Back by popular demand...

After threats this weekend of having my links cancelled, I thought I better start the week off by getting back in the blogging business. I didn't intend to be away for this long. There was a Christmas post planned, then the moment passed, and a New Year's post, but then I talked to everyone about it in person, and next thing you know I hadn't posted in almost a month. Compounding my posting laziness especially over the holidays and even now is that most of my free time has been occupied by my newfound addiction: Law & Order. If you've only ever come in at the middle of the show it seems boring, so I'm sure it's hard to believe that an addiction can develop, but once you get hooked on the concept you're a lost cause. If you see who dies, you have to see who did it and how, there's no way out. TNT always plays at least 2 episodes back-to-back without a commercial break, so you see the murder before you even realize it's a new show or have a chance to get up, and that's 2 hours of your life right there. Your only hope is that you figure out the case early and you can change channels before Order starts, but this only applies to original L&O, b/c with SVU a lot of times it takes almost the whole episode to sort things out. The worse part is, there's some version of L&O on some channel every hour of the day. It's true. 1 am last night I got trapped by SVU. (Thursday night may be the only exception, when NBA's on TNT, but that doesn't give me much relief.) I calculate that of the 35 hours or so I was awake over the extended New Year's weekend, I spent 14 hours watching Law and Order. Also, for the record and contrary to popular opinion, SVU is not the best, recent originals with Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin and the blonde girl are the best.

Another problem was that after destroying my sleep schedule over the break I was stuck staying up till all hours and further exhausting myself watching sports because of the stupid West Coast. I see no reason why I should be punished by having all my sporting events start at 9 just because people in California want to see things live. Moving to the West Coast is a conscious decision. If you get your carefree, relaxed schedule and balmy weather year-round, you should have to give up something (namely, having your sporting events start at a reasonable hour). I haven't been fully awake for Inside the NBA in 2 years because the 2nd game barely even starts by midnight.

Other notes:
I like Chad Johnson.

Despite yesterday's loss, I'm making the statement now that I'm on the Villanova bandwagon (except when they're playing Georgetown). Since I can walk to Nova from my home home and enjoyed watching them play in some of my first live basketball games, I do not believe that I am a traitor to the alma mater.

Wearing khakis inexplicably makes me feel like a lesbian. Nothing against khakis or lesbians. It's not like I see a woman wearing khakis and think "lesbian, gross." Quite the opposite. I think "Hey, she looks nice, maybe I should try wearing khakis again" but nope, lesbian every time.