InsaneJournal

I'll be there for you...or not.

1. Tonight, I finally made several icons I like in the same sitting, and I'm thinking this might mean I'll finally be able to get back to those requests. Which I, contrary to what one might think, haven't forgotten, I've just sucked in the icon-making department in the past few months.


2. I've been rewatching Friends and I'm finally up to season 5 - my favorite. Which I've already rewatched once this year, but that didn't stop me from looking forward to it all through seasons 3 and 4. So far, the things that bugged me about the show towards the end there haven't reared their ugly heads, but I have a feeling I'll start getting annoyed in a season or two.


3. Pushing Daisies
   
   You know, after I saw the pilot, I had certain expectations about what I'd feel towards the characters, but aside from Emerson, who is just as awesome as I thought he'd be, I feel nothing like I thought about towards the three other main characters.
   
   Olive. I couldn't see any way they could make Olive work besides making her a complete psycho, and they totally shocked me by not only making her character work but by also making her be likeable and non-psycho in a progression that makes sense.
   
   Chuck. I thought I'd find her character too precious and annoying as all hell, but lo and behold, I actually like her. I like how pragmatic she is about her relationship with Ned and how kind she is. Something I didn't like was the way she wasted the minute in the early episodes, but thankfully they stopped that pretty quickly.
   
   Ned. Here's the one that shocks me. I'm not feeling Ned. I mean, I LOVE Lee Pace and that alone makes it impossible for me to dislike the character, but I can't say I care all that much. And I know exactly why, it's his relationship with Chuck and how there's pretty much nothing else he talks about. I don't like their romance all that much, but I think I wouldn't mind it as much if Ned's character could just get a few more layers/plotlines/whatever it takes for him to talk or think about anything but Chuck.


4. So, it seems Leno and Conan are returning in January, and I'm very conflicted. On the one hand, they're doing it to keep from laying people off, but on the other hand, how will I feel about the people who cross the picket line to appear on the show? And I'll most likely have to translate some episodes of Conan, and I'm not sure just how exactly to feel about that either. I'd much rather prefer that they did what Letterman is doing and took the WGA up on the offer for individual negotiations.


5. I bought about half of my Christmas presents online this year, and I haven't bought any of the rest yet. Next year, I think I'll be buying them ALL online, because it's such a stress-free way of doing it.


6. Speaking of Christmas, I'm thinking of taking two days' vacation time and getting 12 days off this Christmas. I love how my birthday is a holiday in this country. *g*


7. I keep meaning to post a game of some sort, but the trivia game I started coming up with only has THREE questions, and the movie cap game I thought about posting on Friday just sort of fizzled when I couldn't work up the energy to cap the movies I intended to use. But I'm determined to post one of the games (or some other game) sometime this week. Even though I imagine there won't be a lot of people around to play, but those of us stuck at work this week will probably need some distraction.


8. Belated happy birthday, Laura! =)