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Jun. 26th, 2012 09:09 pm1. Not that anyone should care, but here's the tv shows I'm DVR'ing this summer:
* Newsroom - HBO
* Bunheads - ABCFamily
* True Blood - HBO
* Masterpiece Theater - depending on what it is (right now "Zen")
* Breaking Bad on AMC (which you can blame my co-worker for convincing me to give a second chance. What he told me was that the plot structure and character trajectory were flawless.
That is a rare thing in the world of tv. You don't find that. The only tv show that I've seen which came close was The Wire. A flawless plot structure/character trajectory is a work of beauty. Now if I can just get past the subject matter...)
* Political Animals - USA (when it shows up, I keep waiting)
* The Closer - series finale - because I want closure more than anything else.
* Dallas....just because.
* And Doctor Who - if and when it chooses to make a reappearance.
And via DVD, Homeland, Fringe S4, and Dexter - when they are available. Community if it appears in reruns. If I didn't list your favorite tv show, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's either because I've tried and it didn't interest me or fit my current mood, or
I can't get it since it's on a station that I don't have access to, or I don't know it exists. Most likely the first one...
2. In case you haven't noticed? Cranky. Very Cranky. Also have been binge eating which is not good for me. Last night I finished an entire bag of popcorn. Granted it was just popcorn. But it was also lightly crusted with sugar and salt. Tonight? Not to be outdone?
It was a bag of cherries. Real cherries. Okay half a bag, the other half was rotten and I had to throw them out.
Decided to go off the after-the-work drink. You do this long enough, funniest thing, you begin to build up a tolerance and you start needing more than two glasses of wine to take the edge off. I decided I'd stop while I was ahead. Outside of the caloric intake...this can't be good for my general state of well-being.
And because I like to torture myself...I'm cutting back on chocolate and sugar too. Let's get rid of all the addictive foods at once, shall we? No more potatoe chips, corn chips, popcorn (sugar coated, plain is fine), candy bars, chocolat bars, ice cream, wine, vodka,
or rum. Also scale back on juices. All of this would be a whole lot easier if my work-place would cooperate with me and not stress me out or make me crazy.
With any luck? I'll lose the 150 pounds I appear to have gained in the last five years.
3. At work today, I learned all about CIGIL Huts. Basically this is a hut on the railroad filled with all sorts of fancy wiring which operates the signal switches that tell the trains where to go and when to go. The signal engineer via computers and other electronic gizmos...manages the signal switches through these huts. That's a gross over-simplification. What do I look like? An Engineer? A Rocket Scientist? HAH. As co-worker informed me today, Signal Engineering really is Rocket Science. Procuring the damn things appears to rocket science too. But I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say...there's a reason I won't be reading the book Swerve any time soon or anything else of that caliber.
* Newsroom - HBO
* Bunheads - ABCFamily
* True Blood - HBO
* Masterpiece Theater - depending on what it is (right now "Zen")
* Breaking Bad on AMC (which you can blame my co-worker for convincing me to give a second chance. What he told me was that the plot structure and character trajectory were flawless.
That is a rare thing in the world of tv. You don't find that. The only tv show that I've seen which came close was The Wire. A flawless plot structure/character trajectory is a work of beauty. Now if I can just get past the subject matter...)
* Political Animals - USA (when it shows up, I keep waiting)
* The Closer - series finale - because I want closure more than anything else.
* Dallas....just because.
* And Doctor Who - if and when it chooses to make a reappearance.
And via DVD, Homeland, Fringe S4, and Dexter - when they are available. Community if it appears in reruns. If I didn't list your favorite tv show, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's either because I've tried and it didn't interest me or fit my current mood, or
I can't get it since it's on a station that I don't have access to, or I don't know it exists. Most likely the first one...
2. In case you haven't noticed? Cranky. Very Cranky. Also have been binge eating which is not good for me. Last night I finished an entire bag of popcorn. Granted it was just popcorn. But it was also lightly crusted with sugar and salt. Tonight? Not to be outdone?
It was a bag of cherries. Real cherries. Okay half a bag, the other half was rotten and I had to throw them out.
Decided to go off the after-the-work drink. You do this long enough, funniest thing, you begin to build up a tolerance and you start needing more than two glasses of wine to take the edge off. I decided I'd stop while I was ahead. Outside of the caloric intake...this can't be good for my general state of well-being.
And because I like to torture myself...I'm cutting back on chocolate and sugar too. Let's get rid of all the addictive foods at once, shall we? No more potatoe chips, corn chips, popcorn (sugar coated, plain is fine), candy bars, chocolat bars, ice cream, wine, vodka,
or rum. Also scale back on juices. All of this would be a whole lot easier if my work-place would cooperate with me and not stress me out or make me crazy.
With any luck? I'll lose the 150 pounds I appear to have gained in the last five years.
3. At work today, I learned all about CIGIL Huts. Basically this is a hut on the railroad filled with all sorts of fancy wiring which operates the signal switches that tell the trains where to go and when to go. The signal engineer via computers and other electronic gizmos...manages the signal switches through these huts. That's a gross over-simplification. What do I look like? An Engineer? A Rocket Scientist? HAH. As co-worker informed me today, Signal Engineering really is Rocket Science. Procuring the damn things appears to rocket science too. But I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say...there's a reason I won't be reading the book Swerve any time soon or anything else of that caliber.