Which was initially because I was completely wiped after the first half of the first assignment period at uni (In which I read three 40 page journal articles and wrote a 1,500 word piece of assessment based on them for sociology and performed data synethesis and analysis of three 45 minute long interviews I designed and administered then wrote and delievered a 20 miniute presentation based on my findings for media studies) and didn't want to write or read anything, journal entries or otherwise.

I basically sat around the house, played The Sims 2 (I just got the vacation expansion pack) and watched a hell of a lot of TV (which I will discuss below.)

It turned out pretty awesomely for me because I was able to steer clear of all the drama that has been going down in livejournal over the last week (i.e. the "strike") and instead rediscover some old fandoms and discover new ones. Mainly through actually watching TV something I don't do a lot of lately.

I watched all nine episodes of Private Practice, which I have watched once before but mostly as I was going to sleep at night (I'm one of those people WHO CANNOT FALL ASLEEP without noise) so I missed a lot of things. I love this show, I think I actually prefer it to Grey's Anatomy, mainly because it is less focused on the medicine so I don't get enraged everytime they Shonda and Co. manage to make simple mistakes. I also prefer the characters on this show (the George/Izzie thing on Grey's and Izzie's character in general post Denny are driving me up the wall,) I have like three ships, Cooper/Violet, Addison/Pete and Sam/Naomi and I of course love that it is Addison focused, because Addie wins.

( Private Practice 1.01-1.09 - Random Musings )

I'm going through a X-Files renaissance at the moment, watching season one again from the very beginning really paying attention as opposed to using it as comforting background noise. The X-files was my first fandom 15 years ago (I watched it with my mum.) I wrote my first piece of fanfiction in 1993 (when I was 11 1/2,) it was a 500 (or so) word MSR that involved thier first kiss (and I'm fairly sure was horiffically bad,) I carried it around on a floppy disk (I feel old just writing the words floppy disk) and eventually posted it to alt.tv.xfiles when I finally got the internet in high school (I searched and I can't find it, it probably is still there somewhere.)

The first season is so brilliant. Some of the best episodes of the whole series are season one episodes. Beyond The Sea is still, at least to me one of the best episodes of any TV show ever.

I am so hyped for the movie now, it comes out the week after my birthday, w00t.

( House 4.11 Frozen and House 4.12 Don't Ever Change )

Ludachristmas is the best episode of 30 Rock to date, it was so good I wanted to take it out behind the middle school and get it pregnant, Secrets and lies was pretty good too.

Well that pretty much brings me up to yesterday (when I started writing this entry) and I think this is probably lone enough not so I'll leave it there but you can expect some spamming from me over the next few days as I ease back into things:-)

One last thing, new layout! stare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_outstare_me_out