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Reality TV
Feb. 20th, 2004 01:34 pmI never really considered myself a fan of "real TV". Well ... there is that "American Chopper" show on Discovery --- I love that show! But, that's another story for another time ... heh, heh.
I think I'm probably the only person on the planet who never watched any of the Survivor shows ... plus, I never saw any of the Big Brother shows, either. But ... my husband has gotten me totally hooked on this "Apprentice" show that's running on NBC now. Damn him... I kept telling myself that I wasn't watching it because I really liked it --- no, I was just being a good wife and showing interest in something he liked. Well ... I can't lie to myself any more. Today, I had to face the fact that I'm officially "hooked", because I actually sat down and watched an entire episode all by myself. Ugh! How, oh how could I have stooped so low? Oh well ... there's no explaining it, so I guess I'll just go with it and continue watching until it's over or until ... well, let's just say there's one contestant in particular that I really want to see get fired. So, if that person gets fired, I might actually lose interest and return to something that passes for "normal" --- for me, anyhow. Damn ... next thing you know, I'm going to start watching soap operas, too... A sure sign of the armageddon's approach.
Although ... if you can get past all the "drama queen"-type intrigue and machinations ... I've often thought I'd like to actually live in a soap opera. I mean, think about it --- everyone on them is "pretty" in some form or other ... they're all perfect, all thin and beautiful with perfectly straight, perfectly white teeth, hair that's never messed up or frizzy, makeup that's always perfect, and always the perfect, very expensive clothes. And everyone, even the "poor" people, live in really nice houses. Oh, and if you live in a soap opera, you obviously don't have to work. I mean, not that I've watched a lot of them, but one of my roommates in college was hooked on one & I used to watch it occasionally with her ... and I never saw anyone actually go to work. They're all too busy scheming against each other. All in all, if you could manage to not get stalked or something like that (which, the way time runs in a soap, could conceivably be a situation lasting for hundreds of years ... that would get old fast), it might not be a bad life, eh?
What else? Oh, the writing ... well, my muse has been working along, I think. I have several half-baked ideas, which I've jotted down. Perhaps one of them will turn out to be a pie or something -- ha, ha. I have a ton of things to do, actually. Well, a ton of things I want to do: scanning in manga pages from the new Blade of the Immortal graphic novel, scanning Ranma artbook & InuYasha artbooks, scanning in images from the new Gravitation graphic novel --- there was a great pic of Hiroshi on his motorcycle that is just dying to be made into a wallpaper! Plus, I have several fics and a couple of original works in various stages of development. So ... no lack of stuff to do. But, lacking desire --- big time. I have so little free time, I have a hard time homing in on one thing when I have some extra time. It's a case of too much to do, too little time. Plus, I just finished up a massive edit job on three very long Weiss fics. It's great to finish a project, but, yet, not great because I want to slack off, yet, I don't want to slack off. Yes ... I'm a very confused, very weird chick!
I think I'm probably the only person on the planet who never watched any of the Survivor shows ... plus, I never saw any of the Big Brother shows, either. But ... my husband has gotten me totally hooked on this "Apprentice" show that's running on NBC now. Damn him... I kept telling myself that I wasn't watching it because I really liked it --- no, I was just being a good wife and showing interest in something he liked. Well ... I can't lie to myself any more. Today, I had to face the fact that I'm officially "hooked", because I actually sat down and watched an entire episode all by myself. Ugh! How, oh how could I have stooped so low? Oh well ... there's no explaining it, so I guess I'll just go with it and continue watching until it's over or until ... well, let's just say there's one contestant in particular that I really want to see get fired. So, if that person gets fired, I might actually lose interest and return to something that passes for "normal" --- for me, anyhow. Damn ... next thing you know, I'm going to start watching soap operas, too... A sure sign of the armageddon's approach.
Although ... if you can get past all the "drama queen"-type intrigue and machinations ... I've often thought I'd like to actually live in a soap opera. I mean, think about it --- everyone on them is "pretty" in some form or other ... they're all perfect, all thin and beautiful with perfectly straight, perfectly white teeth, hair that's never messed up or frizzy, makeup that's always perfect, and always the perfect, very expensive clothes. And everyone, even the "poor" people, live in really nice houses. Oh, and if you live in a soap opera, you obviously don't have to work. I mean, not that I've watched a lot of them, but one of my roommates in college was hooked on one & I used to watch it occasionally with her ... and I never saw anyone actually go to work. They're all too busy scheming against each other. All in all, if you could manage to not get stalked or something like that (which, the way time runs in a soap, could conceivably be a situation lasting for hundreds of years ... that would get old fast), it might not be a bad life, eh?
What else? Oh, the writing ... well, my muse has been working along, I think. I have several half-baked ideas, which I've jotted down. Perhaps one of them will turn out to be a pie or something -- ha, ha. I have a ton of things to do, actually. Well, a ton of things I want to do: scanning in manga pages from the new Blade of the Immortal graphic novel, scanning Ranma artbook & InuYasha artbooks, scanning in images from the new Gravitation graphic novel --- there was a great pic of Hiroshi on his motorcycle that is just dying to be made into a wallpaper! Plus, I have several fics and a couple of original works in various stages of development. So ... no lack of stuff to do. But, lacking desire --- big time. I have so little free time, I have a hard time homing in on one thing when I have some extra time. It's a case of too much to do, too little time. Plus, I just finished up a massive edit job on three very long Weiss fics. It's great to finish a project, but, yet, not great because I want to slack off, yet, I don't want to slack off. Yes ... I'm a very confused, very weird chick!
