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Can't sleep. Guess I'll talk about TV instead.
It's weird ... back when I was an undergrad, I used to have problems with insomnia and a really weird sleep schedule, and now that I'm taking classes again, I keep having these intermittent bouts of insomnia a few times a week. Not nearly as bad as before, when I wouldn't sleep for two or three days at a time, but just waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep for hours, if at all.
It's not so much stress as just not being able to stop thinking about what I need to do. I'm a planner and I don't like to have unfinished responsibilities hanging over my head. Classwork is a never-ending series of unfinished responsibilities, and I find myself going around and around in my head on what I still need to do, and not being able to let it go enough to sleep.
Since I'm up anyway, I may as well post on TV. I haven't been watching a whole lot of TV, but it's nice to have a few hours a week when I can make my brain shut up.
I started off the season really into NCIS -- more so than ever before, maybe just because there isn't much on TV that I am invested in -- but it's fallen back to just being a sort of happy-place show that I don't care too much about. On the other hand, sometimes it's nice not to be heavily invested in a show. I enjoy the playfulness and banter, but it wouldn't break my heart if the show was cancelled or someone left.
I do really enjoy the working relationship that Gibbs and Vance have settled into. It reminds me of Gibbs and Fornell a little bit; though Gibbs and Fornell have that adversarial working relationship but have managed to transcend it a little bit with a personal friendship, whereas Vance and Gibbs are adversarial on a personal level but work together really well. I really like how they get each other, and how Vance will slap him down one minute and have his back the next.
I lost interest in NCIS:LA after watching two or three episodes. I keep vaguely meaning to download them and get caught up, but as busy as I am right now, it's pretty low on my list of priorities.
I'm really not emotionally invested at all in Supernatural anymore. Mostly it just amuses me, and I'm never quite sure what they're going to come up with next. (The Knight Rider bit in 5x08 ... oh my god. *dies*) But I really don't care about the characters very much anymore, I have an admittedly irrational but deep-seated dislike of Castiel, and the mytharc bores me. The only plot thread I'm currently interested in is how they're handling Bobby's disability (the adjustment process that he's going through right now is a bulletproof narrative kink for me, and while I'm not happy with everything about how they're handling it, I'm happy enough to be enjoying it) but it's tempered by a certain amount of gloomy certainty that they're either going to kill him off or magically heal him. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.
I'm still really enjoying Scrubs, as we work our way slowly through the series. Some of the characters that I liked in the beginning are starting to annoy me in a fingernails-on-the-blackboard kind of way (Elliot and Cox, namely), but it's just such a fun, cute show. I wish I had time to make happy, bouncy vids for it. The cyclical soap-opera nature of the show does get a little tiresome when watching a number of episodes back to back, but the writing is fast and funny enough that I don't really mind; there aren't very many shows that consistently make me laugh out loud.
I had high expectations for White Collar because I've seen a number of positive reactions to it around LJ, and maybe that's why I was so disappointed. I found it dull and predictable, not exciting and twisty enough to make good action drama, and not funny enough to make good comedy. The forced partnership felt very contrived to me; it was like a paint-by-the-numbers odd-couple buddy show, where the pairing of the main characters was such a foregone conclusion that they didn't even bother doing the plotting legwork to make it plausible. Neither of the wives/girlfriends felt like a real person rather than a pretty plot device to motivate the guys. Maybe I'll check it out again in midseason to see if it's improved after the cast has a chance to gel, but right now I'm not seeing this as a show I'll be coming back to.
It's not so much stress as just not being able to stop thinking about what I need to do. I'm a planner and I don't like to have unfinished responsibilities hanging over my head. Classwork is a never-ending series of unfinished responsibilities, and I find myself going around and around in my head on what I still need to do, and not being able to let it go enough to sleep.
Since I'm up anyway, I may as well post on TV. I haven't been watching a whole lot of TV, but it's nice to have a few hours a week when I can make my brain shut up.
I started off the season really into NCIS -- more so than ever before, maybe just because there isn't much on TV that I am invested in -- but it's fallen back to just being a sort of happy-place show that I don't care too much about. On the other hand, sometimes it's nice not to be heavily invested in a show. I enjoy the playfulness and banter, but it wouldn't break my heart if the show was cancelled or someone left.
I do really enjoy the working relationship that Gibbs and Vance have settled into. It reminds me of Gibbs and Fornell a little bit; though Gibbs and Fornell have that adversarial working relationship but have managed to transcend it a little bit with a personal friendship, whereas Vance and Gibbs are adversarial on a personal level but work together really well. I really like how they get each other, and how Vance will slap him down one minute and have his back the next.
I lost interest in NCIS:LA after watching two or three episodes. I keep vaguely meaning to download them and get caught up, but as busy as I am right now, it's pretty low on my list of priorities.
I'm really not emotionally invested at all in Supernatural anymore. Mostly it just amuses me, and I'm never quite sure what they're going to come up with next. (The Knight Rider bit in 5x08 ... oh my god. *dies*) But I really don't care about the characters very much anymore, I have an admittedly irrational but deep-seated dislike of Castiel, and the mytharc bores me. The only plot thread I'm currently interested in is how they're handling Bobby's disability (the adjustment process that he's going through right now is a bulletproof narrative kink for me, and while I'm not happy with everything about how they're handling it, I'm happy enough to be enjoying it) but it's tempered by a certain amount of gloomy certainty that they're either going to kill him off or magically heal him. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.
I'm still really enjoying Scrubs, as we work our way slowly through the series. Some of the characters that I liked in the beginning are starting to annoy me in a fingernails-on-the-blackboard kind of way (Elliot and Cox, namely), but it's just such a fun, cute show. I wish I had time to make happy, bouncy vids for it. The cyclical soap-opera nature of the show does get a little tiresome when watching a number of episodes back to back, but the writing is fast and funny enough that I don't really mind; there aren't very many shows that consistently make me laugh out loud.
I had high expectations for White Collar because I've seen a number of positive reactions to it around LJ, and maybe that's why I was so disappointed. I found it dull and predictable, not exciting and twisty enough to make good action drama, and not funny enough to make good comedy. The forced partnership felt very contrived to me; it was like a paint-by-the-numbers odd-couple buddy show, where the pairing of the main characters was such a foregone conclusion that they didn't even bother doing the plotting legwork to make it plausible. Neither of the wives/girlfriends felt like a real person rather than a pretty plot device to motivate the guys. Maybe I'll check it out again in midseason to see if it's improved after the cast has a chance to gel, but right now I'm not seeing this as a show I'll be coming back to.
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