Inane Chatter » TV http://www.inanechatter.net What were you expecting? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:36:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 A combination of two of my favorite things http://www.inanechatter.net/2012/01/27/a-combination-of-two-of-my-favorite-things/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2012/01/27/a-combination-of-two-of-my-favorite-things/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:39:34 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4553 John and I discovered How I Met Your Mother a few months ago (November, maybe?).  Seven years late, of course, but being so far behind has its advantages.  We’ve slowed down some, but there were some nights and weekends where we’d watch episode after episode after episode…  We’re in season 5 now, aware that we’re catching up quickly, so we only watch a handful of episodes a week now.  :)   Anyway, I found this on YouTube last night.

I want them to finish singing it! They stopped at the best part. Man, I love that show.

]]> http://www.inanechatter.net/2012/01/27/a-combination-of-two-of-my-favorite-things/feed/ 2 Sore (not Thor) http://www.inanechatter.net/2012/01/12/sore-not-thor/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2012/01/12/sore-not-thor/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:17:33 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4517 I can’t even count the ways that I am sore.  Last  night was my first night back at my Muscle Blast and yoga classes since Thanksgiving.  I’m very happy to be back, I really like those classes, but oh my god I hurt so much now.  Every muscle we worked on is screaming at me.  The aches sorta crept in one by one throughout the day, but they’re all here now.  Hi everybody!  Now go away.

I spent the entire day in a tiny little room with my boss (plus an hour and a half each way in a car with her to get to that tiny little room).  I need some space.  I need some alone time.  And I need some sleep.

You know what’s awesome?  Tomorrow’s Friday and it’s the beginning of a three-day weekend!  You know what’s awesome-er than awesome?  The first season (well, the 2005 season) of Doctor Who arrived in the mail yesterday!  With extras and commentary and lots of hours of Doctor and Rose goodness.

Does anyone know where we can find the last season of Torchwood (the season set in the US) online?  It was on Netflix for a little while, but it’s gone now.

My plan for the weekend:

  1. Do my homework (I have an assignment due for Data Modeling and Design)
  2. Finish Faithful Place
  3. Start The Hunger Games
  4. Exercise
  5. Grocery store
  6. Blah blah other boring things
  7. Oh, also SLEEP
]]> http://www.inanechatter.net/2012/01/12/sore-not-thor/feed/ 1 Baby, it’s not that cold outside http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/12/23/baby-its-not-that-cold-outside/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/12/23/baby-its-not-that-cold-outside/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:15:17 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4455 It’s not cold enough.  I should be happy about that (I hate being cold), but it’s hard to feel Christmas-y (or Hanukkah-y – yes, I’ve been lighting candles this year.  Please pick your jaw up off the floor.  That’s not sanitary.) when you barely need a coat to go outside.  I’ll get over it.  Just as soon as we hit the road.  Which can’t be soon enough for me.  What I’m really looking forward to is the time off.  I need a long, long break.  Or maybe…yeah, we don’t talk about that on the internet.

I also didn’t mean to publish that yet.  The Publish button looked a lot like the Save Draft button just then.  Whoops.  (For those of you coming late to the party, first of all, shame on you.  Get it together and be on time.  Secondly, it’s kind of obvious what just happened, so this explanation is unnecessary.)

I regret my choice of post title now.  Not just because it’s dumb, although that should be enough.  No, I regret it because that song is stuck in my head now.  I like it fine, but I’ve been having this problem all day, and I can’t settle on a song I’d be happy to have looping through my brain all day.  I woke up this morning to the theme from The Price is Right (thanks to the episode of How I Met Your Mother we watched last night), but I started to tell John about it and immediately switched to “You Were On My Mind” by We Five.  (John, you were right.  It’s We Five.)  Maybe I can get that one back.  I’ve always liked that song. Wish me luck!

]]> http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/12/23/baby-its-not-that-cold-outside/feed/ 3 I am easily amused. It helps to be absentminded. Seriously, you can tell me the same joke over and over again and I will find it hilarious every time. Ask anybody. http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/12/16/i-am-easily-amused-it-helps-to-be-absentminded-seriously-you-can-tell-me-the-same-joke-over-and-over-again-and-i-will-find-it-hilarious-every-time-ask-anybody/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/12/16/i-am-easily-amused-it-helps-to-be-absentminded-seriously-you-can-tell-me-the-same-joke-over-and-over-again-and-i-will-find-it-hilarious-every-time-ask-anybody/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:00:50 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4443 You know how it feels when you find something unexpected?  Something good.  Like last year’s $10 in your winter coat pocket.  (That one in particular hasn’t happened to me, but you know what I mean.)  It doesn’t have to be big.  It just has to be nice.  A couple of weeks ago I was writing test scripts for work, and I needed a fake name to fill in a particular field.  I picked a fairly innocuous name, familiar to me and many of you, but not to most people.  I moved on.  Today, I was helping out on that project again, setting up the test data and tweaking some of the scripts.  I got to that field and asked the guy who took it over from me what name to use (having completely forgotten what I’d chosen weeks ago).  He told me, and I laughed, thrilled with myself for setting it up that way so I could have a private little geeky giggle.  Yay me!  The name?  Harriet Jones.  (No room in the application for a title, sadly.)

It went a long way towards making my 4:15 wake-up call (to get to Baltimore today) bearable.  Not all the way bearable, but closer.

]]> http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/12/16/i-am-easily-amused-it-helps-to-be-absentminded-seriously-you-can-tell-me-the-same-joke-over-and-over-again-and-i-will-find-it-hilarious-every-time-ask-anybody/feed/ 7 This holiday snuck up on me http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/11/23/this-holiday-snuck-up-on-me/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/11/23/this-holiday-snuck-up-on-me/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:33:55 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4374 I don’t know why I expected to be productive today.  I really really wasn’t.  At all.  Nope.  The only good thing I did all day was keep the dogs company so I could put off the guilt of dropping them off at the kennel.  Something I will be doing within the hour.  The guilt is rising.  At least it’s only two nights.  We’ll be back before they know it (I hope), and they can spend the whole weekend draped over our toes as we spend lots of quiet  hours working on our schoolwork (John plans to put in some quality thesis time, and I have my last calculus quiz to work on).  We may watch the rest of Twin Peaks.  We started it a few days ago, and we’re five or six (seven or eight) episodes in.  We’re looking for stuff to put off getting caught up with Doctor Who and Torchwood.  I’m not ready to not have any new episodes of those to watch.  So I’m treating Twin Peaks like a movie, kind of.  The end isn’t far off (it wasn’t on the air that long), and I want to know what happened!  I could do without the music, though.  Truly awful stuff.

I’m not ready for Thanksgiving.  Mentally.  How did it get to be late November?  Wasn’t it August, like, yesterday?  What happened to August, anyway?  Well, crap.  I must be old.  Maybe I can find a way for the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas to slow down a little so I can enjoy them.  Unlikely.  I can’t get today to slow down – how could I get whole weeks to stop rushing by?

On the other hand, no work for four whole days!  Yay!  Save some green bean casserole for me.  That’s all I care about this year.  That and sweet potatoes.  And stuffing/dressing/however it’s made – I love it either way.  Really, it’s just the turkey I can do without.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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On the non-productive front, we started two new shows over breakfast.  Grimm looks like it could be really good.  The other show, Once Upon a Time, looks interesting, but maybe not quite as good as Grimm.  I still want to watch it.

One of the things we didn’t do was buy a new flower pot to plant the remaining avocado sprout.  John said flower pot to me and all I could think of was this:

It starts a little late, but I can’t find the beginning of the scene on YouTube. Close enough.

]]> http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/11/06/at-least-i-got-an-extra-hour-out-of-it/feed/ 0 Allons y, Alonzo! http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/10/30/allons-y-alonzo/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/10/30/allons-y-alonzo/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:29:48 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4283 Two sick dogs does not a happy household make.  They’re miserable, we’re miserable, and I can’t believe I’m looking forward to seeing solid dog poop again.  I mean, really.  We haven’t made it through a night without some cleanup necessary in the morning.  It’s been almost a week, but at least in the beginning, it was just one dog.  Last night I shot downstairs at 2:30 in the morning because I heard Roxy’s collar jingle.  I thought maybe she was just getting up and I could get her outside in time.  Nope.  There was already a mess.  I cleaned it up while they were outside and went back to bed.  Got up at eight this morning – another mess.  I’m fairly certain the second mess was Riley.  We were thinking about crating them tonight, but honestly, it’s easier to clean up the floor than it is to clean up the crate AND give each dog a bath.  Before work.

Enough about dog poop?  Okay.  The only other thing on my mind is my DE midterm tomorrow morning.  And Doctor Who.

[Beginning of Doctor Who section - if you're not interested (I'm looking at you, family),  you can quit reading now.]

We finished Season 4 of Doctor Who today (and Season 2 of Torchwood).  I have two things to say:

  1. Rose got her Doctor!  Yay yippity yay yay!  Makes me very happy.  And maybe a little teary.
  2. I am NOT ready for a new Doctor.  Do I have to?
  3. Does this mean we get Martha on Torchwood?  And maybe Mickey?  I could live with that.  Don’t answer me.  I’ll find out soon enough.
  4. Donna was my favorite.  She was AWESOME.
  5. GREG.  The fish-head episode is long over.  Unless there’s another one even MORE literal than the one I’m thinking of.  What on EARTH were you going to tell us?

I could go on, but John is making dinner and it smells SO good.

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In not scary news, I know this guy!  Kind of.  He was a client at my last job.  He moved to Vegas to play poker professionally.  After winning a lot.  Good for him.  He was always nice to me.

I needed to scrub my brain after that eerie picture, so we watched an episode of Modern Family.  I love that show.  If you don’t watch it, you are missing out.

I had a dream my house was falling apart.  But you don’t want to hear about that.  Other people’s dreams aren’t interesting to anyone but the dreamer.  And maybe the dreamer’s psychologist.  I don’t have one of those, so I’m out of luck.

]]> http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/10/19/my-eyes-my-eyes/feed/ 5 Who doesn’t love Muppets? Who doesn’t love Muppets making fun of other stuff? http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/09/23/who-doesnt-love-muppets-who-doesnt-love-muppets-making-fun-of-other-stuff/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/09/23/who-doesnt-love-muppets-who-doesnt-love-muppets-making-fun-of-other-stuff/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:14:48 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4156 Love Glee or hate it, you’ll enjoy Sesame Street spoofing it.  It’s spot on (and from The Daily What, of course.).

]]> http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/09/23/who-doesnt-love-muppets-who-doesnt-love-muppets-making-fun-of-other-stuff/feed/ 0 I need to watch it again. And again. http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/09/18/i-need-to-watch-it-again-and-again/ http://www.inanechatter.net/2011/09/18/i-need-to-watch-it-again-and-again/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:40:32 +0000 Zannah http://www.inanechatter.net/?p=4136 Had a very busy weekend, but not a very productive one.  Feeling a little guilty about that.  But not overmuch (that’s for tomorrow, when panic sets in) because I just watched three hours of Doctor Who with John, and while all three episodes were fantastic, the first one we watched today (season 3′s “Blink”) was the absolute best hour of TV I have EVER SEEN.  It was a GREAT episode, totally stands alone but still captures the Doctor, and on top of that, was effectively and freakishly scary.  Creepy.  SO well done.  Lots of caps.  Sorry.  I feel very strongly about that episode.  Greg, I think this is one of the ones you mentioned – anything you needed to tell us?

We stopped after Part II of the next three-parter, but we’ll probably watch Part III before we go to bed.  I don’t know how I managed before Doctor Who.

As for the rest of the weekend, remind me to tell you about bunco, Oktoberfest, a TON of neighbors I’ve never met before (despite living here for almost 6 years), and running just under 9 miles in the rain.  No need to remind me to tell you about that last bit, actually.  That’s all there is to say about it.  Oh, except I RAN THE WHOLE THING, including that hill I hate.  But that’s all.  :)

I want to keep babbling, mostly about Doctor Who and some about The Guild (we’ll start watching the current season soon – finished season 4 yesterday), but since what I’m hearing in my head is not remotely coherent (a lot of squeeing and why don’t we own that? and what the hell took us so long to get here?), I’m going to spare you.  Instead I’ll see if John can hurry up with his game so we can get back to Doctor Who.  I have priorities.

Did you guys see this? Cracks me up. I sing it ALL the time now.

(I know – I need to tone down the obsession. I just can’t help myself.)

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