My Morning

How It Should Have Gone:

• Woohoo! I don’t have to take the bus today! I get to sleep in a little and take my time before work!
• Nice, long shower to wake myself up.
• Browse the closet for something to wear
• Pour myself a bowl of cereal and leisurely eat it while browsing Facebook and Twitter.
• Blow dry my hair, maybe try to do something with it, put make-up on.
• Head out the door and drive to Starbucks for some decent coffee for once.
• Pull into the parking ramp and head into work awake and refreshed.

How It Went:

• What do you mean it’s 7:45????
• Jump in the shower for 3 minutes and kind of wash myself, I think. It was a blur.
• Fuss with my contacts for way too long as they just. won’t. go. in.
• Whip open my closet and throw on the one thing that I think will work.
• Go to put on deodorant to notice the dress I’m wearing is broken. Somehow it lost its shape and turned into a sack and oh, great, there's another piece of clothing gone.
• Find ribbon and tie it around waste for shape.
• Blow dry my hair really quickly and manically brush it.
• Smear make-up on my face.
• Run to the bathroom, flush the toilet, toilet keeps running.
• No time to wait for it to stop.
• Grab my phone (thankfully I remembered it at the last minute) and run out the door.
• Go to Super America and get a plain blah donut.
• Eat donut in the car while racing through traffic to get to work.
• Pull into ramp (5 minutes late) and work to squeeze myself into one of the incredibly narrow parking spaces.
• Get to the office feeling slightly sweaty, incredibly tired, and pissy.
• Go to the skyway convenience store and get my usual cup of burnt/bitter coffee.

Today has bad vibes written all over it. I don't like it.

Lost...Again

 

I’m currently rewatching season one of Lost. It’s absolutely fascinating to watch now, having seen how the whole thing plays out. All the clues to everything that happens in future seasons seems to be there. At least, it’s easy to pick things out that could be clues as to what’s to come – which then makes it really seem like the writers had some sort of idea of what they wanted to do – time travel and all.

Rose even says, upon first hearing what we know to be the Smoke Monster out in the jungle: “This all sounds so familiar.”

I also find that I’m just waiting for writer/continuity screw ups – and some do appear. For example, they’ve just discovered “Adam & Eve” in the caves. Jack examines them and determines that they are a man and a woman (correct), but then says the bodies are at least “40 to 50 years old” due to the condition their clothing is in. Obviously, we find out later they are much older than that. But, then again, what does Jack know? Not much. As even from the beginning he refused to take in any knew information or ask any questions. Kate wants to tell him what she did to be on the run from a Federal Marshall, but Jack says he doesn’t want to know. Really? Why not? Weirdo.

I also think the writers did a lot of retro-active storyline fitting.

Other things I’d forgotten about:

• Boone is borderline Forrest Gump levels of stupid.
• John Locke was once so cool and mysterious.
• Kate wasn’t always super annoying and ruining everything.
• Michael was always super annoying and ruining things, though I will say he might just be the best actor on the show (for real) But the constant “Waaaaaaaaaaaalt” gets old really quick.
• It’s so much fun to watch Charlie and Hurley’s friendship bloom – and so sad to think about what’s to come.
• Sayid might be the best character.
• Vincent makes everything better (and I’m still bitter we never got a Vincent-centric episode).
• Remember how creepy it was when Jack finds his dad’s coffin and it’s empty!
• This show was really good. And now I want to watch the whole series again.

Also, I recapped Lost during the 5th and 6th seasons. You can read those here, if you'd like.