So, I haven't been feeling like blogging lately. I think it's because I've been very busy and pre-occupied with unbloggable things. Work-related things. Things that involve other people's private lives. Things that I'm not ready/willing to say in public. Oh, and I've gotten some strange emails from people who have found my blog lately. Mostly of the Return to God! I haven't read your whole site but I totally understand everything about you and here's a five minute solution for your many years of thinking and observing! And now I'll project my own issues onto you and conclude that because you don't think exactly like me, you must be horribly depressed and addicted to drugs/alcohol! variety. Um. Yeah, no.

Oh, and the "you just say that you don't believe in God because you KNOW that Jesus is real, but you think that Christians are stupid and you're being snotty" emails. Those are real winners. Mixed in with comments about how amazing I am and how sad it would be for me to miss out on JESUS, they're the epitome of passive-aggressiveness.

There's also the angle that I, an introvert, have been with other people 24 hours a day for the last two weeks, and this makes me very very quiet. This makes my boyfriend concerned that he has done something wrong (nope!) because we're having dinner and I'm silent instead of talking his ear off. I just want to sit in my room and putter for an evening. This is just me when I need to step back and recharge.

I'm waiting for TV to start again so that I can download the following programs: Alias, LOST, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars. Chris and I are also currently working our way through the first season of Six Feet Under and I declare it to be double-plus-good. As of January, I will not have a TV. I will not watch commercials, and reality TV will not exist in my home, nor will Oprah or soap operas or crime dramas that bring rape and murder into your home every night and call it entertainment. Eventually I will become ignorant of all of these trends, just like I am ignorant of the popular bands on the radio right now. I am strangely proud of the fact that I can't name half the bands on the rock/alternative radio stations anymore. But I can still identify a Nickelback song in the first 2 seconds because they ALL SOUND THE SAME. Give me variety! Give me music that is original and not so over-produced and target-marketed that it is the equivalent of musical airbrushing! Give me Bright Eyes screaming off-key any day over that crap. At least there's passion there.

But I'm impressed with HBO's shows, and with LOST and Veronica Mars. Less so with Alias, but I'll admit that any chance to see Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan running around being sneaky is something that I'll invest some time in. Plus, I'm really hoping that they'll tie the series up nicely and answer some questions. I know, it's not going to happen. They're just going to add more and more twists until you can't unravel the plot anymore, and then it'll end because of something unrelated to writing, and they'll do the same thing with LOST because it's the same writers. But I fall for it, I always do. I get into the plot, I like the characters, I curse the unfortunate direction of the writing (This makes no sense! It'll throw everyone off! Excellent, let's include it!), and I hope that things will get better next season. They say that insanity is doing something the same and hoping for a different result, so maybe that sums that up.

Oh, and Achewood making fun of sysadmins and other geeks. Beautiful. ;)