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I had to watch TV in the living room last night instead of the family room (the Red Wings came was on, Dad wanted to watch it), and unlike what happened the last time I watched a TV show I obsess over in the living room, last night turned out to be pretty good.

( Everyone, I'm dating Barack Obama. )

Please pardon my anger-induced incoherency.

( New Amsterdam, or why Maureen should never, ever get that obsessed over a show. )

Want to do this meme to make me feel better?

OMGOMGOMG I SO KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING.

The void that 24 left me with has been filled by this show.

(Also, so NOT HAPPY that House is going to be on Monday nights. It's an essential part of my Tuesday TV! NOT MONDAY.)

My entire week so far has been spent worrying about the writer's strike. Yes, I know, it seems kind of trivial, but for someone who watches and obsesses over TV as much as I do and actually wants to be a writer for television when she's older, it's kind of important.

I actually love most of what I'm hearing; TONS of actors are supporting the strike (Jay Leno brings the writers doughnuts! Eva Longoria gets them pizza! None of the The Office actors have crossed the picket line!), and general newsmedia has been super supportive and terribly informative. (Also, if I didn't have such a wonderful, tv-obsessed flist, I wouldn't be so involved. Love you guys.)

On the other hand, I am quite worried. I've mostly been concerned about The Office, because of the flist, but there are other shows I'm worried about: 24, mostly. The fact that it's a mid-season show that does take any breaks between January and May is sort of a problem with the strike. They have about 8 episodes done, but depending on how long this strike lasts, that could be all the episodes they do, and FOX might not even air it at all. We'll see.

I really don't want reruns, but I while this is going on, I have to support. This is my future job, after all. And you all can visit unitedhollywood.com, which is an awesome blog about the strike. Very informative.

PLEASE. Support the shows you love, but support the people who make them even more.

I just watched the 24 season 7 trailer (you can watch the full one here starting tomorrow, but I watched the shorter version via Facebook), and OMG. I really don't think it's possible for a season of this show to look so awesome in the promos yet end up sucking. (Although Season 6 ended up the exact same way. There were some good parts, I SWEAR.)

BUT. Mary Lynn's hair! AND TONY!!!! OMG.

GIP, because ( Prison Break is back! )

New layout to match the icon (pretty_cynical). It's very... green.

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Watching the House S3 finale, and it's totally depressing and amusing at the same time. Wilson = ♥. Can't wait for next week!

Colm Feore joins the cast of 24.

DUDE, IT'S COLM FEORE! I'm so excited. I've not only seen him on TV (he was in an episode of The West Wing), but I saw him in person at Stratford. (I've never actually met him, though.) This is so awesome.

And Janeane Garofolo is joining 24 as well, which begs the question: Will she bring her Converse?

I have to say that these little bits of news are actually making me excited about the upcoming season, despite what's being going on there lately. January is just way too far away.

I woke up around 8:50 AM and realized that I'd missed the Emmy noms. But I taped them, so everything was okay, at least until the actual nominations came out. All I have to say is ( this. ) Honestly, I could care less. I think it has something to do with the fact that they're on FOX this year and I don't know who's hosting them. Not that I really care.

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My birthday went great, thanks for noticing. I went shopping in the morning; bought myself a new pair of really cool headphones and ordered a TWoP book that comes in sometime next week from Borders. Had a very excellent coffee drink there and read Jane magazine, which I bought and promptly fell in love with. Went to dinner at Red Robin with my parents and got my picture taken with Red (the mascot) but forgot to mention to the waiter that it was my birthday, so I didn't get an ice cream sundae or sung to. But that was okay, because I had an ice cream cake at home (Graham is the only one who's eaten it so far), and awesome presents to open. I got The Office S2, Criminal Minds, and The West Wing S5 from my parents, and a $50 dollar Old Navy gift card from my grandma. Will spend it sometime next week when I go back to Borders, because they're in the same area.

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My book from Amazon arrived yesterday, but from UPS, not the mail. It's The Poisonwood Bible, which is my summer reading book this year. I'm only about 80 pages in, but it's very good. I have until the end of August to finish & review it, which is about 400 pages or so. Double Eeep.

Disappearing for awhile, seeing as finals start Monday and don't end until Thursday, and I need to study for them. But before I depart, I have a few things to say.

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Kimby's pregnant. (Thank you, wistful_memory, for tipping me off on that.) I freaked out for a considerable amount of time after finding out, thinking a) she's not going to be on 24 next season, and b) if 24 is nominated for an Emmy this year, she won't show up. (Although, I don't know if she'd be invited, seeing as she was only in three episodes or so. We shall see.)

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JUNIOR YEAR = OFFICIALLY OVER.

I had my last high school history class EVER on Tuesday. I told my mom this, and she told me that I'd have American Government next year, and that's a history class. (For the record, it isn't. There's some history in it, but doesn't focus totally on history like the classes I've had for the past three years.)

My last day of Spanish was spent playing Spanish Scrabble with the teacher and the one other girl in my class. It was a lot of fun.

Got sunburned from Field Day yesterday; my face and arms are all red, and there's a ridiculous tan line where my t-shirt and glasses were. IT BURNS SO BAD.

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I'm worried about the next season of House seeing as everyone's gone. But at least Jesse and Jennifer are still together!

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♥ Maroon 5's new album. It's just as good (if not better) than their first one, and I've been listening to it nonstop. Plus, Rashida's on it!

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I'll see you guys on Thursday (hopefully). I'm off to study for Algebra. Wish me luck.

Numb3rs was.... interesting, I guess.

( The Janus List. )