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For somebody who doesn’t own a television, I sure do watch a lot of tv.  I watched Monday’s “Heroes” episode tonight, and this week’s “Battlestar Galactica” last night.  Hopefully I can watch tonight’s episode of “The Office” tomorrow, and then the season opener of “America’s Next Top Model” later in the week.  So I plan to watch four shows during the spring, that’s a signficant dedication of time.  Not having to watch the commercials shaves off probably an hour altogether.

“Heroes” was pretty sweet.  I liked how in-depth it delved into the history of a few people. Also, it introduced some major connections among different characters, including one character who had seemed like a celebrity cameo toss-off but might actually be key to everything.  

I’m eating a very juicy grapefruit and it just squirted me right in the eye, just like in a cartoon.  Amazing.

I just wrote a nice long post about buying a rotary cutter set to use when cutting the fabric for my next quilt that I’m starting this week, and about how I’m cleaning the living room before opening the rotary cutter package, and then I talked about the boxes of stuff from my old room in my mom’s house that are causing the living room mess.  I even included a picture of the rotary set with a link to the Joann Fabrics website.  When I pressed Publish I got an error message, and the post was gone.  Unbelievably frustrating. 

I saw this movie tonight using free passes that Wells Fargo gave me for my birthday.  It’s a romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant.  It’s about an aging ’80s pop star who needs to write a hit song by the end of the week for the latest huge young sexy singer.  He only does the music, so gets the woman who takes care of the plants at his apartment to do the lyrics.  Some humor ensues.

It was ok.  There wasn’t a whole lot of plot development, and Drew Barrymore’s character was kind of annoying.  The songs were the real stars.  I chuckled a few times, but didn’t really laugh out loud at all.  Actually, I can’t remember that last time that I was truly laughing, the uncontrollable laughing that feels so good while making it hard to breathe and hard to not wet your pants.

I had this great idea to start a web comic.  I was looking at one over the weekend and thought that it was by a woman, probably somebody about my age and like me but smarter and funnier.  I told whomever was near me, “This girl is great!  Everything she says is so true and witty!” and he said, “I think that’s a guy.  All web comics are written by guys.”  And then I said, “Right, right, most comics are by men, and yet I really do think this one is a woman, a woman like me.  Maybe we could be friends!”  And then it turns out not to be a woman at all.  Stupid guy.

So the plan: I will be a woman doing a web comic and I will become famous among nerd circles and on The Internet.  Then I tried to come up with the first one and when I tried to draw it out, the image in my mind didn’t translate to paper at all.  I couldn’t make it happen, not even with stick figures.  And it wasn’t funny.  So maybe that plan won’t work after all.

Plan B: I can go as a dungeon or a dragon.  I will still be the queen of the nerds!