Dr. Horrible, wrapping presents, and curry

This will be a random, rambling post. If you are not a fan of that variety of writing, I encourage you to stop and find something more palatable to your reading tastes on the internet. You might start at http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/ =)

I just found out about something called Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, which sounds amazing. Apparently it stars Neil Patrick Harris, among others. I attempted to watch the video right here at work but was unfortunately detained by buffering issues. Nonetheless, I'm excited to find out why other people like it.

Glenda just called and we're going to wrap presents at Barnes & Noble on Dec. 7th, which combines several of my favorite things at once: BOOK STORE, wrapping presents, hanging out with Glenda, AND helping out Good Mews (which is what we're wrapping presents for).

In more random news, work bought my lunch today, massaman curry (yum) and being the small child that I am, I accidentally dipped my shirt sleeve in the beige/yellow curry....

I'm actually getting things done in my apt. I can now walk around my bedroom almost without tripping over something once. The work continues this evening. I have also almost mustered up enough will power to wake up early tomorrow and work out before I go to work. We'll see how that one goes....

Just finished reading "In the Time of Butterflies" which was a great book but left me feeling very depressed. It didn't help that I wasn't particularly happy anyway and had just watched the episode of Ally McBeal (via www.surfthechannel.com) where Billy dies in Ally's arms. I'd never seen the episode before, only heard to it alluded in future episodes. So Billy dying coupled with my already sad state with "Butterflies" was not a good combination. A little West Wing did me some good at home.

I've made a new friend thorugh Beth, Mike, who called West Wing something akin to "insanely liberal" after he watched part of an episode that aired on what I assume was Bravo a few weeks ago. I didn't say anything because it is very liberal but.... there's so much more there. In a tv show that depicts the goings on of the White House and its staff, it really has to pick one side or the other. There is either a Republican or a Democrat in power and that's how the show really has to play out. I think the saddest thing is that if the show had had a Republican president in power and running the country, the show probably wouldn't have worked. The West Wing tends to mirror real life or recent life and the West Wing was often mirroring the Bill Clinton era. The West Wing isn't just liberal -- it's about ideas and talking about them. I just don't see that from a conservative side. And maybe that's my own fault and not the conservatives -- maybe I'm just so disenfranchised from that part of the political spectrum over these last several years that I can't see anything positive there. Maybe I only look at things in stereotypes, which is very hypocritical when I complain that people stereotype liberalism. I guess, in the end, it was disheartening to see a show I love so much ignored by someone because it IS liberal. (And I'm not saying that Mike is a flaming conservative -- if I recall, he identifies best with Libertarianism. ) There is so much else going on in that show. There is excellent acting, hope, optimism, a discussion of political ideas, a scrutiny of a fairly mystic profession, and quality. Even if you disagree with the show's politics, you can't deny that it is a quality show that people put a lot of work into. There is magic there. I suppose that's why I love the show so much, why I want to own all the episodes on DVD -- so that when there is nothing else on television I can flip in a disc and put it on in the background as I go about my business. It's comforting to me.

You don't have to love the West Wing -- it can be very dry and boring at times and if you don't have the resolve to sit and watch an entire episode from beginning to end, this show is not for you. If you walk in the middle through channel surfing, you're bound to walk in on the middle of a consersation between two people about something that you don't understand because you missed the first half, be bored, and move on.

Isn't it funny how defensive we (I) get when we find something we love that other people don't? I think my mom tries not to hurt my feelings sometimes when I tell her about something she needs to try or buy her something new that I've found. I have so much enthusiasm for the things that I love. And when I find something new that I love, I feel the need to tell the whole world, because if I love something obviously everyone else should love it too. It's not like people have different tastes.... =)

I apologize for the rambling for any of you still reading but I seem to have the need to ramble as of late. I stopped writing for a great deal of time and I don't know why. Even worse, I seem to have bottled everything up in that period of time instead of letting it out. So even though the writing in this post and others and others to come in the future could be considered subpar, bear with me. I need to get back in the habit of just letting things go, putting things out there, putting things down on paper. It's been so long, I've almost forgotten how to do it.

Almost....