and everyone feels a few beats off, like someone took the ginko biloba out of their morning routines. It breaks my heart, it truly does, and yet, still watching. I cross my fingers every Tuesday night.
Studio60 - This show makes me so happy. I've been pulling for Danny and Jordan since the first minute, so that's paying off as we speak. But as far as the plot twists, what haven't you found plausible? I mean, Sting on the lute, I know, who saw that coming, but the rest? I think the hardest thing to sell me on is how Matt and Harriet somehow really did love each other that much at some point - they clash on a much too fundamental level.
But I think you're right, we're certainly enjoying what will surely be the only season of this series.
30 Rock - Excellent show, though I don't think it's fair to compare. Perhaps better captures the spirit of late-night sketch comedy shows, but I think what Sorkin is doing is what SNL was like in its heyday, when it was still relevant, not just stupid.