Where Have I Been? Good Question

So it's been a while since I've been online. It's not that I haven't had lots going on in my head - I have - but it's been in a different format than usual. I got involved in a personal writing project and that's where my brain's been at for the last few weeks. If this were quality writing that would be one thing, but it's really just a flight of fancy, a fun experiment. Anyway, that doesn't mean it's worthless. It was actually fun. Or should I say 'is' since I keep working on it!

That of course meant I got behind on many of my tv season finales. I'm watching CSI right now; I'm a week behind on Lost, 24, Veronica Mars, and about a month behind on CSI NY and CSI Miami, which I'm ditching after this year because it's ludicrous. When you start finding big ass plot holes, the show loses its joy for you. And I tend to want to suspend my disbelief, so losing me there is a sign of a show's failure. And I usually don't give up on a show before it completes its run.

24 this year was a huge disappointment, and I haven't even gotten to the finale yet, which I will probably half-watch while doing something else. They killed off Tony for starters, but then the show just degenerated into lukewarm plot lines we'd all seen before; Chloe didn't get any good whipcrack lines; Jack disappeared half the day to be replaced by interchangeable actors who didn't make me want to root for them in any way. In short the season was a bust.

Lost has been stellar; I can never understand when people say the show bores them or they gave up on it. I think it's more interesting than ever. Sure, the show has had some up and down points - Nikki and Paulo were a sadly failed experiment - but overall the show has paced itself beautifully and is so well written I wish other shows would take notice. I'm still headed to the finale of that show too, but I have to say the long wait until February will be difficult, especially during the summer rerun season.

My guilty pleasure, Supernatural, wrapped up already - that's the one show I watched live every week - and although it had its moments where I thought the writing could be more crisp, the show remains enjoyable (hey, every week with the Metallicar is a good week). The finale's CGI needed work, and not to give Big Daddy Winchester even a line so we could hear Jeffrey Dean Morgan's stellar pipes at work was a travesty. But now we go into next season with Dean having made a deal with the devil so to speak, and if they don't find a way to get him out of it, he'll be dead in a year. So that gives us some urgency. And the need for a fourth season, otherwise the show'll just kill him off at the end of three, and that would be, indeed, The Suck.

What else have I been doing? The round of family get-togethers, for the most part. I saw my family every weekend in May. Baby showers, birthdays, the annual Indy 500 party which included two days of scrapbooking - I told my mom not to get upset if she didn't see me at all in June! It's funny, I'm not married but I spend a lot of time doing family things! But we always have such a good time. I actually heard my mother make a dirty joke. THAT was a shocker. And my grandmother made a reference to having a doctor whose name was Dr Ruff, and my cousin and I eyeballed each other. Yeah, we went there. Goes back to that wrist restraint conversation I had online with some of the cyber gang! Ha ha ha

I feel like I should have something profound to talk about since I haven't been here in a while, but I really don't. Give me time; maybe something else will occur to me worth discussing.