I pretty much was anti-sitcom for just about a decade, but 30 Rock sucked me in. Then, I got sucked into "The Office", almost 100% due to the Oscar character.

Then, I saw the "Modern Warfare" ep of "Community" and I was hooked. Period. I've seen every ep of season 2, and I'm moving through Season 1 by scattershot.

I highly recommend anyone contemplating watching "Community" to start with "Modern Warfare." If you like it, then start back at the beginning. If you don't like it, the show is not your thing. I didn't like the pilot of the show much and gave up on it. Then I saw that ep and the whole world changed.

ABC doing a Titanic mini-series.

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le nubian, that's the only episode I've seen, and it was so amazing I knew I HAD to mainline the show eventually. I bought the first-season DVDs a couple weeks ago, so the time has finally come.

Our exciting but expected news of the week is that Matilda was placed at Grattan in the school lottery. So she'll be going to kindergarten next year at the school where she's currently in pre-K.

One of the biggest trends in SF schools has been language immersion programs - mostly Spanish and Chinese (Cantonese), though there are also French, Japanese and Mandarin programs.

A nearby neighborhood school on Haight Street that had been allowed to close has been rebooted as a Chinese Immersion program. The upshot of this is that there are no Chinese Americans in Matilda's incoming class at Grattan because (apparently) most local (Haight) Chinese Americans all opted to go the Chinese Immersion program. Weird. We're smack in the middle of the Haight and Grattan is going to be one of the whitest (76%) schools in the entire district.

The neighborhood has changed a lot over the years but it's not that white.

Bon, I've taken steps to acquire S1.

30 Rock was when I realised I'd given up on sitcoms, I think. I could appreciate it, but Tracy Morgan. Then I tried HIMYM, and it was like an allergic reaction.

Coupling UK was probably the last sitcom I watched before the great half hour purge.

I'm watching a surprising (for me) number of sitcoms right now, including Modern Family and Mr. Sunshine (yay.), but not Community or Raising Hope.

I think the last time I really watched sitcoms was Friends. I have loved the episodes of Modern Family I've seen, and the first Mr. Sunshine was suprisingly fun, but I just don't remember to watch them.

If Raising Hope didn't come on right after Glee, I probably never would have seen it.

Someone mentioned The Jeffersons at dinner the other day, so I'm creating a season pass and grabbing up a few eps to see if I still like it. I haven't watched it in forever.

Remember when NBC Thursday nights were...NBC Thursdays? I know appointment TV has shifted (nothing's truly appointment anymore, although I twitch if I don't get to see SPN as soon as possible), but that was a mega-block carved out of my week, for comedies and ER.

Our exciting but expected news of the week is that Matilda was placed at Grattan in the school lottery. So she'll be going to kindergarten next year at the school where she's currently in pre-K.

That's where you and JZ wanted her to be, right? I mean, even though it was expected, that's still great.

Remember when NBC Thursday nights were...NBC Thursdays?

More than once, too. Thursday nights were always TV nights for a long time for me.