I thought creme brulee (too lazy for the characters) was the same consistency as flan for the longest time. I don't like flan. Then a friend cleared it all up for me and I actually tried creme brulee. Oh, so good. It was an epiphany.

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I enjoyed Veronica Mars, although I didn't really care about the big arc thing until the last couple of episodes. I'm mostly there for the dialog and the secondary storylines.

I am enjoying Dr. Who. Lots and lots. I get together with some folks and we make a big social thing of it.

Smonster and Amyth got me hooked on BSG. <shakes tiny fist> But they also lent me the DVDs to get me up to speed, so it's all good. And the big October wait doesn't weigh on me as much since I'm just now up to the Pegasus episodes.

And speaking of Dr. Who, I need to scoot to make the local Whoista gathering.

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I am suspicious of flan, because it is most often eggy. But still pretty.

I once had a custard desert, egg free, that looked just like crême brulée--the "brulée" top was actually kiwifruit jelly. It was delicious.

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Oh, yeah. Love Dr. Who, but I think of it more as a computer show than a TV show. And the same thing with Spooks. Love.

ETA: Flan is watery/custardy, which I do not like. The kiwi jelly brulee thing sounds yum.

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I enjoyed Veronica Mars, although I didn't really care about the big arc thing until the last couple of episodes. I'm mostly there for the dialog and the secondary storylines.

I suspect this year, we didn't need to, as much. That's one of the things I'll be interested in finding out, once I rewatch it in a row. It seems like there were an awful lot of unimportant episodes in the middle--sort of the same pacing problems BtVS had in its last few years, but it was so often pre-empted, I can't decide without a good rewatch.

Next year, he's going to have three blocks of mysteries, rather than one big one. I think I might like that, better.

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I suspect this year, we didn't need to, as much.

But the big reveal touched on what felt like every episode. I'm not a big clue-gluer, so I just went "Really? That was supported by all the text?" and waited for the next good character moment.

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Just finished Hush. Now I have to go to a communications committee meeting for my church. I still have the feeling that I can't speak that I always get when I watch Hush. This should be interesting.

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But the big reveal touched on what felt like every episode. I'm not a big clue-gluer, so I just went "Really? That was supported by all the text?" and waited for the next good character moment.

I can mostly see support for everything that happened in the text. For me, there was just an awful lot that happened in the text that seemed like it was supposed to matter, but then didn't. Some red herrings are necessary, so maybe I over clue-glued. VM was far and away my favorite thing on TV, but I should add the American version of The Office grabbed me so hard, I was surprised. It was the 'shippy aspects that grabbed me hardest, though.

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I suspect this year, we didn't need to, as much. That's one of the things I'll be interested in finding out, once I rewatch it in a row. It seems like there were an awful lot of unimportant episodes in the middle--sort of the same pacing problems BtVS had in its last few years, but it was so often pre-empted, I can't decide without a good rewatch.

Yes, this annoys me, a lot. It would be one thing if there were one arc, but there were a ton of mysteries that waited to be resolved until the last two episodes, and even then, not all of them were resolved. I hate sitting through MotW thinking, isn't there, like 24 other things I'm supposed to be remembering that need to be solved? Who gives a fuck about this random dude's problem?!

I'm angry tonight, I guess.

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I like the Unit and Bones. And NCIS, as predictable as it is. I never got into VM. The few I saw, annoyed.

In other news, my mom is a big fat generous sap. I got a sweet note from her with a big fat check for Mister Kitty. She knows I don't need the money, that I can cover it myself. She just does this. She did it when the car broke when they were visiting.

It's odd, when I've had to ask them for money because finances were fraught, it's weird and I feel like shit. And yet when I've got plenty of padding and yet they decide to foot a bill? Well, it is still weird but more from the outsider's perspective. It isn't a substitution for anything (nothing is as valuable as all those two weeks of nights she called to check up on things and let me cry and work through the worst of it and gave me a verbal lap to crawl into) and it isn't buying anything. It's just mom. After I quit sniffling, I told her a part was going to some animal charity. Then she started sniffling and told me she wasn't surprised.

And yet, they don't take me seriously when I tell them to buy me a goat for xmas!!

Anyway, I love my family. Can't always explain our shorthand, but they're mine.

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