Weekend productivity

You guys, my brain is melting. No, seriously. Put down your palm fronds and help me off my positioned-right-in-front-of-the-television-chaise, for I have absorbed quite a bit more than the recommended level of Krazy Glowing Rays over the weekend. I need help.

First, there was 24. People, have you seen this show? I had not seen this show until two days ago. Me. A self-proclaimed lover of all things television, whose tastes in programming run from American Chopper to Good Eats to Veronica Mars to cable news to that wacko Japanese game show with the cruel dubbing. I HAD NOT SEEN THIS SHOW! Somehow, the world did not implode. Friday night I watched Season 1 Disc 1. Saturday night I watched Season 1 Disc 2. In a ROW. Let's ignore, for the moment, the fact that two grown people with their own incomes and own automobiles had nothing better to do on their Friday and Saturday nights- that's a LOT of television. And I believe, after both of those discs, I had to unwind with TiVo'd episodes of The Office and Everybody Hates Chris- that's even MORE television. (And you guys, don't you just adore Jim? I love Jim. Poor poor Pam, and I am just now realizing that I have added Jim AND Jack Bauer to my list of Men I Will Marry When I Am Allowed Into TV-Land and THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP, FRIENDS IN THE COMPUTER.)

But seriously- 24 is some good TV! And I hear that Jack's on Season 5 already. Do you know how many hours I need to sit through before I get to Season 5? Enough to make a Maggie-shaped dent in the couch, a'la Homer Simpson.

Then? This morning? I got up early and MAPPED MY DOMAIN. I sat down at my computer at eight in the morning and read all the fine print directions and mapped my own freaking domain. If I wasn't so terribly proud of myself, I'd be extra super duper worried about the state of my eyeballs.

Which are even WORSE, because I spent all afternoon doing my Pathetic Beginner web development homework. I can make tables! With background colors! I rock! I would, however, like to remind everyone (myself?) tht just because you learn a few tags and how to make tables does not- I repeat, does NOT- mean you should download Movable Type because you are, quote, "tired of messing with the stupid template and DUDE, I should just be able to DO IT MYSELF" because that's insanity talking. Doing such a thing means you have lost what is left of your internet rockstar mind. Before you go there, think to yourself: Do you, O Amateur, know where your Perl server is? DO YOU? I thought not. Push the mouse AWAY. But it's not much longer before I turn into that kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory who got sucked into his TV. Or that kid in the Shel Silverstein poem. (And let's permit ourselves a small snicker at the fact that I lifted the text of that poem from a website called Turn Off Your TV. (AS IF.))

I should probably be concerned about my ever dwindling cool quotient, but it's hard to worry about turning into certified geek when you are also beginning to emanate a soft glow, much like a human monitor.

So happy Monday, kiddos. I'm going to enjoy my last few weekend hours with an actual book and I will call my grandma who is most likely the only other person I know who is not watching the Seahawks game right now. (My television taste isn't that bad.)

Comments

I've not seen 24, myself. I'm boycotting because all my inlaws watch it religiously. But Jim from the Office? Rawrrrr.