I think the reason Parenthood good is because Jason Katims wrote for My So Called Life.

I like it so much more than I expected to. I loved the movie so much (Martha Plimpton: He said he loved me! Dianne Weist: That's what they all say, and then they come.) that I figured I would hate the show. But not the case.

It has a "Life Goes On" vibe I like, same as MSCL.

Ari Shapiro TOTALLY looks like a tall Jonathon Rhys Meyers!

Makes him even hotter doesn't it? Like he does NOT have a face made for radio.

I've drunk the koolaid that way.

Crap, I forgot to go to bed early.

Jesse, don't make me get on twitter to ask Owen to tell you to go to sleep.

Oh fudge.

I've only had the one relationship, so I can't speak to that sort of click. Everyone clicked with him. It was really quite remarkable, statistically speaking.

I've had the I-must-inhale-you-now click, and the I-must-stand-near-you-now click and the my-god-we've-been-talking-forever click that goes on quite platonically.

And of course, there's the anti-click. That rarely reverses itself.

You clickers are weird. I prefer to be curious. Early in a relationship I'm just letting it flow and being conscious of gates and hurdles. I've only ever had the immediate click maybe three times out of the women I've been with. Sometimes you have to let somebody get comfortable with you before they reveal their true selves.

I don't think there's anything weird about finding someone fascinating on first meeting, in whatever category.

You clickers are weird. I prefer to be curious. Early in a relationship I'm just letting it flow and being conscious of gates and hurdles. I've only ever had the immediate click maybe three times out of the women I've been with. Sometimes you have to let somebody get comfortable with you before they reveal their true selves.

This is me. Well, I mean to say, it's both been my experience that I need more time with the person to see if there's a connection AND I'm aware that I'm far too awkward and guarded to even allow enough of myself out, so to speak, for there to be a click at a first meeting.

Which is why, I suppose, almost all of my relationships grew out of friendship first. And the "click," such as it was, was more of a moment when I looked up and went, "Hmmmm..."

Or made like a hussy and kissed the boy first.

But yeah. I'm massively awkward upon first (and second, and third) meetings. A lot of the time I feel like I'm imitating proper human behavior rather than actually doing what I'm doing because it feels right to me.

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I don't think there's anything weird about finding someone fascinating on first meeting, in whatever category.

It's weird *to me,* because it doesn't happen that way for me. I know it happens to lots of people, and that's cool for them. If that makes sense. Weird to me, not *for* others.

Jesse, don't make me get on twitter to ask Owen to tell you to go to sleep.

Owen is our oh-so-adorable boogyman. I love it!