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1. Oh, I'm loving Bob Hearts Abishola -- the weak link up to this week had been Bob's family, but this week makes up for that. They were hilarious this week.

Co-worker: So I tried Bob Hearts Abishola. And I don't think it's going to last.
Me: Why? I love Bob Hearts Abishola.
Co-worker: It's too clever.
Me: That's why I like it. Although you're probably right, the shows I love usually get cancelled.
Co-worker: Yep. It's clever. The Neighborhood is good too.
ME: There's only three I like at the moment...The Connors, which is well written. And well-acted. Bob Hearts Abishola, ditto. And The Good Place.

Of the three - The Good Place is on it's last season. Although it doesn't make me laugh as loud as Bob Hearts Abishola, which has the cleverest social satire on race and gender politics on at the moment.

Best shows of the new season so far?

*Bob Hearts Abishola (only keeper in the sitcom category)

* Prodigal Son

* Stumptown

* Batwoman

Everything else is okay. I'm sticking with Nancy Drew and Emergence for now. But have pretty much given up on the rest.

You have to be picky. Too many television shows, too little time.

2. Crappy day. I wanted to smack people by the end of it.

Me (minding my own business and picking up something my boss ordered me to print off from the printer)
Co-worker: Oh, you couldn't hear me because you have head phones on. Is my stuff in there?
Me: Is this yours? (She nods. I hand it to her.) And yeah, the earphones keep my blood pressure down and blocks out the world.
Co-worker: It's not safe. You shouldn't wear them. That's what I tell my kids, when they block me out.
Me: No comment.
Co-worker: If an insane shooter came into the office you wouldn't hear them. And we'd all evacuate and you'd be shot.
ME: It doesn't block out that much. I can hear the fire alarm.
Co-worker: You couldn't hear me.
ME: Could you please keep these insane scenarios to yourself.
Co-worker: I like to think out all the worst case scenarios, so I'm safe.
ME: You are as bad as Claudia was -- you like drive my blood pressure up. (I so wanted to smack her. There are people at work that just have a sign on them that says "SMACK ME" in big red letters.)

I tell this to my mother.

Mother: You should have just said, "let them kill me, I don't care."
ME: No, I should have said what I was thinking which was -- shame they don't come in and shoot her. I'd like to shoot her. She drives my blood pressure up. Hence the ear phones -- so I can block people like her out.

So...mother turns to politics.

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I meditated for twenty minutes and successfully reduced my blood pressure. Go me.
I'm getting quite good at this meditation thing.

3. Am tempted to get the audible version of Book of Dust -- I have the hardcover, which I need to read. Just haven't gotten around to it. The audible version is being read by Michael Sheen. But I'm horrible at listening to audible books or podcasts. I'm thinking this may be a genetic thing? My parents suck at it too.

4. Went back into the Ancestry.com - after my Uncle, whose into this stuff, posted that the DNA thing had updated again.

So?
( ancestory breakdown )

4. Star Wars Trailer

Well, the trailer's great. But I will read all the reviews prior to forking up money to see it in a theater. I do not trust them. And I won't drag my poor decrepit mother to it at Christmas. I drug her to Last Jedi and she went to sleep during the first half of it, and this wasn't really that big a deal.

I think my parents lost interest after Return of the Jedi...which, alas, was the best of the films that followed Empire. Although I liked Force Awakens, it had potential. Shame all the cool subplots didn't pan out.

Also, it appears they dropped Finn/Rey, and Poe/Rey never took off. So can I have Poe/Finn?

And I appear to be the only fan who doesn't care about Kylo Ren. I don't. I'm ambivalent. I don't care if he lives or dies. I like the actor, the character? Meh.