So much TV so little time...

So as most of you probably know already I have a need for stories of any kind in my life. If I don't hear or experience enough in the course of a week I think I wold probably descend into either insanty or depression. This is one of those reasons why I do history and lit stuff for my schoolwork - they are all stories! But that's also why I love to read and write and watch TV and movies. I always feel a little bad because I never have the time to read during the school year, and yet I always make the time to watch the TV series' I'm following and even starting to watch new ones at other people's suggestions. It seems like a cheat, you know. I don't have time to read this book but I'll just watch another episode of NCIS, and the new Heroes just finished downloading, and I really need to rewatch season 8 of Stargate, and Farscape... and...

But here's the thing. I'm a really slow reader. And I think I have to keep reminding myself of that. Because I do read a lot even during the school year, but they're all assigned readings. Just this past week I had to read an article on Ovid, three books of the Iliad, a bunch of fragments from the Pre-Socratics, a chapter of my Roman History text, Augustus' Res Gestae, some of Ovid's Amores, and this doesn't count the translation work I have to do. So I do spend a lot of time reading. and the problem with reading a lot of books at the same time for me is that I start to forget what's going on in the other stories, because it's been too long or there's too much in my brain or whatever.

TV is an excellent solution to this because each episode is only 45 minutes long (usually shorter) and it means that I don't have to wonder about what's going on in the story as much. There are of course a few shows these days that do have massive continuing storylines(*cough* Heroes, BSG *cough*), but even they have to have an arc of a specific episode, and usually they'll tell you what happened last time to refresh your memory. And it's lovely.

And now I've got an enormous hard drive on Alexander so I don't have to worry about having enough space to download new episodes without deleting old ones.

So the problem is that there is far too much TV that I want to watch. I'm watching Heroes, House, NCIS and Numb3rs as they come out for the new season. I've got to catch up on Battlestar Galactica because I'm still in season three (but I've got that downloaded now and I'm working on getting season 4). I still haven't seen any of Stargate Atlantis season five, and I really should watch those episodes sometime. Also people keep trying to get me to watch Dexter (and I really want to watch Dexter) so it's downloading. And there's a new show based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels (which I love) called True Blood, and my loyalty to those books makes me want to check it out. And I'm still only in season five of The West Wing.

And of course the hockey season is starting up again! And that's an entirely different kind of story.

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Best line so far from the commentators for the Sens Pens game in Stockholm:

"Alex Auld [Sens Goaltender] is a big man. And he's an effective goaltender even on his knees."

It's just so bad... so bad.

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From Chapter Eight of the Cambridge Companion to Ovid: "Landscape with figures: the aesthetics of place in the Metamorphoses and its tradition" by Stephen Hinds.

The deftly compressed ecphrasis, rendered the more emphatic by parenthetic postposition, constitutes a kind of authorial reclamation of and gloss on the twin version’s displaced set-piece laudes. There is a further hint of metaformular wit too: when read against the implied speech of the goddess in the Metamorphoses (ut loca laudauit), the Fasti’s Diana has claims to be a rhetor too, but one who (like a good slender elegist) merely ‘touches on’ her descriptive theme: ut tetigit lucum.

Sometimes the things that I can understand frighten me. It frightens me that I understand what the hell this guy is saying. But at the same time I love "parenthetic postposition" in all its plosive alliterative glory.

:)