What Am I Watching?

I think a more appropriate question is what am I NOT watching? 

My favorite TV shows of all time are Gilmore Girls and The Office.  I don't understand why more people don't like them.  I own all the episodes on DVD -- well, I own the entire series of Gilmore Girls, but The Office is still on TV so I just have all the seasons besides the one that is on TV currently.  

Even though I have every episode of Gilmore Girls, I still watch it on ABC Family when it's on.  It's like a surprise -- which season will be showing?  Is Rory still at Chilton or has she moved on to Yale?  Is Lorelai at the Independence Inn or the Dragonfly?  Is Rory with Dean, Jess, or Logan?  Is Lorelai with Max, Chris or Luke?  

The Office is just, plain and simple, hilarious.  I know that some people don't get the comedy.  It's true that most of it is not "in-your-face", it's more in the awkwardness and the political incorrectness of Michael Scott and his number-two, Dwight Schrute.  Plus Jim is like, PERFECT, and I want to be Pam.  And Andy Bernard (The Nard Dogg) just makes the show that much better.

Another series I am watching currently is The Adventures of Pete and Pete.  It used to air on Nickelodeon in the early 90's and I absolutely adored it.  So when it came out on DVD of course I bought seasons 1 and 2.  It's a kid's sitcom, but it's so weird and quirky that sometimes it feels adult.  It's about two brothers, both named Pete Wrigley, their dad, their mom who has a metal plate in her head, Big Pete's best friend Ellen, Artie the Strongest Man in the World, Bus Driver Stu, and Little Pete's tattoo Petunia.  I can't explain it because it's just so strange, but I love it.  From Big Pete and Ellen's friendship turning into love on the marching band field, to Little Pete and his friends staying up for 11 days straight calling themselves "The Nightcrawlers" breaking a world record to murdering the school's mascot, a squid, with a discus. . . STRANGE.  But awesome.

I'm also a huge fan of Arrested Development, though I still need to get my hands on second half of the second season and the third season.  I have the first season but never got around to buying the second season and have been getting the disks on Netflix periodically.  But I love the Bluth family.  I think it's sad that it was cancelled -- the same fate that befell Freaks and Geeks; the network moved around a show it didn't particularly care for, so it couldn't gain a loyal following.  One of my favorite quotes ever is from Arrested Development:

Michael Bluth:  [talking to George-Michael about prison]  Scary?  No.  No, it's the opposite of scary.  It's like a carnival.  Without the half person on the skateboard that grabbed your knee to steady himself.

Other shows I enjoy are Jon & Kate + 8 (say what you may, but I LOVE Kate), GREEK, Little People Big World, Bones, and Girls Next Door (RIP).  I'm not a fan of reality TV in general, but I like the TLC shows because they are not trashy, and I like Girls Next Door because they don't try too hard!  And they are just funny.  

I don't know -- I love TV a lot.  It's an escape.  I always make time to veg out and watch some, because without some relaxation I would go crazy.  I need alone time with my fictional lives every once in a while.

Weird Things that Ruin My Day

So besides the fact that I'm still pretty deathly ill, there are a few other things that ruined my day for the past two days.

Yesterday I had to wake up super early for work, but I chugged some DayQuil which made me functional for the hour and a half that I was needed for.  I came back at 9:30am and my boyfriend was still here (weird, because he usually leaves at like 7am because he is strange).  I talked to him for about 10 minutes before I realized that I NEEDED to go back to bed for awhile.  I set my phone alarm for 11am so I would not miss Gilmore Girls.  

I slept through Gilmore Girls!  I was so mad.  I woke up at 1:30pm and all that awaited me was laundry.  Definitely a day-ruiner.   It doesn't even matter that I have every episode on DVD.  That means nothing.

Actually, what ruined my day even more was the fact that HogwartsLive.com was down.  HogwartsLive is basically my #1 time waster and I love it.  It's a text-based RPG and you just go into the forest and kill creatures, get experience and defeat Voldemort.  Then you start all over again.  You chat with other players and whatnot.  My friends Katie, Matt and Adrianne are on it as well, it's extremely addicting.  So the fact that it has been down for 2 days is a total day ruiner.  Especially when I'm at work and I have nothing else to do.  It better work on Monday, because Monday is the boring shift where I'm alone for 2 1/2 hours.

Take it from me -- a killer sore throat, sleeping through Gilmore Girls and no HogwartsLive is a crappy day.

How to Be a Gilmore Girl

This is one of my lifelong goals: to be a Gilmore Girl.  Now, each Gilmore Girl (Lorelai, Rory, and Emily) have aspects of their personality that are distinctly their own, so the options are to adapt your own personality to one of theirs, or just adopt the common threads into your own personality.  I would rather just be one of them, but it's harder than it looks.

So I will define their characteristics, then analyze which one I'm closest to.

Lorelai

1) Drink as much coffee as your stomach can hold.

2) Never learn to cook.

3) Wear shocking t-shirts that say "Porn Star" and "Bunny Ranch" and things of the like

4) Have a crazy complicated relationship with your parents.

5) Said parents are extremely wealthy

6) Have a baby at 16

7) Be obsessed with The Bangles, U2, David Bowie and Depeche Mode

8) Derive great pleasure from watching Sophia die in Godfather III

9) Also derive great pleasure from unapologetically mocking complete strangers

10) Have a secret crush on the diner owner . . . so secret that you don't even know it yourself.

11) Have a weird fear of commitment usually attributed to male "players"

12) Have an irrational fear of vegetables.

Rory

1) Drink slightly less coffee than your mother, but still an unhealthy amount.

2) Never learn to cook.  Later in life, learn how to chop vegetables for those that do cook.

3) Carry a book with you at all times.

4) Go to a private prep high school with a really cute uniform.

5) Have the most annoying first boyfriend ever, Dean, who looks like a deer.

6) Have the hottest second boyfriend ever, Jess, who is surly and extremely well-read.

7) Have a privileged snot for a third boyfriend, Logan, who messes up as often as he can be cute.

8) Go to an Ivy League School.

9) Drop out of an Ivy League school and move into your grandparents' pool house.

10) Go back to an Ivy League school after Jess yells at you. 

11) Lack any sort of athletic skill, including running, which makes you look like a duck.

12) Aspire to be a foreign correspondent like Christiane Amanpour.

Emily

1) Marry into one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in Connecticut. 

2) Have many quintessentially "control freak" characteristics

3) Wear the most expensive Hillary Clinton suits possible.

4) Always have a perfect coif.

5) Be completely incapable of keeping a maid more than a week.

6) Possess the uncanny ability of being able to nag and nitpick about anything.  And I mean anything.

7) According to Lorelai, she leads the "judgmental conga line".

8) Also according to Lorelai, she has many qualities in common with Joseph Stalin.

9) Active member of the D.A.R., Daughter of the American Revolution.

10) Biggest disappointment: her daughter Lorelai getting pregnant at 16 and never going to a debutante ball.

11) Huge fan of Christopher, Rory's father.

12) Still deeply hurt from when Lorelai left home at 17.

Analysis:

LORELAI:

I drink a lot of coffee, and I definitely don't cook.  However, I'm not a fan of tasteless T-shirts and I have a great relationship with my parents.  My parents aren't wealthy and I missed the time frame to have a baby at 16, so I'll just have to deal with that.  I have a healthy obsession with The Bangles, U2, David Bowie, and Depeche Mode.  Sophia dying in Godfather III is one of the best cinematic moments in history, so I'm with her on that one.  I am a proudly unapologetic mocker!  I don't have a diner owner to crush on, unfortunately, because Luke Danes just isn't real -- to my great disappointment.  I don't really have a fear of commitment and of course, I have a unhealthy fear of vegetables.

CONCLUSION:  Coffee, cooking, music/movies, mockery, and vegetables are where we are similar, but the overall personality isn't a good match.

RORY:

I probably drink less coffee than Lorelai, and I'm sure that I could learn how to chop vegetables, even if I won't eat them.  I do often carry a book with me, because I read probably too much, just like her.  I went to a grungy public school, though, with no uniform.  I've only had 1 serious boyfriend and he doesn't fit with either Dean, Jess or Logan.  I didn't go to an Ivy League school and didn't drop out of an Ivy League school and I didn't go back to an Ivy League school.  Though it would have been really cool if I went to an Ivy League school.  I'm not much of an athlete and I look really stupid when I run, and though I'm not aspiring to be Christiane Amanpour I would like to be in the TV business.

CONCLUSION:  Looks like she's my closest match so far.  Can you say BALLER!!!

EMILY:

I have little hope of every marrying into a wealthy and distinguished family, and I'm not really a control freak unless it comes to the remote control.  Not much of a suit person, and my hair is far from perfect.  I've never had a maid but I would probably be so overjoyed that I could afford one that I would never fire her even if she stole from me.  I'm not a good nagger or nitpicker because I always just give up.  I can be pretty judgmental so I guess I'm with her on that.  I don't think that Stalin and I would get on particularly well.  I'm not a member of the D.A.R.  (D.A.R.N.!).  I don't have a daughter to be disappointed about, but I would be mad if my daughter wasn't a debutante.  I HATE CHRISTOPHER.  Yuck!  And again, I don't have a daughter.

CONCLUSION:  Aside from the judgmental conga line, not much in common here.

And the winner is . . . 

RORY!

My trophy shall be a first-edition copy of Gogol's Dead Souls with a cup of coffee on top and a pair of saddle shoes.