I am almost back home! One week and counting. . . So, the thesis is finished, the job is quit, and the bags are a packin'. I can safely say I chose one of the worst years to live abroad (absent WWI and WWII). Between the war, and the economy, and the weakening dollar, argh!
But anyway, I'm ready to re-immerse myself in the headiness that is American pop-nonsense-culture. I have begun the process by wathing Big Brother 4, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Okay, so I'm a little behind on the latter two, okay, three. Okay, all of them. Anyway, because the news programs here leave MUCH to be desired--the backdrops look like something off of cable access, and the news anchors change so often I've never seen the same person twice making me believe that Sky News has some Disposable News Anchor program--and magazines are a gazillion dollars ($6.50 for the NEW YORKER???), my only way to keep in touch with anything remotely American is to watch any and all television shows that come my way. I've even started watching Classic 90210, we're talking Dylan and Brenda just had their FIRST break-up, and everyone has awful hair. And, Big Brother is wonderful. I had to sneak around to watch it because British Boyfriend hates it due to the fact that all of his friends at home are obsessed with it. But, he finally admitted he likes to watch it. It's sick and twisted, and I'm totally pulling for the former FBI agent guy to win. Right now they are all on a strictly PB & J diet for a week, so I'm sure madness will ensue.
Speaking of madness and Reality TV, there is a great new show on here called "My Best Friend." Okay, so the premise is this: you have to live with some disgusto guy for a weekend, and pretend he is your best friend. He does all of these awful things to disgust and embarass you and your friends and you have to maintain that he is your friend. How awful is that? The first episode, he forced the girl competing to leave her friend in the middle of the country side, and then proposed to her in front of a whole party of her friends, AND read her a poem with all of these dorky allusions to Lord of the Rings. It is FANTASTIC! Trust me.
So, now that it's obvious I've only been watching televsion for the last two weeks, I think I'll sign off. Viva Irish Television and free HBO shows!
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Goodbye, BGT! - 2005-08-08
hell hath no fury like a awriting workshop - 2005-08-01
My Love Don't Cost a Thing - 2005-07-14
Kiss My Grits! - 2005-07-06
